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Join CourseHorse for our one-hour special virtual trivia night! Test your knowledge across a wide range of topics including music, movies, pop culture, history, sports, frozen foods, dog breeds, Seinfeld characters, ice cream flavors and many other surprises... How this will work: This will take place live over a Zoom conference. You will either...

This class will take place online. Registered students will receive login instructions. Explore theories, traditions, and principles that have shaped the design of landscapes from antiquity to the present, through visual presentations, assigned readings, projects, and classroom discussion. Please note that the final essay for this class emphasizes...

Critical Theory and the Now: a Contemporary Introduction to the Frankfurt School In 1930, Max Horkheimer became the director of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. Along with his colleagues and a broader orbit of external scholars, he inaugurated the first wave of what came to be called “critical theory.” This course is...

Algeria was the crown jewel of the waning French empire. And so when the guerillas of the Algerian National Liberation Front launched the Algerian War of Independence, France, determined to retain its 120-year-old colony, responded with every available method of colonial oppression: torture, terror, rape, and massacre. The Algerian revolutionaries...

When W.E.B. Du Bois declared that “the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line” in The Souls of Black Folk, it was not some miraculous prophecy or intuition. Having already authored the foundational text of American sociology, The Philadelphia Negro, Du Bois synthesized his social scientific training in Germany, including...

Since its first formulation in the early 1960s, the concept of “participatory democracy” has come to take on multiple meanings—some of them complementary, others conflicting. Promoted by a wide variety of theorists, activists, social movements, and political parties, conceptions of participatory democracy range from deepened civic engagement...

Have you ever thought about turning your life’s trials and tribulations into a NY Times bestseller? In this seven-week Los Angeles Memoir Writing Workshop, 2x NY Times bestselling memoirist Wendy Lawless will share her secrets for turning your life’s twists and turns into lively drama! Her fun, all new in-class exercises will help you infuse your...

The glasswork of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods is among the most elegant and extravagant in decorative art history. Some of the most famous and prolific glass designers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries such as Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Gallé, and René Lalique exemplify the outstanding contributions made to works of art in glass...

What is phenomenology? Drawing on lived, first-person experience, phenomenology is the attempt to analyze and understand the very structures of human experience and consciousness. What are the elements of perception, and why do different people, different subjects, perceive things differently? What’s universal about consciousness? In what ways do...

Stress Management And Resiliency Training (SMART) Program Eight-week empirically validated & science-based program for individuals who wish to reduce stress, enhance health and quality of life and reduce negative thinking.​ Raise awareness of your unique "relaxation response" as well as your opposite, "fight or flight response", to feel empowered...

24th Annual Landscape Design Portfolios Series - All Three Sections These innovative and much-honored landscape architects discuss their signature projects, unique working methods, and design philosophies-while sharing transformative stories of people and places. For these designers, a respect for history informs and inspires the creative process....

Philosophy, Ideology, and Jokes: an Introduction to Slavoj Žižek Slavoj Žižek is among the most influential, prolific, and provocative European philosophers of his generation. Amidst a period of tectonic changes, as Soviet socialism came to an end and neoliberalism spread across Europe, Žižek’s thought developed against the grain—due in...

“The aim of all life,” observed Sigmund Freud in 1920, “is death.” A century later, the so-called Death Drive remains perhaps the most controversial, misunderstood, and ominously relevant of all the intellectual legacies of Freudian psychoanalysis. Freud first formulated the idea of a Death Drive (or Death Instinct) to grapple with nightmares...

Curious about psychedelics, but don’t know where to start? With insight from psychedelic experts, we’ll teach you everything you need to know to get the most out of your journey with these powerful medicines. In this course, we cover how to choose the right psychedelic for you, where to access safe, legal psychedelics, how to integrate the lessons...