Previously Offered Courses

Since its inception, CCE has offered credit-bearing courses each semester to adult learners. Some are discipline-based; others are interdisciplinary. They represent all areas of the curriculum — the Arts; Mathematics and the Natural Sciences; the Humanities; the Social Sciences and History. CCE courses are taught by experienced Sarah Lawrence faculty and distinguished guests, all of whom are experts in their fields with a passion for teaching.

  • Narrative Design
    Carol Zoref
  • Mathematics Through Literature
    Daniel King
  • Body Politics: A Cultural History of Women and Beauty in the 20th century U.S.
    Lyde Cullen Sizer
  • Opera
    Martin Goldray
  • Creating Theatre Imperatives (one credit)
    Ernest Hawkings Abuba
  • Genetics and Ethics
    Laura Hercher
  • Chromophilia: Color, Pattern and Form
    Leah Montalto
  • Genesis
    Cameron Afzal
  • Love and Desire in Modern Literature
    Roland Dollinger
  • Reading and Writing about Education
    Edward Miller
  • The Psychology of Race and Ethnicity
    Linwood Lewis
  • Human Genetics
    Drew Cressman
  • Russian Classics
    Melissa Frazier
  • Constitutional Law: The Founding Principles
    James Bowen
  • Really Fantastic: Twentieth Century Latin America “Fantastic” Short Fiction
    Maria Negroni
  • Nutrition
    Mali Yin
  • Child and Adolescent Social Development: The Role of Parents and Peers
    Carl Barenboim
  • Romantic Poetry: The Visionary Company
    Neil Arditi
  • American Culture and Society, 1975–2005
    Jim Cullen
  • Artist Books
    Shana Agid
  • Arts Resource Lab: Finding Your Voice
    Shirley Kaplan
  • Ways of Seeing: Perspectives of/on the Middle East
    Shahnaz Rouse
  • Narrative Design
    Carol Zoref
  • A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Listening (One credit)
    Mayra Bloom
  • World’s a Stage: Global Perspectives in Performance
    Kym Moore
  • Biology of Living and Dying
    Leah Olson
  • Global Inequality: Issues in Economic Theory and Policy
    Jamee Moudud
  • Writing in Response: Fiction
    Suzanne Gardinier
  • 1928: Music and Society
    Martin Goldray
  • Science and Film
    Karen Rader
  • Democracy and Diversity
    David Peritz
  • A Literary Journey to Italy
    Judith Serafini-Sauli
  • The State, Prisons and Welfare
    Jamee Moudud
  • Drawing in Black & White & Color
    Gwen Fabricant
  • Saint Paul, Known and Unknown
    Cameron Afzal
  • Mathematics: An Indispensable Tool for Living
    Daniel King
  • Ways of Seeing: Perspectives of/on the Middle East
    Shahnaz Rouse
  • Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Alice Walker: Texts and Contexts
    Chikwenye Ogunyemi
  • Social Conscience in American Modern Dance
    Rose Anne Thom
  • The Human Genome at the Commencement of the Twenty First Century
    Bruce Haas
  • Alternative Americas, Alternative Americans: A Cultural History of the U.S., 1845-1946 
    Lyde Cullen Sizer
  • The Transformation Process: Turning Life into Fiction
    Carolyn Ferrell
  • The Basics of Fiction Craft
    Carolyn Ferrell
  • Democracy in America Today: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives on our Fractious Politics
    David Peritz