Spring 2017 OLLI Catalog (Interactive)
The Osher Lifelong Learning at California State University Dominguez Hills is a program of educational, cultural, and social opportunities for retired and semi-retired individuals age 50 and above. Members experience taking courses in a relaxed atmosphere for the pure pleasure of learning.
The Osher Lifelong Learning at California State University Dominguez Hills is a program of educational, cultural, and social opportunities for retired and semi-retired individuals age 50 and above. Members experience taking courses in a relaxed atmosphere for the pure pleasure of learning.
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PEER-LED CLASSES (Omnilore)<br />
(JCH) The Short Stories of John Cheever<br />
It is said that “John Cheever was a grumpy old man who wrote<br />
like an angel.” His stories, often set in New York City and its<br />
suburbs is the milieu in which he writes. Leafy suburbs, summer<br />
houses, commuter trains, boarding schools and cocktail parties are<br />
all fodder for Cheever’s imagination. No one is better than Cheever<br />
in character descriptions, Some of his more recognizable stories are<br />
The Enormous Radio (used on Twilight Zone), The Swimmer (made<br />
into a movie with Burt Lancaster), The Reunion which begins<br />
“the last time I saw my father was in Grand Central Station.”<br />
Enter his world and you’ll be hooked.<br />
Common Reading:<br />
The Stories of John Cheever<br />
by John Cheever<br />
(Vintage Publications, reprint<br />
May 2000)<br />
(LBR) Libraries: A World Tour For Book Lovers<br />
Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved,<br />
but also shaped, inspired, and even obliterated knowledge.<br />
Now they are in crisis. Travel through time with us from Boston to<br />
Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries and on<br />
to the Information Age. We’ll explore how libraries are built and<br />
how they are destroyed: from the scroll burnings in ancient China<br />
to the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia to the latest<br />
revolutionary upheavals of the digital age. We’ll think about what<br />
role libraries play today and into the future after visiting libraries<br />
of the Vatican, Vienna’s Jewish ghetto, and ancient Rome.<br />
Our text is written by a Harvard rare books historian and the<br />
NYT says it is “engrossingly saturated with fascinating lore,<br />
colorful anecdotes and deft portraits.”<br />
Common Reading:<br />
Library: An Unquiet History,<br />
by Matthew Battles (July 2015)<br />
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