"What is Writing For?"
Dr. Tisha Turk, Director of Academic Support for Writing and Speaking, Grinnell College
"Teaching In a Pandemic: A Pedagogy of Trust"
Dr. Karla Erickson, Professor of Sociology, Grinnell College
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Steve Andrews, Associate Professor of English, Grinnell College
Karla Erickson and Students, Professor of Sociology, Grinnell College
Dr. JR Paulson
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Kesho Scott, Associate Professor Senior Faculty of American Studies and Sociology, Grinnell College
Sarah Purcell, Professor of History Grinnell College
Below is an archival list of Bucket Courses, listed from newest to oldest. You can watch videos of previous courses online by clicking on the session in the right-hand column. Some presenters choose to not have their course videos posted online. Videos before 2021 are available on DVD at the Drake Community Library in Grinnell. The Bucket Class Planning Committee has archives of all videos.
| COVID-19 Quarantine Health Tips | Dr. JR Paulson | April 12 | Two Videos |
| World Writings: A look at post-colonial literature from Africa, Caribbean, South Asia, settler colonies of New Zealand and Australia. | Shuchi Kapila | Mar 4 | One Video |
| Messy Humans: A Sociology of Robots and Artificial Intelligence | Karla Erickson | Feb 12, 19, 26 | Two Videos Three DVDs* |
| The Ethical Shopper | Cori Jakubiak | Feb 5 | One Video |
| The Black Holocaust: Castles or Dungeons? | Kesho Scott | Jan 15, 22, 29 | Three Videos |
| Tip of the Iceberg: The Conductor’s Invisible Craft | Eric McIntyre | Jan 8 | One DVD* |
| Americans We Should Know More About: Henry Clay vs James Polk and the importance of the election of 1844. | George Drake | Nov 20 | One Video |
| Influenza A Virus: A tale of ducks, pigs and People: 1918-2018 | Bruce Voyles | Nov 6, 13 | Two Videos |
| You and Your Drugs: A look at pharmaceuticals and your body; a comparison of differing belief systems about medicine around the world. | Josh Sandquist | Oct 9, 16, 23, 30 | Four Videos |
| Othello Revisited: Performance and Difference in Shakespeare and Verdi | Kelly Maynard John Garrison | Sep 11, 18, 25 Oct 2 | Four Sessions* |
| Americans We Should Know More About: John Marshall | George Drake | May 1 | One Video |
| Fun and Games: Using a Mathematical Outlook to Find the Best Strategies in Games | Chris French | Apr 24 | One Video |
| Becoming “International Student Friendly” | Karen Edwards | Apr 17 | One Video |
| Kids These Days | Ross Haenfler | Mar 27 Apr 3, 10 | Three Videos |
| Becoming American: Immigration Narrative and U.S. Autobiography | Dr. Liz Rodrigues | Mar 20 | One Video |
| Driverless Trucks and The Future of Work | Karla Erickson | Feb 20, 27 Mar 6, 13 | Four Videos |
| The Hidden Life of Technology | Mike Guenther | Jan 16 Feb 6, 13 | Three Videos |
| Grinnell and Amana: Utopias on the Prairie, 1854 | Jon Andelson | Jan 9 | One Session* |
| Reflections on the 2018 U.S. Elections | Barb Trish | Nov 14 | One Video |
| The Path to Armistice in World War II | Jim Ahrens | Nov 7 | One Video |
| The Burghers of Calais | David Harrison | Oct 31 | One Video |
| Racism by Genetics | Leslie Gregg-Jolly | Oct 24 | One Video |
| What would it mean to be Thoreau’s neighbor? | Steve Andrews | Oct 17 | One Video |
| 2018 Grinnell College National Poll | Peter Hanson | Oct 10 | One Video |
| Rural Development and the Role of the Federal Government | Bill Menner | Sept 12, 19, 26, Oct 3 | Four Videos |
| Ansel Adams: Artistic Beauty of Black and White Photography | Sig Barber | May 9 | One Session* |
| Wind Tunnels: Tools That Advanced Aviation | Ben Guenther | Apr 25, May 2 | Two Videos |
| Mental Illness: Causes and Treatments | J.R. Paulson, MD | Mar-Apr 2018 | Four Videos |
| The First Amendment: Is Free Speech Really Free? | Judge Stephen Carroll | Mar 21, 2018 | One Video |
| More Than Meets the Ear: Musical codes, secret messages and inside jokes. | Eric McIntyre | Feb-Mar 2018 | Four Sessions* |
| Modern Architecture in Grinnell: From Sullivan to Pelli | Alfredo Rivera | Feb 14, 2018 | One Video |
| The Dark Universe: Discovery of dark matter, dark energy, and the fate of the Universe | Charlotte Christensen | Jan 24, 2018 | One Video |
| The Wider History of the Vietnam War – More than an American tragedy | Mike Latham | Jan-Feb 2018 | Four Videos |
| Winston Churchill: Man of the 20th Century – Military and Political Adventures | Jim Ahrens | Nov 15, 2017 | One Video |
| Tyrants and Tunesmiths: Four operas and the times in which they were written | Kelly Maynard | Oct-Nov 2017 | Four Sessions* |
| Automation, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: What Jobs Will Be Left for Us? | Bill Pollak | Oct 11, 2017 | One Video |
| Political Science of Dietary Fat | Gene Wubbels | Oct 04, 2017 | One Video |
| U.S. in the Middle East | Caleb Elfenbein | Sep 27, 2017 | One Video |
| Friend or Foe: International Trade Partners | Jack Mutti | Sep 20, 2017 | One Video |
| Power and Honor: A Few Ancient Greek Statues and Their Modern Counterparts | Monessa Cummins | Sep 13, 2017 | One Session* |
| Joe Rosenfield and Grinnell College | George Drake | Apr-May 2017 | Four Videos |
| The World War II Homefront | Michael Latham | Apr 19, 2017 | One Video |
| German History and Culture Through the Eyes of Literature | Sig Barber | Mar-Apr 2017 | Four Videos |
| The Real Story Behind the Salem Witch Trials | Kathy Wilson | Mar 15, 2017 | One Session* |
| The Evolution of Medicine | J.R. Paulson | Feb-Mar 2017 | Four Videos |
| The 4th Amendment: Search, Seizure, and Surveillance in an Age of Advanced Technology | Judge Stephen Carroll | Feb 08, 2017 | One Video |
| From Synapse to Self: How Our Synapses Make and Break Us | Clark Lindgren | Jan-Feb 2017 | Four Videos |
| Oops! Engineering Errors | Howard Raffety | Nov 16, 2016 | One Video |
| Disability and Being Human | Jean Ketter | Oct-Nov 2016 | Four Videos |
| Know Your Type: An Examination of Fonts | Mike Guenther | Oct 12, 2016 | One Video |
| Sound Stories: Overview of Film Music | Eric McIntyre | Sep-Oct 2016 | Four Sessions* |
| The History of Buckets—Part I | Byron Hueftle-Worley | May 04, 2016 | One Video |
| The Iowa Judicial System: An Insider’s View | Judge Stephen Carroll | Apr 2016 | Three Videos Readings |
| T.E. Lawrence and the Modern Middle East | James “Jim” Ahrens | Mar-Apr 2016 | Four Videos Readings |
| Lessons Learned from Baboons | Vicki Bentley-Condit | Mar 09, 2016 | One Video |
| Fractured South Africa | George Drake Ron Charles | Feb-Mar 2016 | Four Videos Readings |
| Metallic Elements: How They Kill Bacteria | Todd Linden Shannon Hinsa-Leasure | Feb 03, 2016 | One Video* |
| If It Sings: How Composers Match Music and Spoken Text | Eric McIntyre | Jan 2016 | Four Videos* |
| The Plague of the Spanish Lady: The 1918 Flu Pandemic | Sig Barber | Dec 02, 2015 | One Video |
| Muscular Assimilation or Societal Change | Andy Hamilton | Nov 25, 2015 | One Video |
| Long Live the King: The Pipe Organ | Montie Redenius | Nov 18, 2015 | One Video |
| Herbert Hoover: Return of the Exile | Bill Menner | Nov 11, 2015 | One Video |
| Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? | J.R. Paulson | Oct-Nov 2015 | Four Videos |
| Stories of Old Grinnell | Byron Hueftle-Worley | Sep 30, 2015 | One Video |
| Creativity: A Lifelong Journey | Dan Weeks | Sep-Oct 2015 | Four Videos |
| The Grinnell Cyclone of 1882 | Byron Hueftle-Worley | May 06, 2015 | One Video |
| Grinnell a Century Ago | Dan Kaiser | Apr 2015 | Four Videos |
| Death of Abraham Lincoln: How it Shaped American Identity | Sarah Purcell | Apr 2015 | One Session* |
| Writing: History of a Technology | Gerald LaLonde | Mar-Apr 2015 | Three Videos |
| Dead or Alive: Language in the 21st Century | Cynthia Hansen | Mar 11, 2015 | One Video |
| Criminal Brains | Clark Lindgren | Feb-Mar 2015 | Four Videos Readings |
| Trailblazers: Notable Women in Grinnell | Ann Igoe and Barb Lease | Feb 04, 2015 | One Video |
| Good Grief (Charlie Brown)! How to Deal with Loss | J.R. Paulson | Jan 2015 | Four Videos |
| Creative Processes in Music | Eric McIntye | Oct-Nov 2014 | Four Sessions* |
| Biography: Niels Bohr | Luther Erickson | Oct 22, 2014 | One Video |
| Biography: Knut Hamsun | Doug Caulkins | Oct 15, 2014 | One Video |
| Biography: Geoffrey Chaucer | Elizabeth Dobbs | Oct 08, 2014 | One Session* |
| Biography: Wilma Mankiller | John McIntyre | Oct 01, 2014 | One Video |
| Biography: General W.T. Sherman | Jim Ahrens | Sep 24, 2014 | One Video |
| Biography: Muhammad | Caleb Elfenbein | Sep 17, 2014 | One Video |
| Biography: Eugene O’Neill | Sandy Moffett | Sep 10, 2014 | One Video |
| Emotional Well-Being | J.R. Paulson | Apr-May 2014 | Five Videos |
| The Rise and Fall of a Grinnell Giant | Dan Kaiser | Apr 16, 2014 | One Video |
| From Newton to Darwin | Mike Guenther | Mar-Apr 2014 | Four Videos |
| The Constitution: From Origin to Implementation | George Drake | Feb-Mar 2014 | Five Videos |
| Introduction to a Farewell: Beethoven’s Last String Quartets | Eric McIntyre | Feb 5, 2014 | One Session* |
| Neuroscience in Four Literary Forms | Clark Lindgren | Jan 2014 | Four Videos |
| Vietnam: The War Nobody Won | Jim Ahrens | Oct-Nov 2013 | Four Videos |
| Teachings of Confucius in the Context of Chinese History | J.R. Paulson | Oct 16, 2013 | One Video |
| Language: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | Cynthia Hansen | Oct 9, 2013 | One Session* |
| Beginning of the Scientific Enterprise | Beryl Clotfelter | Oct 2, 2013 | One Video |
| Footprints on the Moon: The Apollo Project | Jim Kottmeier | Sep 25, 2013 | One Video |
| The Art & Science of Psychotherapy | Peter Daniolos | Sep 18, 2013 | One Session* |
| Making Art in Ghana with Former Slaves (Ages 14-17) | Tilly Woodward | Sep 11, 2013 | One Video |
| Leadership in Crisis | George Drake | Apr-May 2013 | Five Videos |
| Alexis de Tocqueville: Observations of Early American Society | Don Smith | Apr 10, 2013 | One Session* |
| Critical Thinking | J.R. Paulson | Mar-Apr 2013 | Three Videos |
| The Art of Archiving | Catherine Rod | Feb 20, 2013 | One Session* |
| Framing “Rigoletto” | Eric McIntyre | Feb-Mar 2013 | Four Sessions* |
| Fear No Music! Guided Listening Tour of New Musical Territory | Eric McIntyre | Jan-Feb 2013 | Four Sessions* |
| Brain Science and the Human Animal | Clark Lindgren | Oct-Nov 2012 | Four Sessions* |
| The Bizarre Universe | Beryl Clotfelter | Oct 2012 | Four Sessions* |
| Korea: The Years after WWII | James Ahrens | Sep 2012 | Four Sessions* |
| Statue and Temple: Cultural Interaction in Ancient Greece and Rome | Monessa Cummins | Apr-May 2012 | Four Sessions* |
| Iowans in the Civil War | Shane Estes | Apr 4, 2012 | One Session* |
| Finding the Truth: The Importance of Critical Thinking | J.R. Paulson | Mar 2012 | Three Sessions* |
| History of Money and Currency | Byron Hueftle-Worley | Mar 7, 2012 | One Session* |
| Biotechnology | Diane Robertson | Feb 2012 | Four Sessions* |
| The Old Monroe Hotel | Betty Moffett and Frank Heath | Feb 1, 2012 | One Session* |
| Anatomy of the Orchestra | Eric McIntyre | Jan 2012 | Four Sessions* |
| A Bird’s-Eye View of Psychiatric Disorders in Children | Peter Daniolos | Oct-Nov 2011 | Four Sessions* |
| Louisa Mae Alcott from a Grinnell Perspective | Sarah Purcell | Oct 19, 2011 | One Session* |
| First Industrial Revolution | Beryl Clotfelter and George Drake | Sep-Oct 2011 | Six Sessions* |
| U.S. Environmental History | Mike Guenther | Apr-May 2011 | Four Sessions* |
| World War I: Causes and Consequences | James Ahrens | Feb-Mar 2011 | Six Sessions* |
| What to Listen for in Music | Eric McIntyre | Jan-Feb 2011 | Five Sessions* |
| From Europe to America | George Drake | Oct-Nov 2010 | Seven Sessions* |
| Time: Its Many Facets | Beryl Clotfelter | Sep 2010 | Four Sessions (Not Recorded) |
| Theatre: A User’s Guide | Steven Palmquist | May 2010 | Four Sessions* |
| The Civil War in Context | James Ahrens | Mar-Apr 2010 | Six Sessions* |
| Jews, Muslims, and Buddhists in a Religiously Plural America | Harold Kasimow | Jan-Feb 2010 | Four Sessions* |
| Our War: Stories Behind the Stories | Ken Christiansen | Nov 2009 | Three Sessions (Not Recorded) |
| Our Universe: How Do We Know? | Beryl Clotfelter | Sep-Oct 2009 | Eight Sessions (Not Recorded) |