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Fall 2026		Winter 2027
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
Red China Blues	Jan Wong	Wildlife in The Urban Landscape	Gabriella Mastromonaco
Shakespeare and After	Phillipa Sheppard	From Populism to Fascism	Amnon Zohar
Issues in Canada-US Relations	David Leyton-Brown	Imagining India	Shraddha Chatterjee
A History of Soul Music from the 50s to the 70s	Rob Bowman	Hitchcock and Beyond	Joe Frankel
Understanding Generative AI	Sharon Lauricella	Women of Science	Myriam Nafte
A History of Islam	Raheel Raza and Sohail Raza
Fall 2025		Winter 2026
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
Have History Will Travel	Ted Barris	The State of Journalism Today	Mark Bulgutch
Climate Change: What We Know and How We Know It	Steve Easterbrook	10 Royal Dynasties That Changed the World	Carolyn Harris
Crime and Mystery Fiction	Dale Churchward	A Captivating Journey Across the Cosmos	Tom Vassos
Masters of Manipulation	Olivier Courteaux	Exploring the Arctic	Mark Terry
Power Players: Couples Who Changed the World	Laura Carlson	The Story of the Music Business	Mike Daley
The Gold Standard: A History of the Academy Awards	Ethan Vestby

Fall 2024		Winter 2025
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
Wonders of Ancient Egypt: The Great Tombs, Temples & Monuments of the Pharaohs	Laura Ranieri-Roy	Wildlife Wellbeing and the Role of Zoo Science	Gabriela Mastromonaco
The World is Changing: What It Means for Cities Like Toronto	Ken Greenberg, Anne Golden	Russian Literary Rebels: Creativity in Times of Crisis	Julia Zarankin
Wrongful Convictions: Causes and Remedies	Timothy Moore	Flesh and Bone: An Introduction to Forensic Anthropology	Myriam Nafte
Canadian Black History: Past, Present, Future	Rachel Luke	Longterm Care Planning: What Is It and Why Should I Care?	Karen Henderson
A Century of American Popular Music	Jordan Klapman	What Money Should and Should Not Buy: Exploring the Limits of the Market	Brenda Spotton Visano
The Spiel About Spielberg	Joe Frankel
Fall 2023		Winter 2024
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
Music of the 1970s	Mike Daley	The History of Comedy	Andrew Clark
Toronto: 1970s and Its Legacy	David Crombie	Missing in Action: Untold Stories of Canadians’ Participation in Historic Moments	Ted Barris
Maple Leaf Rag: Canadian Culture in the 1970s	Kate Taylor, Marni Jackson	A History of Indigenous Canada: Why this Matters	Alison Norman
Toronto’s Architecture	Marta O’Brien	Who are the Slavs?	Stan Kirschbaum
World Affairs in the 1970s	Olivier Courteaux	The Kitchen: The Meaning of Hearth and Home	John Ota
Democracy in Peril	Amnon Zohar
Fall 2022		Winter 2023
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
From Gold to Bitcoin	Ian Roberge	Religion: Up Close and Personal	Michael Coren
From Foraging to Fast Food	Donna Gabaccia	Plays from a Small Island	Philippa Sheppard
Beethoven	Rick Phillips	Pride and Prejudice: Social Conflict in a Modern World	Brian Singer
Crime and Punishment	Sandy Kingston
Fall 2021		Winter 2022
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
The Brain and the Mind	Terry Picton	The Operatic Quest: In the Footsteps of …	Iain Scott
The Lure of Being Elsewhere	Kevin James	Great Modern Architects	Marta O’Brien
Wonderful Things: The Life and Treasures of Tutankhamun	Laura Ranieri Roy	The Middle East	Amnon Zohar
Giants of Contemporary Literature	Joanna Krongold	The Art and Science of Aging	Guy Proulx
Fall 2020		Winter 2021
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
The Anthropocene Era	Romila Verma	Astronomy	Tom Vassos
Exploring the Arctic	Mark Terry	China	Olivier Courteaux
The Great Broadway	Jordan Klapman	European Union	Heather MacRae
Modern Russia	Peter Vronsky	Impressionists	Osnat Lippa

Fall 2019		Winter 2020
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
Colonies and Colonialism: A History	Olivier Courteaux	Significant Canadian Criminal Cases	Alex Borman
Intersections Between Science and Religion	Terry Picton	Italian Food: Pane, Amore e Fantasia (Bread, Love and Fantasy)	Franco Gallippi
Shakespeare on the Silver Screen	Philippa Sheppard	The Byzantine Empire	Eric McGeer
Words and Music: Leonard Cohen	Mike Daley	Espionage	Peter Vronsky
White-Collar Crime: An Investigator’s Perspective	James Hunter	Puzzles and Humanity: Enigma, Our Brains and the World	Stacey A. Costa
The Stories Behind the Names	David Clandfield
Fall 2018		Winter 2019
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
The Beatles and Their World	Mike Daley	Great Museums of the World	James A.S. Thompson
Black History in Canada	Channon Oyeniran	Understanding Populism	Brian Singer
The Middle East and Global Conflicts	Saeed Rahnema	Canada and the World	Adam Chapnick
Comparative Religions	Andrew Knight-Messenger	Film Noir	Geoff Prevere
Murder and Mayhem: The History of Fictional Crime	Margaret Mays	Deconstructing Water	Romila Verma
Theatres for a Reason: The Landscape of Theatre in Toronto	Robert Fothergill
Fall 2017		Winter 2018
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
The Dancing Image	Michael Crabb	History of Folk Music	Mike Daley
Canada and the Second World War	Eric McGeer	History of Terrorism	Peter Vronsky
Indigenous Histories of Ontario	Alison Norman	Understanding Architecture	Marta O’Brien
Canadian Novels	Lisa Salem-Wiseman	America in the Postwar Era	Peter Harris
Milestones in Public Health and Biotechnology: Canadian Connections	Christopher Rutty
Fall 2016		Winter 2017
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
Hiding in Plain Sight: Jewish Sensibility in Hollywood Films	Kevin Courier	Who Are We? Human Nature in the Western Tradition	Jonathan Salem-Wiseman
Canada and the Great War, 1914-1919	Eric McGeer	Toronto – From Gathering Place to Global Village	David Crombie
Ten Plays that Shook the World	Phillippa Sheppard	Living and Learning about China	Bernie Frolic
The City States of the Italian Renaissance	Ken Bartlett	The Radio Documentary: Ideas in Sound	Bernie Lucht
Geology and Its Influence on Our Daily Lives	Ray Pichette
Ebony and Ivory: The History, Music and Performance of the Piano	Rick Phillips
Fall 2015		Winter 2016
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
Great European Cities in the Age of Anxiety	Julia Zarankin	Brazil in the Era of Globalization	Gillian McGillivray
Discover the Universe!	John R. Percy	Some Extraordinary Canadians, Part II	Michiel Horn
War: Its Meaning and Consequences	Stan Kirschbaum	Quebec Cinema	Gillian Helfield
The Changing Brain	Guy Proulx	One Hundred Years of Jazz	Mike Daley
The Dilemmas of Democracy	Alan Borovoy	Invitation to the Dance	Michael Crabb

Fall 2014		Winter 2015
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
Toronto Made for the 21st Century	David Crombie	The Political Economy of Transnational Organized Crime	Ian Roberge
The Arab Spring and the Formation of the Modern Middle East	Thabit Abdullah	Dimensions of Aging	Maire Percy
Big Ideas in Western Thought	Jonathan Salem-Wiseman	A German Europe or European Germany?	Heather MacRae
Myths and Legends in Opera	Iain Scott	Energizing Climates of Change	Tim Leduc
American Movies and the Politics of Idealism	Kevin Courrier	The Art and History of Photography from its Inception to its Future	Lance Gitter
Fall 2013		Winter 2014
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
All the Operas of Verdi	Iain Scott	Face the Music: Master Musicians and Maestros	Rick Phillips
The Rollicking History of the English Language	Katerine Barber	The Changing Brain	Guy Proulx
The Golden Age of the Arab-Islamic Caliphate	Thabit Abdullah	The Russian Revolution	Sergei Piekhanov
Successful 21st Century City Regions	Anne Golden, Ken Greenberg	Technology and the Modern World	Mike Daley
The Play is the Thing – Or is it?	Robert Fothergill
Fall 2012		Winter 2013
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
Toronto: Made for the 21st Century	David Crombie	Aboriginal Peoples and Canada	Peter Russell
Popular Culture and the Mass Media	Mike Daley	Murder, Manslaughter or Self Defense? Homicides in Ontario, 1800-1995	William Wicken
The Arab Spring and the Formation of the Modern Middle East	Thabit Abdullah	Making Sense of the Global Financial Crisis	Ian Roberge
Survey of World Religions	J.W. Winland	Studies in 20th Century Canadian Art: Nation and Identity, 1900-1945	Katerina Atonassova
Contemporary Novels	Anthony Hopkins
Fall 2011		Winter 2012
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
Twelve Classical Masterpieces that Changed Music	Rick Phillips	Canadian Politics	Peter Russell
Japan a Land of Paradoxes: An Insider’s Perspective	Momo Kano	Documentary Cinema	Gillian Helfield
The Universe – Yours to Discover	John Percy	Galleries of the World	Francis Broun
The Magic of Dance	Michael Crabb	India: Today and in the Future	Alok Mukherjee
War: Its Meaning and Consequences	Stanislav Kirschbaum
Fall 2010		Winter 2011
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
A Sense of Direction	Robert Fothergill	The Russian Evolution	Sergei Plekhanov
A New Africa	Jean-Pierre Diamani	The Arctic	Ian Martin
The Great Lakes	Jennifer Bonnell	Frontiers in Biomedical Research	Maire Percy
Great Scenes from Opera	Iain Scott	Some Extraordinary Canadians	Michiel Horn
Architecture and Our Lives	Eberhart Zeidler	One Hundred Years of Jazz	Mike Daley

Fall 2009		Winter 2010
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
Shakespeare, Then and Now	Robert Fothergill	Japan, the Land of Paradoxes	Momo Kano
People, Politics, Policies and Power: Comparing Governance in Europe and North America	William Maas	In Hollywood We Trust: Faith and Film	Gillian Helfield
Raking in the Karma: An Introduction to Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism	Sudharshan Duraiyappah	A Composite Compote of Composers	Rick Phillips
The Environment: Water, Urban Sprawl, Green Buildings, Climate Change	David Donnelly	Not Only Einstein – Famous Mathematicians and Scientists	Daniela Monaldi
Fall 2008		Winter 2009
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
From Atoms to Galaxies	David Logan	The Russian Evolution	Sergei Plekhanov
Mirrors to Nature, the Idea and Art of Acting	Rob Fothergill	Understanding the Visual Arts	Tara Marshall
Ten Great Operas	Iain Scott	Communication Through the Ages	Wade Nelson
Sphinx Tales and Pyramid Plots	Gayle Gibson	Evolution and the Big Question	David Stamos
Fall 2007		Winter 2008
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
Another Ten Great Operas	Iain Scott	Modern Art	Ken Carpenter
Making us Laugh	Rob Fothergill	Arab Cultural History	Ghada Jayyusi-Lehn
Security Issues in the 20th Century	Stanislav Kirschbaum	Does God Exist	Beryl Logan
The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Lives	Marcel Danesi	Latin America	James Cypher
Fall 2006		Winter 2007
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
Greatest Operas	Iain Scott	The Silk Routes	Sudarshan Duraiyappah
Arab Culture	Ghada Jayyusi-Lehn	The Great Popular Singers	Mike Daley
Water and Ice	Michael Gipp	China, 21st Century Superpower?	Bernie Frolic
Quebecois Cinema	Jillian Helfield	Multiculturalism and Diversity in Canada	Amal Madibbo
Fall 2005		Winter 2006
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
The Ten Greatest Plays	Robert Fothergill	Dilemmas of Democracy	Alan Borovoy
Science in the 21st Century	David Logan	What Ought We To Do?	Beryl Logan
Celtic Culture Through the Ages	Jennifer Reid	Canadian in World Affairs: Is Canada a Fading Power?	Martin Shadwick
Global Issues: Money, Trade and Institutions	Bernard Wolf	Great Men and Women of Modern History	Gayle Comeau

Fall 2004		Winter 2005
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
Creating Theatre for Toronto	Robert Fothergill	Art, Politics and Society	Ken Carpenter
The Canadian Novel: Modern to Post Modern	Elizabeth Hopkins	Myth and Mythology	Robyn Gillam
Canadian Architecture	Gordon MacFarlane	India Today: An Introduction	Alok Mukherjee
Ancient and Modern Classics	Carolyn Meyer	Jazz, Swing and Blues	Mike Daley
Fall 2003		Winter 2004
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
Canadian-American Relations	Geoffrey Ewen	Introduction to Linguistics	Ian Martin
Shakespeare for Our Time	Robert Fothergill	The Graeco-Roman World	Robyn Gillam
Aspects of 19th Century Britain	Helen Hatton	Africa, Past and Present	Abbas Gnamo
The Effects of Law	Cindy Pinks	The World’s Religions, East and West	Sol Tanenzapf
Fall 2002		Winter 2003
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
China	Victor Falkenheim	The Emergence of the Modern Middle East	Eddie Halabi
Opera	Sterling Beckwith	The City in the Western World, 1400s to the Present	Janet Miron
The Child in Film and Literature	Laurinda Hartt-Fournier	Astronomy – To Wish Upon a Star	Paul Delaney
Introduction to Islamic Society and Culture	Eddie Halabi	Health: Beyond the Absence of Disease	Lisa Jaakkimainen
Fall 2001		Winter 2002
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
The Rise of China	Victor Falkenheim	Music	Helen Hatton
Africa: Challenge of Change and Development	Abbas H. Gnamo	Business and the Economy: Current and Historical Perspectives	Michiel Horn
Ventriloquists and the Ladies: Women’s Voices in Literature	Deborah Jurdjevic	Islam and the Modern World	Colin Mitchell, Eddie Halabi
The Age of Flight	Daphne Schiff	Canadian Art in the 20th Century	Joan Murray
Fall 2000		Winter 2001
Course Title	Course Director	Course Title	Course Director
Twentieth Century Canadian Literature: The Land and its Voices	Deborah Jurdjevic	The Magic of Canadian Architecture	Gordon Macfarlane
The First Hundred Years: A Survey of World Cinema	Joseph Kispal-Kovacs	The Making of Latin America: Its People, Politics and Culture	Derek Williams
From Colony to Nation: A History of Canada	Geoffrey Ewen	Canadian Women’s History	Sheila McManus
Environmental Challenges for the New Millennium	Jim McCulloch	Law in Canadian Society	Richard Weisman

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