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Join CourseHorse for our one-hour special virtual trivia night! Test your knowledge across a wide range of topics including music, movies, pop culture, history, sports, frozen foods, dog breeds, Seinfeld characters, ice cream flavors and many other surprises... How this will work: This will take place live over a Zoom conference. You will either...

This class will take place online. Registered students will receive login instructions. Explore theories, traditions, and principles that have shaped the design of landscapes from antiquity to the present, through visual presentations, assigned readings, projects, and classroom discussion. Please note that the final essay for this class emphasizes...

What does it mean to be “avant-garde”? At the start of the 20th century, a heterogeneous assortment of artists undertook to explore and depict, in the words of Susan Buck-Morss, “a human sensorium fundamentally altered by the tempos and technologies of factory and urban life”—and, not least of all, world war and political revolution. The...

Algeria was the crown jewel of the waning French empire. And so when the guerillas of the Algerian National Liberation Front launched the Algerian War of Independence, France, determined to retain its 120-year-old colony, responded with every available method of colonial oppression: torture, terror, rape, and massacre. The Algerian revolutionaries...

Critical Theory and the Now: a Contemporary Introduction to the Frankfurt School In 1930, Max Horkheimer became the director of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. Along with his colleagues and a broader orbit of external scholars, he inaugurated the first wave of what came to be called “critical theory.” This course is...

When W.E.B. Du Bois declared that “the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line” in The Souls of Black Folk, it was not some miraculous prophecy or intuition. Having already authored the foundational text of American sociology, The Philadelphia Negro, Du Bois synthesized his social scientific training in Germany, including...

Since its first formulation in the early 1960s, the concept of “participatory democracy” has come to take on multiple meanings—some of them complementary, others conflicting. Promoted by a wide variety of theorists, activists, social movements, and political parties, conceptions of participatory democracy range from deepened civic engagement...

Have you ever thought about turning your life’s trials and tribulations into a NY Times bestseller? In this seven-week Los Angeles Memoir Writing Workshop, 2x NY Times bestselling memoirist Wendy Lawless will share her secrets for turning your life’s twists and turns into lively drama! Her fun, all new in-class exercises will help you infuse your...

This class will take place online. Registered students will receive login instructions. Discover the power, the allure, and the science of psychedelic mushrooms. Food journalist and former president of the New York Mycological Society, Eugenia Bone, author of Mycophilia, will discuss the biology of these potent fungi, their cultural history, and contemporary...

The glasswork of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods is among the most elegant and extravagant in decorative art history. Some of the most famous and prolific glass designers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries such as Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Gallé, and René Lalique exemplify the outstanding contributions made to works of art in glass...

What is phenomenology? Drawing on lived, first-person experience, phenomenology is the attempt to analyze and understand the very structures of human experience and consciousness. What are the elements of perception, and why do different people, different subjects, perceive things differently? What’s universal about consciousness? In what ways do...

Stress Management And Resiliency Training (SMART) Program Eight-week empirically validated & science-based program for individuals who wish to reduce stress, enhance health and quality of life and reduce negative thinking.​ Raise awareness of your unique "relaxation response" as well as your opposite, "fight or flight response", to feel empowered...

This class will take place online. Registered students will receive login instructions. Are you interested in bringing the natural benefits of herbs and herbal remedies into your life?  Discover the differences between herbal medicine and homeopathy, the three major branches of herbalism, and the fascinating history of herbal medicine. Learn...

This class will take place online. Registered students will receive login instructions. Embark on a historical odyssey that uncovers the botany behind how yams, heterotrophic eukaryotic fungi, potatoes, and sugar cane played pivotal roles in human history—from helping to save the world from dire illness to sending humans into space to making modern...

24th Annual Landscape Design Portfolios Series - All Three Sections These innovative and much-honored landscape architects discuss their signature projects, unique working methods, and design philosophies-while sharing transformative stories of people and places. For these designers, a respect for history informs and inspires the creative process....