Fall 2023 Study Group Grid

Six Week Study Groups labelled:  1st Session or 2nd Session
ZOOM, HYFLEX, and In-Person + Webinar Modalities are noted individually. All others are only In-Person at the CUNY GC.
Click on the Study Group Name to view its Syllabus. Click on a coordinator’s name to view their member profile.
View the PDF of the Fall 2023 Study Group Grid with syllabi links which is also printable.

Mondays	Tuesdays	Wednesdays	Thursdays	Fridays
10:00-11:30	10:00-11:30	10:00-11:30	10:00-11:30	10:30-12:00
In Search of Lost Time: Proust’s Modernist Masterpiece ZOOM 9:30-11:30 Richard Zuckerman This Land is Your Land? Bob Meyer Our Broken and Unsustainable Food System Peter Walker	FDR, Eleanor and the American Homefront in WWII ZOOM Joe Zuckerman Watergate at Fifty Richard Resnik Double, Double, Toil and “The Troubles” Joe Daley 1st Session	Elementary Economics HYFLEX Judd Kahn Originalism: What Does the Constitution Mean? Bernie Belkin Impressionism and the Politics of Art Marge Heins 1st Session Nomads Ken Witty 2nd Session	Advanced Guided Autobiography ZOOM David Grogan Italian Renaissance Art 1300-1510 Pilot In-Person + Webinar Deb Markow deTocqueville’s Essays on Democracy Mark Dichter James Gould Understanding America’s Radical Right Jeff Siegel	The Greatest Films of All Time Doris Wallace + 11 The Photography Workshop ZOOM Barbara Confino 1st Session Awe Jan Adler 1st Session
12:00-1:30 PM	12:00-1:30 PM	12:00-1:30 PM	12:00-1:30 PM
Ideas Worth Spreading: Let’s Talk with TED Robin Hamlisch Thinking and Feeling Poems: The Greats Sophie Balcoff Up Close with Kandinsky Rosalie Zuckerman 1st Session Secrets of Street Photography Alec Rill 2nd Session	Ulysses by James Joyce HYFLEX Denise Waxman Huey Long – Populist in the 1930s Michael D. Shapiro The Subconscious Mind Michael Hill	The Lives of Others: Reading Memoir 6 ZOOM Peggy Blumenthal Marcia Hearst Carolyn Setlow Eileen Sullivan Miriam Lawrence Reading the World Susan Herman Meera Kumar Sara Miller Susanne Yellin Affirmative Action: History, Policy and Consequences Joy Schulman 1st Session The New York Review of Books Discussion Group Howard Levi 2nd Session	Writing Workshop ZOOM Susan Smahl Charles Troob Why Like Ike?: WW2 and 1950s Maury Harris Bill Siegel The Art of Biblical Narrative Betsy Gitter Great Conversations from Great Books Arlyne LeSchack Judy Zaborowski
2:00- 3:30 PM	2:00- 3:30 PM	2:00- 3:30 PM	2:00- 3:30 PM
Edith Wharton’s Gilded Age ZOOM Karen Gellen Stephen Kalinsky George Balanchine – An Intimate Look at His Life and Career HYFLEX Ed Brill	Capitalism in America: Appraising the Greenspan View ZOOM James Smith Adventures in Print: Exploring Ideas in Narrative Non Fiction Liz Dalton Anne Essenhigh Aric Press Susan Saidenberg Rita Silverman	Great Authors – Great Stories John Becker 1st Session World War I in Film John Becker Howie Menikoff 2nd Session Hilary Mantel; Rewriting History: “The Mirror and the Light” ZOOM Arlynn Brody Stephen Kalinsky 2nd Session	Classic Choral Masterworks ZOOM James Smith Evolution of US Entertainment & Communications Media in the 20th Century Bob Cohn The “Imperial Presidency” and its Implications for American Democracy Jay Martin Patrick Siconolfi 1st Session

Important Dates:

Registration Opens: Monday, May 15

Registration Closes: Monday, May 30

Study Group Assignments & Rosters Distributed: To be announced

Add/Drop Period: To be announced

Fall Session Start Date: Tuesday, September 5

Fall Session Final Date: Tuesday, November 28 – Monday, December 18 (depending on the study group)

Fall Session End Dates: Due to the way holidays fall this year the final meeting for 12 Week study groups are as follows:

• Monday SGs end: December 18
• Tuesday SGs end: November 28
• Wednesday SGs end: November 29
• Thursday SGs end: November 30
• Friday SGs end: December 8

Six Week Session Dates: 

• First six-weeks: September 5–October 30
• Second six-weeks: October 17–December 18

First Six Week Session Dates

• Monday SGs: September 11-October 30
• Tuesday SGs: September 5-October 10
• Wednesday SG: September 6-October 11
• Thursday SGs: September 7-October 12 
• Friday SGs: September 8-October 20

Second Six Week Session Dates

• Monday SGs: November 6-December 18
• Wednesday SGs: October 18-November 29

See Full Academic Calendar for Holidays and Breaks