Spring 2024 Handouts
If there are handouts available for a study group, they are linked below. If there are none listed and no note, then we currently have none. This page will be available for the duration of the Short. This page consists solely of handouts produced by SGLs. OLLI does not have the ability to grant members access to restricted links provided by an SGL (password protected, paywalled, etc.).
| # |
Title |
SGL(s) |
|
137 |
Church and State Under the Constitution and the Courts |
Vamvas |
|
147 |
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning |
Fruiterman |
|
156 |
AU School of International Service—Foreign Policy Challenges for the Year Ahead |
Rolnick |
|
160 |
Unprecedented Challenges to Public Education: Inequality, Demographics, and Partisan Politics |
Blank |
|
162 |
Democracy and the Politics of Reality |
Jew |
|
163 |
Grey Zone of Conflict |
Jew |
|
171 |
Current Events and Public Policy I |
Porter |
|
172 |
Current Events and Public Policy II |
Porter |
|
180 |
Today's Supreme Court: A Course for Citizens |
Hansen |
|
187 |
Pivotal US Presidential Elections |
Woodward |
|
200 |
Neuroscience of Conflict |
Hull |
|
202 |
Genealogy: Hopping the Pond |
LaRossa |
|
212 |
Race and Sexuality |
Hadden |
|
232 |
Finding Your Family History |
Goodman |
|
240 |
Hearing Matters |
Alden |
|
250 |
TED Talks |
Lewis |
|
252 |
Exploring Our Hidden Brain: How Emotions and Behaviors Shape Our Decisions |
Weichel |
|
260 |
The Impact of the Great War on Western Culture and the Western Worldview |
O'Connor |
|
289 |
Understanding Addiction |
Meyer |
|
292 |
How to Live Healthier, Happier, and Longer in Retirement: 8 Essential Pillars |
Bickford |
|
310 |
Do Only the Rich Have Trusts? Key Strategies Using Trusts in Your Estate Plan |
Burton |
|
350 |
Protecting and Maximizing Your Retirement Income |
Hurwitz |
|
360 |
US International Trade Crises—You Make the Call |
Williamson |
|
386 |
How Do Banks Lose So Much Money? |
Thetford |
|
391 |
Repercussions From Recent Financial Crises: A Global View |
Motyka |
|
403 |
Water, Water (Isn't) Everywhere |
Cotruvo |
| 426 |
Introduction to Cell Biology |
Shaw |
| 441 |
Technologies That Make Life Better |
Rezmovic |
| 444 |
The Manhattan Project |
Read |
| 452 |
Energy and Climate Change |
Edelstein |
| 476 |
Practical Primary Care Medicine |
Rubin |
| 480 |
The Ups and Downs of Weather |
Brown |
| 481 |
Having Fun with Native Plants |
Wilson |
| 501 |
Beginning/Intermediate Folk Guitar |
Siebens |
| 505 |
English Composers Bringing Romanticism Into the 20th Century |
Flaxman |
| 510 |
Songs of Sex, Part 2 |
Gondelman |
| 517 |
Music Festivals |
Gondelman |
| 522 |
The Harlem Renaissance |
Stevens |
| 524 |
Sound Revolutions—A Brief History of Recorded Sound |
Brylawski |
| 533 |
Music, Media, and the Counterculture 1950–1980 |
Pagliasotti |
| 550 |
Washington Color Painters: 1940 to 1990 |
Keel |
| 555 |
The Silent Clowns |
Gorsky |
| 561 |
Preserve Your Treasures: Make a Book |
Logan |
| 565 |
Seeing More, Enjoying More at the Ballet |
Bush |
| 574 |
"A Painter Always Paints Himself": A History of Self-Portraits [Part One] |
With |
| 588 |
Travels with Xuanzang |
Hobbs |
| 589 |
American Colonial and Federal Furniture: 1650–1840 |
Fitzgerald |
| 592 |
20th-Century Modernist Architects—In Washington and Beyond |
Hensler |
| 596 |
Comedy—Selected Origins and Highlights |
Vorensky |
| 598 |
Film Analysis (Mostly Great Directors) |
King |
| 599 |
Color Theory Week 1: Week 2: Week 3: Week 4: Week 5 Week 6 Week 7: Week 8: |
Miklitsch |
| 600 |
Intermediate Italian |
Flaxman |
| 601 |
Étude de la Culture Quotidienne Française |
Spittler |
| 602 |
French Conversation Advanced |
Farrell |
| 603 |
Cours de Lecture et Conversation en Français |
Férat |
| 605 |
Ponts Culturels |
Sandifer |
| 606 |
Intermediate German: Building Vocabulary |
Cutts |
| 613 |
Latin for Developing Translators |
Smith |
| 615 |
Deutsch fuer Fortgeschrittene |
Caraher |
| 619 |
Le Polar: Le Genre Policier Francais
|
Harper |
| 621 |
Enjoying The New Yorker Together |
Spurlock |
| 622 |
Memoir Bootcamp |
Alter |
| 630 |
Little Dorrit is NOT Another Little Nell |
Freeman |
| 631 |
Understanding Families Through Plays |
Lewis |
| 639 |
Appreciating Children’s Picture Books as an Adult |
Buglass |
| 640 |
Poems about Paintings |
Hendershot |
| 645 |
After the War, II |
Poole |
| 646 |
Poetry Craftshop: Quietings and Arousals—The Poems Of Lucille Clifton and Jane Kenyon |
Pierson |
| 648 |
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Workshop |
Hiller |
| 655 |
Greek Tragedy |
Parlato |
| 668 |
Fiction Writers' Bootcamp |
Nash |
| 671 |
Shakespeare by Barker—As He Liked It |
White |
| 675 |
Poets on Their Work: Ars Poetica Poems
|
Pettengill |
| 677 |
Emily Dickinson: "Unto [Her] Books So Good to Turn" Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four Day Five Day Six Day Seven Day Eight |
Heginbotham |
| 681 |
What's New in the Essay |
Willens |
| 685 |
August Wilson's American Century Cycle |
Maxwell |
| 690 |
Everybody's Protest Novel |
Moody |
| 700 |
Florence—City of Science, Political Theory, Economics, Philosophy, and Oh, Yes, Art |
Lesser |
| 701 |
War and Remembrance: Flim |
Mulligan |
| 702 |
The Ancient Mediterranean |
Glakas |
| 707 |
The Rise and Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte |
Coffman |
| 715 |
Jewish History: Patriarchs to Israel |
Berman |
| 724 |
Manifest Destiny and US Expansion |
Belden |
| 739 |
China’s Early History |
Spendelow |
| 741 |
Slavery and the Growth of the Nation |
Stewart |
| 770 |
A Brief History of Washington, DC |
Somers |
| 777 |
Aviation Trailblazers, Early Non-Stops, and Airlines Flying the Atlantic |
Stanton |
| 782 |
Conflict Resolution, Justice, and Reconciliation |
Rotter |
| 786 |
A Cinematic Look at America in the Fifties |
Thurman |
| 788 |
Fateful Documents |
Schwartz |
| 790 |
Off the Beaten Path in the DC Area |
Buglass |
| 805 |
Meditation Class |
Reo |
| 806 |
Medical Qigong |
Reo |
|
831 |
Mastering Skills of Mindfulness Meditation |
Drobis |
|
834 |
Mastering Skills of Mindfulness Meditation: Intermediate Level | Drobis |
|
838 |
She Who Must Be Obeyed: Great Mother Goddesses of the World |
Croog |
|
860 |
Plotinus, Eriugena, and David of Dinant |
Ross |
|
861 |
Spinoza |
Ross |