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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
The Art of Making: 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
Ovid's Metamorphoses
The Epic of Shifting Forms: Reading Ovid's "Metamorphoses"

Professor Joseph Luzzi
Tuesdays, Oct 7 - Nov 11,
4-5:30pm ET
Waitlist Only
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
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
COUNTERFACTUAL HISTORY
What-Ifs: Counterfactual History in Theory and Practice
Professor James M. Banner Jr.
Tuesdays, Oct 7 - Nov 18,
5:30-7pm ET 
(No class Oct 28)

American Military History, Part One: 1890-1945
American Military History, Part One: 1890-1945

Professor Mary Habeck
Tuesdays, Oct 7 - Nov 25,
10am-12pm ET 


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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
Limited Spots Remain
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
In-Person Seminar Courses

New York City

Holy or the Broken course
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 18,
4-6pm ET

(No class on Oct 14)

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

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

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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

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 20,
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.
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