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Instructor
Term
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
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