tuesdays - Emory Continuing Education - Emory University

THURSDAYS:JANUARY 17-MARCH 711:20AM-12:20PMYoga in the Third AgeInstructors: Donna Frankiewicz and Susan ZollerExperience the benefits of hatha yoga as you learn basicasanas with the help of experienced yoga instructors.Class limited to 20 students.News Literacy in a Digital AgeInstructor: Sean GrapevineNow more than ever, it’s important to be able todistinguish between news that can be trusted and all theother information bombarding us from different media.This course will give you the tools to become a morecritical consumer of news and a more informed citizenin this digital age. The class will include discussions onthe basics of good journalism and the difference betweennews and opinion, bias and fairness, and assertion versusverification. Learn how to deconstruct a news story andpractice these skills on current news stories in class. Bythe end of the course, you will know what makes a newsstory credible and reliable.The Infinite Variety of William ShakespeareInstructor: Jim MengertWhen Shakespeare described Cleopatra as possessing“infinite variety,” he could also have been describinghimself. Variety is one of the most outstandingcharacteristics of Shakespearean drama, which includescomedies, histories, tragedies and romances set in realand imaginary places, from Denmark to Greece andfrom Illyria to a mysterious island in the Mediterranean.Within each play, Shakespeare offers a wondrous varietyof incident and characters. Such infinite variety is, ofcourse, a testament to the fertility of Shakespeare’simagination -- but it has a structural and thematicpurpose, as well. In this course, we’ll look at howShakespeare’s variety functions in three very differentplays: the comedy Twelfth Night, the history Henry IV,Part One, and the tragedy Antony and Cleopatra.The End of Roman Empire and the Birth ofModern EuropeInstructor: Esteban BerteraWe will analyze the root causes along the lines ofdemographic shrinkage, climatological changesand social stress, following them to the economicconsequences and eventual political and militarycollapse. We will discuss the classical thesis as wellas the most modern cliometric and archeologicalevidence around what has been called “the mosttraumatic historical event ever.” We will focus on the400 - 800 CE period of Europe (before Charlemagne),placing heavy emphasis on the economic and socialtransformations of the period, and on how theycritically determined modern Europe. See how, froman almost monolythic structure, the Empire fragmentedand evolved in several divergent political and socialpaths.How Governing the United StatesTranscends Presidential TurnoverInstructors: Dan McIntyre and Morris SocoloffDuring the consecutive terms of three U.S. Presidents—John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon—the fate of the world and the leadership role of the U.S.in shaping the world were dramatically influenced --starting with the Cold War issues of Vietnam and theCuban Missile Crisis, and continuing on to the politicalchallenges of Civil Rights and impeachment. Theconsecutive terms of these three men offer a great studyof power being effectively used and/or abused.Makers of the Modern WorldInstructor: Bert ParksLouis Untermeyer’s classic book, Makers of the ModernWorld, has 92 dynamite essays about men and womenwhose lives have changed our world over the last 150years. We will relive the vivid, explosive times and ideasof figures such as Darwin, Marx, Whitman, Melville,Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Twain, Zola, Rodin, Renoir,Nietzsche, Van Gogh, Freud, Shaw, Chekhov, Yeats,Sun Yat-Sen, Curie, Wright, Gandhi, Lenin, Proust,Churchill, Einstein, Stalin, Picasso, Roosevelt, Joyce,Kafka, Hitler, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Gershwin, andHemingway. I will select about 6 of these essays toread and discuss every week. Amazon has this bookavailable. If you get excited by revolutionary ideas andextraordinary people who changed our world, this bookwill light your fire. This class requires an additional$12 registration fee.Life StoriesInstructors: Marty Bennett and Anna AndresGift your kids, grandkids and friends with a slice ofyour life - one that you find memorable. In a supportingenvironment, we will discuss, choose and write one orseveral short life stories. The process will be fun as welive through these events again, recalling and writing thedetails -- and even more fun when you see the reactions6