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 />
(NJC) The New Jim Crow<br />
A large new under-caste of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated<br />
people has been created by the War on Drugs. They are subject to<br />
legalized discrimination in jobs, housing, public benefits and voting,<br />
and are disproportionately black and minority. The author states<br />
that this system was created as a consequence of the law and order<br />
backlash against the civil rights movement. The Federal government<br />
gave incentives for enforcement of the drug war by local police,<br />
who concentrated their arrests in poor minority communities. Harsh<br />
sentences and questionable search procedures were allowed by<br />
the Supreme Court. The author suggests ideas for how this caste<br />
system should be dismantled so it is not replaced by yet another<br />
method of racial control. Presentation topics could involve statistics,<br />
law cases, current trends in justice and drug penalty reform, and<br />
the black lives matter movement.<br />
Common Reading:<br />
The New Jim Crow – Mass Incarceration<br />
in the Age of Colorblindness,<br />
Revised Edition by Michelle Alexander<br />
& Cornel West (January 2012)<br />
(SHK) Shakespeare: All The World’s A Stage…<br />
With players standing and with a few props, we propose to do<br />
reading walk-throughs of Henry VI, Part 3 (continuing our excursion<br />
through the 8 contiguous History plays, this being the 7th), plus a<br />
Comedy and Tragedy to be proposed by the <strong>Spring</strong> SHK class and<br />
confirmed at the pre-meeting in December. Class members will<br />
learn how to research all perspectives of Shakespeare’s works—<br />
sources upon which the Bard builds rich characters and enhances<br />
the plots, how to play each character “in character,” themes,<br />
symbols, images, motifs, and commentary on issues of the day.<br />
Members will leave this class with a fuller understanding of the<br />
masterful story construction, realistic characters with depth and<br />
humanity, and the rich, evocative language which have earned<br />
William Shakespeare the title of greatest writer in the English<br />
language.<br />
Common Reading:<br />
Selected Plays<br />
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