Adult Learning, with current and former Allegheny Faculty, is available to adult members of the community. Learning, reflection, and conversation, around topics grounded in both the humanities and the social sciences, prevail. Reasonably priced courses consist of weekly 60-90 minute classes over 8-12 weeks. There are exceptions. Student voice and choice are respected.

Summer 2026 Course Offerings

Film

Facilitator: Joe Tompkins, Associate Professor of Communication Arts, Allegheny College

Classes meet in the Vokovich Center Mondays and Wednesdays @ 2pm
Film Showings @2pm: June 8, 15, 22, 29, and July 6 and 13

Cost: $100.00  

A thematic course that focuses on the relationship between film and time. We will watch films that introduce alternative ways of experiencing time, and supplement these with readings that engage larger philosophical ideas about cinema and temporality. Films include Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (dir. Michel Gondrey), 21 Grams (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu), 2046 (dir. Wong Kar-wai), and Irreversible (dir. Gaspar Noé).

Irish Women Writers

Facilitator: David Miller, Emeritus Professor of English, Allegheny College

Classes will meet at First Prespyterian Church.
Tuesdays, 11-12:30pm, from June 9 - July 14.

Cost: $30.00 for six 90-minute classes

This course of 6 weeks duration will examine three novels by contemporary Irish women writers:
1) Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These, Grove Press (ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-5874-1)
2) Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait, Vintage (ISBN 978-0-593-31508-8)
3) Louise Kennedy, Trespasses, Riverhead Books (ISBN 978-0-593-40893)