Understanding important events in the world around us often requires knowledge of concepts in modern physics--concepts that affect our lives, safety and well-being...

We all have important stories to tell. Often, though, we don’t know how to shape them, how to bring those moments in vivid detail to the page. In this workshop, we begin the first four sessions with simple awareness exercises focusing sequentially on sight, sound, taste, and touch...

The view from abroad—courtesy of filmmakers and television producers working in their own countries and speaking to their fellow citizens—is revealing, refreshing and occasionally jarring...

The comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan were the Beach Blanket Babylon of Victorian London. Featuring six different operas from Part 1 (Spring 2014), we will explore these operas as masterworks as well as the way in which they affectionately poke fun at the musical, social, and political world of their time...

This six-week course will cover the golden age of American rock n’ roll, 1955-75. It is the first of two parts, and will be taught chronologically and geographically (“a road trip”) across six regions where key American musical movements sprang up...

This course explores Native American literature from an Indigenous perspective. Five writers whose work reflects many significant preoccupations of the contemporary Indigenous world will be read and discussed...

World history is typically recounted from the perspective of a particular culture or peoples: it’s the story of how we got to where we are today but with an embedded assumption about what is meant by “we.”...

This course will explore the theory of evolution. Each of the topics will be taught by faculty from UC Berkeley and the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute. Topics will include, among others, the most current evolutionary science research...

Would you like to strengthen your singing and speaking voice, increase your range and projection, and grow in confidence while learning ...

Inspired by the exhibit Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California at the Oakland Museum of California, we’ll explore four ...

While historical, scientific, political, psychological, and religious thinkers often offer insufficient responses to profound ...

Though film is often taken as sheer and irrelevant entertainment and commercial exploitation, it has every claim to significance and ...

Students will hear an introduction to how the U.S. Supreme Court works and its place in our constitutional system ...

Students will hear an introduction to how the U.S. Supreme Court works and its place in our constitutional ...

Examine the historical development of the California wine industry, focusing especially on those involved firsthand in its creation, from the fieldworkers to the winemakers ...

Biomedical ethics has emerged over the past half century and incorporates medicine, philosophy, law, and social science perspectives. Explore significant issues, including allocation of decision-making between physicians and patients ...