H208 SHORT SUBJECTS: STORIES ALOUD * OLLI program: OLLI Online Course location: UD OLLI Online (virtual) Monday 2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Dates of class: 2/7/2022 - 4/25/2022 • Class limit: 30 Instructor: Chenda Davison Number of class sessions: 11 • Price for course: $50 Course format: Discussion, Lecture Technological requirements for optimal viewing: Any screen with audio and video Enjoy the luxury of hearing a wide variety of short stories read aloud, ranging from humorous to serious to provocative to hilarious. Among those chosen for this semester are works by authors such as Louise Erdrich, Patrick McManus, Ron Carlson, E.B. White, Neil Gaimon, Somerset Maugham, Lucia Berlin and O. Henry.
H225 THOMAS HARDY AND IRONY * OLLI program: Wilmington Course location: Arsht Hall, Wilmington Wednesday 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Dates of class: 2/9/2022 - 5/11/2022 • Class limit: 50 Instructor: James Moser Number of class sessions: 13 • Price for course: $70 Course format: Discussion, Lecture, Video Based Irony is central to the novels of Thomas Hardy, especially ironic allusion to scripture. We will examine Job and the wish never-to-have-been-born, Moses and the Israelites representing a Promised Land that keeps turning into wilderness, and the tree of knowledge in Genesis, in which knowledge is not a gift of life, but a means of demise. We will study two of Hardy’s novels, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and The Mayor of Casterbridge, including viewing films based on them.
H221 UNCLE TOM’S CABIN VS. THE ‘PECULIAR INSTITUTION’ *** OLLI program: OLLI Online Course location: UD OLLI Online (virtual) Tuesday 2:15 p.m. - 4 p.m. Dates of class: 2/8/2022 - 3/8/2022 • Class limit: 25 Instructor: Emily Ginder Number of class sessions: 5 • Price for course: $25 Course format: Discussion Technological requirements for optimal viewing: Any screen with audio and video
Required texts: Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, ISBN: 0393963039 and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass Uncle Tom’s Cabin is arguably the most influential book written by a woman. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote about slavery in the 1850s. Was her novel accurate? As we study the history of slavery in the U.S., we will compare her depictions to the autobiography of Frederick Douglass. This is a literature course that focuses on the historical, political, economic and social conditions of the Antebellum South. We will also be reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
H229 WHAT DID TWAIN LEARN FROM THE RIVER? * OLLI program: Kent/Sussex Course location: Wyoming Church, Dover Tuesday 10:45 a.m. - noon Dates of class: 2/8/2022 - 3/8/2022 • Class limit: 30 Instructor: Russell Endo Number of class sessions: 5 • Price for course: $25 Course format: Discussion Required text: Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, ISBN-13: 978-0451531209 ISBN-10: 0451531205 “Now if my ears hear aright,...” we will stroll down and up through Twain’s experience of the Mississippi River, ending our passage(s) at end of Chapter 14 “Rank and Dignity of Piloting," reading and reacting to its influence on Twain’s being as present and future author. This hybrid-format class takes place on-site in the classroom, joined simultaneously by virtual participants in an online section of the same class.
H229-06 WHAT DID TWAIN LEARN FROM THE RIVER? * OLLI program: Kent/Sussex Course location: UD OLLI Online (virtual) Tuesday 10:45 a.m. - noon Dates of class: 2/8/2022 - 3/8/2022 • Class limit: 25 Instructor: Russell Endo Number of class sessions: 5 • Price for course: $25 Course format: Discussion Technological requirements for optimal viewing: Any screen Same course as H229 except for location―this section meets simultaneously online via Zoom videoconferencing.
46 UD OLLI, Spring 2022 | Wilmington | Kent/Sussex | Online
