by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Online Registration Opens: Monday, October 12, 2020 at 8 AM (AZ Time) A Review of the 2019-2020 Term & Preview of the 2020-2021 Term The Supreme Court’s last term dealt with issues of abortion, Second Amendment, sex discrimination, religion, and the weight to be...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Dante Lauretta is principal investigator of the OSIRIS-REx mission and a professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. His research interests focus on the chemistry and mineralogy of asteroids and comets, and he is an...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
In this course we will consider historical and contemporary examples of architecture and the visual arts concerned with defining and engaging the spiritual and the sacred. This series of lectures will cover primarily American examples of religious utopian communal...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Throughout the ages, expressions of passion and commitment have been central to love poets. This course will focus on the medieval foundations of Italian poetry—and by extension, the rebirth of European literature. The movement known as the dolce stil nuovo (sweet new...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
We know that many of the achievements of the Italian Renaissance were founded on a revival of ancient Roman civilization. Less well-known is the variety of ways, moments, and places in which Roman architecture inspired medieval building. On the one hand, Early...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
This course provides a historical overview of Latin America through films. Special attention is paid to the different conceptualizations of the political, social and artistic purposes of film. This course takes a cultural studies approach to film; that is, it involves...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Every day we are confronted with paranormal and supernatural beliefs – loosely defined as things that exist or occur outside the natural world – and surveys show that most people in the United States and throughout the world are supernatural/paranormal...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Attend In Person OR Online! See Below for full details about our new Hybrid courses This course looks at Earth’s history from beginning to end, focusing on key events or processes that have shaped our planet, the emergence of life, and our species. I have traveled...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Attend In Person OR Online! See Below for full details about our new Hybrid courses This course is devoted to applying a range of competing moral theories to contemporary moral problems like euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, world famine, the moral basis for...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Attend In Person OR Online! See Below for full details about our new Hybrid courses Ever fascinating, ancient Greek mythology still inspires multimedia creative expressions. We will see why as we thematically explore a diverse array of delightful ancient tales. First,...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
The past is what happened. History is what we write about it. History and memory are not opposed terms; rather, history and memory shape each other through remembering, forgetting and erasure. Historical narratives are always informed by memories of the past that are...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Join Professor Soren for a personal online course showing the relationship of Art History and Cinema and featuring films such as Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur. In addition there will be a special live visit from Rick Polizzi,...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to many legal and sociopolitical debates. This course will review the US Supreme Court’s role in those debates. The course will start off with a review of the Court’s 2020-2021 term. We will then explore in greater detail...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
More than seven million years of evolution led to the dominance of our species over the planet. A long but often scant trail of fossil skeletons tell the tale. But biological evolution is only one part of the equation as behavioral adaptations, or “culture,” both...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was both a beloved and rejected painter of the Baroque era. His paintings, which often included realistic figures, theatrical lighting, and dark, obscure settings activated a deep sense of spiritual contemplation for many....
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life,” quipped George Bernard Shaw. To be sure there is truth in this observation, but it’s hardly the whole story. For millennia, human beings have been fermenting and distilling spirits and putting...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Hemingway is one of the great American writers of the Twentieth Century, famous for his innovative prose style as well as his insights into the human condition. A problem arises in any study of Hemingway because the popular myths surrounding him too often obscure the...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
How come a retired pediatrician, as far from a geriatrician as you can get, wrote a book on aging? This retired pediatrician became a nonagenarian! What does this book cover? It is a travel guide to the land of Geriatrica where us aging folks live with maps drawn by...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Did you know that the Olympic rings logo—designed by Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin—includes at least one color from every national flag in the world? Or that three countries—Sweden, Austria, and Japan—have all selected athletes in their 70s to represent them in past...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Yoga is a ubiquitous presence in the landscape of American fitness culture. For many, it is synonymous with selfcare and holistic healthy living. While yoga is often vaguely connected to Asian traditions, its long history as a philosophical and religious system can be...
