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Evergreen Forum: Past Courses
FALL 2023
Adventures in Geology and Space
America in the 1990s: Is There A “Third Way”?
Antarctic Explorations
Art From All Angles
The Constants of Physics and Mathematics
Contemporary Business & Economics
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Nightly Prayer
Great Expectations and Its Afterlife
The History and Culture of Scotland
History Via Shakespeare
Introduction to Mindfulness Practices
Medicine: The History and the Mystery
Memoir and Fiction by Three Modern Writers
Nobel Prize Writers Wait for the Barbarians
Outsider Art
Religious Freedom and Christian Nationalism
Science in the News
Stress: What Is It and How to Manage It
The Supreme Court and Reproductive Rights
The Weird Wonderful World of Fungi
What Is Time?
SPRING 2023
America in the 1960s
Antarctic Explorations
Bronte and Eliot: Romanticism vs. Realism
Dada and Surrealism
Deceiving By Numbers: Data in the News
Diplomacy: Today’s World Order
Four Lectures on Quantum Mechanics
The French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon
Geography of New Jersey
Great Decisions 2023
Highlights in the History of Philosophy
Holding Hands with the Brothers Grimm
Mathematical Play: Puzzles, Probabilities, and Paradoxes
Mohsin Hamid and Ayad Akhtar: The Divided Conversation
Princeton’s 300 Million Years of Geologic History
Reading Buildings: A Primer
Science in the News
Scientists, Soldiers, Statesmen: The A-bomb
Shakespeare’s Tragedies
Tales From Our Galleries
Theatre Appreciation: From Page to Stage
War and Peace: Text and Context
FALL 2022
Africa
Bird Behavior: Birds as Artists
Challenges For the Future
Contemporary Business & Economical Issues
Courtship and the Queen
Culture Wars and the 2022 Mid-Term Elections
Explaining the iPhone to Isaac Newton
Exploring the Early Neolithic World
Go, Went, Gone: Literature of Immigration
Hard Choices in Political Life
Imagining Women: Films of the 1940s
The Power of Words: People & Stories
The Role of The Artist
Science In the News
A Series of Musical Explorations
The Sociology and Psychology of Oppression
SPRING 2022
Creating A Legacy
African American Presence in the Sourlands
Art From All Angles 2
The Art of the Sonnet
Best Modern American Stories
Deception by Numbers: Data in the News — Cancelled
Diplomacy — Cancelled
From Wilson to Biden: Middle East Challenges
The Geology of Princeton and New Jersey
George Eliot’s Middlemarch
Global Changes — Cancelled
Great Decisions 2022
A History of Folk Music
James Joyce’s Ulysses
The Last 100 Years of Art 1915 to 2015
Oscar And GBS
Perspectives on Opera
Philanthropy
The Power of Words: People and Stories
Reading Buildings: A Primer
Reading Nabokov
Science in the News
Shrouded Pillars of Western Civilization
Still Kicking: Literature of The Fiesty Elderly
Traditional Chinese Medicine
You Are What You Read: Don Quixote, Part II
FALL 2021
The Arab World’s Democracy Deficit: Anomaly or Harbinger?
Art from All Angles
Contemporary Economic Issues
Dickens’s David Copperfield: Novel and Films
Early Joyce
Elizabeth Strout, Again: Four Novels
Explorations
For the People: Federalism and Democracy
Great Art from 1715 to 1915, from the Enlightenment to Cubism
The History and Culture of Scotland
A Jane Gardam Sampler
More Plays Off the Page: Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part I
Out of Vietnam: Novels About the War
The Power of Words: People & Stories
Russian Literature in Historical Context
Science in the News
Socialism: Definitions, History, Prospects, Criticisms
Stories of the Hassidim
The Supreme Court: The Human Side of Justice
Survey of Irish Folk Music
What Can Joe Biden Learn from Studying the New Deal
You Are What You Read: Don Quixote, Part I
SPRING 2021
The Administration of Donald J. Trump
Adventures in Geology, And More
Bogie: The Actor and the Icon
Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin: The War They Fought and the Peace They Sought
Cosmology
Exploring Culture and Values with Short Modern Essays
Exploring The Great Outdoors
Exploring Thematic Elements in Short Stories
From The Dark Ages to The Enlightenment: 1000 Years of Great Art: 750 AD To 1750 AD
Global Changes: Past, Present, And Future
Great Decisions
The Great War, Which Came to Be Known as World War I
Human Health and Environmental Disasters
James Joyce’s Ulysses
More Plays Off the Page: Richard I
Perspectives on Opera
People And Stories: The Power of Words
Poets Among Us
Politics in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)
Science in the News
Shakespeare’s Play of History
The Supreme Court and The Right to Privacy
Understanding Human Evolution
Weather, Climate, And Impacts of Climate Change
FALL 2020
Adventures in Geology
The Art of the Sonnet
Case Studies in Science and Technology
Diplomacy: Impact and Strategies
Elizabeth Strout’s Linked Short Stories
Fascism: Theories, Practices, and Reactions
Finishing School: Two Novels
The Forest for the Trees
Geographical Links – Highlights
Jane Austen 2: Novels and Films
The Lady Was A Spy: Women in the Secret World of Intelligence and Espionage from World War I to the Present
Migrations: Continuing Stories
More Plays Off the Page: Antony & Cleopatra
Penelope Fitzgerald’s Fiction
Reconciling Perspectives: A Study of the Vietnam War
Ronald Reagan’s America: The Conservative Revolution and the Welfare State
The Roots of Western Art: From Cave Paintings Of 35,000 BC to Constantinople in 350 AD
Science in the News
The Supreme Court and Nationalism
Swann’s Way: Beginning the Search for Lost Time
Voting Rights and the 2020 Elections
SPRING 2020
America’s Old West
Best American Short Stories of 2018
A Brief History of Photography
Building Acceptance of Diversity
Comedians of the Twentieth Century
Contemporary Women Filmmakers
Cosmology
Cultural Literacy in the Information Age
Current Economic Issues and the 2020 Election
Diplomacy: Strategies and Impact
Explorations in Early and Baroque Music
Exploring Diversity and Migration In Art
Great Decisions 2020
Hemingway and Fitzgerald
Moon Rocks and More: Topics In Geology
More Plays Off the Page: Antony And Cleopatra
The New Deal and The Great Society
Outsider Art
Perspectives an Opera
Science in the News
Shakespeare’s Henriad: The Play of History
Social Justice
The Soul of Cinema: Music in Film
Topics in Weather And Climate
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Understanding Human Evolution
Wallace Stegner’s Short Stories
Wisdom Leads to Happiness
FALL 2019
Advances in Medicine for Older Adults
All About Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh
The British Espionage Novel and the Cambridge Five
Contemporary Economic Issues
Creative Writing Course: Poetry
Documentary Films: True or False?
Exploring Princeton University’s Architecture
Finnegans Wake
Free Speech in A “Post-Truth” World
A Geographical Pastich
The History of Princeton
Jane Austen: Novels and Films
Japanese Art: Lectures and Discussions
Landscapes in Art
Migrations: More than A Border Story
More Plays Off the Page: George Bernhard Shaw
More Recent Fiction
My Brilliant Friends: Ferrante & Starnone
Privacy, the Second Amendment, and Other Rights
Psalms: A Legacy of Beauty and Spiritual Guidance
Science in the News
Societal Issues in Soap Operas
Themes in Irish Folk Music
Understanding Contemporary Art from the 60s to the Present
What Is Time?
SPRING 2019
America 1890–1914: History May Not Repeat but It Can Rhyme
America’s Civil War
American Politics Since 2010: Where is the U.S. Headed?
The Artistic Life of Birds
A Brief History of Photography
Building Acceptance of Diversity
Cosmology
The Folk Music Revival
The Gothic Novel
Great Chinese Philosophers
Great Decisions 2019
The Lively Penelope Lively
Making Sense of Current Economic Issues
People & Stories: The Power of Words
Perspectives on Opera
Power in Art
The Practice and Impact of Diplomacy
The Road to Understanding Human Origins
Shakespeare’s Central Tragedies
Science in the News
Theatre Appreciation: From Page to Stage
Topics in Weather and Climate
Tracy K. Smith, USA Poet Laureate, Getting to Learn All About Her
Yet More Shakespeare Off the Page: Macbeth
FALL 2018
Advances in Medicine for Older Adults
The American Songbook: Beyond Nostalgia
Art, Anarchy, and the Enigma of Dreams
The Art of the Sonnet
Art Speaks: The Image as Propaganda
The Brontës Novels and Films
Case Studies in Science and Technology
Contemporary Business and Economics Issues
Exploring Literary Styles in Mexican Short Stories
A Geographers Perspective on the Environment
The History and Mystery of Ice Age Art
The History of Hasidim
Illuminating Recent Fiction
James Joyce’s Ulysses
Klezmer Roots and Klezmer Toots
The Majesty of Bel Canto Opera
Margaret Atwood’s Short Grim Tales
More Plays Off the Page: Major Barbara
The Nature of American Art from the Puritans to Jackson Pollock
Old and New: Judicial Decisions that Still Command Headlines
Personality and Leadership in the White House
Science in the News
Themes in Irish Folk Music
Understanding the Qu’ran
Voting Rights and the 2018 Mid-Term Elections
War and Morality
World Cinema
SPRING 2018
American in the 2000s
America’s Revolutionary Tempest
Appreciating Opera
The Artistic Life of Birds
Billy Wilder: An American Master
Building Acceptance of Diversity
Contemporary Chinese History
Cosmology
Dante: The Paradiso
Faces and Figures Through Time
The Folk Music Revival
Great Decisions
Introduction to Meteorology
Japanese Art
A Journey of Proud and Contributing African Americans in Princeton
Leonard Bernstein at 100: Celebrating the Man and Musician
Making Sense of the Economy: Money and Finance in the 21st Century
Miss Brooks-Gwendolyn Brooks: Her Life, Her Poetry
Moby Dick
More Shakespeare Off the Page: Measure for Measure
O. Henry Prize Stories: 2017
People and Stories: The Power of Words
Science in the News
The Search for Authority in Western Religions
Shakespeare and Love
Topics in Human Evolution
Two by Louise Erdrich
