Great Courses
Great Courses at OLLI
To enrich your enjoyment of the fine courses offered by OLLI―or to explore something new―we invite you to peruse the shelves of DVDs from the Great Courses series, located in the OLLI office (VHS format tapes are otherwise shelved downstairs in the OLLI library). Below are the DVDs (and a few CDs) available for loan (as of 4/19). If "text" is noted, it means either a transcript of the tape or a course guidebook is also available. There is a sign-out sheet by the shelves of Great Courses. Please return your choice after a few months so others may enjoy it too.
Art and Music
Art Across the Ages 4 parts; text
Bach & the High Baroque 4 parts; text
Concert Master Works 4 parts; text
Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalk to Fusion CD; text
The Genius of Michelangelo 1 part; text
Great Masters Life & Music (Beethoven, Haydn, Liszt, Mahler, Robert & Clara Schumann, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky) 1 part each; text for each
Great Works of Sacred Music 1 part; text
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music: The Ancient World Through the Early Baroque, The High Baroque, The Classical Era, Nineteenth-century Romanticism, From Romanticism to Modernism
6 parts; texts
How to Look At & Understand Great Art 1 part; texts
Masters of the National Gallery, London 2 parts
Music of the 20th Century, comm. Sir Simon Rattle boxed set DVDs; text
The Symphony 3 parts; text
The World's Greatest Paintings Transcript only
30 Masterpieces of the Ancient World 1 part; text
History
The African Experience: From "Lucy" to Mandela 3 parts; text
American Military History 1 part; text
Ancient Greek Civilizations 2 parts, CD; text
The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes 1 part; text
Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia 3 parts; text
Big History parts 2, 3, 4 in; text for all parts
Cities of the Ancient World 1 part; text
Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights parts 1-3; text
Cosmos (a CD, is shelved under Religion)
Discovering Your Roots: An Introduction to Genealogy 1 part; text
An Economic History of the World 1 part; text
Europe and Western Civilization 4 parts; text
Fall of the Pagans and the Origins of Medieval Christianity 1 part; text
Five Thousand Years of Chinese History 1 part DVD; CDs
Food: A Cultural History 1 part; text
Foundations of Eastern Civilization 1 part; text
Great Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor 2 parts; text
Great Battles of the Ancient World 2 parts
The Great Tours: Greece and Turkey DVDs
The Great Trials of World History 1 parts; texts
The High Middle Ages part 1
History of Ancient Egypt 4 parts; text
History of Ancient Rome 4 parts; text
History of Ancient Rome and Egypt CDs
History of England 1 part; text
A History of Freedom CDs; text
History's Great Military Blunders 1 part; text
How the Crusades Changed History 2 parts; text
Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations parts 1-3
The Industrial Revolution 1 part; text
Late Antiquity: Crisis and Transformation 1 part; text
The Late Middle Ages part 2 only
London: A Short History (we have 2 editions of this) 2 parts; text
Making History: How Great Historians Interpret the Past 2 parts; text
Native Peoples of North America 1 part; text
The Origin of Civilization 1 part; text
The Other 1492 text only
Pompeii: Daily Life in an Ancient Roman City 1 part; text
Privacy, Property, and Free Speech: Law and the Constitution 1 part; text
The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Rise of Nations 4 parts
The Skeptics' Guide to American History 1 part; text
The Terror of History 2 parts; text
Utopia and Terror in the 20th Century 2 parts; text
Victorian Britain 3 parts; text
War, Peace and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe 3 parts; text
The Wisdom of History 1 part; text
The World of Byzantium 1 part; text
The World Was Never the Same: Events That Changed History 2 parts; text
Literature
Analysis & Critique: How to Engage & Write About Anything 2 parts; text
Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life 3 parts; text
Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature 3 parts; text
Classics of British Literature 1 part; text
Classics of Russian Literature 3 parts
Comedy through the Ages CD, 2 parts; text
English Novels CD, 2 parts
Great American Bestsellers 1 part; text
Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition 6 parts
History of World Literature 4 parts; text
The Life & Writings of C S Lewis 1 part; text
Masterpieces and the Imaginative Mind 2 parts; text
Masterpieces of Short Fiction 2 parts; text
Masterworks of Early 20th Century Literature 2 parts; text
Mystery and Suspense Fiction 1 part; text
Representing Justice: Stories of Law and Literature 2 of 3 parts here; text
Secret Life of Words 1 part; text
William Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, Tragedies CD, 3 parts
Utopian & Dystopian Works of Literature 1 part; text
Philosophy/Psychology/Language
The Big Questions of Philosophy 1 part; text
Customs of the World: Using Cultural Intelligence to Adapt 1 part; text
Essentials of Tai Chi and Qigong 1 part; text
Great Ideas of Philosophy 2 parts; text
Masters of Greek Thought: Plato, Socrates and Aristotle 3 parts; text
The Modern Intellectual Tradition 1 part; text
Practicing Mindfulness: An Introduction to Meditation 1 part; text
The Story of Human Language CDs, 3 parts; text
Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language 3 parts; text
Voltaire and the Triumph of the Enlightenment CDs; text
Religion
The Apocryphal Jesus 1 part; text
Biblical Wisdom Literature 3 parts; text
The Dead Sea Scrolls 1 part; text
Exploring the Roots of Religion 3 parts; text
Gnosticism: From Nag Hammadi to the Gospels of Judas 1 part; text
Great World Religions each has 1 part; text
Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism
Heroes and Legends: Influential Characters 1 part; text
History of Christian Theology 3 parts; text
History of Christianity: From the Disciples to the Dawn of Reformation 1 part; text
Mystical Tradition: Judaism, Christianity, Islam 3 parts; text
The Old Testament, The New Testament CDs; text
Popes and the Papacy 1 part
Religions in the Ancient Mediterranean World 4 parts; text
Religions of the Axial Age 2 parts; text
Sacred Texts of the World 1 part; text
Skeptics and Believers: Religious Debate in the Western Tradition 3 parts; text
Why Evil Exists 1 part; text
Science and Math
The Aging Brain 1 part; text
Archaeology 1 part; text
Biology and Human Behavior 2 parts; text
Biology, the Science of Life 6 parts; text
Change and Motion: Calculus Made Clear 2 parts; text
Cosmos CD of the book
Doctors: The History of Scientific Medicine 1 part; text
Experiencing Hubble: Using the Greatest Images of the Universe 1 part; text
Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World 3 parts; text
How the Earth Works parts 1, 3, 4; text for all parts
Meteorology: An Introduction to the Wonders of the Weather 1 part; text
Nutrition Made Clear 3 parts; text
Oceanography: Exploring Earth's Final Wilderness 1 part; text
Particle Physics for Non Physicists: A Tour of the Microcosm part 2; text
The Science of Mindfulness 1 part; text
Sensation, Perception, and the Aging Process 2 parts; text; CDs
Skywatching: Seeing and Understanding Cosmic Wonders 1 part; text
The Spiritual Brain: Science and Religious Experience 1 part; text
Understanding Genetics 2 parts; text
Understanding the Universe parts 2-8; text for all parts
Zero to Infinity: A History of Numbers 1 part; text