The Education Committee has announced the following courses for May, June, and July. All will be on Zoom starting at 2 pm.
May
New York City: From Colonial Outpost to Capital of the World
Instructor: Professor Edward Berenson. Four lectures on May 4, 11, 18, and 25.
June
Fundamentals of Criminal Law
Instructor: Professor Bennett L. Gershman, Pace University School of Law
This series will explore some of the central features of the American criminal justice system. A major focus will be on how prominently the U.S. Constitution figures in the investigation and prosecution of crimes and the limits it imposes on the enforcement officials.
June 8: Fundamental Features of Criminal
Law
June 15: Criminal Investigations
June 22: Introduction to the Criminal Justice
System
June 29: The Criminal Trial: role of the Judge,
Prosecutor, Defense Attorney, Jury
July
August Wilson – Chronicler of the Age
Instructor: Professor Kate Farrington
Few playwrights have achieved something as ambitious as August Wilson’s Century Cycle – a series of ten plays chronicling the experiences of African-American families and communities across the 20th century.
This course examines four of these plays, tracking his use of music, his perspective on generational growth of stagnation, and the myriad forms of both love and violence that shape his onstage worlds.
July 6: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1986)
July 13: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1982)
July 20: The Piano Lesson (1987)
July 27: Fences (1985)
To sign up for courses, contact Fran Kelly.