12 weeks, Mondays, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
**Zoom**

12 weeks, Tuesdays, 6:15 to 8:15 p.m.
**Atwater**

12 weeks, Tuesdays, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
**Zoom**

12 weeks, Thursdays, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
**Zoom**

12 weeks, Mondays, 6:15 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.
**Atwater**

What do reading and travel have in common? How has the figure of the tourist been represented in literature and popular culture? In what ways have tourism and literature been influenced by each other? This course will consider these questions by examining literary works that engage with tourism from the late 19th century to the present.

12 weeks, Tuesdays, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
**Atwater**

Even 20 years after 9/11, we hear the echoes of that cataclysmic event. South Asian diasporic literature in the USA, with its portrayals of ethnic vacillation and Islamophobia, shows how different transnational elements may merge in a poetics of cultural translation. How do writers relate to concepts of national identity and nationalism?

12 weeks, Wednesdays, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
**Atwater**

Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is on many readers’ lists of books to read, but it is a daunting task to approach. Join a group of peers to journey together through Swann’s Way and Within a Budding Grove, the first two volumes of this novel, which include the famous madeleine episode.

12 weeks, Wednesdays, 6:15 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.
**Atwater or Zoom**

The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 triggered worldwide climate catastrophes. During the following “year without a summer,” several writers and thinkers produced some of their most groundbreaking work. This course will address texts that centre natural disasters from the British Romantic period, as well as other major upheavals of the time, such as the repercussions of colonialism, the Enclosure Acts, and the Industrial Revolution. Today we face similar environmental changes, scientific and sociological transformations, and political turmoil. What impact did climate catastrophes have on the literature and science of the Romantic period? How do early theorizations of the anthropocene compare to new understandings? How do poets lyricize nonhuman victims of climate change? In what ways do global events inform local literature?

12 weeks, Mondays, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
**Zoom**

Here’s your chance to experience the wonders of the symphony orchestra from Mozart to the present day. Every week we will study works being performed in upcoming concerts, both symphonic and chamber music This course surveys the evolution of the orchestra and its repertoire, with special attention paid to works performed during Montreal’s concert season. Time permitting, we will also explore the instrument families of the symphony orchestra: strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion. We will also discuss the history of conducting. And, if possible, a visit to an orchestra rehearsal will be organized.

6 weeks, Saturdays, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
**Atwater**

This course on opera will be held in conjunction with HD simulcasts from New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Starting this fall, we will enjoy 10 operas which will include new productions of Cherubini’s Medea, Puts’s The Hours, Giordano’s Fedora, Wagner’s Lohengrin, Blanchard’s Champion, and Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Die Zauderflöte.

12 weeks, Thursdays, 6:15 to 8:15 p.m.
**Atwater**

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well—for we will not fight to save what we don’t love.—S. J. Gould

In this course, we will consider the dominant values and narratives that drive our current relationship with the earth and the consequences of continuing to hold on to them. How do our ways of thinking of ourselves in relation to nature influence the way we interact with the non-human world? Does nature have intrinsic value regardless of its utility for humans? Should we hold dominion over nature? What are our rights and responsibilities toward other animals, species, and ecosystems? What are the ethical frameworks that have led to our current environmental crisis? What alternative ecological, Indigenous, legal, and environmental frameworks could provide us with ways to develop a more nurturing and reciprocal relationship with nature?

12 weeks, Wednesdays, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
**Atwater**

While fairy tales have often been dismissed as children’s literature, morality tales, or escapist fantasy, they also lend themselves to serious study by academics, depth psychologists, and to a fascinating exploration by the curious common folk. Where do fairy tales come from and what do they tell us about human nature? Why do Jungian analysts and others feel fairy tales contain a rich storehouse of archetypal wisdom about the human psyche? Do they mirror the collective challenges of the societies and individuals that produce them? On what grounds might we consider that these stories were meant to transmit insights about the psyche and possibilities for self-transformation?

12 weeks, Mondays, 6:15 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.
**Atwater**

Are you interested in developing your creative practice in a workshop setting? 

In this 12-week workshop, we will explore four different disciplines of creative writing: playwriting, poetry, short fiction, and hybrid forms, focusing on creating and workshopping students’ new work. Students will read contemporary works in all 4 genres and will be given prompts for innovation in their creative writing.

The emphasis of the course will be on reading and creating in a multitude of literary disciplines while exploring a generative “writers’ room” environment where students will exchange with each other, offering and receiving feedback on their creations.

12 weeks, Mondays, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
**Pointe-Claire**

We will discuss the rise of demagogues in the 20th and 21st centuries and explore the fundamental question of whether democracy as we know it is dying or whether it is evolving into a new system. We will read excerpts from works of philosophers as well as excerpts from Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy and Madeleine Albright’s Fascism. We will discuss populism as an instrument affecting the change of system.

From earliest records until today, tension has existed between strong national leaders and those they govern. Evolving alongside other ideas, like that of a divine contract, social contract theory is based on an agreement between rulers and the ruled. These agreements have been subject to change over time and are often in flux.

12 semaines, les mardis, 19h00 à 21h00
**Gatineau**

Les « droits de la personne » adoptés dans certaines instances mondiales telles que l’ONU semblent marquer une universalisation des idées du Siècle des Lumières européen : or ils semblent niés par certains pays, pourtant membres fondateurs de ces instances. 

Les « valeurs » nées en Occident, et imposées ailleurs notamment par la colonisation, n’ont-elles pas bénéficié d’une diffusion superficielle, fragilisée par les renversements politiques? Le retour de plusieurs pays à une forme anti-occidentale de pratique de l’islam ou à des « valeurs asiatiques » ne relativise-t-il pas les revendications d’une civilisation occidentale, issue de la pensée grecque, de la chrétienté, de l’humanisme ou de la modernité séculière? 

6 weeks, Mercredis 7:00-9:00 (chaque deux semaines)
**Zoom**

Following last year’s course on self-appropriation, which focused on Part I of Lonergan’s Insight (insight as activity), this course addresses Part II (insight as knowledge) and explores Lonergan's relationship to Kant and his famous question "What can I know?" Some of the questions we will investigate are “What is a fact?” “How can we define a human being?” “What is the relationship between faith and love?” and “Is the universe intelligible?”