OLLI Spring 2021 Course Guide

SESSION 2: TUESDAY COURSES
PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGY
Eric Clausen
Tuesdays, 9:00 AM‒10:00 AM
This class consists of four lectures followed
by class discussion providing (1) an overview
of Pennsylvania geology; (2) an introduction
to some geologists who helped develop
Pennsylvania geology interpretations; (3) a
look at how Pennsylvania economic resources
like coal, oil, natural gas, building stones, and
metallic minerals contributed to the state’s
development; and (4) a look at some still
unsolved research problems facing Pennsylvania
geologists today. Class limit: 150
HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY IN
THE 20TH CENTURY
Edward Kaplan
Tuesdays, 10:00 AM‒11:30 AM
This course will describe the rise of the
Republican Party in the 1920s, the importance
of durable goods industries (especially the
automobile) in the creation of jobs, the rise and
fall of the stock market, and the onset of the Great
Depression. We will discuss the election of 1932
and the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt and
the New Deal. The course will end after the 1938
Congressional elections, which was the end of
the New Deal. Class limit: 500
AGING AS A TREATABLE DISEASE
Jay Pomerantz
Tuesdays, 1:00 PM‒2:30 PM
Every living thing ages and eventually dies.
What causes aging? Can aging be prevented or
slowed down? Is it conceivable to reverse aging
in animals (or even human beings)? Is biological
age necessarily the same as chronological age,
and how can we influence it? What can we do
currently, and what is on the horizon? It turns out
we may be closer to extending life/health than
most people realize. The key is that most chronic
disease seems amenable to prevention.
Class limit: 500
A DIFFERENT LOOK AT U.S. PRESIDENTS AT
WAR
Michael Baron
Tuesdays, 1:00 PM‒2:30 PM
A discussion of the evolution of presidential
war powers. We will look at presidential war
powers as the Founding Fathers described them
to various presidencies from Thomas Jefferson
through the Bushes. Topics to be discussed
include a discussion of presidential wartime
decisions and their impact on America’s wars
from the War of 1812, the Spanish American War,
World War I and II, Korea, Vietnam, and finally
9/11. Class limit: 150
JEWS OF LATIN AMERICA
Natan Szapiro
Tuesdays, 10:30 AM‒12:00 PM
Jewish Latin America is usually relegated to the
margins in discussions of both Latin America
and the Jewish world. It is true that, with fewer
than one million Jews, Latin America’s Jewish
communities comprise a small proportion of the
world’s Jews, and an even smaller portion of
Latin America’s population. But the story of Jews
in Latin America helps illuminate broader aspects
of Jewish history and of the history of the Latin
American countries in which they settled.
Class limit: 150
FOUR ORGANS: KIDNEYS, LUNGS, LIVER
AND BLOOD
Jonathan Roth
Tuesdays, 3:00 PM‒4:30 PM
This interactive course will provide a basic
medical education of four of the major organ
systems. Basic anatomy, physiology, and disease
states of each organ will be presented. The first
week will discuss the kidneys, the second the
lungs, the third the liver, and the fourth the blood.
Class limit: 300
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