SPRING TERM 2008 STUDY/DISCUSSION GROUP SCHEDULE THE PLATO SOCIETY OF UCLA
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MONDAY |
TUESDAY |
WEDNESDAY |
THURSDAY |
FRIDAY |
10:00-12:00 Room 201
#1:Gandi,Mandela & King: When can Non-violence work?
Alton Leib/Ruth Wyle
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10:00-12:00 Room 201
#7:The 2008 Election: Who gets elected and Why?
Jerry Mehlman / Barbara Levitt |
10:00-12:00 Room 201
#14:Secret Societies and Cults
Jerry Gallop / Chuck Lipsey
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10:00-12:00 Room 201
#20: Origins, Development & Spread of Early Christianity
Susan Siegal /
Joan MacMaster |
10:00-12:00 Room 201
#23: Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate
Ralph Boulware /
Sandee Bickart
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10:00-12:00 Room202
#2: The Internet and US
Bill Clarkson/Jerry Beigel |
10:00-12:00Room202
#8: The History of Los Angeles
Lou Rosen / Paul Cohen
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10:00-12:00 Room 202
#15: The Films of Ingmar Bergman
Leonardo Chait /
Mary Boulware |
10:00-12:00 Room 202
#21:Recent Supreme Court Decisions
Arthur Bernstein /
Jonathan Goldberg |
10:00-12:00 Room 202
#24: The Beatiful Basics of Science
Marilyn Slater / Dick Heiser |
10:00-12:00 Room 203
#3: From Copernicus to the Present
Bob Mandl / Lee Leventhal |
10:00-12:00 Room 203
#9: How Modern American Democracy was created
Paul Glaser / Len Weinberg |
10:00-12:00 Room 203
#16: The Cold War
Roz Klein / Jack Carter
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10:00-12:00 Room 203
#22: Three Literary Lions: Bellow, Updike and Roth
Sheri Ross /
Fred Goldberger |
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Thursday, April 3, 2008. 1:00 p.m.-Skirball Cultural Center |
1:00-3:00 Room 201
#4: David Halberstam:
The Art of Reportage
Frank Morton /
Len Gilman |
1:00-3:00 Room 201
#10: American Humorists
George Alexander /
Richard Shenbaum |
1:00-3:00 Room 201
#17: The Great American Short Story
Keith Fischer / Renee Hurewitz
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Colloquium Dates
May 15, 2008
Annual Meeting
June 19, 2008
Holidays
Memorial Day
May 26, 2008
Independance Day
July 4, 2008
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Course Description Books- available in lounge and on the website beginning
Wed. March 19, 2008
Pre-registration forms
available at the MIC desk on that date. Pre-meetings
April 9-11, and April 17-23, 2008
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1:00-3:00 Room 202
#5: Evolution: The triumph of an Idea
Don Tierney /
Ed Carstens
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1:00-3:00 Room 202
#11: Bel Canto Operas (1st 7 weeks)
Joann Toll/Doris Dunn |
1:00-3:00 Room 202
#18The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (1st 7 weeks)
David Hirsch / Sally More
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Term begins
Monday, May 5,2008.
Term ends
Friday, August 8, 2008.
2nd 7 Weeks begins
Tues. June 24, 2008 |
1:00-3:00 Room203
#6:History of the English Language
Alan Frank /
Phyllis Zasloff |
1:00-3:00 Room 202
#12:
Van Gogh and his Friends (2nd 7 weeks)
Terry Turk / Isabel Kibel |
1:00-3:00 Room 202
#19:Clash of Civilizations? (2nd 7 weeks)
Agnes Lin / Bill Hahn
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THE PLATO SOCIETY
1083 Gayley Ave.,
2nd Floor
Los Angeles, CA
90024-1333
Phone: (310) 794-0231
Fax: (310) 794-0672
Email:
jcripe@unex.ucla.edu
Website:
www.uclaextension.edu/plato |
1:00-3:00 Room 203
#13: The Chinese Powerhouse: Today and Tomorrow
Lee Johnson / Ed Keane |
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