NEWS

 

We have a record number of courses lined up for Winter/Spring 2025. Registration will open on December 2 at 10:00 a.m. Once you have decided which courses you want to take, click on the “Register for Courses” button. It will take you to the course registration program.

DavidsonLearns is excited to offer a fascinating selection of in-person and online courses in both our traditional format and our shorter mini-course format. Before registering for any of these courses, you must have a DavidsonLearns account and be a current DavidsonLearns member. We encourage you to take care of both of these requirements now in order to avoid a delay when you register. If you need to create an account or become a DavidsonLearns member (or renew your membership), click here.

If you would like to take a course that is full, please add your name to the waitlist, and we will contact you if a seat becomes available. Please do not contact the instructor directly.

For the full listing of courses and descriptions please go to the DavidsonLearns website.

The following is a list of course titles and the instructors:

 

In-Person Mini Courses

 Exploring the Social Behavior of South African Mammals with Photography

Instructor: Verna Case, PhD

 

Generative Artificial Intelligence: Understanding Capabilities, Opportunities, and Risks

Instructor: Steve Hall

 

The Opioid Crisis and a Call to Action

Instructor: Peter Harnett, MS, MPH

 

In-Person Traditional Courses

Adventures in Genealogy

Instructor: Christopher J. Ritz, PhD

 

Baseball, Mythology, and the Meaning of Life

Instructor: Andy Abrams, JD

 

Blues You Can Use 

Instructor: Rachel Stewart & Cole Barton, PhD

 

British and Irish History on Film: The Potato Famine to WWI

Instructor: Peter Thorsheim, PhD

 

The Fifties: A Critical Decade

Instructor: Sally McMillen, PhD

 

The Historical Origins of Modern Medicine

Instructor: Joe Konen, MD, MSPH

 

Hitler, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust

Instructor: Burkhard Henke, PhD

 

Indigenous Nations and the United States

Instructor: Ron Schmidt, PhD

 

Interest Rates, the Federal Reserve, and the Bond Market

Instructor: Richard M. Reid, MBA

 

Memoir Writing Workshop: It’s My Story and I’m Stickin’ To It

Instructor: Colleen Thrailkill, EdD

 

Memory Culture: History, Memory, and Politics in German Culture

from 1945 to the Present

Instructor: Scott Denham, PhD

 

The Overland Campaign: Eight Weeks of Fighting That Changed the Civil War 

Instructor: Eric Hight

 

Perspectives on Traditional Music, Part II

Instructor: Bill Lawing, DMA

 

Philosophical Considerations in Economic Policymaking

Instructor: Shyam Gouri Suresh, PhD

 

A Political History and Virtual Tour of the Panama Canal 

Instructor: J. Michael Hogan, PhD 

 

The Politics of US Trade Policy: Where It Might Go in the Future and Do Tariffs Matter?

Instructor: Joe Papovich 

 

Public Voices of the Enslaved

Instructor: Van E. Hillard, PhD 

 

Shakespeare’s “Othello” in Five Acts

Instructor: Cynthia Lewis, PhD

 

They Stole the Secrets of the Cold War 

Instructor: Mark Washburn

 

Titans of Engineering: Five American Wonders

Instructor: Mark Washburn

 

Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina”

Instructor: Amanda Ewington, PhD

 

Visual Arts and the Mind: The Cognitive Science Behind Famous Works of Art 

Instructor: Greta Munger, PhD

 

The Winning of the West: The History of the American Frontier, 1540-1917

Instructor: Jeanie M. Welch, MA

 

The World’s Greatest Short Stories

Instructor: Zoran Kuzmanovich, PhD

Online Mini Course

Furnishing the Renaissance Home: Domestic Objects for Women

Instructor: Trinity Martinez, PhD

 

Online Traditional Course

Filmmaking Pioneers

Instructor: Alan Singerman, PhD