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Fall 2026 Course Schedule
Contents
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Monday Morning (10 a.m. – 12 p.m.)
| Columbia | Ingleside at King Farm |
| The Psychological Thriller – 26FC110 11 weeks – 9/14 to 12/7 (no class 9/21 & 11/23) William Florman – watch video preview |
The Chatbot Revolution – 26FI607 5 weeks – 9/14 to 10/19 (no class 9/21) Victor Rezmovic – watch video preview |
| Ingleside at King Farm | |
| Gothic Architecture Beyond France – 26FI112 6 weeks – 10/26 to 12/7 (no class 11/23) Nora Hamerman – watch video preview |
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| Zoom |
Zoom |
| Love Songs: Expressing Romance in Music, Verse, Drama, or Dance – 26FZ117 5 weeks – 9/14 to 10/19 (no class 9/21) Roger Brunyate – watch video preview |
The Cuban Missile Crisis: What We Know Now and Why It Matters – 26FZ566 6 weeks – 10/26 to 12/7 (no class 11/23) Pete Kakel – watch video preview |
| Zoom | Zoom |
| A Beautiful Brain – 26FZ607 *Note: 10-11:30 a.m. 5 weeks – 9/14 to 10/19 (no class 9/21) Scott Fulton – watch video preview |
The Wunderkind of Salzburg – 26FZ106 6 weeks – 10/26 to 12/7 (no class 11/23) Saul Lilienstein – watch video preview |
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Monday Afternoon (1 p.m. – 3 p.m.)
| Columbia | Columbia |
| Our Times – 26FC527 11 weeks – 9/14 to 12/7 (no class 9/21 & 11/23) David Hatch – watch video preview |
Hopkins Heroes – 26FC573 5 weeks – 9/14 to 10/19 (no class 9/21) Paula Mister – watch video preview |
| Columbia | Ingleside at King Farm |
| My Favorite Comedies – 26FC105 6 weeks – 10/26 to 12/7 (no class 11/23) Peter Silverglate – watch video preview |
A Decade of Surprises: The 1970s – 26FI516 11 weeks – 9/14 to 12/7 (no class 9/21 & 11/23) Joan Adams – watch video preview |
| Zoom | Zoom |
| The Guitar: Its Music and How it Conquered the World! – 26FZ103 11 weeks – 9/14 to 12/7 (no class 9/21 & 11/23) Jonathan Palevsky – watch video preview |
Great Books – 26FZ215 11 weeks – 9/14 to 12/7 (no class 9/21 & 11/23) Mark Weinstein – watch video preview |
| Zoom | Zoom |
| The British Royal Family in Film: Heavy is the Head That Wears the Crown – 26FZN168 *Note: 1-2:30 p.m. 6 weeks – 9/28 to 11/2 Butch Epps – watch video preview |
Climate Change Around the World – 26FZN168 5 weeks – 11/9 to 12/9 Ron Edelstein – watch video preview |
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Tuesday Morning (10 a.m. – 12 p.m.)
| Residences at Vantage Point |
Residences at Vantage Point |
| Music of Different Genres and Times on Guitar – 26FV107 6 weeks – 9/15 to 10/20 Vladimir Fridman – watch video preview |
The Chatbot Revolution – 26FV607 6 weeks – 10/27 to 12/8 (no class 11/24) Victor Rezmovic – watch video preview |
| Carnegie | Carnegie |
| Biblical Men: A Study According to Roles – 26FM504 12 weeks – 9/15 to 12/8 (no class 11/24) Gideon Amir – watch video preview |
Fantasy Football – 26FM602 6 weeks – 9/15 to 10/20 Richard Barrett – watch video preview |
| Carnegie | Zoom |
| Dynamic Years of Change in America – 26FM409 6 weeks – 10/27 to 12/8 (no class 11/24) Don Stanton – watch video preview |
NYC Cultural History: Part One – 26FZ102 6 weeks – 9/15 to 10/20 George Scheper – watch video preview |
| Zoom | Zoom |
| The History of Rock – 26FZ135 6 weeks – 10/27 to 12/8 (no class 11/24) John Hill – watch video preview |
Immigrants in America – Stories of Jazz, Blues, Rock, and Popular Culture – 26FZ147 6 weeks – 9/15 to 10/20 Emanuel Abramovits – watch video preview |
| Zoom | |
| World Religions – 26FZ572 6 weeks – 10/27 to 12/8 (no class 11/24) Marvin Adams – watch video preview |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1 p.m. – 3 p.m.)
| Residences at Vantage Point | Residences at Vantage Point |
| Six More Emerging Infectious Diseases – 26FV615 6 weeks – 9/15 to 10/20 Kristina Obom – watch video preview |
The Great War – 26FV522 6 weeks – 10/27 to 12/8 (no class 11/24) Robert Hines – watch video preview |
| Carnegie | Carnegie |
| The Velvet and the Veil: Women Between the Cloister and the Court – 26FM520 11 weeks – 9/15 to 12/8 (no class 11/24) Naomi Daremblum – watch video preview |
Designing Washington: Art for Democracy – 26FM113 6 weeks – 9/15 to 12/20 Judy Scott Feldman – watch video preview |
| Carnegie | Zoom |
| Group Dynamics: Amateur Sleuths in Detective Fiction – 26FM235 6 weeks – 10/27 to 12/8 (no class 11/24) Melinda Kramer – watch video preview |
Over the Rainbow – The Movies and Music of Judy Garland – 26FZ108 12 weeks – 9/15 to 12/8 (no class 11/24) Stan Levin – watch video preview |
| Zoom | |
| Isms: A History of Artistic Terms – 26FZ109 12 weeks – 9/15 to 12/8 (no class 11/24) Joseph Cassar – watch video preview |
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Tuesday Evening (7 – 8:30 p.m.)
| Zoom | |
| Apple at 50: How it Revolutionized Computing and Transformed Daily Life – 26FZN609 6 weeks – 9/29 to 11/3 Leander Kahney – watch video preview |
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Wednesday Morning (10 a.m. – 12 p.m.)
| Columbia | Columbia |
| The History of Maryland: Everything You Should Know – 26FC557 6 weeks – 9/16 to 10/21 Mary Mannix – watch video preview |
Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered: The Rodgers Legacy – 26FC188 6 weeks – 10/28 to 12/9 (no class 11/25) Thea Tullman Moore – watch video preview |
| Columbia | Columbia |
| The Psychology of Thriving After 60: Part I – 26FC855 6 weeks – 9/16 to 10/21 Asia Johnson – watch video preview |
Times Echo: Music, Memory and the Second World War – 26FC103 6 weeks – 10/28 to 12/9 (no class 11/25) Jonathan Palevsky – watch video preview |
| Carnegie | Carnegie |
| Dutch Masters from Rembrandt to Mondrian – 26FM112 12 weeks – 9/16 to 12/9 (no class 11/25) Nora Hamerman – watch video preview |
Over the Rainbow – The Movies and Music of Judy Garland – 26FM108 12 weeks – 9/16 to 12/9 (no class 11/25) Stan Levin – watch video preview |
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| Musical Comedy Composers with a Song on my Heart: Part One – 26FZ139 6 weeks – 9/16 to 10/21 Sam and Candy Caponegro – watch video preview |
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Wednesday Afternoon (1 p.m. – 3 p.m.)
| Columbia | Columbia |
| Edgar Allan Poe: the Gothic and the Grotesque – 26FC268 6 weeks – 9/16 to 10/21 Liza Achilles – watch video preview |
History of Iran – 26FC539 6 weeks – 10/28 to 12/9 (no class 11/25) Eric Gartman – watch video preview |
| Columbia | Columbia |
| Here Be Dragons: Kings, Princes, Castles and Gardens – The Cultural History of Wales – 26FC214 6 weeks – 9/16 to 10/21 Laura Donnelly – watch video preview |
Thank you for being a friend: Sitcoms and their Philosophies – 26FC546 6 weeks – 10/28 to 12/9 (no class 11/25) Katessa Trafton – watch video preview |
| Carnegie | Carnegie |
| Immunotherapies: Harnessing the Immune System in Treatments for Cancer and Autoimmune Disease – 26FM630 12 weeks – 9/16 to 12/9 Marna Williams – watch video preview |
Diplomatic Writing, Past and Present – 26FM433 6 weeks – 9/16 to 10/21 Nicolas de Zamaroczy – watch video preview |
| Carnegie | Zoom |
| A Photo Tour of Birds and Bird Behavior – 26FM637 6 weeks – 10/28 to 12/9 (no class 11/25) Calvin Schnure – watch video preview |
Verdict – 26FZ420 12 weeks – 9/16 to 12/9 (no class 11/25) Eleanor Clift – watch video preview |
| Zoom | Zoom |
| Happy for Now: Romance Books’ Modern Endings and What They Teach Us About Life – 26FZ273 6 weeks – 9/16 to 10/21 Michelle Bedolla – watch video preview |
Great Science Stories – 26FZ621 *Note: 3-4:30 p.m. 6 weeks – 10/28 to 12/9 (no class 11/25) John Hendrickson – watch video preview |
| Zoom | |
| Living off The Laughter: History of Comedy in America – 26FZN162 *Note: 3-4:30 p.m. 6 weeks – 10/14 to 11/18 Eddy Friedfeld – watch video preview |
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Thursday Morning (10 a.m. – 12 p.m.)
| Carnegie | Carnegie |
| Verdict – 26FM420 12 weeks – 9/17 to 12/10 (no class 11/26) Eleanor Clift – watch video preview |
The United Nations: History and Core Ideas – 26FM538 6 weeks – 9/17 to 10/22 Laurence Peters – watch video preview |
| Zoom | |
| The Novels of Graham Greene – 26FZ206 Thursdays,10/29 to 12/10 (no class 11/26) Robert Jacobs – watch video preview |
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| Zoom | Zoom |
| Johns Hopkins: A Quaker in a Slave State – 26FZ516 6 weeks – 9/17 to 10/22 Sydney Van Morgan – watch video preview |
America’s First Ladies and Westward Expansion – 26FZ571 6 weeks – 10/29 to 12/10 (no class 11/27) Roy Justice – watch video preview |
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Thursday Afternoon (1 p.m. – 3 p.m.)
| Carnegie | |
| The Civil War: Reconsidering America’s Pivotal Struggle to Save Its Soul – 26FM545 6 weeks – 9/17 to 10/22 Stephen A. Goldman – watch video preview |
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| Carnegie | Carnegie |
| Contemporary Issues in Criminal Law – 26FM510 6 weeks – 9/17 to 10/22 John McCarthy – watch video preview |
Roots of the Blues – 26FM110 6 weeks – 10/29 to 12/10 (no class 11/26) Seth Kibel – watch video preview |
| Zoom | Zoom |
| Osher at JHU Lecture Series – 26FZ900 12 weeks – 9/17 to 12/10 (no class 11/26) William Lewis – watch video preview |
The Memoir Seminar: Elmore Leonard’s Rules of Good Writing – 26FZ301 6 weeks – 9/17 to 12/10 (no class 11/26) Diane Scharper – watch video preview |
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Thursday Evening (7 – 8:30 p.m.)
| Zoom | Zoom |
| Understanding George Orwell: His Life and Legacy – 26FZ209 3 weeks – 9/17 to 10/1 Vic Peterson – watch video preview |
Cynology 101 – 26FZ638 3 weeks – 10/8 to 10/22 Stephenie Slahor – watch video preview |
| Zoom | |
| Constructing Culture in the Age of AI: Images, Art, and Social Impact – 26FZ166 6 weeks – 10/29 to 12/10 (no class 11/26) Hugh Leeman – watch video preview |
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Friday Morning (11 a.m – 12 p.m.)
| Zoom | |
| A Pre-Election Conversation Series with Marvin Kalb – Fridays in October – Annual Members: 26FE004 – Guests/Non-Members: 26FE003 5 weeks – 10/2, 10/9, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30 Marvin Kalb |
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