About Us
Our Mission
DavidsonLearns seeks to enhance the intellectual, social, and cultural life of adults by providing challenging, diverse, and relevant courses, events, and experiences; thereby, DavidsonLearns will create a common ground where people come together with shared interests, goals, and expectations to form a vibrant community of adult learners.
About Us
Our Mission
DavidsonLearns seeks to enhance the intellectual, social, and cultural life of adults by providing challenging, diverse, and relevant courses, events, and experiences; thereby, DavidsonLearns will create a common ground where people come together with shared interests, goals, and expectations to form a vibrant community of adult learners.
About Us
Our Mission
DavidsonLearns seeks to enhance the intellectual, social, and cultural life of adults by providing challenging, diverse, and relevant courses, events, and experiences; thereby, DavidsonLearns will create a common ground where people come together with shared interests, goals, and expectations to form a vibrant community of adult learners.
About Us
Our Mission
DavidsonLearns seeks to enhance the intellectual, social, and cultural life of adults by providing challenging, diverse, and relevant courses, events, and experiences; thereby, DavidsonLearns will create a common ground where people come together with shared interests, goals, and expectations to form a vibrant community of adult learners.
Instructors
Peter Thorsheim, PhD

After witnessing the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe while on a Carleton College semester abroad program in fall 1989, Peter Thorsheim went on to earn a PhD in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined the faculty of UNC Charlotte in 2000 and has lived in Davidson since 2008. He is the author of numerous books and articles, and he has taught a popular course on Cold War film at UNC Charlotte for several years.