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• Pride and Prejudice: The Men

• Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen’s six novels. It may have invented the rom-com, but is that all it is? What can we learn from it, and what does it say about the culture Austen lived in at the time it was written? In this session, members will explore Pride and Prejudice, and for a change, concentrate on the men in the novel. Members are encouraged to read or re-read the book in advance or, alternately, watch the movie (preferably the A&E/PBS 1995 version which allows six hours for the story to unfold).

• Fee: $15.00

• Instructor: Elaine Kushmaul

  Capacity Remaining: 89

• Start Date - End Date: 6/17/2025 - 6/17/2025

  Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

• Sessions: 1

  Day(s) of Week: Tu

• Location: The Point at CC Young

  Room: Auditorium

• Livestream and Recording Options: This in-person course will also be livestreamed on YouTube and recorded for later viewing. Enrollment is not required to view the livestream. Livestream and recording links are made available to all members in our weekly emails.

• A Brief History of Early Jazz

• This session will examine the roots of jazz through pictures and musical examples of musicians from 1900 through the 1920s.

• Fee: $15.00

• Instructor: Ron Fink, Steve Harlos

  Capacity Remaining: 86

• Start Date - End Date: 7/10/2025 - 7/10/2025

  Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

• Sessions: 1

  Day(s) of Week: Th

• Location: The Point at CC Young

  Room: Auditorium

• Livestream and Recording Options: This in-person course will also be livestreamed on YouTube and recorded for later viewing. Enrollment is not required to view the livestream. Livestream and recording links are made available to all members in our weekly emails.

• A Brief History of Early Jazz
  

THIS COURSE/EVENT IS FULL. Please click the "Add to Waitlist" button below. We will contact you if space becomes available.

• This session will examine the roots of jazz through pictures and musical examples of musicians from 1900 through the 1920s.

   

• Fee: $15.00

• Instructor: Ron Fink, Steve Harlos

  Capacity Remaining: -3

• Dates: 7/23/2025 - 7/23/2025

  Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

• Sessions: 1

  Days: W

• Location: UNT Support & Services Building

  Room: SSB 102

• Challenging the Boys' Club: Classical Music by Contemporary American Women

• For most of the history of the Western classical music tradition, the careers of women composers have been subject to many constraints and limited opportunities. Yet over the past century, there has been a dramatic increase in female composers with a wide array of styles. Within the U.S., several women have come to the forefront in concert music with distinct voices, including Amy Beach, Florence Price, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Joan Tower, Meredith Monk, Julia Wolfe, Pauline Oliveros, and Missy Mazzoli. This introductory survey will focus on some of the major American female composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by exploring their lives and works with active participant discussions through additional thematic lenses such as accessibility, performance practice, advocacy, extramusical influences, and societal discourse.

• Fee: $15.00

• Instructor: Dayton Kinney

  Capacity Remaining: 66

• Start Date - End Date: 7/21/2025 - 7/28/2025

  Time: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

• Sessions: 3

  Day(s) of Week: M W

• Location: Flower Mound Senior Center

  Room: Shirley Voirin Ballroom A

• Session 1: Mon. July 21 Session 2: Wed. July 23 Session 3: Mon. July 28

• Contemporary Texas Authors Looking At Nineteenth Century Texas

• Many OLLI members have eagerly attended classes on Texas history. Looking at the facts is critical to understanding what Texas is about. But looking at how contemporary Texas authors bring to life the facts and/or myths about 19th century Texas provides a different kind of awareness of what we think Texas is. This session will examine four novelists: Steve Harrigan, Paulette Jiles, Elizabeth Crook, and Larry McMurtry.

• Fee: $15.00

• Instructor: LaDonna Womochel

  Capacity Remaining: 20

• Start Date - End Date: 7/17/2025 - 7/17/2025

  Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

• Sessions: 1

  Day(s) of Week: Th

• Location: Robson Ranch Clubhouse

  Room: Patriot/Legacy

• Dialect Variation, Language Change, and Texas English

•  This lecture will examine the mechanisms of language change over time with a special interest in all things Texas English.

• Fee: $15.00

• Instructor: William Salmon

  Capacity Remaining: 74

• Start Date - End Date: 7/15/2025 - 7/15/2025

  Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

• Sessions: 1

  Day(s) of Week: Tu

• Location: The Point at CC Young

  Room: Auditorium

• Livestream and Recording Options: This in-person course will also be livestreamed on YouTube and recorded for later viewing. Enrollment is not required to view the livestream. Livestream and recording links are made available to all members in our weekly emails.

• Hwæt! A Brief History of English

• English is constantly changing, but where were its roots? In this session, members will take a journey through the development of the language from the unrecognizable sounds of Old English to Middle, Early Modern, and contemporary English. You don't need to be a linguist to be a logophile!

• Fee: $15.00

• Instructor: Lynne Kelsey

  Capacity Remaining: 21

• Start Date - End Date: 7/11/2025 - 7/11/2025

  Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

• Sessions: 1

  Day(s) of Week: F

• Location: The Grove at Frisco Commons

  Room: Art Studio

• Hwæt! A Brief History of English

• English is constantly changing, but where were its roots? In this session, members will take a journey through the development of the language from the unrecognizable sounds of Old English to Middle, Early Modern, and contemporary English. You don't need to be a linguist to be a logophile!

• Fee: $15.00

• Instructor: Lynne Kelsey

  Capacity Remaining: 53

• Start Date - End Date: 7/16/2025 - 7/16/2025

  Time: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

• Sessions: 1

  Day(s) of Week: W

• Location: Flower Mound Senior Center

  Room: Shirley Voirin Ballroom A

• John Philip Sousa: The March King

• John Philip Sousa has been called America’s March King. He has given the American people over 130 marches and numerous other musical offerings. This course will examine the life of John Philip Sousa and the background behind some of his more famous marches. Filled with pictures and music, Sousa’s contributions to American wind band music will be experienced.

• Fee: $15.00

• Instructor: Darhyl Ramsey

  Capacity Remaining: 62

• Start Date - End Date: 6/24/2025 - 6/26/2025

  Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

• Sessions: 2

  Day(s) of Week: Tu Th

• Location: The Point at CC Young

  Room: Auditorium

• Livestream and Recording Options: This in-person course will also be livestreamed on YouTube and recorded for later viewing. Enrollment is not required to view the livestream. Livestream and recording links are made available to all members in our weekly emails.

• Lone Star Literary Landscapes: Texas Literature and the Environment

• In this session, members will explore Texas’ literary history and examine how Texas writers engage with the state’s diverse environments—from sprawling prairies and rugged deserts to dense forests and dynamic coastlines—and how these landscapes shape historical narratives, cultural identities, and environmental consciousness. Members will read works by acclaimed authors, including Larry McMurtry, John Graves, and Rick Bass, discuss themes of conservation and loss, abundance and scarcity, and progress and preservation, and reflect on the state's contemporary ecological challenges.

• Fee: $15.00

• Instructor: Rochelle Gregory

  Capacity Remaining: 39

• Start Date - End Date: 6/24/2025 - 7/1/2025

  Time: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

• Sessions: 2

  Day(s) of Week: Tu

• Location: Keller Senior Activities Center

  Room: Multipurpose Room

• Singing School: The Lyricality of Irish Nobel Poet Laureate Seamus Heaney

• Acclaimed Irish poet Seamus Heaney began writing poems from his rural countryside upbringing, morphed into poems that addressed the retributive violence of "The Troubles" and ended in more contemplative modes that examined his and Ireland's place in the world. In a session that showcases this trajectory, members will enjoy a discussion and analysis of a few pre-provided poems.

• Fee: $15.00

• Instructor: LeeAnn Derdeyn

  Capacity Remaining: 74

• Start Date - End Date: 7/31/2025 - 7/31/2025

  Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

• Sessions: 1

  Day(s) of Week: Th

• Location: The Point at CC Young

  Room: Auditorium

• Livestream and Recording Options: This in-person course will also be livestreamed on YouTube and recorded for later viewing. Enrollment is not required to view the livestream. Livestream and recording links are made available to all members in our weekly emails.

• The American Musical: Reminiscence and History

• This course will cover the American Musical from 1903 to the present. Through audio and visuals, it willl feature reminiscence of more than 50 of the most successful musicals, highlighting their composers, lyricists, actors, actresses, and especially the music.

• Fee: $15.00

• Instructor: Max Morley

  Capacity Remaining: 27

• Start Date - End Date: 6/24/2025 - 7/1/2025

  Time: 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM

• Sessions: 2

  Day(s) of Week: Tu

• Location: Robson Ranch Clubhouse

  Room: Patriot/Legacy

• The Barbizon Hotel and The Women Who Stayed There
  

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• The story of the Barbizon Residential Hotel for Women (1927-1980), located in New York City, reflects the many major societal disruptions and economic changes experienced by women coming of age in the mid-20th century. The “Doll House” was designed as a safe place for unchaperoned women to stay while working or studying in NYC. First built as a residential living space for women in the Arts, the hotel later housed women from the Katheen Gibbs Secretarial School and the Ford Modeling Agency. In this session, members will learn about the many women who at one time resided at the Barbizon, including Silvia Plath, Candice Bergen, Liza Minnelli, and Grace Kelly. This presentation will be based on personal experience and information from the book, The Barbizon by Paulina Bren.

   

• Fee: $15.00

• Instructor: Lois Levine-Elman

  Capacity Remaining: -12

• Dates: 7/23/2025 - 7/23/2025

  Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

• Sessions: 1

  Days: W

• Location: UNT Support & Services Building

  Room: SSB 102