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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Rynne Lectures in InternationalAffairs | Thomas Rynne | Fall 2019 |
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 Workshop on Creation in Milton's Paradise Lost | Dr. Gill Holland | WS 2019 |
Advanced Poetry Workshop: The Poetry of James Wright | Dr. Tony Abbott | Fall 2018 |
All Things in Common: American Religious Communities | Dr. John Kuykendall | Fall 2017 |
American Indians and Politics | Dr. Ron Schmidt | Fall 2019 |
Art of Islam | Dr. Rizwan Zamir | Fall 2019 |
Art, Folk Tales, and Stream of Consciousness from Norway | Dr. Gill Holland | WS 2018 |
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 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 |
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 |
Chinese Culture: Tang Dynasty | Dr. Gill Holland | Fall 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 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 Issues in Healthcare | Dr. Peter Enyeart | Fall 2019 |
Corporate Governance and Shareholder Activism | Kayla J. Gillan | WS 2019 |
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 |
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 |
Exploring Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes | Dr. Deborah Nelson | Fall 2019 |
Faith of Our (Political) Fathers: Religion and the American Presidency | Dr. John Kuykendall | WS 2020 |
French Existentialism: Sartre, Camus, Beckett | Dr. Alan Singerman | Fall 2018 |
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 |
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: Workshop | Dr. Marilyn Rousseau | Fall 2018 |
Intermediate/Advanced Genealogy Workshop | Dr. Marilyn Rousseau | Fall 2019 |
Intermediate/Advanced Genealogy Workshop | Dr. Marilyn Rousseau | WS 2020 |
International Affairs: Emerging Threats & Opportunities | Thomas Rynne | WS 2018 |
International Affairs: Emerging Threats and Opportunities | Thomas Rynne | WS 2019 |
Introduction to Classical Chinese Poetry | Dr. Gill Holland | Fall 2019 |
It's My Story and I'm Stickin' to It | Jean Stewart Berg | Fall 2017 |
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 |
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 2019 |
Muslim Visions of Moral Life | Dr. Syed Rizwan Zamir | Fall 2018 |
Nutrition, Metabolism, and The Human Microbiome | Dr. Mark J. Barsoum | WS 2019 |
Poetry of Mary Oliver | Dr. Tony Abbott | Fall 2019 |
Presidents and First Ladies, 1930s-1990s | Dr. Ralph Levering | WS 2019 |
Race and Racism in American History | Dr. Mike Guasco | Fall 2019 |
Realism in Mid-Nineteenth Century Art and Literature | Dr. Gill Holland | WS 2020 |
Romare Bearden: Contemporary Art History | Dr. Shaw Smith | WS 2020 |
Scarlet A+: Revisiting Nathaniel Hawthorne | Tony Abbott, PhD | Fall 2020 |
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 |
Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor | Dr. Tony Abbott | WS 2020 |
Spanish literature from the Generation of 1898 until the Spanish Civil War | Deborah Nelson | Fall 2018 |
Sufism | Dr. Rizwan Zamir | Fall 2017 |
The Civil Rights Movement in the United States | Dr. Daniel Aldridge | WS 2018 |
The Evolution of US Trade Policy | Joe Papovich | Fall 2018 |
The Evolution of US Trade Policy | Joe Papovich | Fall 2020 |
The Fascination of Fragrance | Dr. Zoran Kuzmanovich | Fall 2017 |
The Future of the American Health Care System | Joe Konen, MD, MSPH | Fall 2020 |
The Historical Origins of Modern Medicine | Dr. Joe Konen | WS 2020 |
The Human Side of Landmark Civil Rights Lawsuits | Jim Fuller | WS 2019 |
The Impact of Intelligence in WWII | Thomas Rynne | WS 2018 |
The Making of a Modern Greek Tragedy | Stephen Kaliski & Anita Tripathi | WS 2020 |
The Rebirth of Religion in China | Dr. Jeff Meyer | WS 2018 |
The Rise and Fall of the American Newspaper Industry | Mark Washburn | WS 2018 |
The Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor | Dr. Tony Abbott | WS 2019 |
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) | Deborah Fosberg Nelson, MA | Fall 2020 |
The Spanish Golden Age and the Myth of Don Juan | Deborah Nelson | Fall 2017 |
The Three D's of Mental Health in Aging: Dementia, Depression, and Delirium | Dr. David Pfohl | WS 2019 |
The U.S. Supreme Court and Free Speech | Dr. Andrew O'Geen | WS 2018 |
The other Nuremburg: Japanese War Crime Trials | Jeanie Welch | Fall 2017 |
They Made the News | Mark Washburn | Fall 2018 |
They Made the News | Mark Washburn | WS 2020 |
US Trade Policy: Its Continuing Evolution Global Ramifications | Joe Papovich | Fall 2019 |
Understanding Persistent Racial Inequality | Dr. Ron Schmidt | Fall 2018 |
Understanding Persistent Racial Inequality | Dr. Ron Schmidt | WS 2019 |
Understanding Visual Forms in Film, Television, and Beyond | Dr. Maggie McCarthy | Fall 2018 |
Understanding Visual Forms in Film, Television, and Beyond | Maggie McCarthy, PhD | Fall 2020 |
Vices in Biblical and Jewish Literature | Rabbi Michael Shields | WS 2019 |
World Religions | Dr. Rob Spach | WS 2020 |
World War I: The War to End All Wars | Eric Hight | WS 2019 |
Youth and the Civil Rights Movement | Dr. Nancy Fairley | Fall 2018 |