What We've Studied RecentlyHere's a list of WISE courses that we've offered in the past three years. |
Architecture Listening to Architecture February 2019 Art Caravaggio: A Life of Light and Darkness September 2018 Highlights of the Collection of WAM September 2016 Survey of the Collection at WAM September 2018 American Landscapes Through the Ages September 2018 The Pilgrimage to Santiago and the Birth of Romanesque & Gothic September 2016 Survey of the Collections at WAM September 2016 Survey of the Collections at WAM September 2017 Looking Through the Eyes of Mary Cassatt October 2017 Women Artists through the Ages October 2018 William Blake's Poems and Art October 2017 Florence: Cradle of the Renaissance October 2016 Meeting Gods and Mortals at WAM October 2016 The Arts of Islam October 2017 Understanding the Art Museum October 2016 Favorite Tours of the Month at WAM February 2018 Favorite Tours of the Month at WAM February 2017 The Italian High Renaissance - February 2018 Caravaggio: A Life of Light and Darkness February 2019 Key Issues in Modern American Drama February 2017 American Landscapes through the Ages February 2019 Cults and Sects in America: The Close Community February 2018 Christianity 101: Religion,Theology,and Spirituality. One Size Has Never Fit All February 2019 What is Important in Life? February 2019 Art as a Victim of War March 2019 How to Read Art March 2019 Chinese Decorative Art March 2019 How to Read Art March 2018 Floral Paintings Through the Ages - June 2019 Audubon Down the Blackstone with Mass Audubon September 2017 The Nature of Autumn: Local Color September 2018 Seeing the Forest & the Trees; Landscapes of Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary October 2017 Worcester Infrastructure - Water & Sewer October 2016 Wildlife on the Cusp of Winter October 2018 Winter Wildlife Tracking February 2019 Introduction to Birding Series: The Essentials February 2018 All About Trees March 2018 Explore Worcester's East-West Trail March 2017 Spring Birding in the Great Outdoors March 2019 Down the Blackstone with Mass Audubon - June 2019 Culture The Italian High Renaissance September 2017 Behind the Scenes at the Hanover Theater September 2017 African Women’s Writing: Sub-Saharan Awakenings September 2018 Caravaggio: A Life of Light and Darkness September 2018 The Art of Happiness September 2017 Revenge of the Movies September 2017 Fifty Shades of Genesis September 2017 America’s Music Cities: Nashville and Memphis September 2017 Hearing and Speaking Poetry September 2017 My Name is Solomon Levi: Poems of Stanley Kunitz September 2017 Understanding Islam September 2018 Great Songs -- Timeless Message September 2017 Survey of the Collections at WAM September 2017 Looking Through the Eyes of Mary Cassatt October 2017 Business and Public Policy October 2017 The Celtic Spirit October 2018 Women in Islam October 2017 Documentaries from the Edge October 2017 Key Social Issues in Modern American Drama October 2017 Shakespeare's Cosmology October 2017 The Creation of Spain, 711-1492 October 2017 A Cultural History of Russia October 2018 The Arts of Islam October 2017 Favorite Tours of the Month at WAM February 2018 Humor and Irony in African Fiction February 2019 The Italian High Renaissance - February 2018 A Life in the Theater: Victor Herbert February 2018 Cults and Sects in America: The Close Community February 2018, Behind the Scenes at the Hanover Theater September 2017 The Troubles: Toward an Understanding of the Northern Ireland Conflict March 2018 The Celtic Spirit March 2019 The Life and Thought of James Baldwin March 2018 Jewish Ethics: Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices March 2017 Latin American Migration April 2019 What Is an American? March 2018 Oh, Canada! An Introduction to Canadian Literature & Culture March 2017 American Indians: Contribution & Diversity March 2017 Literary Conceptions of the Congo March 2018 Current events Current Events and How News Stories are Reported September 2017 Documentaries from the Edge October 2017 Freedom of Expression and the 1st Amendment October 2017 The Troubles: Toward an Understanding of the Northern Ireland Conflict March 2018 Women and Girls in the Developing World March 2017 Drama Great Plays of the Fifties March 2019 Economics Americans At Sea September 2016 Business and Public Policy October 2017 Trade, Wealth of Nations, and America First October 2016 Understanding Global Trade February 2017 Wills, Trusts and Asset Protection Planning February 2018 Economic Indicators: Don’t Confuse Us with Facts February 2019 Education Just-in-Time Lifelong Learning February 2019 Environmental American Environmentalism from Marsh to Cronin October 2016 Worcester Infrastructure - Water & Sewer October 2016 Adapting to Climate Change February 2017 Introduction to Birding Series: The Essentials February 2018 Energy: Sine Qua Non February 2018 FUNdamental Physics: Why the Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree! February 2018 Tower Hill: A Walking Tour April 2018 Genetics, Geology, & Genomes: How We Got Here March 2017 River Restoration Under the Federal Clean Water Act in MA March 2018 Film Music for Movies September 2017 American Cinema in the Eighties September 2018 Documentaries from the Edge October 2017 Films of the Nineties October 2018 Great Movie Music October 2018 In Dreamscapes Awake:Surreal and Visionary Films February 2019 So Who am I Really? Identity Issues in Film February 2017 Films of the Fifties February 2018 "The Merchant of Venice" March 2018 Latin American Migration April 2019 Vanished! Missing Persons in Films March 2017 Films of the Forties March 2018 Movies in the Margins March 2019 Finance Public Choice-Money in Politics Redux September 2018 Public Choice-Money in Politics February 2018 Health Rx for being a “wise” Healthcare Consumer September 2018 History Christianity 101: Religion, Theology, and Spirituality. One Size Has Never Fit All September 2018 The Italian High Renaissance September 2017 Religion and the Constitution September 2018 Out of Africa -- Women's Writing September 2017 Caravaggio: A Life of Light and Darkness September 2018 Macbeth -- One Act at a Time September 2017 Little Women at 150: Its Continued Relevance and Impact September 2018 Five Pivotal Moments in US History September 2017 Amphibious Warfare through the Centuries September 2018 The United States Supreme Court September 2016 Becoming Bob Dylan September 2018 Americans At Sea September 2016 The Creation of Spain - 711-1492 September 2017 The Pilgrimage to Santiago and the Birth of Romanesque & Gothic September 2016 American Cinema in the Sixties September 2016 Survey of the Collections at WAM September 2016 War in the Pacific October 2016 Immigrant Women in American Fiction October 2016 Women Artists through the Ages October 2018 Gifts from a Celtic Isle: Great Blasket Island October 2016 American Environmentalism from Marsh to Cronin October 2016 The Industrial Revolution in 19th Century New England October 2018 Trade, Wealth of Nations, and America First October 2016 Landmark decisions of US Supreme Court October 2016 American History through Autobiography October 2018 The Great Influenza of 1918 October 2018 American Cinema in the '70's October 2016 The Worcester Slave Narratives October 2018 Jesus: The Misunderstood Jew October 2016 The Federalist Papers October 2016 Florence: Cradle of the Renaissance October 2016 The Creation of Spain, 711-1492 October 2017 A Cultural History of Russia October 2018 Meeting Gods and Mortals at WAM October 2016 The Life and Works of Elie Wiesel February 2017 Connected Inventions: How One Thing Leads to Another, and Another and… February 2018 Marching, Charging Feet: 50 Years Since 1968 February 2018 Einstein's Century: Modern Science & Modern Culture February 2017 Thinking for Oneself February 2018 Coming of Age in the American South February 2017 Cults and Sects in America: The Close Community February 2018 The Rights of Criminal Defendants: The Warren Course and Beyond February 2017 Notorious Criminals throughout the World February 2017 Philosophical Dialogues: The Socrates Cafe February 2017, The Federalist Papers October 2016 Philosophical Dialogues: The Socrates Cafe March 2017 The Roberts Court: Defying Predictability? March 2018 The Troubles: Toward an Understanding of the Northern Ireland Conflict March 2018 Turn your radio on March 2016 Medea, Jason and the Argonauts March 2017 The Life and Thought of James Baldwin March 2018 Understanding the Quran March 2017 Why the Cold War Wasn't So Hot March 2018 What Is an American? March 2018 Voices of Resistance and Critical Patriotism March 2019 Vanished! Missing Persons in Films March 2017 World War I March 2018 Thinking for Oneself - Cont'd March 2018 Films of the Forties March 2018 Great Female Artists and Their Music March 2018 Literary Conceptions of the Congo March 2018 The Guilty & the Innocent: Searching for Justice - March 2018 Notorious Criminals Throughout the World March 2017 The Civil Rights Movement: 1954-1965 March 2019 Vietnam: How the Story's Been Told March 2018 Between the Wars: 1918-1941 March 2017 Weird History -- The Curse of Darwin, the Hunt for Witches, and other topics - June 2019 Examining Worcester's Architecture - June 2019 Down the Blackstone with Mass Audubon - June 2019 A Skeptic's Guide to American History - July 2019 Ireland "The Troubles": Toward an Understanding of the Northern Ireland Conflict October 2017 The Troubles: Toward an Understanding of the Northern Ireland Conflict March 2018 Gifts from a Celtic Isle: Great Basket Island March 2017 Law Religion and the Constitution September 2018 Capital Punishment in the US - A Critical Assessment September 2017 Public Choice-Money in Politics Redux September 2018 The United States Supreme Court September 2016 The Scope and Limits of Presidential Power October 2018 Landmark decisions of US Supreme Court October 2016 The Federalist Papers October 2016 Freedom of Expression and the 1st Amendment October 2017 The Scope and Limits of Presidential Power February 2019 Wills, Trusts and Asset Protection Planning February 2018 The Rights of Criminal Defendants: The Warren Course and Beyond February 2017 The Guilty and the Innocent: Searching for Justice February 2018 Beyond Heller: Gun Control and the Second Amendment February 2018, The Federalist Papers October 2016 Roe v. Wade and Beyond March 2019 The Roberts Court: Defying Predictability? March 2018 Wills, Trusts and Asset Protection Planning March 2019 The Guilty & the Innocent: Searching for Justice - March 2018 River Restoration Under the Federal Clean Water Act in MA March 2018 Literature All the World’s a Stage: Women in William Shakespeare’s Plays September 2016 African Women’s Writing: Sub-Saharan Awakenings September 2018 Out of Africa -- Women's Writing September 2017 Macbeth -- One Act at a Time September 2017 Shakespeare’s Richard II, One Act at a Time September 2018 Hamlet, One Act at a Time September 2016 Little Women at 150: Its Continued Relevance and Impact September 2018 Dramatic Reading Aloud: Reading Paradise Lost, Books X, XI, XII September 2018 Novels by Toni Morrison September 2016 Stanley Kunitz and Worcester: “Make room for the roots!” September 2016 Shakespeare’s Great Fools September 2018 Immigrant Women in American Fiction October 2016 The Celtic Spirit October 2018 The Worcester Slave Narratives October 2018 William Blake's Poems and Art October 2017 Shakespeare's Cosmology October 2017 Frost/Hemingway: Inner, Outer Weather October 2016 The Many Wonderful Short Stories of Alice Munro October 2017 The Oresteia October 2018 Short Works by Nobel Prize Winners Saul Bellow and Isaac Bashevis Singer October 2018 Humor and Irony in African Fiction February 2019 The Life and Works of Elie Wiesel February 2017 Shakespeare’s Shrew by Two February 2019 Dramatic Reading Aloud: Paradise Lost by John Milton February 2017 Oh the Places You Will Go! February 2018 Shakespeare's Rome: Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra February 2017 Shakespeare’s Fathers and Daughters: King Lear and The Tempest February 2018 Literature of the Holocaust March 2019 Medea, Jason and the Argonauts March 2017 The Life and Thought of James Baldwin March 2018 "The Merchant of Venice" March 2018 Canadian Literature Continued March 2018 Understanding the Quran March 2017 Classic Short Stories Worth Revisiting or Visiting March 2019 William Wordsworth March 2017 Oscar Wilde: The Man and the Artist April 2018 Gifts from a Celtic Isle: Great Basket Island March 2017 Literary Conceptions of the Congo March 2018 Great Plays of the Fifties March 2019 Three Female Voices: Dickinson, Plath, & Atwood March 2018 Media American Cinema in the Sixties September 2016 American Cinema in the '70's October 2016 Marching, Charging Feet: 50 Years Since 1968 February 2018 Turn your radio on March 2016 Vietnam: How the Story's Been Told March 2018 Memoir Memoirs - A Personal Journey - June 2019 Military Amphibious Warfare through the Centuries September 2018 Music The Rest of Gilbert and Sullivan September 2016 Music for Movies September 2017 Great Contemporary Song Writers and Their Music September 2016 Music of Jean Sibelius September 2016 An Approach to Talking and Thinking About Music September 2018 Becoming Bob Dylan September 2018 America’s Music Cities: Nashville and Memphis September 2017 They had Manahattan: Rogers & Hart September 2016 Great Songs -- Timeless Message September 2017 Behind the Scenes at the Hanover Theatre September 2016 Opera for Everyone! October 2016 ‘S Wonderful: The Musicals of George and Ira Gershwin October 2018 Operas of Tchaikovsky October 2016 The Music of Sounds October 2018 Great Movie Music October 2018 The Beatles - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow February 2019 Czech Nationalism in the Operas of Bedrich Smetana February 2019 Jerome Kern & the American Musical March 2017 The Rest of Gilbert and Sullivan March 2018 Great Female Artists and Their Music March 2018 Nature The Nature of Autumn: Local Color September 2018 Wildlife on the Cusp of Winter October 2018 Spring Birding in the Great Outdoors March 2019 News Current Events and How News Stories are Reported September 2017 The Guilty & the Innocent: Searching for Justice - March 2018 Philosophy Thinking for Oneself February 2018 Philosophical Dialogues: The Socrates Cafe February 2017 What is Important in Life? February 2019 Philosophical Dialogues: The Socrates Cafe March 2017 Medea, Jason and the Argonauts March 2017 Thinking for Oneself - Cont'd March 2018 Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress March 2019 Poetry Dramatic Reading Aloud: Reading Paradise Lost, Books X, XI, XII September 2018 Hearing and Speaking Poetry September 2017 Stanley Kunitz and Worcester: “Make room for the roots!” September 2016 Worcester Poets Present Tense September 2018 My Name is Solomon Levi: Poems of Stanley Kunitz September 2017 William Blake's Poems and Art October 2017 William Wordsworth March 2017 Celebrating Our Favorite Poems - June 2019 The Vision and the Word - a Poetry Writing Workshop - June 2019 Politics Public Choice-Money in Politics Redux September 2018 The Scope and Limits of Presidential Power October 2018 Public Choice-Money in Politics February 2018 The American Way of War March 2019 Voices of Resistance and Critical Patriotism March 2019 Social Welfare Policy: Creating Social and Economic Justice March 2019 Religion Christianity 101: Religion, Theology, and Spirituality. One Size Has Never Fit All September 2018 Religion and the Constitution September 2018 Women’s Voices in Islamic Society September 2016 The Jewish Calendar: A Look at the Jewish Holidays Through the Year September 2016 The Art of Happiness September 2017 Fifty Shades of Genesis September 2017 The Pilgrimage to Santiago and the Birth of Romanesque & Gothic September 2016 Understanding Islam September 2018 Literary Qualities of the Old Testament October 2017 Rabbinic Literature and Law from the Torah to Today October 2018 Women in Islam October 2017 Apocalypic Literature in the Bible - Daniel and Revelation October 2017 Jesus: The Misunderstood Jew October 2016 Wisdom of the Sages October 2018 Overview of Buddhism: Waking Up October 2017 Understanding Islam February 2017 God as Lover February 2019 Cults and Sects in America: The Closed Community February 2019 Christianity 101: Religion,Theology,and Spirituality. One Size Has Never Fit All February 2019 Jewish Ethics: Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices March 2017 Understanding the Quran March 2017 Cults and Sects in America: The Closed Community March 2019 Heretics and Holy Rollers:Meet the Gnostics March 2019 Science Topics in Biology: How Did We Get to Know What We Know? September 2016 Topics in Physiology: How Did We Get to Know What We Know? September 2018 The Great Influenza of 1918 October 2018 The Music of Sounds October 2018 The Mysterious Quantum: Modern Science Meets Everyday Life February 2019 Science Potpourri February 2019 FUNdamental Physics: Why the Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree! February 2018 Society Capital Punishment in the US - A Critical Assessment September 2017 Little Women at 150: Its Continued Relevance and Impact September 2018 Immigrant Women in American Fiction October 2016 Trade, Wealth of Nations, and America First October 2016 Landmark decisions of US Supreme Court October 2016 Public Choice-Money in Politics February 2018 Einstein's Century: Modern Science & Modern Culture February 2017 Thinking for Oneself February 2018 Energy: Sine Qua Non February 2018 Coming of Age in the American South February 2017 Cults and Sects in America: The Closed Community February 2019 The Rights of Criminal Defendants: The Warren Course and Beyond February 2017 The Guilty and the Innocent: Searching for Justice February 2018 Beyond Heller: Gun Control and the Second Amendment February 2018 The Changing World of Work March 2017 Turn your radio on March 2016 The Life and Thought of James Baldwin March 2018 Understanding the Quran March 2017 Oh, Canada! An Introduction to Canadian Literature & Culture March 2017 Social Welfare Policy: Creating Social and Economic Justice March 2019 Thinking for Oneself - Cont'd March 2018 What Did You Learn in School Yesterday March 2019 American Indians: Contribution & Diversity March 2017 Gifts from a Celtic Isle: Great Basket Island March 2017 The Civil Rights Movement: 1954-1965 March 2019 Women and Girls in the Developing World March 2017 What is Important in Life March 2019 Technology Americans At Sea September 2016 Connected Inventions - How One Thing Leads to Another.... September 2017 American Environmentalism from Marsh to Cronin October 2016 Digital Literacy October 2017 Worcester Infrastructure - Water & Sewer October 2016 Making Sense of Social Networks October 2018 Genetics for Novice Scientists February 2017 Adapting to Climate Change February 2017 Connected Inventions: How One Thing Leads to Another, and Another and… February 2018 Einstein's Century: Modern Science & Modern Culture February 2017 Just-in-Time Lifelong Learning February 2019 The Changing World of Work March 2017 Turn your radio on March 2016 Genetics, Geology, & Genomes: How We Got Here March 2017,WISE Study Group November 2017 Theater All the World’s a Stage: Women in William Shakespeare’s Plays September 2016 Behind the Scenes at the Hanover Theater September 2017 Macbeth -- One Act at a Time September 2017 Hamlet, One Act at a Time September 2016 Behind the Scenes at the Hanover Theatre September 2016 Key Social Issues in Modern American Drama October 2017 S. N. Behrman - From Worcester to Broadway October 2016 Shakespeare's Cosmology October 2017 A Life in the Theater: Victor Herbert February 2018 Key Issues in Modern American Drama February 2017, Behind the Scenes at the Hanover Theater September 2017 Jerome Kern & the American Musical March 2017 "The Merchant of Venice" March 2018 Introduction to Theater Improvisation - June 2019 Travel Gifts from a Celtic Isle: Great Blasket Island October 2016 Oh the Places You Will Go! February 2018 Walking trail Tower Hill: A Walking Tour April 2018 Worcester Survey of the Collection at WAM September 2018 Worcester Poets Present Tense September 2018 Examining Worcester's Architecture - June 2019 Writing Memoirs - A Personal Journey - June 2019 |
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