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Plagues and Pandemics: Past, Present and Future (ANTSG01-1a)
Status: Closed
Fee: $140.00
Timing: 10 sessions from October 7, 2009 - December 16, 2009 on Wednesdays, 1:30pm - 3:30pm No class November 25
Location: Thayer 101, room 116-D
Instructor(s): Barbara Dickinson
This course will examine the ways the great epidemics of the past influenced religion, politics, class, and scientific discoveries. We will talk about how the infectious dise...(read more)
China’s Recent History through Literature (EASSG01-1a)
Status: Waitlist
Fee: $140.00
Timing: 10 sessions from October 6, 2009 - December 8, 2009 on Tuesdays, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: Thayer 101, room 116-E
Instructor(s): Jerry Grieder, Elsa Grieder
We all know how important China has become. But do we know enough about the country’s past—its people, their customs and culture and experience—to know wher...(read more)
Three Male Novelists Look At America in Mid-Century (ENGSG03-1a)
Status: Open
Fee: $140.00
Timing: 10 sessions from October 8, 2009 - December 17, 2009 on Thursdays, 1:30pm - 3:30pm No class November 26
Location: Thayer 101, room 116-E
Instructor(s): Frankie Raben, Joe Raben
Since the study group comprises the same cohort as the writers, we will contrast the experiences and thoughts of the class members and the male-oriented “face” of ...(read more)
It’s Not Easy Being Green: Making Environmentally Responsible Choices (ENVSG01-1a)
Status: Closed
Fee: $140.00
Timing: 10 sessions from October 5, 2009 - December 14, 2009 on Mondays, 10:15am - 12:15pm No class October 12
Location: TBA
Instructor(s): Jean Doyle
We are deluged with information about the environment and the dire consequences of human behavior. Climate change, environmental degradation, fossil fuel dependence, unsustai...(read more)
Darwin and the Origin of Species (EVOSG02-1a)
Status: Open
Fee: $140.00
Timing: 10 sessions from October 7, 2009 - December 16, 2009 on Wednesdays, 10:15am - 12:15pm No class November 25
Location: Thayer 101, room 116-E
Instructor(s): Louise Moss, Nancy Nowak
Just two weeks before he died, Charles Darwin wrote what was to be his final publication. It concerned a tiny clam, which had been found attached to the leg of a water beetle...(read more)
Sweden after the Vikings: The Evolution of a Welfare State (HISSG04-1a)
Status: Open
Fee: $140.00
Timing: 10 sessions from October 9, 2009 - December 18, 2009 on Fridays, 1:30pm - 3:30pm No class November 27
Location: Thayer 101, room 116-E
Instructor(s): Kenneth Johnson, Don Harper
Sweden, admired by many as the epitome of the modern welfare state, evolved from the Viking era, when it was essentially a divided tribal enclave relying on piracy for surviva...(read more)
Hero with 1000 Faces: Gods, Myths, and the Human Psyche (PSYSG01-1a)
Status: Open
Fee: $140.00
Timing: 10 sessions from October 5, 2009 - December 14, 2009 on Mondays, 1:30pm - 3:30pm No class October 12
Location: Thayer 101, room 116-E
Instructor(s): Edith Kur, Dan McCarthy
This course will be based on Joseph Campbell’s seminal work, Hero with 1000 Faces, which concludes that important myths from around the world share a fundamental structu...(read more)