Fall 2026 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.
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Mondays	Tuesdays	Wednesdays	Thursdays	Fridays
9:30-11:30	10:00-11:30	10:00-11:30	10:00-11:30	10:30–12:00
Don Quixote, Part II: Chivalric Romance Yields to the Picaresque ZOOM Richard Zuckerman	The Lives of Others: Reading Memoir ZOOM Peggy Blumenthal Susan Messina Michael Serrill Rhonda Shafner Nikki Frost David Halberstam’s The Best and the Brightest Richard Resnik The Victorian Imagination Betsy Gitter Israel: A Contemporary Portrait Roger Deitz 1st Session Bismarck and German History, 1815-1918 Lorraine Haber 2nd Session	Writing Workshop ZOOM Charles Troob (14 cap) Artificial Intelligence: The New World Bernie Belkin Paul Rizzuto and team Influencers Ken Witty 1st Session Coups, Coke, and the CIA: Two Latin American Novels Ted Dreyfus 2nd Session	Jefferson: Statesman, Politician, Founding Father ZOOM Joseph Zuckerman How Stands the Union? (2026 Version) Jeff Siegel Science and Literature John Gillespie Department Stores: From Bon Marche to Bankruptcy Jan Blustein	Film Noir and Screwball Comedy—The Yin and Yang of American Movies (repeat) ZOOM Lynn Brenner
12:00-1:30 PM	12:00-1:30 PM	12:00-1:30 PM	12:00-1:30 PM
Professional Methods for Beginning Genealogists Jill Gabriele Language and Its (Dis)contents Ricardo Otheguy Cubism’s Odd Couple: Picasso and Braque Rosalie Zuckerman 1st Session Crime and Punishment: A Mystery Novel HYFLEX Lesley Herrmann Ruth Mackaman 2nd Session	Introduction to Immunology and Allergy HYFLEX Carol Reiss Music of the Counterculture, 1965-1975 Gerald Gline Rick Marsh Susan Smahl Edward R. Murrow and “The Murrow Boys” Carolyn Setlow The Extraordinary Collection of the Morgan Library (continued) Sara Lishinsky 1st Session Maestro: Leonard Bernstein, Composer (repeat) Sybil Pollet 2nd Session	Narrative Nonfiction Robin Hamlisch Oda Friedheim Gerald Gline Susan Messina Harriet Shapiro The New York Times and the Evolution of Journalism Bob Cohn A Close Reading of The Transit of Venus Jenny Ross Richard Weiss 1st Session “La Nouvelle Vague:” Six Iconic Films Marian Faytell Maureen Sanders 2nd Session	Great Poems: A Sampler Sophie Balcoff The Cold War on Film John Becker Howie Menikoff US Healthcare System: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Charles Brecher Howard Miller Reading Shakespeare Aloud: Fat Knight and Unready Prince Irene Sax 1st Session Garbage in NYC Eric Zimiles 2nd Session
2:00-3:30 PM	2:00-3:30 PM	2:00-3:30 PM	2:00-3:30 PM
The 3 Tudor Kings: Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI Betsy Taleporos School Integration in America: Few Solutions, Many Failures Randy Ross 1st Session Peer Learning and Coordinating: The Essentials of Successful Study Groups Randy Ross + Experienced Coordinators 2nd Session Note: Peer Learning and Coordinating Will not count toward member’s maximum number of study groups.	The Neurotics Guide to Cinema: A Woody Allen Retrospective HYFLEX Arlynn Brody Stephen Kalinsky Algeria and the French Experience ZOOM Raoul Oreskovic 1st Session	A Sondheim Retrospective HYFLEX James Smith Greatest Films of All Time, Part 4 Sheila O’Connell Doris Wallace and friends	Thinking About the Future HYFLEX James Smith Prize-winning Contemporary Story-Tellers Linda Anstendig Linda Gottlieb Susan Herman

Important Dates:

Registration Opens: May 26, 2026

Registration Closes: June 8, 2026

Study Group Assignments & Rosters Distributed: June 30, 2026

Add/Drop Period: Opens June 30, 2026 – Closes July 13, 2026

2nd Add/Drop Period: Opens August 31, 2026 – September 25, 2026

Fall Session Start Date: September 14, 2026

Fall Session Final Date: December 21, 2026

Fall Session End Dates: December 21, 2026

Six Week Session Dates: 

• 1st six-weeks: Mon 9/14-11/2, Tues 9/15-10/27, Wed 9/16-10/21, Thurs 9/17-10/22
• 2nd six-weeks: Mon 11/09-12/21, Tues 11/3-12/15, Wed 10/28-12/9, Thurs 10/29-12/10

See Full Academic Calendar for Holidays and Breaks