Understand how to produce a film from buying/development all the way to release/marketing, including each stage of development, their affect on the other stages, and how the producer is conducive of their interdependency.

Learn to recognize and apply the directorial skills for a successful artistic collaboration with performers. You will select one dramatic and one comic scene then cast, rehearse, and present the scenes in class.

This interactive course provides you with career strategies that help generate audition opportunities and skills that can increase your ability to book the job.

Explore basic concepts of the Meisner approach to acting with a focus on creating and living in imaginary circumstances.

Crisis on any scale is an inevitability in the world today. As a leader, learn how to prepare for crisis and build the skills you need to resolve and mitigate crisis situations impacting your organization or community.  

New companies today need to be agile and flexible. This course provides a roadmap for developing, nurturing and achieving success through leading hot groups and working around traditional hierarchical structures.

This collaborative course examines what constitutes "effective" leadership across cultures, and prepares students for business assignments outside of their home countries.

This course offers a comprehensive exploration of affordable housing development, covering both family and senior communities. It addresses fundamental questions such as why and how to develop…

Osher (50+). This course allows students the opportunity to read aloud and discuss one of William Shakespeare's plays. Students do not need prior acting experience, only a passion for exploring Shakespeare's genius and a copy of the play.   

Osher (50+). In this course, we look at how mythological birds have influenced and inspired classical music. 

Osher (50+). In this course, we screen and discuss three post-war and three contemporary Italian films.

Osher (50+). In this course, we read the parables of Jesus and discuss how they address religious, spiritual and ethical themes.

This course will explore the meaning, role and power of diversity for individuals and institutions, with an emphasis on diversity within education, and in particular, within higher education. …

Osher (50+). In this course, we explore the obstacles and achievements of women in the field of science.

Osher (50+). In this course, we discuss the emergence of a new axis of evil, comprised of China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia.

Osher (50+). In this course, we explore the avant-garde art and artists from the early twentieth century. 

Osher (50+). In this course, we explore the Empire style, the late Neoclassical style that characterizes artistic creations of the era.

Osher (50+). In this course, we screen and discuss seven movies that explore the parent-child relationship.

Osher (50+).  In this course, we explore three regions where chocolate is grown and/or produced: Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Osher (50+). In this course, we read the works of three Russian authors whose work has been deemed worthy of the Nobel-Prize in Literature but who did not win the prize.