Spring 2017 OLLI Catalog (Interactive)

PEER-LED CLASSES (Omnilore)
Common Reading:
Current issues of The Atlantic
Magazine.
(ATL) Covering The Atlantic Magazine
The Atlantic covers a full range of topics. Some of the cover
stories from 2015: Cruel and Unusual? (Botched execution of
Clayton Lockett), Can Starbucks Save the Middle
Class?, Technology will Soon Erase Millions of
Jobs. Could that be a Good Thing? (The end of
work), What ISIS Really Wants and how to stop
it, Why do the Best Soldiers in the World Keep
Losing?, Can America Put Itself Back Together?,
Is it Time for the Jews to Leave Europe? Inside
of each issue is an eclectic assortment of articles
as well. Any one of the articles could be
expanded upon and brought up to the present.
Past issues of magazines are available in the library and most
if not all articles are available online.
Common Reading:
The Best American Science
and Nature Writing 2016
by Amy Stewart and Tim Folger
(Due out October 4, 2016)
(BSN) The Best American Science
and Nature Writing 2016
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016 (due out Oct.
2016)—this course has been offered at least 3 times in the last
few years (it comes out yearly) and is always popular. The articles
are from such publications as the New Yorker, Scientific American,
Outside, Orion, the Atlantic, Discover and other such magazines.
According to Amazon the 2016 edition covers everything from “a
Pulitzer Prize winning essay on the earthquake that could decimate
the Pacific Northwest to the astonishing work of investigative journalism
that transformed the nail salon industry.” The reason the
course has been popular is first, the diversity of articles and second,
almost everyone comments that they have learned something new
or learned something more about something they were already
familiar with. Each edition has about 25 articles to choose from so
it works well with a S/DG.
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