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.
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PEER-LED CLASSES (Omnilore)<br />
Common Reading:<br />
The Ocean of Life:<br />
The Fate of Man and the Sea<br />
by Callum Roberts (2012)<br />
(OCN) What Are We Doing To/For Our Ocean?<br />
The sea feeds and sustains us, but everywhere marine life is under<br />
threat, from Caribbean reefs to arctic fisheries to the deepest<br />
regions of the sea. This SDG discusses the history of the ocean,<br />
fishing, the importance of marine life to humanity and how humanity<br />
is impacting it and the ocean themselves. Each SDG<br />
member will select a topic and lead a discussion. The topic can be<br />
an expansion of one presented in the book (shifting currents, dead<br />
zones, conservation projects, resource management, etc.) or an<br />
ocean related topic not covered by the book. In the end this SDG’s<br />
goal is a better understanding of how we are both damaging and<br />
repairing the ocean that lies right beside us covering 70 percent of<br />
our planet.<br />
Common Reading:<br />
The Perfectionists: How Precision<br />
Engineers Created the Modern<br />
World, by Simon Winchester<br />
(May 2018)<br />
(PRF) The Perfectionists: How Precision<br />
Engineers Created The Modern World<br />
Precision: The Industrial Age could not have happened without it,<br />
let alone the Digital Age! In eighteenth-century England, standards<br />
of measurement were established, giving way to the development<br />
of machine tools—machines that make machines. Eventually, the<br />
application of precision tools and methods resulted in the creation<br />
and mass production of items from guns and glass to mirrors,<br />
lenses, and cameras—and then gave way to further breakthroughs,<br />
like gene splicing, microchips, and the Hadron Collider.<br />
Come meet England’s early scientific geniuses (along with early<br />
locksmiths, gunsmiths, and clockmakers) and learn how Thomas<br />
Jefferson helped import their ideas into the fledgling US, setting<br />
the nation on its course to become a manufacturing titan.<br />
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