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Past Courses

Photograph of Dvorak
HUAS78074

As versatile a composer as ever there was, Antonin Dvorák stands at the center of a movement beginning with Liszt, Glinka, and Smetana and extending through Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, and Bartok. This...

WRIT52615

Make your dialogue work for you. Through a combination of discussion, in class writing, lecture, short readings and exercises, this course will give you the basic tools you need to use dialogue, as...

BASC70116

The 17th and 18th centuries in Europe mark a period of philosophical revolution, where the debates focused largely on the nature and limits of human knowledge. We shall be reading representative...

Eight Mysteries course
HUAS80101

Mysteries and thrillers written expressly for the theatre provide edge-of-the-seat entertainment while enriching our understanding of human nature. They can be filled with twists and turns, clues and...

Collage of five plays by Tom Stoppard: Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, Leopoldstadt, and Jumpers.
HUAS80107

Building on the success of our previous course titled The Plays of Tom Stoppard, this follow-up will focus on eight more of Stoppard’s masterworks, starting with the academics, astronauts and gymnasts...

Chicago Theatre
HUAS80032

What do the playwrights Tracy Letts, Lorraine Hansberry, Bertolt Brecht, David Auburn, Rohina Malik, Keith Huff, August Wilson, and Joe Mantegna have in common? They have all written plays set in...

BASC70105

Ralph Ellison writes with a vital, incisive, discerning motile voice, and his protagonist, the young unnamed narrator, IS such qualities – in his person, his thoughts, his interactions, his utterances...

WRIT32805

Powerful writing translates abstract thought and feeling into concrete image and action. Explore how to bring emotions like joy, wonder, grief to life on the page, and what writers and readers alike...

HUAS78067

Topics in this course include an assessment of the works and influence of William Byrd, Thomas Tallis and Henry Purcell, Elgar and the English orchestral tradition, Vaughan Williams and the idea of an...

David Rubenstein Forum on University of Chicago's Hyde Park campus.
GSYM10002

Please join us for a luncheon to celebrate the Excellence in Lifelong Learning Awards sponsored by the Graham School! This will be a chance to hear from an exciting array of speakers who will touch...