Friday Session 2   

If you enjoy Broadway musicals, you know about the coveted Tony Awards that are bestowed on special musicals and talented performers, directors, choreographers, producers and songwriters. Join us as we watch and discuss clips from award-winning Broadway musicals.

In this critical period of the early 20th century, the United States emerged as a power on the world stage and, for good and ill, pursued foreign policies which foreshadowed much of American policy throughout the century. This course considers the successes, failures, complications, and involvements of diplomats, politicians, soldiers, and businesspeople and raises the question about why 20 years later, the world was again at war.

We all have something to express while we still have the chance. These can be a letter or remembrance to family or relatives, a message to a teacher or friend, or maybe an open hand to someone with whom you’ve lost contact. Maybe you just want to write something creative and meaningful for yourself. In this course, you will identify and create a written piece (or pieces) to ease the itch to say what you want to say before it is too late. Join us in a refreshing and safe space spiced with a bit of philosophy, psychology, spirit, humor, and community.

This course explores the basic principles of biological evolution, starting from Darwin's theory of natural selection and working up to modern advancements in developmental biology. Concepts covered will include both microevolution and macroevolution, with examples of evolution affecting both human and nonhuman organisms, and how evolutionary forces have shaped the history of life in the distant past and continue to do so even in the present day.

Despite one director’s tongue-in-cheek dismissal of foreign cinema (“I make movies. Leave filmmaking to the French!”), we will discuss films that indeed include foreign locations, subtitles, and boast as being some of the best movies ever made. We will consider how foreign films differ from their American counterparts in style, tone, sensibility, and more.  NOTE: OLLI members needn't have taken Foreign Films to enjoy Foreign Films: Part 2, whose new round-up will include La Strada, A Man and a Woman, The Vanishing, Rashomon, and The Seventh Seal.