Spring 2006 Courses
(click for a sneak peek at Fall 2006 courses)

Partisan Politics: How It Shapes Our Democracy

Art at the Airport: Second Flight
Klineberg on Houston: 24 Years Surveying the City
John Updike's America, Part II
Joseph Ellis on George Washington
Collecting Art: Rewards and Pitfalls
Solo Cello / Solo Viols
A Capital Idea!  Study Tour of Our Nation's Capital (Details now available)
The Critical Arts: Four Critics Discuss the State of Drama, Dance, the Visual Arts, and Music in Houston
From Slavery to Revolution: South of the Border
Foreign Policy Pressure Points:
Globalization - Nuclear Proliferation - Biodefense - Diplomacy - Democracy
  Menil House Lecture and Tour (FULL)


Coming in Fall 2006

"Philip Roth’s Range: Portnoy’s Complaint, The Ghost Writer, The Human Stain, and The Plot Against America," with TERRY DOODY
"The Denial of Death" with PITTMAN MCGEHEE
"The Triumph of Creativity in Victorian England" with NEWELL BOYD
"Unexpected Italy" a tour with CAROLINE LEVANDER and MEDINA LASANSKY
"Plays Into Films: Three Very Different Dramas and Their Conversion into Films" with DENNIS HUSTON, who will analyze "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?" "The Importance of Being Earnest," and "Proof"