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FALL 2025 REGISTRATION WILL OPEN JULY 28
PLEASE NOTE: 
IN-PERSON COURSE OFFERINGS 
ARE LISTED AFTER THE ONLINE COURSES
THIS SEMESTER WE ARE OFFERING IN-PERSON COURSES IN:
NEW HAVEN, NYC, WASHINGTON, D.C., AND RYE, NY

Online Seminar Courses

What’s it made of? Materials and materiality in art history
What’s it made of? Materials and materiality in art history

Professor Kerr Houston
Thursdays, Oct 9 - Nov 13,
7:30-9pm ET
Art of Fatherhood
The Art of Fatherhood: Fathers through History and the Arts
Professor Noah Charney
Wednesdays, Sep 24 - Nov 12,
1-3pm ET
(No class Oct 15 or Oct 29)
Plan 2 Prosper: Financial Planning
Plan 2 Prosper: Fundamentals of Personal Financial Planning
Professor Elisabeth Anton
Thursdays, Oct 2 - Nov 20,
5:30-7pm ET
Art, Film, and Literature in the Age of the Dictators
Art, Film, and Literature in the Age of the Dictators
Professor Mark Micale
Tuesdays, Sep 30 - Nov 18,
6:30-8:30pm ET
The Beat Generation's 'French Connection'
The Beat Generation's 'French Connection'
Robert Barsky
Thursdays, Oct 9 - Nov 13,
6-7:30pm ET
Mining, Minerals, Megawatts, and Life
Mining, Minerals, Megawatts, and Life
Professor Paul Sullivan
Saturdays, Oct 18 - Nov 22,
10am-12pm ET
Afghanistan War Course
Afghanistan War,
2001-2021

Professor Mary Habeck
Mondays, Oct 6 - Nov 24,
10am-12pm ET
Reading Lincoln Course
Reading Lincoln
Steven Steinbach
Tuesdays, Sep 30 - Nov 4,
7:15-8:45pm ET
Stoppard and Shaw
Stoppard and Shaw

Professor Murray Biggs
Wednesdays, Oct 1 - Nov 19,
5:15-7pm ET
(No class October 22 or 29)
Voices from the Jewish Past: Three Autobiographies
Voices from the Jewish Past
Professor Emily Kopley
Wednesdays, Oct 15 - Nov 19,
7:45-9:15pm ET
Nothingness Course
Nothingness: Concept, Experience, and Belief
Rabbi James Ponet
Wednesdays, Oct 8 - Nov 12,
5:30-7pm ET
Madness at the Movies
Even More Madness at the Movies
Professor James Charney
Tuesdays, Oct 14 - Nov 18,
2-4pm ET
Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws
Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws: The “Oracle” of American Constitutionalism
Professor Chris Kelly
Mondays, Oct 13 - Nov 17,
7:30-9pm ET
Two Poets of Sensibility: Thomas Gray and William Cowper
What-Ifs: Counterfactual History in Theory and Practice
Professor James M. Banner Jr.
Tuesdays, Oct 7 - Nov 11,
5:30-7pm ET 
Reading Ovid's
The Epic of Shifting Forms: Reading Ovid's "Metamorphoses"

Professor Joseph Luzzi
Tuesdays, Oct 7 - Nov 11,
4-5:30pm ET
Amer Military History Course
Military History
Professor Mary Habeck
Tuesdays, Oct 7 - Nov 25,
10am-12pm ET 
In-Person Seminar Courses

Washington, D.C.

Great Books of the Nonwestern World
Great Books of the 
Nonwestern World
Professor Lester Kurtz
Tuesdays, Oct 14 - Dec 2,
7-9pm ET

Washington, D.C.
The American Family Play
Guilt and Blame-
The American Family Play


Professor James Magruder
Thursdays, Oct 9 - Nov 13,
6-8pm ET 

Washington, D.C.
Cold War America Course
Cold War America: Communism and Anticommunism in the Twentieth Century

Professor Eric Arnesen
Mondays, Oct 6 - Nov 24,
7:30-9pm ET


Washington, D.C.

New Haven, CT

Painting as Inquiry
Painting as Inquiry
Matthew Watson
Wednesdays, Oct 1 - Nov 19,
5:30-8pm ET

New Haven, CT
Stoppard and Shaw
Stoppard and Shaw
Professor Murray Biggs
Tuesdays, Sep 30 - Nov 18,
5:15-7pm ET
(No class October 21 or 28)

New Haven, CT

        New Haven, CT            |                Rye, NY

Beatles' Middle Period
The Beatles' Middle Period,
1964–1966
Professor Mark Spicer
Mondays, Oct 6 - Nov 24,
6-7:30pm ET

New Haven, CT
Topics in the American Musical Theater
Topics in the American Musical Theater 
Professor Daniel Egan
Mondays, Oct 6 - Nov 17,
4-6pm ET
(No class on Oct 27)

Rye, NY

New York City

Long Story Short: a fiction workshop
The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen and the journey of "Hallelujah"
Alan Light
Tuesdays, Sep 30 - Nov 4, 
7-8:30pm ET

New York City
Huck and James
Huck and James: Rethinking Huckleberry Finn
Professor Peter Conolly-Smith
Tuesdays, Oct 7 - Nov 11,
4-6pm ET

New York City
How Food Shaped the Modern World
How Food Shaped the Modern World
Charles Ludington
Wednesdays, Oct 1 - Nov 19,
6-8pm ET

New York City
Drawing as Practice and Metaphor
Drawing as Practice and Metaphor
Nate Flagg
Mondays, Oct 6 - Nov 24,
6:30-8:30pm ET

New York City
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