What We've Studied RecentlyHere's a list of WISE courses that we've offered in the past two years. |
Architecture Listening to Architecture February 2019 Art Caravaggio: A Life of Light and Darkness September 2018 Survey of the Collection at WAM September 2018 American Landscapes Through the Ages September 2018 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 The Arts of Islam October 2017 Favorite Tours of the Month at WAM February 2018 The Italian High Renaissance - February 2018 Caravaggio: A Life of Light and Darkness February 2019 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 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 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 Latin American Migration April 2019 What Is an American? March 2018 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 Drama Great Plays of the Fifties March 2019 Economics Business and Public Policy October 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 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 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 Films of the Fifties February 2018 "The Merchant of Venice" March 2018 Latin American Migration April 2019 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 Becoming Bob Dylan September 2018 The Creation of Spain - 711-1492 September 2017 Women Artists through the Ages October 2018 The Industrial Revolution in 19th Century New England October 2018 American History through Autobiography October 2018 The Great Influenza of 1918 October 2018 The Worcester Slave Narratives October 2018 The Creation of Spain, 711-1492 October 2017 A Cultural History of Russia October 2018 Connected Inventions: How One Thing Leads to Another, and Another and… February 2018 Marching, Charging Feet: 50 Years Since 1968 February 2018 Thinking for Oneself February 2018 Cults and Sects in America: The Close Community February 2018 The Roberts Court: Defying Predictability? March 2018 The Troubles: Toward an Understanding of the Northern Ireland Conflict March 2018 The Life and Thought of James Baldwin March 2018 Why the Cold War Wasn't So Hot March 2018 What Is an American? March 2018 Voices of Resistance and Critical Patriotism March 2019 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 The Civil Rights Movement: 1954-1965 March 2019 Vietnam: How the Story's Been Told March 2018 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 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 Scope and Limits of Presidential Power October 2018 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 Guilty and the Innocent: Searching for Justice February 2018 Beyond Heller: Gun Control and the Second Amendment February 2018 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 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 Little Women at 150: Its Continued Relevance and Impact September 2018 Dramatic Reading Aloud: Reading Paradise Lost, Books X, XI, XII September 2018 Shakespeare’s Great Fools September 2018 The Celtic Spirit October 2018 The Worcester Slave Narratives October 2018 William Blake's Poems and Art October 2017 Shakespeare's Cosmology October 2017 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 Shakespeare’s Shrew by Two February 2019 Oh the Places You Will Go! February 2018 Shakespeare’s Fathers and Daughters: King Lear and The Tempest February 2018 Literature of the Holocaust March 2019 The Life and Thought of James Baldwin March 2018 "The Merchant of Venice" March 2018 Canadian Literature Continued March 2018 Classic Short Stories Worth Revisiting or Visiting March 2019 Oscar Wilde: The Man and the Artist April 2018 Literary Conceptions of the Congo March 2018 Great Plays of the Fifties March 2019 Three Female Voices: Dickinson, Plath, & Atwood March 2018 Media Marching, Charging Feet: 50 Years Since 1968 February 2018 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 Music for Movies September 2017 An Approach to Talking and Thinking About Music September 2018 Becoming Bob Dylan September 2018 America’s Music Cities: Nashville and Memphis September 2017 Great Songs -- Timeless Message September 2017 ‘S Wonderful: The Musicals of George and Ira Gershwin October 2018 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 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 What is Important in Life? February 2019 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 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 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 The Art of Happiness September 2017 Fifty Shades of Genesis September 2017 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 Wisdom of the Sages October 2018 Overview of Buddhism: Waking Up October 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 Cults and Sects in America: The Closed Community March 2019 Heretics and Holy Rollers:Meet the Gnostics March 2019 Science 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 Public Choice-Money in Politics February 2018 Thinking for Oneself February 2018 Energy: Sine Qua Non February 2018 Cults and Sects in America: The Closed Community February 2019 The Guilty and the Innocent: Searching for Justice February 2018 Beyond Heller: Gun Control and the Second Amendment February 2018 The Life and Thought of James Baldwin March 2018 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 The Civil Rights Movement: 1954-1965 March 2019 What is Important in Life March 2019 Technology Connected Inventions - How One Thing Leads to Another.... September 2017 Digital Literacy October 2017 Making Sense of Social Networks October 2018 Connected Inventions: How One Thing Leads to Another, and Another and… February 2018 Just-in-Time Lifelong Learning February 2019,WISE Study Group November 2017 Theater Behind the Scenes at the Hanover Theater September 2017 Macbeth -- One Act at a Time September 2017 Key Social Issues in Modern American Drama October 2017 Shakespeare's Cosmology October 2017 A Life in the Theater: Victor Herbert February 2018, Behind the Scenes at the Hanover Theater September 2017 "The Merchant of Venice" March 2018 Introduction to Theater Improvisation - June 2019 Travel 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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