Spring 2019 OLLI Catalog

PEER-LED CLASSES (Omnilore)
Omnilore Topics Offered For Spring 2019
Please note that the books listed for each course are only possible
candidates. Do not buy any until the pre-meeting and a decision
on the common reading is made.
Classes start January 2, 2019
and end April 30, 2019
Holiday periods are adapted to by
individual class voting.
(ASA) Easternization: Asia’s Rise
and America’s Decline
Easternization is the defining trend of our age—the growing wealth
of Asian nations is transforming the international balance of power.
This shift to the East is shaping the lives of people all over the world,
the fate of nations, and the great questions of war and peace.
A troubled but rising China is now challenging America’s supremacy,
and the ambitions of other Asian powers—Japan, North Korea,
India, Pakistan—have the potential to shake the whole world.
Meanwhile the West is struggling with economic malaise and
political populism, the Arab world is in turmoil, and Russia longs
to reclaim its status as a great power.
As it becomes clear that the West’s historic power and influence
is receding, our text (an NPR Best Book of 2017) offers a road map
to the turbulent process that will define the international politics
of the twenty-first century.
Common Reading:
Easternization: Asia’s Rise and
America’s Decline From Obama
to Trump and Beyond
by Gideon Rachman (April 2017)
(BAD) Bad Girls Throughout History:
100 Remarkable Women Who Changed
the World
Aphra Behn, first female professional writer. Sojourner Truth,
activist and abolitionist. Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer.
Marie Curie, first woman to win the Nobel Prize. Joan Jett,
godmother of punk. This S/DG will discuss 100 revolutionary
women who were bad in the best sense of the word: they
challenged the status quo and changed the rules for all who
followed. From pirates to artists, warriors, daredevils, scientists,
activists, and spies, the accomplishments of these incredible women
vary as much as the eras and places in which they effected change.
Common Reading:
Bad Girls Throughout History:
100 Remarkable Women Who
Changed the World
by Ann Shen (September 2016)
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