Spring 2019 OLLI Catalog
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.
PEER-LED CLASSES (Omnilore) (FAC) Factfulness: Hans Rosling Brings Us The Facts of Life Hans Rosling, medical doctor, professor of international health, and renowned public educator with over 35 million views of his TED talks, explains how media bias, ideological preconceptions and statistical illiteracy make most people (in rich countries) believe in a gloomy and spectacularly wrong worldview. The famed TED talker and statistician uses evidence-based reasoning and global statistics for myth busting. Rosling categorizes the 10 most important sources of bias and misconceptions as well as explaining strategies on how to avoid them. He describes his methods of evaluating data and the truths he has found about our world in the 21st century. Common Reading: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling (April 2018) (GOO) Talks at Google: Where Great Minds Meet No Common Reading. A click on talksat.withgoogle.com will take you to an unusual and fascinating website—Talks at Google. At this website you will find the world’s most influential thinkers, creators, makers, and doers all in one place. This is a regular speaker series, one of the company’s most beloved perks and a staple of our unique culture. They invited anyone at Google to attend, recorded the talks and put them on YouTube so that—following Google’s mission—the talks would be universally accessible and useful. Many categories of talks are offered. Example categories are Art & Culture, Authors, Chefs & Food, Entertainment, Fitness & Sports, Health & Well-being, History, Leaders, Science, and Technology. This extremely popular website is being offered as an Omnilore S/DG for the first time. Spring 2019 | www.csudh.edu/olli | (310) 243-3208 39
PEER-LED CLASSES (Omnilore) Common Reading: How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too) by David Goldman (September 2011) (HCD) How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam is Dying Too) This course will look at the demographics facing the entire world. What is the impact on various civilizations. You’ve heard about the Death of the West. But the Muslim world is on the brink of an even greater collapse. Will we go down in the implosion? Thanks to collapsing birthrates, much of Europe is on a path of willed self-extinction. The untold story is that birthrates in Muslim nations are declining faster than anywhere else—at a rate never before documented. Europe, even in its decline, may have the resources to support an aging population, if at a terrible economic and cultural cost. But in the impoverished Islamic world, an aging population means a civilization on the brink of total collapse—something Islamic terrorists know and fear. Muslim decline poses new threats to America, challenges we cannot even understand, much less face effectively, without a wholly new kind of political analysis that explains how desperate peoples and nations behave. In How Civilizations Die, David P. Goldman—author of the celebrated “Spengler” column read by intelligence organizations worldwide—reveals how, almost unnoticed, massive shifts in global power are remaking our future. Common Reading: The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles, by Gary Krist, (May 2018) (ILA) The Invention of Los Angeles Only after the Mexican War of 1846-48, when southern California became American, did anyone really start to postulate a grand metropolis in this desert, centered on a narrow, unreliable waterway known optimistically as the Los Angeles River… But eventually the implausible became actual. By the end of the 1920s, the world city of Los Angeles, California, was a reality—an urban giant grown up in a place where no city should rightly be. This book is the story of that extraordinary transformation. It spans the years from 1900 to 1930 and features the lives of three key people (William Mulholland, D.W. Griffin, and Aimee Semple McPherson) who willed this improbable city into existence, by pushing the limits of human engineering and imagination. 40 OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE @ CSU DOMINGUEZ HILLS
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PEER-LED CLASSES (Omnilore)<br />
(FAC) Factfulness: Hans Rosling Brings Us<br />
The Facts of Life<br />
Hans Rosling, medical doctor, professor of international health,<br />
and renowned public educator with over 35 million views of his<br />
TED talks, explains how media bias, ideological preconceptions and<br />
statistical illiteracy make most people (in rich countries) believe in a<br />
gloomy and spectacularly wrong worldview. The famed TED talker<br />
and statistician uses evidence-based reasoning and global statistics<br />
for myth busting. Rosling categorizes the 10 most important<br />
sources of bias and misconceptions as well as explaining strategies<br />
on how to avoid them. He describes his methods of evaluating data<br />
and the truths he has found about our world in the 21st century.<br />
Common Reading:<br />
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re<br />
Wrong About the World—and Why<br />
Things Are Better Than You Think<br />
by Hans Rosling (April 2018)<br />
(GOO) Talks at Google:<br />
Where Great Minds Meet<br />
No Common Reading.<br />
A click on talksat.withgoogle.com will take you to an unusual<br />
and fascinating website—Talks at Google. At this website you will<br />
find the world’s most influential thinkers, creators, makers, and<br />
doers all in one place. This is a regular speaker series, one of the<br />
company’s most beloved perks and a staple of our unique culture.<br />
They invited anyone at Google to attend, recorded the talks and<br />
put them on YouTube so that—following Google’s mission—the<br />
talks would be universally accessible and useful. Many categories<br />
of talks are offered. Example categories are Art & Culture,<br />
Authors, Chefs & Food, Entertainment, Fitness & Sports, Health<br />
& Well-being, History, Leaders, Science, and Technology. This<br />
extremely popular website is being offered as an Omnilore S/DG<br />
for the first time.<br />
<strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2019</strong> | www.csudh.edu/olli | (310) 243-3208 39
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