The Evergreen Forum’s fall 2014 semester features courses in the arts, history, politics and more.
In addition to courses titled “Woody Allen: Light and Dark,” and “Contemporary Business and Economic Issues,” the adult education organization is offering classes on topics like the Supreme Court, Princeton University’s architecture, Tin Pan Alley and James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Daytime Evergreen Forum courses run from six-to-eight weeks and are taught, for the most part, at the Princeton Senior Resource Center, 45 Stockton St., Princeton.
Course leaders are drawn from local colleges, corporate offices, and research centers.
Former Chief of Commercial Litigation for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Walter Frank is set to lead “So You Want to Be a Supreme Court Justice?” The course examines whether “constitutional law [is] simply the most elaborate game of three card monte ever invented” or “one of the great strengths of our democracy.” Frank is the author of the book Making Sense of the Constitution.
Poet Lois Harrod is set to teach a course titled “Lives of Girls and Women: The Fiction of Alice Munro,” an examination of what makes Munro, the 2013 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, worth reading. Harrod’s connection with Munro is evident in her own book, Part of the Deeper Sea.
Readings from The Economist will guide discussions in Milton H. Grannatt’s class “Contemporary Business and Economic Issues.” Grannat is retired vice president of global business development and licensing at Novartis Pharmaceuticals.
“Challenges of the Future,” based on Al Gore’s book, encourages idea-sharing and discussion.
Other fall semester classes are “Fatal Attractions in Literature,” “Amazing Avian Artists,” “The Jews and the Roman Empire,” “Klezmer Roots” and “Women, Money and Power in American Society.”
Marking 13 years of offering area residents stimulating daytime study, Evergreen Forum has gone from offering four courses a semester to more than 20 every fall and spring.
Registration is scheduled to begin July 25; applicants are encouraged to register by Aug. 26. Lotteries are held for oversubscribed classes.
More information is online at theevergreenforum.org.
