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.
Past Courses
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Course Titles | Instructor | Term |
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21st Century Grandparenting in the United States | Colleen Thrailkill, EdD | Fall 2016 |
21st Century Grandparenting in the United States | Dr. Colleen Thrailkill | WS 2019 |
21st Century Grandparenting in the United States | Dr. Colleen Thrailkill | WS 2020 |
A Brief Intro to Bioethics: How does Bioethics Affect My Life | Beverly Maurice | WS 2018 |
A Brief Introduction to Peace and Conflict Resolution | Dr. Yves-Renée Jennings | Fall 2018 |
A Brief Introduction to Peace and Conflict Resolution | Dr. Yves-Renée Jennings | WS 2019 |
A Good Life: How does one live it? | Celia Sinclair, MA | Fall 2014 |
A History of the World in Six Glasses | Joey Schnople, MBA | WS 2013 |
A History of the World in Six Glasses | Joey Schnople, MBA | WS 2016 |
A Political History and Virtual Tour of the Panama Canal | Mike Hogan, PhD | Fall 2021 |
A Political History and Virtual Tour of the Panama Canal | Mike Hogan, PhD | WS 2023 |
A Shutter Blinks and We Forever Gasp | Mark Washburn | Fall 2022 |
A Workshop on Creation in Milton's Paradise Lost | Dr. Gill Holland | WS 2019 |
Advanced Genealogy | Marilyn Rousseau, PhD | WS 2014 |
Advanced Poetry Workshop | Tony Abbott, PhD | Fall 2015 |
Advanced Poetry Workshop: The Poetry of James Wright | Dr. Tony Abbott | Fall 2018 |
Advanced Poetry Workshop: The Poetry of W. S. Merwin | Tony Abbott, PhD | WS 2017 |
Adventures in Genealogy | Christopher J. Ritz, PhD | Fall 2022 |
Adventures in Genealogy | Christopher J. Ritz, PhD | WS 2023 |
African Cultural Influences on Southern Culture | Nancy Fairley, PhD | Fall 2016 |
All Things in Common: American Religious Communities | Dr. John Kuykendall | Fall 2017 |
America's Vietnam War | Ralph Levering, PhD | WS 2015 |
American Indians and Politics | Dr. Ron Schmidt | Fall 2019 |
An Exploration of Davidson History | Jessica Cottle | WS 2023 |
Archaeology 101 | Peter Krentz, PhD | WS 2013 |
Around the Charlotte Region in 5 Days | Bill McCoy, PhD | WS 2023 |
Around the Charlotte Region in Five Days | Bill McCoy, PhD | Fall 2022 |
Art of Islam | Dr. Rizwan Zamir | Fall 2019 |
Art, Folk Tales, and Stream of Consciousness from Norway | Dr. Gill Holland | WS 2018 |
Baseball and Society | Jeff Barto, PhD | Fall 2014 |
Baseball and Society: 1930's to Present | Jeff Barto, PhD | WS 2015 |
Basic Economic Thinking - Freakonomics | Ted Amato, PhD | WS 2022 |
Basic Economic Thinking: How Freakonomics Will Change the Way You View the World | Dr. Ted Amato | Fall 2019 |
Beginning Genealogy | Dr. Marilyn Rousseau | Fall 2017 |
Beginning Genealogy | Christopher J. Ritz, PhD | Fall 2020 |
Beginning Genealogy | Chris Ritz, PhD | WS 2021 |
Beginning Genealogy | Marilyn Rousseau, PhD | Fall 2015 |
Beginning Genealogy Workshop | Dr. Christopher J. Ritz | Fall 2019 |
Beginning Genealogy Workshop | Dr. Christopher J. Ritz | WS 2020 |
Behavioral Economics: Nudge Theory | Dr. Ted Amato | WS 2020 |
Berlin: A Cultural History | Scott Denham, PhD | Fall 2016 |
Beyond Inspiration, Pity, and Charity: Exploring Disability Studies | Dr. Ann Fox | WS 2020 |
Birds and Bees: The Evolutionary Ecology of Animal Reproduction | Dr. Mark Stanback | Fall 2019 |
Born in the USA: American Pop Music 20th Century | Rachel Stewart | WS 2022 |
Born in the USA: American Popular Music in the 20th Century | Rachel Stewart | Fall 2022 |
Born in the USA: American Popular Music in the 20th Century | Rachel Stewart | WS 2023 |
Bridges Out of Poverty | Rev. Alexis Coleman | WS 2016 |
Building OUR Family Tree - From Adam and Eve to Your Family | Jim Lane | WS 2014 |
COVID-19: The Science Behind the Headlines | David Wessner, PhD | WS 2021 |
Cabaret: Inside the Musical & the Production | Bill Lawing, DMA | WS 2017 |
Campaign Strategies in the 21st Century | Susan Roberts, PhD | Fall 2022 |
Chinese Culture: Tang Dynasty | Dr. Gill Holland | Fall 2017 |
Chinese Story Telling from the Beginnings | Gill Holland, PhD | WS 2017 |
Christian Scripture and the Jews: Critical Issues | Rabbi Michael Shields | WS 2013 |
Christian Tradition and Racist Thinking | Trent Foley, PhD | Fall 2022 |
Christians & Jews: Tragic History, Promising Present, Fragile Future | Rabbi Michael Shields | WS 2017 |
Civil War | Eric Hight | Fall 2017 |
Civil War: A New Birth of Freedom | Eric Hight | Fall 2018 |
Community Engagement & Social Change | Dr. Stacey Riemer | Fall 2019 |
Connections and Conflicts in Humanities: Revolution | Dr. Scott Denham | Fall 2017 |
Connections and Conflicts in Humanities: Revolution Part III | Dr. Scott Denham | Fall 2018 |
Connections and Conflicts in Humanities: The Body, Part 2 | Scott Denham, PhD | WS 2021 |
Connections and Conflicts in the Humanities: Part II | Dr. Scott Denham | WS 2018 |
Connections and Conflicts in the Humanities: Revolution | Dr. Scott Denham | Fall 2019 |
Connections and Conflicts in the Humanities: The Body | Scott Denham, PhD | Fall 2020 |
Contemplating Rodin | Lia Newman | WS 2020 |
Contemporary French Cinema | Alan Singerman, PhD | WS 2022 |
Contemporary Issues in Healthcare | Dr. Peter Enyeart | Fall 2019 |
Controversies in Paleontology | Scott Hippensteel, PhD | Fall 2021 |
Conversations in Classical Chinese Poetry and Literature | Gill Holland, PhD | Fall 2022 |
Corporate Governance and Shareholder Activism | Kayla J. Gillan | WS 2019 |
Creating Musicals: “The Addams Family Musical” | Bill Lawing, DMA | WS 2022 |
Creative Approaches to Land Conservation | Dave Cable | Fall 2021 |
Creative Approaches to Land Conservation | Cable, Dave | Fall 2022 |
Creativity and Conflict: An Artistic Response to War | Sylvia Schnople, MFA | WS 2016 |
Current Issues in Environmental Studies | Annie Merrill, PhD | Fall 2014 |
Deliberative Democracy: Challenges and Possibilities in a Polarized World | Graham Bullock, PhD | Fall 2021 |
Democracy's Enduring Quirk: The Electoral College | Mark Washburn | WS 2020 |
Depictions of Race on Film | Dr. Maggie McCarthy | WS 2020 |
Developing a Holistic Perspective on Latin American Immigration in the 21st Century | Dr. Matt Samson | WS 2018 |
Dostoevsky | Irina Erman, PhD | Fall 2014 |
Dwight Eisenhower and the 1950s in America | Dr. Julian Pleasants | WS 2019 |
Emily Dickinson | Dr. Tony Abbott | Fall 2017 |
Environmental History: A Lens for Today's Environmental Policy | Dr. Dave Martin | WS 2018 |
Environmental History: Humanity's Footprint and Today's Policy | Dr. David Martin | WS 2019 |
Everything Was the Same Until It Changed: American Religion since 1960 | Dr. John W. Kuykendall | WS 2019 |
Exhibitions and Conversations with Artists Katie St. Clair and Lorena Mal | Lia Newman, MA | Fall 2022 |
Exploration of Davidson History | Jessica Cottle | WS 2022 |
Exploring Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes | Dr. Deborah Nelson | Fall 2019 |
Exploring Math with Puzzels and Problems | Ben Klein, PhD | Fall 2021 |
Exploring the Pipe Organ and Its Music | Jane Cain, MM/Michael Rowland | WS 2013 |
Exploring the Second Part of "Don Quixote" by Miguel Cervantes | Deborah Nelson | WS 2021 |
Faith of Our (Political) Fathers: Religion and the American Presidency | Dr. John Kuykendall | WS 2020 |
Fiction Writing and Critiquing | Wanda Richards | Fall 2015 |
Fiddler—Beyond the Music: Identity, Then and Now | Jackie Fishman | WS 2015 |
Frederick Buechner and the Art of Memoir | Tony Abbott, PhD | WS 2016 |
French Existentialism: Sartre, Camus, Beckett | Dr. Alan Singerman | Fall 2018 |
Gender, Literacy, and Power | Cathernine Kerrison, PhD | WS 2023 |
Gettysburg: The Fight that Changed America | Eric Hight | Fall 2019 |
Gettysburg: The Fight that Changed America | Eric Hight | WS 2018 |
Global Hotspots | Thomas Rynne | Fall 2017 |
Global Trade and International Relations | Greg Knudson | WS 2018 |
Global Trade and International Relations | Greg Knudson | WS 2019 |
Global Trade and International Relations | Greg Knudson | WS 2020 |
Gold is Good! | William Carrozzella, MBA, MEd | Fall 2016 |
Hanging Chads: The Inside Story of the 2000 Presidential Recount in Florida | Julian Pleasants, PhD | WS 2016 |
Healthcare USA Compared with other Countries | Peter Enyeart, MD | Fall 2016 |
Inside the Pharmaceutical Industry | Joe Konen, MD, MSPH | WS 2021 |
Intelligence Collection and Espionage: During the American Revolutionary War | Thomas Rynne | WS 2017 |
Intelligence During the Revolutionary War | Thomas Rynne | Fall 2017 |
Intelligence In the Cold War | Thomas Rynne | WS 2020 |
Intermediate Genealogy Workshop | Dr. Marilyn Rousseau | WS 2018 |
Intermediate Genealogy Workshop | Dr. Marilyn Rousseau | WS 2019 |
Intermediate Genealogy: What to Do When You Hit a Dead-End On-Line | Marilyn Rousseau, PhD | WS 2016 |
Intermediate Genealogy: What to Do When You Hit a Dead-End Online | Marilyn Rousseau, PhD | WS 2015 |
Intermediate Genealogy: Workshop | Dr. Marilyn Rousseau | Fall 2018 |
Intermediate Poetry | Tony Abbott, PhD | WS 2013 |
Intermediate/Advanced Genealogy Workshop | Dr. Marilyn Rousseau | Fall 2019 |
Intermediate/Advanced Genealogy Workshop | Dr. Marilyn Rousseau | WS 2020 |
Intermediate/Advanced Genealogy Workshop | Marilyn Rousseau, PhD | WS 2022 |
Intermediate/Advanced Poetry Workshop | Tony Abbott, PhD | Fall 2013 |
Intermediate/Advanced Poetry Workshop | Tony Abbott, PhD | Fall 2014 |
International Affairs - Latin America: | Thomas Rynne | WS 2014 |
International Affairs: Emerging Threats & Opportunities | Thomas Rynne | WS 2018 |
International Affairs: Emerging Threats and Opportunities | Thomas Rynne | WS 2019 |
International Affairs—Asia | Thomas Rynne | WS 2015 |
Introduction to 20th Century Latin American Literature | Deborah Nelson | Fall 2021 |
Introduction to Basic Game Theory | Ted Amato, PhD | WS 2023 |
Introduction to Classical Chinese Poetry | Dr. Gill Holland | Fall 2019 |
Introduction to Classical Chinese Poetry | Gill Holland, PhD | WS 2016 |
Introduction to Classical Mythology | Jeanne Neumann, PhD | Fall 2015 |
Introduction to the Writing of Poetry | Tony Abbott, PhD | WS 2015 |
Introduction to the Writing of Poetry | Tony Abbott, PhD | Fall 2012 |
Introduction to the Writing of Poetry | Tony Abbott, PhD | Fall 2016 |
Introduction to the Writing of Poetry | Tony Abbott, PhD | WS 2014 |
It's My Story and I'm Stickin' to It | Jean Stewart Berg | Fall 2013 |
It's My Story and I'm Stickin' to It | Jean Stewart Berg | Fall 2017 |
It's My Story and I'm Stickin' to It | Jean Stewart Berg | Fall 2014 |
It's My Story and I'm Stickin' to It | Jean Stewart Berg | Fall 2015 |
It's My Story and I'm Stickin' to It: Memoir Writing | Jean Stewart Berg | Fall 2016 |
JFK, LBJ, and the 1960's in America | Dr. Julian Pleasants | WS 2018 |
Jazz Essentials | Dr. Bill Lawing | Fall 2018 |
Jazz Essentials | Dr. Bill Lawing | Fall 2019 |
King Lear in Five Acts | Cynthia Lewis, PhD | WS 2022 |
Life in an Ancient City: Pompeii and Herculaneum | Jeanne Neumann, PhD | WS 2017 |
Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad | Gill Holland, PhD | Fall 2021 |
Masterpieces of the 19th Century Russian Short Story | Irina Erman, PhD | WS 2015 |
Memoir Writing Workshop: "It's My Story and I'm Stickin' to It " | Jean Stewart Berg | Fall 2018 |
Memoir Writing Workshop: "It's My Story and I'm Stickin' to It " | Jean Stewart Berg | Fall 2021 |
Memoir Writing Workshop: "It's My Story and I'm Stickin' to it" | Jean Stewart Berg | Fall 2022 |
Memoir Writing Workshop: It's My Story and I'm Stickin' to It | Jean Stewart Berg | Fall 2019 |
Memoir Writing Workshop: It’s My Story and I’m Stickin’ To It | Colleen Thrailkill, EdD | WS 2023 |
Mephisto and the Muse: Mental Illness and Art | Cole Barton, PhD | WS 2021 |
Mephisto and the Muse: Mental Illness and Art (in person) | Cole Barton, PhD | Fall 2021 |
Mephisto and the Muse: Mental Illness and Art (online) | Cole Barton, PhD | Fall 2021 |
Modern Monetary Theory | Ted Amato, PhD | Fall 2022 |
Muslim Visions of Moral Life | Dr. Syed Rizwan Zamir | Fall 2018 |
Narratives and Conflicts: The Case of Israel and Palestine | Joyce Dalsheim, PhD | WS 2014 |
Northern and Southern Women and the Civil War | Sally McMillen, PhD | WS 2023 |
Nutrition, Metabolism, and The Human Microbiome | Dr. Mark J. Barsoum | WS 2019 |
Ordinary People: Performance Arts and Mental Health | Cole Barton, PhD | WS 2015 |
Pandemics: The Path from Smallpox to Monkeypox and COVID | David Wessner, PhD | WS 2023 |
Perspectives on Traditional Music | Bill Lawing, DMA | WS 2023 |
Perspectives on Traditional Music - Pre-performance | Bill Lawing, DMA | Fall 2022 |
Plagues! - Historic and Modern Epidemics | Patrick Robinson, MD, FACP, FIDSA | Fall 2016 |
Poetry Critique Workshop | Nora Hutton Shepard, MFA | WS 2023 |
Poetry of Mary Oliver | Dr. Tony Abbott | Fall 2019 |
Poetry: The Best Word in the Best Order | Nora Hutton Shepard, MFA | Fall 2022 |
Poetry:The Best Word in the Best Order | Nora Hutton Shepard, MFA | WS 2023 |
Poets Teaching Poets | Nora Hutton Shepard, MFA | WS 2022 |
Politics, Policy, and the Election 2012 | Susan Roberts, PhD | Fall 2012 |
Preserving Local History | Grace Mitchell, PhD | WS 2013 |
Presidental Powers - Beyond the Constitution | Susan Roberts, PhD | WS 2021 |
Presidential Rhetoric & US Foreign Policy | Mike Hogan, PhD | Fall 2022 |
Presidents and First Ladies, 1930s-1990s | Dr. Ralph Levering | WS 2019 |
QAnon, Conspiracies, and Apocalypticism | Greg Snyder, PhD | Fall 2021 |
Race and Racism in American History | Dr. Mike Guasco | Fall 2019 |
Racial Justice and U.S Settle Colonialism | Ron Schmidt, PhD | Fall 2021 |
Realism in Mid-Nineteenth Century Art and Literature | Dr. Gill Holland | WS 2020 |
Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution | Dan Aldridge, PhD | WS 2023 |
Religious Awakenings and American Spirituality | John Kuykendall, PhD | Fall 2013 |
Revisiting Latin American Immigration | Matt Samson | Fall 2021 |
Romare Bearden: Contemporary Art History | Dr. Shaw Smith | WS 2020 |
Russia & the West | Amanda Ewington, PhD | Fall 2022 |
Rynne Lectures in International Affairs | Thomas Rynne | Fall 2019 |
Rynne Lectures in International Affairs | Thomas Rynne | Fall 2022 |
Rynne Lectures in International Affairs | Thomas Rynne | WS 2022 |
Scarlet A+: Revisiting Nathaniel Hawthorne | Tony Abbott, PhD | Fall 2020 |
Science and Society: The Journey to Cognizance from Chaos | Norman Spencer | WS 2015 |
Science in Society & Issues of the 21st Century | Norman Spencer | WS 2016 |
Scoundrels and Rogues in Spanish Literature’s Golden Age | Deborah Fosberg Nelson, MA | WS 2022 |
Seeing and Hearing Opera through La Bohegrave by Giacomo Puccini | Jacquelyn Culpepper | WS 2020 |
Semiotics and Structuralism: The Study of Signs in Society | Dr. Alan Singerman | WS 2020 |
Seneca Falls to Suffrage | Dr. Sally McMillen | WS 2020 |
Shakespeare Scene and Heard | Randy Ingram, PhD | WS 2016 |
Shorebirds & Waders — Facts and Fables [Part 1] | Jerry Lewis | WS 2017 |
Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor | Dr. Tony Abbott | WS 2020 |
Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South | Sally McMillen, PhD | WS 2022 |
Southern Women: Understanding Scarlett and Mammy | Sally McMillen, PhD | WS 2015 |
Spanish literature from the Generation of 1898 until the Spanish Civil War | Deborah Nelson | Fall 2018 |