Winter Course Catalog 2012 - University of San Francisco

MOVING FORWARD WHILE REMEMBERING
THE FROMM INSTITUTE
FOR LIFELONG LEARNING
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
C O U R S E C A T A L O G
WINTER
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WELCOME
The Fromm Institute is a “University within a
University” offering daytime courses for retired adults
over 50 years of age. Founded by Alfred and Hanna
Fromm in 1976, the Institute offers intellectual
stimulation and introduces its members to a wide
range of college level learning opportunities with full
access to the facilities and services at USF.
The Institute has a firm commitment to learning and
believes that older students should be able to learn
within a peer setting and be taught by emeritus
professors of their own age.
The Institute presents its non-credit courses during
three, eight-week sessions each year. Meeting once
a week at either 10 a.m. or 1 p.m. and lasting ninety
minutes, our courses span such areas as psychology,
literature, philosophy, science, theology, history, art,
music, politics and writing.
Self-governance gives the Fromm Institute a unique
identity at USF while still remaining an integral part
of campus life. It is an independent, non-profit
program that solicits funding from its members and a
broader philanthropic community. Governed by a
Board of Directors, the Friends of the Fromm Institute,
our administrators, faculty and students set their own
pace. Students do, however, take part in other
campus activities.
The Fromm Institute welcomes people regardless of
previous academic achievement or their ability to
pay a modest membership fee. This San Francisco
“original” serves hundreds of older students each
day, and includes thousands among its lifelong
learning student body and alumni.
Our classes take place in Alfred & Hanna Fromm
Hall which is located at the west entrance to USF’s
campus (660 Parker at McAllister). Conveniently
located and disabled accessible, they are staged in
technologically “smart” classrooms, that are
enhanced by ‘state-of-the-art’ audio/visual tools
including a Sennheiser Assistive Hearing System.
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The juxtaposition of Alfred & Hanna Fromm Hall against
St. Ignatious Church’s landmark dome brings modern and
classical architectural elements together in the same
harmony that blends the generations of students at USF.
HOW TO CONTACT US
The Fromm Institute office is located in Fromm Hall on
the University of San Francisco’s Lower Campus at its
Parker Avenue entrance. You can reach the office at:
Phone: 415-422-6805
Fax: 415-422-6535
Email: fromm@usfca.edu
Address: 2130 Fulton St. | SF, CA 94117-1080

THE 2012 WINTER CATALOG
In this booklet you’ll find a list of all the classes
presented, the session’s course descriptions and our
faculty biographies. You’ll also read general
information about Membership and Enrollment in the
Fromm Institute, and, if applicable, how you may
apply for one of the few on-campus parking permits.
For thirty-six years the Fromm Institute has
encouraged ‘career-free’ persons, age 50 and older,
from all walks of life to engage their minds in
academic pursuits. As you discover what our
lifelong learning program is all about, you are
invited to join them.
FEES
Because the Fromm Institute is a non-profit program,
it is “the educational bargain of the century.”
Membership fees cover only half of the
program’s expenses.
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Currently, the membership fee for the Fromm
Institute is $225 per session. In the Fall Session
only, at the start of an academic year, members
may select an Annual Membership for $625. It
entitles you to enroll in all three, eight-week
sessions (Fall, Winter and Spring), and saves
$50. To take more than four classes, you may do
so by paying an additional $125. Your
selections beyond four would be on a space
available basis.
Your membership fee is not tuition and cannot be
prorated or applied to a future session should you
withdraw. Refunds less a $100 administrative
fee are granted only through the first two weeks
of classes, until January 19, 2012.
Scholarships are available for those with a
financial need, but everyone must pay something
toward their membership as they enroll.
MEMBERSHIP
The Fromm Institute welcomes ‘career free’ people 50
years of age and older regardless of their
educational background or financial Status. The
desire to learn is the sole criteria for enrollment.
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You must be an enrolled member to attend Fromm
Institute classes. Once you are, you’ll be able to
enjoy not only the Fromm Institute experience, but
also a full range of intellectual and social
benefits found within USF’s multi-generational
college environment.
Membership entitles you to enroll in as many as
four (4) courses per session. Should you select
one, two, three or four classes — the membership
fee remains the same.
Series, always offered on Wednesday mornings,
such as this session’s Wonders of Science Series,
are open to all Fromm Institute students and their
guests regardless of the number of classes
selected. As a member you may attend any or all
of them at no additional cost.
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
Robert Fordham, Executive Director
Scott Moules, Assistant Director, Technology & Design
Carla Hall Belmonte, Assistant Director, Program Resources
Herbert Gracia, Program Coordinator
Dawa Dorjee, Program Coordinator
Professor Albert Jonsen, Academic Advisor
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ENROLLMENT INFORMATION
PRE-ENROLLMENT PERIOD
Nov. 9, 10, 11, 2011
The Pre-Enrollment Period gives everyone a chance
to file an application during the same interval as no
enrollments are processed but statistical sampling is
done to determine which classes may close. The
receipt of an application during the Pre-Enrollment
Period does not guarantee access to the classes
requested. Enrollments received during this time are
randomly processed on the first day of the
Enrollment Period. Pre-Enrollment ends at 3 p.m.
on Friday, Nov. 11.
ENROLLMENT PERIOD:
Nov. 14, 2011 to Dec. 16, 2011 and
Jan. 3, 2012 to Jan. 6, 2012
During the Enrollment Period, applications are
processed on a day-by-day basis after all preenrollments.
The Enrollment Line (415-422-6806)
and our website’s (www.usfca.edu/fromm) “Closed
Classes Page” carry information on classes that are
full and no longer available. All closed
classes are over-subscribed and no waiting lists
are maintained.
HOLIDAY CLOSURE:
The Fromm Institute closes for the Holidays at Noon
on Friday, Dec. 16, for two weeks. The office
re-opens on Jan. 3, 2012. Enrollments received
after Dec. 16, can not be confirmed until the first
week of the New Year just before classes begin.
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HOW TO ENROLL
After reviewing the catalog and deciding which courses
you’d like, follow these instructions.
I. REVIEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS
• Annual Member (Fall Session only) $625
• Session Member $225
• Scholarship Member Any Amount You Can Pay
• Additional Course Fee
(any number beyond four)
extra $125
II. CONTACT US
Phone 415-422-6806, our Enrollment Line. State your name
and the membership category you wish. Then, state your
enrollment choices and alternates (if any). New Members
must provide a mailing address and telephone contact.
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E-mail fromm@usfca.edu a message that includes your first
and last name and your enrollment choices and alternates (if
any). New Members must include a U.S. postal mailing
address and phone contact.
III. WAIT FOR A CONFIRMATION / BILL
You’ll receive (1) a Confirmation of Enrollment in the mail as
well as (2) a Parking Application and (3) a Remittance Form.
Check your confirmation letter carefully. Return your
payment by the due date and if you would like to apply for
parking, include a completed Parking Application and fee.
ON-CAMPUS PARKING
Parking on campus requires a valid USF Fromm Institute
Parking Permit. Permits are extremely limited and costly.
Accordingly, the Fromm Institute encourages carpools and
public transportation.
To apply for parking, return the Parking Application along
with your Membership Fee Remittance Form. Applications
must be received by Dec. 7, and must include a separate
check payable to ‘USF/Fromm Institute’ in order to be
considered.
After satisfying students who hold a CA DMV Disabled Driver
Placard, permits that are left are distributed based on the
number of riders transported in a vehicle and the distance
traveled to reach USF.

WINTER SESSION 2012
Use this page as your phone/e-mail worksheet. DO NOT FAX OR MAIL THIS FORM.
When you email or phone your enrollment please first tell us your NAME:
If you are a new student, give us your full ADDRESS:
And don’t forget to include your PHONE NUMBER:
Then, please tell us your MEMBERSHIP CATEGORY:
Categories are: Annual $625 (available in the Fall Session only) | Session $225 | Scholarship (pay what you can)
When ready, either call the Fromm Institute Enrollment Line: 415-422-6806 or, e-mail your enrollment requests
to fromm@usfca.edu. Check closed classes at www.usfca.edu/fromm/closedclasses.html.
MONDAY 10 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
MONDAY 1 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
Simon “The Joy of X”
Tracy “Novels w/o Heroes: Vanity Fair/Middlemarch”
Fracchia “Loving Friends: Bloomsbury Group” Garrett “Accelerated Evolution: Baldwin Effect”
Kenning “Western Civilization Rises: Mesopotamia” Rothmann “Great Speeches of the 20th Century”
Wahl “Disney: The Man, The Movies, The Maverick”
TUESDAY 10 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
Krause “‘Hot’ & ‘Cold’ Stories from the Bible”
Fischer “Three Nobel Stories of Spiritual Quest”
Bodovitz “Changing World/Divided U.S./
Elections 2012”
Rothblatt “Romantic Descent: 1890-1950 & Beyond”
WEDNESDAY 10 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
Various “Wonders of Science Series”
Coordinated by Dr. Jerold Lowenstein
THURSDAY 10 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
Kaufman “Poets of Special Note”
Carcieri “American Political Thought”
Foglesong “The Concerto: From Baroque
to Modern”
TUESDAY 1 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
Rothblatt “Romantic Descent: A Seminar” SEMINAR
Roatcap “Marc Chagall Among Friends”
Gordon “Principles of Economics: Macro-Economics”
Jonsen “Beyond the Borgias: Reformation & Reform”
WEDNESDAY 1 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
Mulera “Physics for Frommies IV: The Universe”
Brandfon “Wealth Disparity & Govering of America”
Camargo “Human Figure in Art: Paleolithic to Ital. Ren.”
Levaco “Neo-Noir”
THURSDAY 1 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
Covert “Railroads, Automobiles & Freeways”
Zimmerman “Ellison’s Invisible Man”
Muenk “Herodotus: Father of History”
Hunt “Plundered Art”
Please note: Some course titles have been shortened.
Complete titles appear on the following pages in their respective course descriptions.
The “Wonders of Science Series” is open to all members of the Fromm Institute. It may be selected in addition to the four
course maximum. Seminars require active participation, and attendance at the first class. Participants will be selected by
lottery on December 7, 2011.
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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS & FACULTY BIOS
MONDAY
THE JOY OF X PROF. SIMON
This course is for people who were required to take math in school and were relieved when it was over. “Chances Are”
(probability) you were never shown the fun side of math. We ‘ll start with the easy stuff: “The Enemy of My Enemy...” (negative
numbers), “Division and Its Discontents” (fractions), “Finding Your Roots” (solving equations) and gradually work up through
“Think Globally” (geometry) and “Take it to the Limit” (calculus). The titles above are taken from a series of fifteen beautifully
written articles in the New York Times by Professor Steven Strogatz of Cornell; they will be available on the Fromm Insitute
website. Do not take this course if you are a retired mathematician or theoretical physicist; all others are welcome.
PROF. ARTHUR SIMON
Professor Simon received his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Tulane University in 1957. He taught at Yale and
Northwestern before coming to California State University, Hayward in 1972; he became Professor Emeritus
in1991. He has written many reports, reviews, and articles in mathematical journals and several textbooks on
algebra and calculus. He was twice the recipient of National Science Awards for independent study: at the
Sorbonne in 1963-64 and at UC Santa Cruz in 1970-71. He has also received numerous awards and honors
for his excellence in teaching.
LOVING FRIENDS: THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP PROF. FRACCHIA
A group of talented individuals came together in the early 20th century in London that brought forward a conclave of
extraordinary creativity. This course will be an examination of the lives and works of Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, John
Maynard Keyes and others whose dynamic visions continue to enhance our culture.
PROF. CHARLES FRACCHIA
Receiving his B.A. in history, USF, Professor Fracchia did graduate work at UC Berkeley in Library Science, at
SF State in History, and at the GTU, Berkeley in Theology. He has taught at USF, SF State, and City College and
lectured extensively throughout the Bay Area. He has written numerous articles and books, the most recent being
Fire and Gold, The Golden Dream, City by the Bay, and When the Water Came Up To Montgomery Street; San
Francisco During the Gold Rush. He is Founder and President Emeritus of the San Francisco Museum and
Historical Society and a Fellow of the California Historical Society and of the Gleeson Library Association.
MISSING MONDAY CLASSES IN THE WINTER SESSION
Two holidays interrupt the flow of Monday courses during the Winter Session. The following illustrates how.
Monday, Jan. 09 First Class
Monday, Jan. 16 Holiday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day No Classes Meet
Monday, Jan. 23 Second Class
Monday, Jan. 30 Third Class
Monday, Feb. 06 Fourth Class
Monday, Feb. 13 Fifth Class
Monday, Feb. 20 Holiday, Presidents Day No Classes Meet
Monday, Feb. 27 Sixth Class
Monday, Mar. 05 “Make-Up” Week Most Monday Classes Meet for the Seventh and Last Time
All Monday courses meet six (6) instead of eight (8) times during the session with most meeting
for a seventh and last time during “Make-Up” Week. Each professor will determine the above.

MONDAY
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS & FACULTY BIOS
WESTERN CIVILIZATION RISES: MESOPOTAMIA PROF. KENNING
Mesopotamia, the “Land between the Rivers” is where we were born. In the beginning were gods and agriculture. Then
agriculture gave birth to cities, to astronomy, to mathematics, to the alphabet. Then cities gave birth to priests, to
metalworking, to taxes, to writing, to government, to the military and to a male hierarchical society. Our civilization
advanced, but not toward happiness for most, as we seemed ever more squashed by this complex hierarchy being
constructed on our backs. Using maps, art, and poetry, this course will pick up our story from the end of the Neolithic as
we assembled in cities like Ur, Uruk and Susa, becoming the Sumerians and Akkadians. It will take us to Babylon, to
Assyria, and back to Babylon, ending up in Persia. We’ll stop there, since Persians no longer count as ‘we,’ but will have
become “them.” On this journey, we meet Sargon, Gilgamesh, Hammurabi, Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel, Cyrus, Darius,
Xerxes and a star-studded (literally) cast of dangerous goddesses and gods, including salt.
PROF. DOUGLAS KENNING
Douglas Kenning was conceived in Japan, born in California, raised in Virginia, and lived variously in
Germany, Ohio, Texas, Scotland, Tunisia, Japan, California, and for the last twelve years in Sicily. He has
earned a Ph.D. in literature and philosophy from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has worked
professionally as a wildlife biologist, stage actor, army engineer officer, Manhattan taxi driver, academic
administrator, university professor, tour guide, among other things. He has written books on Japanese and
British poetry and philosophy, articles on the culture and history of Sicily, Italy, and Japan, and stage plays.
He lives half of each year in Sicily, where he runs a small tour business, and half in the San Francisco Bay Area,
teaching lifelong learning courses on subjects related to the histories of the Mediterranean basin.
WALT DISNEY: THE MAN, THE MOVIES, THE MAVERICK PROF. WAHL
This course will be a journey through the life and times of this remarkable innovator/artist whose creative genius made
him one of the most influential Americans of the 20th Century. It will explore his legacy of animated and live action
films, TV shows and Disneylands that left an indelible mark all over the globe. We’ll also consider the filmmakers, artists
and animators who have been influenced by Disney. To place him in context to his times, we’ll discuss his
contemporaries and some of the controversy associated with the studio, his politics and his constant swimming against
the tide. This will definitely be a chance to both celebrate and discover a Disney many do not know exists — the man
behind the myth, the discoveries and innovations that changed our world. With imagination as a currency, Walt Disney
built an unparalleled entertainment empire whose characters and stories continue to enliven our popular culture. “Why
be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?” Walt Disney once said. This course will discuss that
king, and delight in the inhabitants of his kingdom culminating in a visit to the Presidio’s Walt Disney Family Museum in March.
PROF. JAN WAHL
Recognized as a woman of many hats, film critic Jan Wahl critiques movies, conducts celebrity interviews,
and offers interesting background on show business. When she’s not working in TV or radio, she emcees
community events, lectures throughout the Bay Area and on international cruises, including a course she
originated for corporations and schools, “Critical Thinking of the Mass Media.” She worked for ABC in
LA, as a documentary producer, and later as a stage manager and director. In 1977, Wahl won an Emmy
for “They Still Say I Do,” a humorous documentary on the palimony case of Lee & Michelle Triola Marvin.
That year she became a member of the Directors Guild of America. In 1999, she won a second Emmy for
“A Filmgoer’s Bill of Rights.” A movie enthusiast since her youth, she entered the journalism field as a news
writer for KGO-TV, where she also produced two documentaries while attending SF State. She graduated
with a degree in Broadcast Communications and Arts.
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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS & FACULTY BIOS
MONDAY
NOVELS WITHOUT HEROES: VANITY FAIR & MIDDLEMARCH PROF. TRACY
In this course we’ll be looking at two novels from the great age of the English novel. In Vanity Fair, Thackeray recounts
the adventures of Becky Sharp as she struggles to find a place for herself in English society amid the alarms and
excitements of the Napoleonic wars. In Middlemarch, George Eliot introduces Dorothea Brooke, whose yearnings for
“an epic life” cannot be realized among the gentry and professional classes of a provincial town in the period before
England was changed utterly by the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution and the passage of the First Reform Bill.
Both novels deploy their characters against a background of cataclysmic events in a world that is rapidly changing,
and in each a woman is the central character, her effort to find her role the central subject.
Reading Resources: Thackeray (ed. Sutherland), Vanity Fair George Eliot (ed. Carroll), Middlemarch
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PROF. ROBERT TRACY
Robert Tracy is Professor Emeritus of English and Celtic Studies at UC Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in
Comparative Literature from Harvard, and has been Visiting Professor of American Literature at Leeds University,
of Slavic Studies at Wellesley College, and of Anglo-Irish Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. He has also served
as Co-Director of the University of California Dickens Project. His publications include a study of Anthony
Trollope’s novels; many articles about Dickens; editions of works by Synge, Trollope, Flann O’Brien, and Le Fanu;
Stone, poems of Osip Mandelstam translated from Russian; and The Unappeasable Host: Studies in Irish Identities.
ACCELERATED EVOLUTION: THE “BALDWIN EFFECT” PROF. GARRETT
IN HUMAN TRANSFORMATION
The history of the human species is marked by innovations “happened upon” and incorporated into cultural practices
that conferred significant adaptive advantages in the course of natural selection through which we evolved.
Increasingly, evolutionary scientists are finding that behavioral practices, practices organized as culture, serve to
impact genetic evolution. This idea was nascent in Darwin’s writings, and was formalized by the American
psychologist James Mark Baldwin. Largely ignored, Baldwin’s ideas are finding significant resurgence in the 21st
century. The course will introduce the Baldwin Effect in the context of evolutionary theory, discuss and assess its
significance in the future of human evolution. Special attention will be brought to the implications of Baldwin’s ideas
that serve as counterpoint to the grim and “red in tooth and claw” caricatures of human nature and human destiny
that have so burdened the story of human evolution.
PROF. WILLIAM GARRETT
Bill Garrett is a Professor of Philosophy and Religion. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in philosophy
from SF State, and his Ph.D. in religion and philosophy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. He
has for the past 34 years taught courses in the history of ideas, including courses in religion, culture, and
literature. He is author of Bad Karma: Thinking Twice about the Social Consequences of Reincarnation
Theory. His most recent book is titled Marie Stopes: Feminist, Eroticist, Eugenicist. Professor Garrett says of
himself: “I love working with ideas, and I love attempting to communicate the sheer joy of working with ideas.”
Drawing on a lifetime of teaching experience, the Fromm Institute faculty is composed
of professors from colleges/universities across the Bay Area and around the nation.
It also includes some who are recognized experts in their given field. All are age
peers with our students.

MONDAY
TUESDAY
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS & FACULTY BIOS
GREAT SPEECHES OF THE 20TH CENTURY: VOICES THAT MADE HISTORY PROF. ROTHMANN
Great moments in history are often marked by the crystallization of words, evocatively enunciated. In those great speeches
you’ll find that powerful combination of content, tone and emotion but, most importantly, you’ll hear the speaker’s sincere belief
in the value of what she/he is saying. Using actual sound recordings of the 20th century, this course will explore the history
of one hundred years that changed the world like none before them — illustrated by the great speeches of those notable times.
PROF. JOHN ROTHMANN
John F. Rothmann is a politics/foreign policy consultant and a host on KGO Newstalk radio. He’s a lecturer
on politics, “a scholar of modern Republicanism,” acknowledged “for his unique insights, and rare materials.”
Rothmann served as Director of the Nixon Collection at Whittier College, as Chief of Staff to Sen. Milton
Marks, Field Representative to Sen. Quentin Kopp, and was one of the founders of the Raoul Wallenberg
Jewish Democratic Club. Both his B.A. and his M.A. in Teaching are from Whittier. Prof. Rothmann is the
co-author of Icon of Evil — Hitler’s Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam and the forthcoming A Political
Biography of Harold Stassen.
“HOT” & “COLD” STORIES OF THE BIBLE RABBI KRAUSE
The Bible is filled with stories of love and tales of deception. This course will examine them anew, but also ask what
can we learn from them today. Are the Biblical lessons still relevant, or are they now just old fashioned? Has human
behavior changed that much from the ancients? Join us as we discuss all this and more, freshly placed against our
understanding of these religious texts of both Judaism and Christianity.
RABBI JAY M. KRAUSE
Rabbi Krause taught Judaic Studies at Brandeis Hillel for 25 years. He holds degrees from Hunter and
Hebrew Union College — from which he was ordained with a Doctor of Divinity. He’s a lecturer to
public/parochial school teachers in the area of Judaic studies. Rabbi Krause spent three summers in Israel
studying at Yad Vashem on the Holocaust. He instructs teachers, docents, and others about the Holocaust
and how to teach this difficult subject with appropriate resources. He is a recipient of the Grinspoon-Steinhardt
Award, Jewish Education Service of North America. This is his 24th year at the Fromm Institute.
STORIES OF SPIRITUAL QUEST: ENDO, MAFOZ & WHITE PROF. FISCHER
We’ll focus on the theme of spiritual quest through the lens of three Nobel Prize Winners for Literature. Each, selected for our
discussion, represents a different religious/cultural tradition, narrating distinctive tales of journeying in search of truth and
justice. Shusaku Endo’s Deep River, reflects his Japanese Christian experience and tells of a pilgrimage to India’s iconic city
of Hindu ritual purification in death. The Egyptian Naguib Mafouz, in many ways anticipating the “Arab Spring.” also writes
of pilgrimage in The Journey of Ibn Fattouma, exploring a Muslim perspective on the good life. The Australian, Patrick White,
creates a cosmic inter-religious story that signals the social/spiritual decline of a people in pursuit of limited ends in his epic
Riders in the Chariot. Endo and Mafouz should be fully read. Excerpts from White will be distributed in class.
PROF. CLARE FISCHER
Clare Fischer instructed courses in comparative religions, spirituality and inter-religious relations during her
two-decade tenure as Aurelia Reinhardt Professor of Religion and Culture at the Graduate Theological Union,
Berkeley. She has taught Jewish-Christian Relations as an adjunct in the Theology and Religious Studies
Department at USF. As a core member of UC Berkeley’s Tourism Studies Working Group she has developed
research in travel literature and tourism with a focus on Bali where she and her husband have led many tours.
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TUESDAY
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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS & FACULTY BIOS
UNHAPPY SUPERPOWER: A CHANGING WORLD, A DIVIDED AMERICA PROF. BODOVITZ
AND THE ELECTIONS OF 2012
The world’s most powerful nation begins 2012 so disunited as to be barely governable. We don’t know whether this
is temporary, or the “new normal?” How did we get this way? Is our federal system, devised more than 200 years
ago in very different times, still workable? Without more unity, how can we maintain our leadership role in the world,
and help solve its vexing economic problems? Will the 2012 elections leave our country more united, or less? We’ll
consider these issues, along with California’s continuing problems with governability, and how this affects our country.
PROF. JOE BODOVITZ
Joseph E. Bodovitz has been involved for 50 years in California’s conflicts over population growth, economic
development, and environmental protection. He was the first executive director of the SF Bay Conservation and
Development Commission, and also the first executive director of the California Coastal Commission. Later, he was
Executive Director of the California P.U.C. From 1986–2000, he was president of the non-profit California
Environmental Trust, which works to resolve resource/development issues. He was a Naval officer in Korea, and later
a newspaper reporter in SF. He received a B.A. from Northwestern and an M.A. in Journalism from Columbia.
THE ROMANTIC DESCENT: 1890 TO 1950 AND BEYOND PROF. ROTHBLATT
This course describes and discusses the more disturbing consequences of Romantic ideas and values dating from the early
19th century (the Romantic Ascent) as played out in the era of the totalitarian states of the 20th century. The emotional insights
into character, sense of personal worth and expressions of human freedom that were contributions of the Romantic Ascent
were twisted and debased in the Romantic Descent. Where doubt and uncertainty were once positive indicators of a free
and exploring mind, they became the entry points for insecurities and unspeakable political horrors.
THE ROMANTIC DESCENT: A SEMINAR PROF. ROTHBLATT
You must be enrolled in the morning lectures to apply. Twenty-five participants will be selected by lottery
on Wed., Dec. 7. Attendance for all 8 meetings is expected and the first on Tues., Jan. 10 is mandatory.
Building on the lectures which are intended to provide a historical overview of the Romantic Descent, this seminar consists of
discussions (vigorous and enlightening, of course) based on a schedule of readings that will be available to participants before
the first meeting of the class. These readings are meant to supply a sense of depth and authenticity. In historical parlance, they
are primary sources (for the most part) because they offer an unusual interpretation or refraction of what was happening. That
does not mean they are “objective.” It means that they are “voices.”
PROF. SHELDON ROTHBLATT
Professor Rothblatt is Professor of History Emeritus and former Director of the Center for Studies in Higher
Education at UC Berkeley. Educated at Berkeley and King’s College, Cambridge University, he has an honorary
degree from Gothenburg University, Sweden and has been a visiting professor at American universities such as
Stanford, NYU and in countries such as Norway, Australia, Sweden. He has had visiting fellowships at New
College, Nuffield, St. Cross and Magdalen Colleges, Oxford, at Princeton and at Uppsala. Upon retirement he
received the Berkeley Citation, their highest award bestowed. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of
Britain, a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and a member of the National Academy
of Education (U.S.). His specialties are modern British and European history. His writings have been translated
into five languages and a Chinese translation of one of his books is in preparation. In 2010 he was knighted by
the Swedish king, Commander of the Royal Order of the Polar Star, the highest award given to foreigners.

TUESDAY
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS & FACULTY BIOS
MARC CHAGALL AMONG FRIENDS PROF. ROATCAP
Chagall...understands what color is...his canvases are really painted, not just tossed together...there’s never been
anybody since Renoir who has the feeling for light that Chagall has.” - Pablo Picasso
Marc Chagall had a gift for seeing happiness in everything, and describing the images from his childhood with love
and great compassion, During his nearly one hundred years, in Vitebsk, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Paris, USA, and Venice,
Chagall worked in virtually every artistic medium — painting, book illustration, stained glass, stage and costume
design for ballet and opera, ceramics, mosaics, tapestries, posters and fine art prints. Among his friends and
colleagues, Leon Bakst, Lazar El Lissitzky, Sonia Delaunay, Salvador Dali, and of course – Picasso. Poet, writer and
quintessential Jewish artist, Chagall was also a European Modernist who by synthesizing the art forms of Cubism,
Symbolism, and Fauvism, created his own delightful blend of Surrealism and Expressionism. This class will be a
celebration of his life, his art and his gift.
Reading Resource: Chagall: My Life
PROF. ADELA ROATCAP
Dr. Adela Spindler Roatcap lived and studied in Buenos Aires, Argentina, before graduating from UC
Berkeley in 1966 with a double major in the History of Art and Cultural Anthropology. She received her
M.A. from the University of Oregon in 1969, with a thesis on the History of Spanish/Italian Renaissance
Art, and her Ph.D. as a Kress Fellow from Stanford, with a dissertation on Russian Medieval Art. She has
written many articles regarding fine presses and rare books, and published The Book of the Dance in the
20th Century, as well as Raymond Duncan, Printer, Expatriate, Eccentric Artist. Currently Dr. Roatcap is
finishing a book concerning Leonardo de Vinci’s portrait of Ginevra de’Benci, which is at the National
Gallery of Art.
PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS: MACROECONOMICS PROF. GORDON
After covering some basic concepts such as: the scarcity of resources vs. most effective use; the difference between
micro and macro economics; and the economic meaning of the terms supply and demand, market, capital, labor, etc.,
this course will devote itself to the topic of macroeconomics, the study of economic growth and business cycles.
Among its foci will be the gross domestic product, consumption and investment and disposable income. Because we
are witnessing the most serious contraction since the Great Depression, we’ll also consider the business cycle and its
relationship to change in the aggregate demand. Finally, and because it is essential to a fully rounded understanding
of macroeconomics, we’ll discuss the economic policies that the government can take to impact the economy.
Emphasis will be placed upon the use of policy measures that seek to counteract the slowdown in economic activity.
PROF. SARA GORDON
Professor Gordon received her B.A. from UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford. She
taught at St. John’s University and the University of Hawaii, has held positions at the International Monetary
Fund and U.S. Treasury Department, and has published widely in economic journals. Professor Gordon is
the author of The United States & Global Capital Shortages and the co-author of Foreign Multinational
Investment in the United States.
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BEYOND THE BORGIAS: REFORMATION & REFORM PROF. JONSEN
PRESENTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ROBERT FORDHAM CHAIR IN LIFELONG LEARNING.
The Borgia name has become synonymous with the debased standards of the Papacy of the Roman Catholic Church at
the conclusion of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th centuries. While the arts and education flourished under the
reign of Alexander VI, so did the abuse of power and corruption of religious authority. Against an evolving backdrop
of ecclesiastical graft and clerical indulgence, emerged the movement we call the Reformation and the creation of new
national Protestant churches. This class will look beyond the time of this Italian papacy and examine the dissolution of
Christian unity in Europe. It will review the Protestant movement and the reforms to the Catholic Church that these
turbulent times evoked.
WEDNESDAY
PROF. ALBERT JONSEN
Albert Jonsen was professor of medical ethics at the University of California, San Francisco and at the University
of Washington. He also taught at Yale, Johns Hopkins and Oxford Universities. He is author of Bioethics Beyond
the Headlines, The Birth of Bioethics, A Short History of Medical Ethics and co-author of Clinical Ethics and The
Abuse of Casuistry. He was a member of the Jesuit Order from 1949 to 1976 and President of University of San
Francisco from 1969 to 1972. He holds a doctorate in Religious Studies from Yale University.
MODERN PHYSICS FOR FROMMIES IV: THE UNIVERSE, SMALL TO LARGE PROF. MULERA
The 20th century saw massive revisions in the way we view our universe. Einstein’s theories of relativity challenged our
understanding of time, space and simultaneity, as discussed in “Modern Physics I,” while “Modern Physics II” dealt with
the quantum description of nature on the atomic Scale. This course will pursue the application of these theories on very
small (atomic and sub-atomic) and very large (astronomical) scales. Topics will include atomic and molecular physics,
condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, the standard model of elementary particles, and astrophysics and
cosmology. The treatment of the standard model will be a brief one here, as a more detailed treatment was presented
in In “Modern Physics III.” The incompatibility of general relativity and quantum mechanics, and its possible resolution
via techniques such as string theory will be discussed. Students need not have taken the previous courses before
embarking on this one, and the presentation, although challenging, will be as non-mathematical as possible.
PROF. TERRENCE MULERA
Professor Mulera holds his B.A. in Physics from UC Berkeley, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from Purdue
University. He continued his dissertation research in the field of experimental elementary particle physics with
more than ten years of postdoctoral research at Michigan, Rice and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. The topics
he explored there included spin dependence in strong interactions, collisions of relativistic heavy ions, neutrino
oscillations, rare decays of the pion and radiation detector development. After thirteen years in the
semiconductor equipment industry in engineering project management, he became an Adjunct Professor in the
Department of Physics and Astronomy at USF where he has lectured since 2000.

WEDNESDAY
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS & FACULTY BIOS
THE WONDERS OF SCIENCE SERIES
JEROLD LOWENSTEIN, M.D. – SERIES COORDINATOR
The mathematician, Henri Poincaré, once elegantly noted that, “The scientist does not study
nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because
it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing.” As this Series
begins its 14th year of bringing the natural/phyiscal sciences to the Fromm Institute classroom,
once again you are invited to hear eight wonder filled topics that will delight, be beautiful and worth knowing. All Fromm
Institute members are welcomed and encouraged to attend any and all of the following:
Schedule of Lectures
January 11 Where are the Little Green Men? Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute
January 18 Graphs & Their Applications: Encouraging Students to Learn Mathematics
Edward Landesman, Educ. Dir., NASA Collaborative for Higher Educ.
January 25 The Science and Politics of Global Warming Holly Kaufman, Pres., Environment &
Enterprise Strategies
February 1 Expedition and Travel Medicine Matthew Lewin, Dir., Cntr. for Exploration & Travel
Health, California Academy of Sciences
February 8 The Psyentific Mind: Behavioral Science & Tech Expand Its Reach Dominic Massaro,
Prof. of Psychology, UC Santa Cruz
February 15 Science Ethics Michael Goldman, Prof. & Chair, Biology, SF State University
February 22 The Neanderthal Genome Richard E. Green, Asst. Prof., UC Santa Cruz
February 29 Science Update 2012 Jerold Lowenstein, Clinical Prof. of Medicine, UCSF
WEALTH AGAINST COMMONWEALTH: PROF. BRANDFON
“WEALTH DISPARITY & THE GOVERNING OF AMERICA”
This title is taken from Lloyd’s 1894 exposé of the Rockefeller oil monopoly’s influence on political decision making. In
an essay written in 1941, Justice Brandeis warned, “we may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in
the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” In the space of a half-century, despite efforts of muckrakers, populists,
progressive reformers, and New Deal programs the disparity of wealth widens. At present it is commonly believed that
a mere one percent of the population owns and controls a third of the nation’s total assets. This extraordinary
concentration of wealth dominates every aspect of American life, and has produced a foreboding sense among many
Americans that the forms of American democratic government are incapable of meeting the challenge of modern
plutocracy. This course will examine the factors that led to this state of affairs and the attempts to address it.
PROF. ROBERT BRANDFON
Professor Robert Brandfon, a native of New York City, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and is
Emeritus Professor of American History from Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has also
taught at the University of Keele (North Staffordshire, Eng.), Oberlin College, the MIT Sloan School of
Management, and the Harvard University Summer School. The focus of his research and writing has been
on the post Reconstruction South, the Progressive Era, the New Deal and the Second World War.
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WEDNESDAY
THE HUMAN FIGURE IN ART: PROF. CAMARGO
FROM PALEOLITHIC TIMES TO THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
The human figure has been the subject of artistic endeavor since the Stone Age. From Paleolithic caves in Southern Europe
to the Masters of the Renaissance, efforts were made to display humans at rest or at play, in combat or sleeping. A panoramic
view of these efforts up to and including the Renaissance will be the subject of this course. Emphasis will be placed on the
importance of anatomy in the historical evolution of the human figure representation.
PROF. CARLOS CAMARGO
Dr. Carlos A. Camargo, born in Colombia, S.A., received his medical degree from the National University in Bogota.
He trained in Internal Medicine at Western Reserve University and in Endocrinology at Stanford. Since 1967 he has
been on the Stanford Medical School Faculty. He is the Director of the Medical History course and is a three-time
recipient of the Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has been the Director of the Endocrine Clinic at Stanford
and has done research on adrenal steroids/pituitary diseases. He’s interested in the connection of medicine and culture
and has given courses on the interaction of medicine with art, religion and magic through history. Dr. Camargo speaks
fluently Spanish, French and Italian and has lectured on numerous occasions for Stanford Alumni travel-study trips in
Mediterranean countries. His son is a faculty member at Harvard Med School and his daughter is an artist in Japan.
NEO-NOIR PROF. LEVACO
By the 1950s changes in American politics, consciousness and film technology brought an end to the stylized,
“hardboiled” Hollywood crime movies known as film noir. Color and wide screen replaced the smaller frame and its
B&W images, and the intense, high-contrast noir lighting would not work in color, and film noir-oriented filmmakers
seemed unsure how to proceed. Physical changes in the very appearance of the American urban landscape and the
growth of the American techno-culture also produced new settings, themes and types of characters. But filmmakers with
novel plots and aesthetic strategies pursued their explorations of perverse characters and their tangled, hidden motives
in a new and changing context and made films from the 1960s onwards that critics term neo-noir. Our screenings
include “Chinatown,” “Point Blank” and “Blade Runner,” and our readings and analyses will identify aesthetic
strategies unique to neo-noir films and evaluate whether and how well they succeed.
PROF. RONALD LEVACO
Dr. Levaco served on the cinema faculty at SF State for 23 years, where he is Professor Emeritus. Author of
numerous articles, he has also produced several documentaries, including the award-winning “Round Eyes in
the Middle Kingdom,” which was invited to over 40 international film festivals. His most recent film, “Old
Enough to Know Better,” was produced at the Fromm Institute. Both films appeared on PBS. He is fluent in
Russian, did postgraduate research at the Russian Film Institute in Moscow, and received his Ph.D. from the
Center for Russian Studies in Film and Theater at Southern Illinois University. His book Kuleshov on Film is
published by UC Press. Ron Levaco is presently working on a screenplay for a feature film.
You never know who’ll you’ll meet at the Fromm Institute.
This San Francisco “original ” serves hundreds of older
students each day, and includes thousands of people among
its lifelong learning student body and alumni.

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POETS OF SPECIAL NOTE PROF. KAUFMAN
In this course we’ll spend time with Robert Frost and Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Wilbur, William Carlos
Williams, Edna St. Vincent Millay Carolyn Kizer, William Stafford and others. We’ll hear and share their memorable
verses with each other. We’ll explore their meaning, but never strive for a perfect understanding that might extinguish
the pleasure of their words. This poetic journey will be filled with “joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the
dictionary.” ~Kahlil Gibran
PROF. MARGARET KAUFMAN
Margaret Kaufman, a Bay Area poet and fiction writer, has taught poetry and led workshops for more than
twenty years. She is a founder, with six other poets, of Sixteen Rivers Press, which for ten years has published
the poetry of emerging Bay Area writers. Her recent publications are Snake At the Wrist and Inheritance. A
poem from that collection appeared in American Life in Poetry, a project of former US Poet Laureate Ted
Kooser. She received a fiction award from Nimrod for “Lifesaving Lessons.” A graduate of Wellesley College,
she received an M.A. degree from UC Berkeley, and an MFA from The Warren Wilson Program for Writers.
AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT PROF. CARCIERI
The U.S. has produced some of the greatest political thinkers the world has known. From Madison, Hamilton, and
Jefferson to Lincoln, Dewey, and Rawls, American Political Thought is a rich tradition lying at the crossroads of History,
Philosophy, Politics, Economics, Law, Sociology, and Literature. The first half of this course will examine our major
founding documents — the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, and selected
Federalist Papers. The second half will examine excerpts from the writings of such 19th and 20th century figures as Henry
Thoreau, Elizabeth Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Lincoln, William Sumner, Emma Goldman, W.E.B. DuBois, FDR, JFK,
Betty Friedan, and Martin Luther King. Those who take this course will be able to explain how it is that American Political
Thought is a synthesis of the Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian traditions, culminating in the work of John Rawls.
PROF. MARTIN CARCIERI
Martin D. Carcieri, has taught courses in Constitutional Law and Political Theory as an Associate Professor
of Political Science at San Francisco State University. He holds a J.D. from UC Hastings and a Ph.D. in
Political Science from UC Santa Barbara. He has earned three teaching awards and has published a peerreviewed
book and twenty journal articles. His work examines the policy and constitutional dimensions of
race and of the U.S. drug war. It has appeared in top journals in four disciplines, been the focus of journal
symposia, and been cited to the U.S. Supreme Court in four landmark cases.
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THE CONCERTO: FROM BAROQUE TO MODERN PROF. FOGLESONG
This course is a survey of concertos — compositions for solo instruments (or small groups of instruments) and orchestra
— from their Baroque beginnings, through their development in the Classical and Romantic eras, and ending with
popular concertos by composers such as Rachmaninoff, Ravel, and Shostakovich. Along the way we’ll listen to music
by Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, and more.
PROF. SCOTT FOGLESONG
Scott Foglesong is the Chair of Musicianship & Music Theory at the SF Conservatory of Music,
where he has been a faculty member since ‘78. In 2008 he was the recipient of the Sarlo Award for
Excellence in Teaching. He also teaches at UC Berkeley, where he has the privilege of introducing
young people to Western art music. A Contributing Writer and Pre-Concert Lecturer for the SF
Symphony, he also serves as Program Annotator and Scholar in Residence for the Philharmonia
Baroque Orchestra. As a pianist he has appeared with the Francesco Trio, Chanticleer, members of
the SF Symphony, and solo/chamber recitals nationwide in a repertoire ranging from Renaissance
through ragtime, jazz, and modern. As pianist and lecturer he has been on radio’s “West Coast
Weekend” and “Breakfast Jam” and on various recording labels. At Peabody Conservatory, he
studied piano with Katzenellenbogen and Wolff; later at the SF Conservatory he studied piano with
Nathan Schwartz, harpsichord with Laurette Goldberg, and theory with Sol Joseph and John Adams.
RAILROADS, AUTOMOBILES, PROF. COVERT
FREEWAYS & THE CHANGING FACE OF CALIFORNIA
From the Gold Rush and Leland Stanford, to Ford and the Model T, to the Hollywood Freeway and Joan Didion (the
zen of making a high speed merge across three lanes in Central L.A.), railroads, cars and freeways have shaped
California’s landscape, economics and psyche. We’ll look at rails starting with the Transcontinental and the predatory
practices of the Southern Pacific and see the rise and fall of the interurban electric trolley lines. Then on to cars and
why autos and trucks won out over trains and trolleys. The explosive growth of Los Angeles in the 1920’s, and its
subsequent dependence on cars and highways; the Lincoln Highway and Route 66; the construction of the Bay Bridge,
the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Pasadena Freeway, the first in the U S., will all be on our itinerary. How the system
worked to build the most miles, in the shortest time, for the least money; the brief heyday of the California Division of
Highways (1946 to 1974), and the greatest explosion of road construction since ancient Rome, will help us get to
what we now perceive as the dark side of the automobile culture and why the freeway juggernaut almost shut down
after 1976. What is the future of cars and high-speed rail in the age of global warming? Let’s think about this together.
PROF. RICHARD COVERT
Prof. Covert went to work for the Legal Department of the California Division of Highways as a trial
Attorney on graduation from Stanford Law School in 1963, in the full flush of the freeway era. He
remained in that office, with brief absences to work for other public agencies for 41 years. He has
handled hundreds of eminent domain and Highway accident personal injury cases across Northern
California. He became a student of the role of trains, trolleys, autos and highways in the development
of California and brings an insiders knowledge to the Subject. Upon retirement, he was given an
honorary civil engineer’s license by Caltrans. Born to drive he frequently follows the call of the open
road. He also rides a bike, hikes and uses Muni and BART.

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ELLISON’S INVISIBLE MAN PROF. ZIMMERMAN
This course will undertake a close, intensive, rigorous analysis of Ralph Ellison’s masterpiece, Invisible Man, with
attention to his complex treatment of the theme of identity — the difficulty of a black man, consigned to invisibility by
black as well as white racists, to achieve a sense of autonomous and worthy selfhood. We will also see how Ellison
universalizes his theme by suggesting that all Americans, and all men and women living in the modern world, struggle
with the existential need (not just the wish) to become visible to themselves and others. With time permitting, we will
also read Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues,” and perhaps other stories that focus on Ellison’s major themes.
Reading Resource: Ellison: Invisible Man
PROF. MICHAEL ZIMMERMAN
Professor Zimmerman recently retired as a professor of English at SF State where he taught for forty years.
Before that, he taught at Cal and Columbia (where he received his Ph.D.). He specialized in James Joyce,
American Literature, and Literature and Psychology. He is also a graduate of the San Francisco
Psychoanalytic Institute (where he is on the faculty) and he has a psychoanalytic practice in Berkeley.
THE WORD OF HERODOTUS, “FATHER OF HISTORY” PROF. MUENK
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (a Greek city in Asia Minor) wrote his groundbreaking, expansive, and highly entertaining
Histories (Historiae literally means “Inquiries”) to recount the causes and the events of the Persian expeditions against
Greece, from the famed battles of Marathon (490 BCE) and Thermopylae (480 BCE) to the decisive Greek victories
at Salamis and Plataea (480-79 BCE) and the beginnings of Athenian power and its Golden Age, when the historian
was composing his work. He sees the defeat of the Persians in tragic terms as the natural and just result of arrogance
and overreaching pride (hybris), perhaps a lesson for Athens too. An inveterate traveler and impartial eyewitness, he
had seen much and heard even more, was interested in all that he learned, and describes it in memorably elegant
prose. His substantial digressions on the history and customs of Egypt, of Scythia, and of Persia itself provide
invaluable evidence for the cultures of the non-Greek peoples (barbaroi) with whom Greeks interacted. In addition to
“Father of History,” as he is called by Cicero, Herodotus might also be called “father of ethnography and of social
anthropology.”
Reading Resource: Herodotus (de Sélincourt, trans.), The Histories
PROF. EDWARD MUENK
Edward (Ted) Muenk was born and raised in England, and completed his degree in Greek and Roman
literature, history, and philosophy at Oxford University. He came to the United States in 1966 to teach
Latin and Classical Studies at USF. He also taught for many years the Greco-Roman seminar in the
Honors program, as well as history of art courses. In addition to his work in the Fromm Institute since
his retirement, he still occasionally teaches courses at the University of San Francisco.
“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home
to think about besides homework ”
- Edith Ann (Lily Tomlin)
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PLUNDERED ART: NEBUCHADNEZZAR TO NERO, PROF. HUNT
NAPOLEON AND THE NAZIS
This course focuses on the ethics of art collecting and offers historic examples of such plundering. The theft of art is hardly
a modern phenomenon. Verres, a greedy Roman governor of Sicily, illegally amassed astonishing stolen civic treasures.
The Roman Emperor Nero robbed Pergamon of its most famous sculpture of the Hellenistic world, the Laocöon group,
and installed it in his notorious Golden House. The Venetian Sack of Constantinople in 1204, the Conquistadores’ sack
of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century, French and British expeditions in Egypt and Mesopotamia, and Nazi plundering
all provide examples of a trend that lives on today. This can be seen in such examples as the pillaging of the Iraqi
Museum in Baghdad as well as other sacred Iraqi sites and whether the U.S. is somehow complicit. Our cultural odyssey
following plundered art will be global in nature and will cover millennia of purloined treasures.
USF CAMPUS
MAP CODE
FR - Fromm Hall
CO - Cowell Hall
GL - Gleeson Library
HR - Harney Science
Center
KA - Kalmanovitz
Hall
KA - Kendrick Hall
KO - Koret Health &
Rec. Center
LM - Lone Mountain
UC - University Cntr.
SI - St. Ignatius
Church
PROF. PATRICK HUNT
Patrick Hunt received his Ph.D., Institute of Archaeology, UCL, University of London, in 1991 and is an
archaeologist, art historian, poet and biographer. He has been teaching humanities, archaeology,
mythology and the arts at Stanford since 1993. He is Director of the Stanford Alpine Archaeology
Project and in 2007-2008 his Hannibal Expedition was sponsored by the National Geographic Society’s
Expedition Council. He was named “Who’s Who in Biblical Studies” by the Biblical Archaeology
Society and elected as a Fellow to the Royal Geographical Society in London. He is also a National
Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America. Prof. Hunt’s published books include:
Caravaggio; House of the Muse; Rembrandt; Alpine Archeology; Ten Discoveries That Rewrote
History, Myths for All Time, Renaissance Visions; Poetry in “The Song of Songs”, Cloud Shadows of
Olympus and Myth and Art in Ekphrasis. In addition, he has many peer-reviewed journals,
encyclopedia and book chapter articles published including those about his Hannibal research in
National Geographic and in Archaeology magazines. Prof. Hunt is a frequent featured scholar on
documentaries, including National Geographic Explorer TV, PBS and History Channel.

FROMM INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING
ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2011 - 2012
WINTER 2012
Open House Wednesday, January 4
Classes Begin Monday, January 9
Classes End Thursday, March 1
Make-Up Week March 5 - March 8
Holidays Monday, Jan. 16
Monday, Feb. 20
SPRING 2012
Open House Wednesday, April 4
Classes Begin Monday, April 9
Classes End Thursday, May 31
Make-Up Week June 4 - June 7
Holidays Thursday, May 17
Monday, May 28
THE FROMM INSTITUTE DOES NOT OFFER
A SUMMER SESSION.
OUR OPEN HOUSE
As each session is about to begin, the Fromm
Institute holds a general assembly, an
Open House, that is designed to welcome
everyone back to school. It also is staged to
provide an orientation for new members, and
to showcase all of the session’s faculty and
their courses.
Winter Open House takes place in Fromm
Hall on Wednesday, January 4, 2012, and
starts with breakfast bites at 9:30 a.m.
followed at 10 a.m. with our two and a half
hour program. Immediately following Open
House, at 12:30 p.m. in the Maier Room,
there is a New Members Orientation
Luncheon to which all new members are
strongly encouraged to attend and should
RSVP their attendance before December 16.
THE FROMM INSTITUTE APPRECIATES
YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT
As an independent non-profit at USF, the Fromm
Institute provides its own funding, reimbursing the
University for the use of campus resources. It relies on
the generous financial support of the community that it
serves and has never accepted government funding.
It is financially supported by the Friends of the Fromm
Institute, a private non-profit 509 (a)3, type iii.
Through the contributions of its Board of Directors, the
donations Fromm Institute students/faculty/staff, as
well as gifts/grants from the Bay Area philanthropic
community, the Friends of the Fromm Institute matches
the membership fees paid by Fromm Institute members
and in doing so enables a balanced, fiscally
responsible budget.
The Friends of the Fromm Institute Federal Tax ID
number is 94-2427266. Gifts to the Friends of the
Fromm Institute are fully tax-deductible to the extent of
the law. Tax-deductible gifts can also be made to the
University of San Francisco with the designation that
they should be directed to the Fromm Institute.
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