Previously Offered Courses

Since its inception, CCE has offered credit-bearing courses each semester to adult learners. Some are discipline-based; others are interdisciplinary. They represent all areas of the curriculum — the Arts; Mathematics and the Natural Sciences; the Humanities; the Social Sciences and History. CCE courses are taught by experienced Sarah Lawrence faculty and distinguished guests, all of whom are experts in their fields with a passion for teaching.

• Narrative Design
  Carol Zoref
• Mathematics Through Literature
  Daniel King
• Body Politics: A Cultural History of Women and Beauty in the 20th century U.S.
  Lyde Cullen Sizer
• Opera
  Martin Goldray
• Creating Theatre Imperatives (one credit)
  Ernest Hawkings Abuba
• Genetics and Ethics
  Laura Hercher
• Chromophilia: Color, Pattern and Form
  Leah Montalto
• Genesis
  Cameron Afzal
• Love and Desire in Modern Literature
  Roland Dollinger
• Reading and Writing about Education
  Edward Miller
• The Psychology of Race and Ethnicity
  Linwood Lewis
• Human Genetics
  Drew Cressman
• Russian Classics
  Melissa Frazier
• Constitutional Law: The Founding Principles
  James Bowen
• Really Fantastic: Twentieth Century Latin America “Fantastic” Short Fiction
  Maria Negroni
• Nutrition
  Mali Yin
• Child and Adolescent Social Development: The Role of Parents and Peers
  Carl Barenboim
• Romantic Poetry: The Visionary Company
  Neil Arditi
• American Culture and Society, 1975–2005
  Jim Cullen
• Artist Books
  Shana Agid
• Arts Resource Lab: Finding Your Voice
  Shirley Kaplan
• Ways of Seeing: Perspectives of/on the Middle East
  Shahnaz Rouse
• Narrative Design
  Carol Zoref
• A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Listening (One credit)
  Mayra Bloom
• World’s a Stage: Global Perspectives in Performance
  Kym Moore
• Biology of Living and Dying
  Leah Olson
• Global Inequality: Issues in Economic Theory and Policy
  Jamee Moudud
• Writing in Response: Fiction
  Suzanne Gardinier
• 1928: Music and Society
  Martin Goldray
• Science and Film
  Karen Rader
• Democracy and Diversity
  David Peritz
• A Literary Journey to Italy
  Judith Serafini-Sauli
• The State, Prisons and Welfare
  Jamee Moudud
• Drawing in Black & White & Color
  Gwen Fabricant
• Saint Paul, Known and Unknown
  Cameron Afzal
• Mathematics: An Indispensable Tool for Living
  Daniel King
• Ways of Seeing: Perspectives of/on the Middle East
  Shahnaz Rouse
• Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Alice Walker: Texts and Contexts
  Chikwenye Ogunyemi
• Social Conscience in American Modern Dance
  Rose Anne Thom
• The Human Genome at the Commencement of the Twenty First Century
  Bruce Haas
• Alternative Americas, Alternative Americans: A Cultural History of the U.S., 1845-1946 
  Lyde Cullen Sizer
• The Transformation Process: Turning Life into Fiction
  Carolyn Ferrell
• The Basics of Fiction Craft
  Carolyn Ferrell
• Democracy in America Today: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives on our Fractious Politics
  David Peritz