Fall 2019 OLLI Catalog (Interactive)
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) 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. For more info, visit: https://csudh.edu/olli
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) 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.
For more info, visit:
https://csudh.edu/olli
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PEER-LED CLASSES (Omnilore)<br />
Common Reading:<br />
The Best American Short Stories<br />
2018, edited by Roxane Gay<br />
(October 2018)<br />
(SSS) The Best American Short Stories 2018<br />
Roxane Gay writes in her introduction to The Best American Short<br />
Stories 2018 that she loves it when a story has a powerful message<br />
and when a story teaches something about the world. In this<br />
collection of short stories you will be transported from a fraught<br />
family reunion to an immigration detention center, from a<br />
psychiatric hospital to a coed class sleepover in a natural history<br />
museum. You will meet a rebellious summer camper, a Twitter<br />
addict, and an Appalachian preacher. These profound, artful, and<br />
sometimes funny stories with interesting characters and unusual<br />
circumstances will show us what we need to know about the lives<br />
of others. The discussions pertaining to these stories will prove<br />
to be thought provoking beyond our wildest imagination.<br />
Common Reading:<br />
The Most Dangerous Branch:<br />
Inside the Supreme Court’s Assault<br />
on the Constitution,<br />
by David A. Kaplan (September 2018)<br />
(SUP) The Supreme Court<br />
The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the secret world of the<br />
Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, former legal affairs editor of<br />
Newsweek, shows how justices subvert the role of the other government<br />
branches—and how we’ve come to accept it at our peril.<br />
Based on exclusive interviews with the justices and dozens of their<br />
law clerks, Kaplan provides fresh details about life behind what goes<br />
on at the Court, and presents a sweeping narrative of the justices’<br />
aggrandizement of power over the decades—from Roe v. Wade to<br />
Bush v. Gore to Citizens United, to rulings during the 2017-18 term.<br />
Common Reading:<br />
Spying on Whales: The Past,<br />
Present, and Future of Earth’s<br />
Most Awesome Creatures,<br />
by Nick Pyenson (June 2018)<br />
(WDP) Thar’ She Blows…Discovering Whales,<br />
Dolphins and Porpoises<br />
It is impossible to live in the South Bay without at some time being<br />
treated to the beauty of our local cetaceans: porpoises, dolphins<br />
and whales. We live in such close proximity to them yet we do not<br />
know much about them. This S/DG will take an in-depth look at<br />
the past, present and future of these awesome creatures. Focusing<br />
primarily on whales, we will look at the evolution of this species,<br />
what we can learn from fossil remains and history, recent knowledge<br />
about the intelligence and brain power of cetaceans and what<br />
the future with climate changes holds for them.<br />
40 OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE @ CSU DOMINGUEZ HILLS
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