Beacon Hill Seminars...

is a membership organization of people who have a vigorous interest in continuing their intellectual growth. It is dedicated to a concept of learning with and from peers. Members of Beacon Hill Seminars create, participate in, or lead a diverse group of courses designed to follow a seminar format of small group discussions and learning. At the same time, members enjoy a community of shared experience.

courses: Spring, 2013 (click on course title for more information)

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The Great Songwriters of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and Hollywood, 1900-1950

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"Coriolanus"
Alessandro Mansoni's "The Betrothed"
Israeli-Palestinian Society Viewed Through Detective Fiction
Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to 1914
Pioneer Women on the Northern Plains
Winston Churchill: A True Polymath

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Powering the Future: An Inside Look at Sources and Effects
Object, Manner, and Means: The Rebirth of Representational Painting
Gaming the Vote: How Politicians Manipulate Elections
Lucretius
East Asia: Ancient Empires of Rice and Water
Topics in Italian Renaissance Art: The Display of Thought
Museums and Libraries of Beacon Hill and the West End

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The English Country House from the Late Middle Ages to the Present
"Ulysses"
Writers of the Harlem Renaissance and After
Blood on the Stage: Plays of Mystery, Crime and Detection
On Reading "Hamlet"
Dante Visualized
Color and Meaning in Music

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