About One Day U

You can feel the electricity at a One Day University event. We bring together the nation's greatest professors from top schools to present their very best best lectures. These memorable live classroom experiences offer adult students-for-a-day the opportunity to rediscover the thrill of education and the pure joy of lifelong learning.

Most of us remember college as days when we lived a life of nearly total intellectual stimulation. We were free to explore the world of ideas, books, and learning. Unfortunately, very few young adults fully appreciate the opportunity college affords them, until long after they've graduated. Once they have settled into a busy career, or started raising a family, they no longer have time for purely intellectual pursuits.

One Day University professors love to present their most fascinating lectures, and our adult students choose exactly what they want to learn. They listen to presentations on subjects that truly engage their intellect, delivered by scholars from the top colleges and universities in the world. Every school has one or maybe two professors that are wildly popular. Students sometimes sleep outdoors the night before registration in order to get into these classes! Well, those are the professors who teach at One Day U! We work closely with over 200 different professors to sift through 20 to 30 hours of material from full semester courses and identify their most fascinating information.

Men and women come together at One Day U and understand that learning is a rewarding lifelong process, not a chore that ended on the day they received their diploma. Most return again and again and describe the experience the same way: Enrolling in One Day University is like returning to the college environment of their youth. They feel like they're 19 again! The pace of the day is brisk and stimulating, the professors eager and enthusiastic - the classroom, electric with the excitement of learning! But unlike "regular" college, at One Day University there are no grades. No tests. No homework.

Our largest events feature a dozen or more professors, and students choose the classes that interest them most. Other events feature a smaller group of professors, sometimes on a single theme or area of study (history, psychology, science, etc) Our professors are there both to educate and to entertain. The students have come to indulge themselves for a day of pure learning and intellectual stimulation.

To Contact Us:
Phone: 800.300.3438
Email: info@onedayu.com

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Suite 1106
New York, NY 10019

Professors and Classes

Professors from Amherst

The Science of Mind over Body	Catherine Sanderson	Amherst
The Culture of Punishment	Austin Sarat	Amherst

Professors from Bard

Education and the Promise of American Culture	Leon Botstein	Bard
Ten Great Foreign Films very Movie Lover Should See	Joseph Luzzi	Bard

Professors from Berkeley

Global Warming: What We Know and Don't Know	Richard Muller	Berkeley
You Are Not Your Brain	Alva Noe	Berkeley

Professors from Brown

Bioethics: Answering the Questions Nobody Wants to Ask	Jacob Appel	Brown
Can Creativity Be Taught?	Barrett Hazeltine	Brown
The Politics of Morality in America	James Morone	Brown
What Would the Founders Say About America Today?	Wendy Schiller	Brown
Understanding How Memory Works	Jonathan Stein	Brown

Professors from Columbia

What is Islam?	Ali Asani	Columbia
America's Church - State Problem	Randall Balmer	Columbia
How to Read, Understand and Love a Great Poem	Eric Gray	Columbia
Is There Intelligent Life in the Universe?	David Helfand	Columbia
The Untold Story of Resistance in Nazi Germany	Anne Nelson	Columbia
Climate Change, Mass Extinctions, and the Future of Life on Earth	Paul Olson	Columbia
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Crisis Examined	Jean-Marc Oppenheim	Columbia
Five Paintings Every Art Lover Should See	Tina Rivers	Columbia
The Mysterious Politics of Heath Care	Michael Sparer	Columbia

Professors from Cornell

Unraveling the Science Behind ESP	Daryl Bem	Cornell
Why are We Here? How Philosophers Think about the Meaning of Life	Karen Bennett	Cornell
What is Technology Doing to Our Brains	Jeffrey Hancock	Cornell
All About Sleep	James Maas	Cornell
Should the First Amendment Protect Everyone?	Faust Rossi	Cornell
Psychotherapy: Does it Work?	Harry Segal	Cornell

Professors from Fairfield

The Genius of George Gershwin and His Remarkable Masterpiece	Orin Grossman	Fairfield
The Crisis of Celebrity Politics	John Orman	Fairfield

Professors from Georgetown

How Artists Became Genuises	Alfred Acres	Georgetown
Why the Middle East is a Mess	Ori Soltes	Georgetown

Professors from Harvard

Positive Psychology and the Science of Happiness	Shawn Achor	Harvard
What Do Economists Really Know?	Shawn Achor	Harvard
What Darwin Didn't Know	Andrew Berry	Harvard
Can the Arab Israeli Conflict Be Resolved	Alan Dershowitz	Harvard
Isreal and Iran	Chuck Freilich	Harvard
A Modern Look at Ancient Religions	Charles Hallisey	Harvard
What Darwin Gor Right, What Darwin got Wrong	Hopi Hoekstra	Harvard
Beethoven's Ninth: The Story of a Masterpiece	Thomas Kelly	Harvard
The Five Most Memorable Photographs in History	Robin Kelsey	Harvard
Anti-Americanism in Latin America and What it Means for the U.S.	Steven Levitsky	Harvard
How China's Rise affects Virtually Everything	Felix Oberholzer-Gee	Harvard

Professors from NYU

Century of Immigration and the Transformation of America	Hasia Diner	NYU
Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy	John Gershman	NYU
Understanding the Arab Isreali Conflict	Ronald Zweig	NYU

Professors from Penn

Does Our Legal System Work?	Stephanos Bibas	Penn
The Hidden World of Google and Apple	Kartik Hosanager	Penn
Charles Darwin: The Evolution of an Idea	Susan Lindee	Penn
Hitler: The Man and the Mystery	Robert Steinberg	Penn

Professors from Princeton

Words and Where They Come From	Joshua Katz	Princeton
China, Russia, and the U.S.	Stephen Kotkin	Princeton
The Genius of Frank Gehry	Esther da Costa Meyer	Princeton
School Shootings: Why Terrible Things Happen in Perfect Places	Katherine Newman	Princeton
The Art of Writing	Joyce Carol Oats	Princeton
Crime and Punishment in Today's America	Devah Pager	Princeton

Professors from Rutgers

Abraham Lincoln: Truth and Legend	Louis Masur	Rutgers
Keeping an Aging Brain Healthy	Jan Mohlman	Rutgers
Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Society	Larry Tempkin	Rutgers

Professors from Smith

Can a Machine be Human? And is That a Good Thing?	Glenn Ellis	Smith
The Cold War and How Secret U.S. Propoganda Saved Europe	Joseph McVeigh	Smith

Professors from Stanford

Inventing English: Where Our Words Come From	Seth Lerer	Stanford
The Founding Fathers and the Untold Story of the Revolution	Jack Rakove	Stanford
Iran, Pakistan, and the Next Nuclear Crisis	Catherine Sagan	Stanford

Professors from Tufts

The American Immigrant Experience	Sol Gittleman	Tufts
China and the U.S.: Wary Co-existence or Dangerous Rivalry?	Alan Wachman	Tufts

Professors from USC

The Future of Energy	Lawford Anderson	USC
The Future of the U.S. in The 21st Century	Steven Lamy	USC

Professors from Vanderbilt

Healthy Brain	Jeannette Norden	Vanderbilt
The Beatles and Beethoven: Hearing the Connection	Michael Rose	Vanderbilt

Professors from Villanova

How Thinking Like an Ancient Philosopher can Change Your Life	John Immerwahr	Villanova
Is America in Decline?	Brian Jones	Villanova

Professors from Williams

What's So Great About Shakespeare?	Robert Bell	Williams
Understanding How the Brain Works	Safa Zaki	Williams

Professors from Yale

What Almost Nobody Knows About the Presidency	Akhil Amar	Yale
The Untold Story of the Constitution	Akhil Amar	Yale
The Civil War in American Memory	David Blight	Yale
You Call That Art? Understanding Why We Like What We Like	Paul Bloom	Yale
What we know about the Brain that we never knew before	Marvin Chun	Yale
What Were the Founding Fathers Really Like?	Joanne Freeman	Yale
Decision Making	Robert Frisch	Yale
What Were the Founding Fathers Really Like?	Joanne Freeman	Yale
Five Ancient Secrets to Modern Happiness and the Good Life	Tamar Gendler	Yale
Inside the Supreme Court	Heather Gerkin	Yale
Five Movies That Changed America	Marc Lapadula	Yale
The Science of Personality	Brian Little	Yale
The Dawn of Cinema and the Transformation of America	Charles Musser	Yale
The Genius of Leonardo DaVinci	Sherwin Nuland	Yale
Music and the Brain	Craig Wright	Yale

Professors from Other Colleges and Universities

The Philosophy of Religion	Matthew Bagger	Auburn
How Intuition Deceives Us	Christopher Chabris	Union
The Impressionists in Paris	Hollis Clayson	Northwestern
Nuclear Weapons and the New World Order	Daniel Deudney	Johns Hopkins
Obama and the Republicans	Douglas Foyle	Wesleyan
Maimonides	Benjamin Gampel	JTS
Where Do We Come From? From the Creation Myths to the Big Bang	Marcelo Gleiser	Dartmouth
Film and Literature in the Aftermath of September 11th	Elizabeth Goldberg	Babson
The Genius of Albert Einstein	Don Howard	Notre Dame
The Philosophy of Happiness: The Meaning of Life	Paul Hurley	Claremont McKenna
The Future of NY	Ed Koch	Mayor
Evolving English	Peter Laufer	Oregon
Public Opinion Polls: Don't Believe Anything You Read in the News	Jennifer Lawless	American
Understanding Occupy Wall Street	James Miller	New School
FDR and the Path to World War II	Richard Pious	Barnard
The Education of Charles Darwin	Stan Rachootin	Mount Holyoke
The First Amedment, 9/11 and the Freedom of the Press	Scott Rubin	Syracuse
Why Design matters	Tim Ventimiglia	Parsons
Who Was Shakespeare and Why Does He Still Matter?	Ralph Watson	UCLA
The Genius of Shakespeare	Ralph Williams	Michigan
The Future of Energy	Richard Wolfson	Middlebury
What Makes Music Great?	Jeremy Yudkin	Boston University

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