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 />
Common Reading:<br />
The Stone Reader: Modern<br />
Philosophy in 133 Arguments<br />
1st Edition, edited by Peter Catapano<br />
and Simon Critchley<br />
(December 2015)<br />
(STN) The Stone:<br />
New York Times Essays In Modern Philosophy<br />
In 2010 the New York Times established a philosophy column,<br />
The Stone, moderated by Simon Critchley and featuring the<br />
writing of contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on<br />
issues both timely and timeless. First appearing as an online series,<br />
the column attracted millions of readers through the accessible<br />
examination of universal topics like the nature of science,<br />
consciousness, and morality, while also probing more contemporary<br />
issues such as the morality of drones, gun control, and the gender<br />
divide. The column emancipated contemporary philosophy from<br />
its academic closet where it had been the province of ivory-tower<br />
professors and college classrooms. Now the essays from this<br />
column have been collected and published in a book,<br />
The Stone Reader.<br />
The authors of the essays are leading contemporary thinkers who<br />
engage closely, critically and analytically with the affairs of the day,<br />
and help reveal the power of philosophy to help shape our viewpoints<br />
on nearly every issue we face today.<br />
Common Reading:<br />
The Hidden Reality:<br />
Parallel Universes and the<br />
Deep Laws of the Cosmos,<br />
by Brain Greene (November 2011))<br />
(UNV) The Hidden Dimensions of the Universe<br />
There was a time in the recent past when we believed that our<br />
Milky Way galaxy was the extent of our universe. Today, after many<br />
decades of astronomical and astrophysical research and exploration,<br />
we know for certain that our galaxy is only one among billions of<br />
others. Yet with all that we have discovered, there are many major<br />
aspects of our universe which are hidden to our immediate perception<br />
and detection. This S/DG will explore those hidden dimensions.<br />
Suggested topics for presentations might include: dark energy, dark<br />
matter, strings, gravitational waves, other universes (“multiverse”),<br />
the holographic principle, among others.<br />
Dr. Brian Greene is a well-known and published professor of<br />
physics and mathematics at Columbia University, as well as a<br />
Rhodes Scholar. He is considered by many to be a consummate<br />
presenter of programs about our universes and the possibility of<br />
other universes as well as the “unseen-hidden” aspects of our<br />
own Milky Way.<br />
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