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Great programs still on tap.

There are great courses and lectures coming up at Presidents’ College.

The days are still chilly. But you can fire up your intellectual life at Presidents’ College. Let our courses and lectures put a spring in your step.

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Featured Courses and Lectures

Sounds & Sweet Airs for "The Tempest": Creating the Score and Sound Design

Learn about the collaboration between music score and sound design. Then catch the Hartt School’s production of The Tempest.

Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2-3:30 p.m. (Lecture); Sunday, Apr. 27, 2 p.m. (Performance)

Medicine’s Top 10: The 20th Century’s Greatest Hits

Examine how these particular medical high points have lengthened our life spans by 50%.

Friday, May 16, 2-3:30 p.m.

Health and Harmony: Music to My Ears – And All the Rest of Me

Delve into music’s effect on health and brain function.

Wednesdays, Apr. 30, May 7, 14, 3:30-5 p.m.

Presidents’ College Around Campus

Professor Adam Chaira helps students try learn to use Gemini and ChatGPT artificial intelligence tools

A lively discussion on declining global birth rates in Professor Jane Horvath’s course​

Ju-Yong Ha plays the gayageum and discusses how music and art travelled along the Silk Road​

The mixture of high school students and Presidents’ College students makes for great discussion in Chris Doyle’s course on America’s Right Turn course.​

Students hear from Connecticut Poet Laureate Antoinette Brim-Bell on why poetry matters​

Carrie Cushman discusses how Japanese photographers conveyed the devastating emotions around the Kobe Earthquake.​

Presidents’ College Conversations: Town & Gown Converse

UHart President Lawrence Ward in conversation with Hartford Mayor Arunan Arulampalam

Color My World: The Art & Science of Color

Professor Jeremiah Patterson helps students explore the art and science of color

Frederick Douglass: From Slave to Statesman

Professor Brian Sinche discusses the life of abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass​

The Beauty of Fractal Geometry (No Math Expertise Required!)

Math Professor Peggy Beauregard discusses fractals​

American Utopian Communities

Richard Voight chats with students before his American Utopian Communities course ​