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Do you like to keep up with current events? Join us to discuss and share ideas that affect us and the world we live. You don't have to be an expert! We will discuss local, state, national and international news in a civil, open-minded environment. Discussion will be moderated.
Instructor:Sandy Carey Course #: CUR101 | Room:Cypress Hall Day of Week | Start Date | Time: Th | 7/25/2024 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Note: Students are not charged when placed on a waiting list, and will be notified by MTP staff if a seat becomes available.
View and discuss two engaging TED Talks (visit TED.com) in a salon-type setting where free-thinkers spark each other's minds and hearts through spirited presentations and conversation.
Be stimulated, and become better educated and acquainted. Salons such as this were popular occasions for sharing knowledge and building friendships from Renaissance times up until the 1940s. TED has again popularized this concept with TEDx - local, independently organized events - in vibrant learning communities all over the world.
Participants are sure to leave motivated and more meaningfully connected with the world around us.
This course's goal is to help build greater effectiveness, comfort, and confidence when speaking about race with others. A fruitful conversation about race is a valuable experience that can show the value in many life paths and illuminate ways to solve human problems. Given how widespread discussions about race are, the ability to speak across difference is a necessary and particular skillful. This course will include a Great Courses 30 minute video followed by approximately 1 hour discussion.
Course #: CUR181 | Room:Room 3 Day of Week | Date | Time:Tu | 8/6/2024 - 10/29/2024 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM This class meets 12 times Seats Available:13 Note: No Class Aug. 20th.
View and discuss two engaging TED Talks (visit TED.com) in a salon-type setting where free-thinkers spark each other's minds and hearts through spirited presentations and conversation.
Be stimulated, and become better educated and acquainted. Salons such as this were popular occasions for sharing knowledge and building friendships from Renaissance times up until the 1940s. TED has again popularized this concept with TEDx - local, independently organized events - in vibrant learning communities all over the world.
Participants are sure to leave motivated and more meaningfully connected with the world around us.
The 1790 Naturalization act allowed any free white person to become a citizen of the new republic; all others need not apply. Since then, there was a protracted effort to keep America white. This session examines the many efforts to maintain a white America despite the diversity of its immigrants. How does one interpret "e pluribus unum?"
The rise of a militant white supremacy today is not new. It was present throughout our history. As it undermined domestic tranquility in the past, so it does today.
If there is one word that sums up the American experience, it is equality. Unfortunately, it has been more an ideal than a lived reality. Jefferson wrongly claimed that equality is "self-evident." Not all Americans in the past, or today, subscribe to equality.
This presentation examines how a hierarchy of persons and wealth undermines the unique American vision of egalitarianism. What happens to "a dream deferred?" Which way America? Equal? Elite? The future is in our hands, minds, and hearts.
View and discuss two engaging TED Talks (visit TED.com) in a salon-type setting where free-thinkers spark each other's minds and hearts through spirited presentations and conversation.
Be stimulated, and become better educated and acquainted. Salons such as this were popular occasions for sharing knowledge and building friendships from Renaissance times up until the 1940s. TED has again popularized this concept with TEDx - local, independently organized events - in vibrant learning communities all over the world.
Participants are sure to leave motivated and more meaningfully connected with the world around us.
The Founding Fathers' fatal flaw was allowing slavery, while not condoning it. This subject is not for children. Adult Americans need to understand it. Yet most had extremely poor exposure to this dominant issue of American identity. It has been the stumbling block to the lack of domestic tranquility in our society today. Understanding the past is the prelude to the future. "A nation cannot choose its past; it can only choose its future."
View and discuss two engaging TED Talks (visit TED.com) in a salon-type setting where free-thinkers spark each other's minds and hearts through spirited presentations and conversation.
Be stimulated, and become better educated and acquainted. Salons such as this were popular occasions for sharing knowledge and building friendships from Renaissance times up until the 1940s. TED has again popularized this concept with TEDx - local, independently organized events - in vibrant learning communities all over the world.
Participants are sure to leave motivated and more meaningfully connected with the world around us.
The polar regions of the Arctic and Antarctica are undergoing rapid changes due to climate change, creating new opportunities and challenges for the global community. These regions are also becoming arenas of great power competition, as the United States, Russia, China, and other actors seek to advance their economic, scientific, and security interests in the polar regions.
This presentation will examine the geopolitical significance of the polar regions, the main drivers and dimensions of great power competition over the Arctic and Antarctica, and the potential for conflict over them.
View and discuss two engaging TED Talks (visit TED.com) in a salon-type setting where free-thinkers spark each other's minds and hearts through spirited presentations and conversation.
Be stimulated, and become better educated and acquainted. Salons such as this were popular occasions for sharing knowledge and building friendships from Renaissance times up until the 1940s. TED has again popularized this concept with TEDx - local, independently organized events - in vibrant learning communities all over the world.
Participants are sure to leave motivated and more meaningfully connected with the world around us.
This class is already in session and no longer available for registration.
Instructor:Pat Russell Course #: CUR165 | Room:Room 2 Day of Week | Start Date | Time:Tu | 7/16/2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
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