The Alumnae Continuing Education Class Schedule –Winter Quarter 2014
For schedule updates or class cancellations, consult www.nualumnae.org or call 847-604-3569.
REVISED
A. THE PRESIDENCY
Tuesdays: January 14 - March 18
Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
NORRIS UNIVERSITY CENTER
Daniel Galvin, Associate Professor, Political Science and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
DATE
January 14
LECTURE
The Founding of the Presidency
CLASSROOM
McCormick Auditorium
January 21
Article II and Executive Power
McCormick Auditorium
January 28
The Development of the Presidential War Power
McCormick Auditorium
February 4
The Rhetorical Presidency
McCormick Auditorium
February 11
Presidential Power (I): The Power to Persuade
McCormick Auditorium
February 18
Presidential Power (II): Personality, Style, and Strategy
McCormick Auditorium
February 25
Presidents in Political Time (I): Reconstructive and Disjunctive Leadership
McCormick Auditorium
March 4
Presidents in Political Time (II): Orthodox vs. Innovative and Pre-emptive Leadership
McCormick Auditorium
March 11
Presidential Party Building (I): Theory and Pattern Detection
McCormick Auditorium
March 18
Presidential Party Building (II): Illustrations
McCormick Auditorium
B. FOUR MOMENTS IN ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY Tuesdays, 12:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. NORRIS UNIVERSITY
CENTER
Nitasha Sharma, Assoc. Prof. Asian American Studies, and Jinah Kim, Senior Lecturer of Asian Am. Studies
DATE
January 14
LECTURE
SHORTENED BY ONE WEEK
Introduction: The “Four Moments” and the Birth of Asian Studies, Prof. Sharma and
Dr. Kim
CLASSROOM
McCormick Auditorium
January 21
Moment One - 1882: Yellow Peril & the Exclusionary Period, Prof. Sharma
McCormick Auditorium
January 28
McCormick Auditorium
February 4
The Chop Suey Circuit: Early Asian American Performance Culture in Jim Crow America,
Dr. Jinah Kim
Moment Two - WW II: Internment and Immigration, Prof. Sharma
February 11
The American Century in Asia on the Silver Screen, Dr. Kim
McCormick Auditorium
February 18
Moment Three: The Fall of Saigon, Prof. Sharma
McCormick Auditorium
February 25
Moment Four: The New Millennium & the Crisis in L.A., Dr. Kim
McCormick Auditorium
March 4
Coming of Age in a Time of War: 9/11 and Asian American Youth, Prof. Sharma
McCormick Auditorium
March 11
Roundtable Wrap-up: The Future of Asian America in U.S. Politics and Policy
Prof. Sharma and Dr. Kim
McCormick Auditorium
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McCormick Auditorium
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Thursdays: January 9 - March 13, 2014
C. TURNING POINTS IN CATHOLIC-JEWISH-MUSLIM RELATIONS Thursdays, January 9 - March 13 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Mary Deeley, Pastoral Assoc. & Director of the Christ the Teacher Institute of the Sheil Catholic Center; Lecturer, Seabury
Western Theological Seminary; Claire Sufrin, Visiting Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
NORRIS UNIVERSITY CENTER
DATE
LECTURE
CLASSROOM
January 9
The Abrahamic Stories
McCormick Auditorium
January 16
The Edict of Constantine
McCormick Auditorium
January 23
A New Player at the Table
McCormick Auditorium
January 30
Spain: Convergence and Clashes of Religions
McCormick Auditorium
February 6
Catholicism’s Dark Period
McCormick Auditorium
February 13
Effects of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Age
McCormick Auditorium
February 20
Vatican II
McCormick Auditorium.
February 27
Challenges of the 20th Century
McCormick Auditorium
March 6
20th Century Events and Jewish-Christian Relations, Visiting Asst. Professor Sufrin
McCormick Auditorium
March 13
Catholicism, Judaism, Islam: The Next 25 Years
McCormick Auditorium
D.
MUSIC MASTERS, MYSTERIES, AND MASTERPIECES
Thursdays, Jan. 9 - March 13, 2014 12:45 - 2:45 p.m.
NORRIS CENTER (with the exception of March 13 when the class will be held at NU’s Alice Millar Chapel).
Stephen Alltop, Senior Lecturer, Bienen School of Music
DATE
LECTURE
CLASSROOM
January 9
The Art of Conducting
McCormick Auditorium
January 16
Leonard Bernstein: American Maestro of the 20th Century
McCormick Auditorium
January 23
Art and Music: Hand in Hand
McCormick Auditorium
January 30
Jane Austen and Music
McCormick Auditorium
February 6
Joseph Schwantner: A Sneak Peek at a World Premiere
McCormick Auditorium
February 13
Baroque Bonanza
McCormick Auditorium
February 20
Verdi’s Requiem: Backstory of a Masterpiece
McCormick Auditorium.
February 27
Bach’s St. Matthew Passion: The Summit of Musical Creation
McCormick Auditorium
March 6
Gustav Mahler: Symphonic Master
McCormick Auditorium
March 13
The King of Instruments
Alice Millar Chapel
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