List of Previous Minicourses

• Fall 1992
  Raising the Curtain on the Classics: An Exploration of Greek Tragedy - Johanna Glazewski
  A History of the American Presidency - Perry Leavell
  Matisse and Les Fauves: The Wonder Years - Karen Spitzberg

• Spring 1993
  Fin de Siecle Vienna and the Birth of Modernity - John von der Heide
  Men and Women in Recent Cinema - Wendy Kolmar
  Congress: What's Wrong and What's Right - Philip Mundo
  Beneath the Surface: Philosophical Questions - Johannes Morsink

• Fall 1993
  America in the Progressive Era: 1900 - 1920 - Perry Leavell
  Bright Lights, Big City - The Literature of New York - Jaqueline Berke
  The Reality Behind the Greek Myths - Johanna Glazewski
  The Social History of American Jazz - John von der Heide

• Spring 1994
  Twentieth Century Short Fiction - Jill Fritz-Piggott
  Confucianism an Taoism: Understanding the Chinese Mind - Mai Leung Thayer
  Economic Issues of the Developing World - Fred Curtis
  America in the Great Depression - Perry Leavell

• Fall 1994
  The Romantic Era in Music - Lydia Ledeen
  Vodka and authority Under the Tsars and Commissars - Lori Citti
  The Quest in Mythology and Folklore - Joan C. Engelsman
  The State of the Language and the Language of the State - James Hala

• Spring 1995
  Genetics in Society - James J. Nagle
  United States Foreign Policy: Approaching the Twenty-First Century - Douglas Simon
  Hollywood's Golden Years: 1930 - 1950 - Charles Wetzel
  The Novels of Willa Cather - Merrill Skaggs

• Fall 1995
  The World of Italian Opera - Robert Butts
  An Introduction to Islam - Christopher Taylor
  The Plays of Shakespeare - An Introduction - Frank Occhiogrosso
  A Little Darwin, Then and Now - David Kohn

• Spring 1996
  American Identity: Then and Now - Perry Leavell
  The Universe: What's Really Out There - Patricia Boeshaar
  Classical Theories of Justice in Today's World - Johannes Morsink
  Don Juan on Stage and Screen: The Making of a Myth - Elaine Bunn
  Giuseppe Verdi, Master of Italian Opera - Robert Butts

• Fall 1996
  African and African-American Art - Philip M. Peek
  A Tale of Two Cities: A History of New York and Newark - Kurt Piehler
  The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: The Lyrics of the Great American Songwriters - Frank Occhiogrosso
  Beyond Binoculars: The Natural History of New Jersey Birds - Jerald Dosch

• Spring 1997
  Giacomo Puccini: Final Bloom of Italian Opera - Robert Butts
  Criminal Justice in America - Paul Wice
  The Theatre of Conscience - Rosemary McLaughlin
  Ancient Civilizations of the Aztecs and the Maya - Maria Masucci
  Art Collections and the Politics of Culture: A Journey Through the Art Museums of Russia - Lori Citti

• Fall 1997
  English Poetry from Shakespeare to Auden - Frank Occhiogrosso
  A Centennial Celebration: The Music of Johannes Brahms - Robert Butts
  Vexing Issues in Biomedical Ethics - Donald Jones
  The Vietnam Experience: A Retrospective - Douglas Simon

• Spring 1998
  The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach - Robert Butts
  Religions of India - Karen Prentiss
  Three Southern Writers - Merrill Skaggs
  The Middle East Since 1800 - Christopher Taylor

• Fall 1998
  Masters of American Drama - Frank Occhiogrosso
  The Meaning of Life in Ancient Greece - John Lenz
  The Music of Mozart - Robert Butts
  The World Wars and the Great Dictators: Europe 1914-1945 - Jonathan Rose

• Spring 1999
  The Music of Beethoven - Robert Butts
  Mark Twain - Merrill Skaggs
  Understanding Today's Russia Through Its Past - Jason Merrill
  DNA: Biotechnology for the 21st Century - Louise Temple
  The Business of America - Perry Leavell

• Fall 1999
  China in Transition - Catherine Keyser
  Russian Romanticism in Music - Robert Butts
  The Ameerican Folk Song - Frank Occhiogrosso
  The Short Story in 19th Century Russian Literature - Jason Merrill

• Spring 2000
  European Art from AD 1000-1500 - Loughran O'Connor
  The Music of Tchaikovsky - Robert Butts
  The Congress and The Presidency at the Turn of the Century - Philip Mundo
  The World of Islam - Christopher Taylor (repeat)
  

• Fall 2000
  Abraham Lincoln in American Memory - William Rogers
  Burghers, Sultans, and Courtesans: Commerce and Culture in the 17th Century - Barbara Tomlinson
  Mendelssohn and Schumann: Music of German Romanticism - Robert Butts
  The Poets of Broadway: Great Lyricists of the American Musical theater - Frank Occhiogrosso

• Spring 2001
  Four Challenges to the Idea of Human Rights - Johannes Morsink
  The Story of the Symphony, Part I - Robert Butts
  Willa Cather's Gendered quartet in Five Parts - Merrill Skaggs
  How Things Work: Physical Concepts in the World Around Us - Robert Fenstermacher
  The Jewish Experience: An Introduction to Judaism  - Allan Nadler

• Fall 2001
  Adams to Arbus to Avedon: A Brief History of American Photography - Jim DelGiudice
  The Story of the Symphony, Part II - Robert Butts
  The Poets of Broadway: Great Lyricists of the American Musical Theater, Part II - Frank Occhiogrosso
  European Art of the Nineteenth Century - Loughran O'Connor

• Spring 2001
  A Virtual Tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art - Barbara Tomlinson
  The History of Britain: Victoria to Tony Blair  - Jonathan Rose
  The Classic Russian Novel - Jason Merrill
  The Music of Giuseppe Verdi - Robert Butt
  Political Islam - Christopher Taylor

• Fall 2002
  America in the Progressive Era - Perry Leavell
  Opera Verismo: Puccini, Leoncavallo, and Mascagni - Robert Butts
  The Great Broadway Musicals - Frank Occhiogrosso

• Spring 2003
  Drugs and Behavior - C. Robbin Timmmons
  How to Read a Great Book - Merrill Skaggs
  The History and Meaning of Abstract Painting - Mark Daniel Cohen 
  Isms and Schisms: Music in the Early Twentieth Century - Robert Butts
  A History of Zionism and the Birth of Modern Israel - Allan Nadler
  

• June 2003
  The Third Renasissance: The History of Modernism - Mark Daniel Cohen

• Spring 2004
  The Evolution of the Art Museum - Barbara Tomlinson
  Music in the Modern Era - Robert Buttts
  Exploring the Brain - Roger Knowles
  Great American Musicals of the 1940s - Frank Occiogrosso
  Faces of Our Civil War - Charles Wetzel

• June 2004
  Tuesdays with Leonardo: The Artist, the Novel and the Code - Michael Christensen
  

• Fall 2004
  Sacred Fury: The Rise of Global fundamentalism - Charles Selengut
  The Concerto II - Robert Butts
  20th Century Irish and British Drama - Bernard McKenna
  The Election of 2004: Who Will Win and Why? - Joseph Romance
  Human Evolution - Tammy Windfelder

• Spring 2005
  The History of The Portrait - Barbara Tomlinson
  Yeats and Joyce - Bernard McKenna
  Public Works and Politics in Ancient Rome - John Muccigrosso
  Bach and the Baroque - Robert Butts
  Early Christianity - William Stroker

• June 2005
  Feminine Geographies: Women Artists and Writers of the Southwest - Elizabeth O'Brien
  Sacred Fury: The Rise of Global Fundamentalism - Charles Selengut
  

• Fall 2005
  Six Who Shaped American Art - Barbara Tomlinson
  The Hebrew Bible and the Religion of Ancient Israel - William Stroker
  Great American Musicals of the 1950s - Frank Occhiogrosso
  The Classical Era: Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven - Robert Butts

• Spring 2006
  Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World - Douglas simon
  A Linguistic view of Language - James Hala
  The Early Romantic Age in Music - Robert Butts
  The Art of Late Antiquity - Alison Poe
  Buddhism: The Path of Enlightenment - Karen Pechilis

• Summer 2006
  China in Transition - Catherine Keyser
  The Spiritual Journey in Contemporary American Memoir and Fiction - Elizabeth O'Brien
  Popular Music in America - Robert Butts
  

• Fall 2006
  Global Challenges for the 21st Century - Douglas Simon
  Exploring Alzheimer's Disease - Roger Knowles
  Classical Mythology- John Lenz
  Late Romantic Passion in Music- Robert Butts
  Goddesses, Madonnas and Whores - Barbara Tomlinson

• Spring 2007
  African American Heritage Through the Arts - Philip Peek
  Post Romaticism in Music:1880-1920 - Robert Butts
  Varieties of Early Christianity - William Stroker
  Ancient Roman Art - Alison Poe
  Preserving Our Historic Places - Janice Armstrong

• Summer 2007
  Middle East Politics - Carlos Yordan
  The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach - Robert Butts
  

• Fall 2007
  The Art Collectors - Barbara Tomlinson
  International Relations of the Future - Douglas Simon
  Musical Masterpieces - Robert Butts
  Robber Barons and Reformers - Wyatt Evans
  British Drama of the 20th Century - Brandon Fralix

• Spring 2008
  Brain, Mind, and Neuroethics - Grahame Cousens
  

On The Edge: Avant-Garde Musical Masterpiece - Robert Butts
Shakespeare: All the Gifts of Nature - Gloria Rojas
Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages - Alison Poe
Terrorism in Global Perspective - Andrea Talentino and Carlos Yordan

• Summer 2008
  The Literature of the Harlem Renaissance - Geraldine Wright-Smith
  A Brahms Sampler - Robert Butts
  

• Fall 2008
  The Power of Art - Barbara Tomlinson
  Ten Photographs: Images that Changed Our world - Jim DelGiudice
  Great Poems of Walt Whitman - Merrill Skaggs
  Wagner's Ring Cycle: The Curse of Love and Power - Robert Butts
  Secrets of Life: The History of Genetics in the 20th Century - Luis Campos

• Spring 2009
  Commerce and Culture in the 17th Century - Barbara Tomlinson
  Green Economics for a Sustainable Environment - Fred Curtis
  British Romantic Extremes: Poetry and Prose - Robert Ready
  What Hath the Computer Wrought? - Steven Kass
  The Evolution of Our Political Parties - Joseph Romance
  Beethoven at Home - Robert Butts

• Summer 2009
  The Making of Modern Ireland - David Cowell
  Leonard Bernstein - Robert Butts

• Fall 2009
  Painting Against the Grain - Barbara Tomlinson
  Becoming "Paris" - Andre Benhaim
  Victorians - Robert Ready
  Chamber Music in the Romantic Era - robert Butts
  The Major Christian Celebrations - William Stroker
  Woodrow Wilson - J. Perry Leavell