PLEASE NOTE THAT BOOKINGS FOR COURSES WILL CLOSE AT 12 NOON ON THE FRIDAY OF THE WEEK BEFORE THE COURSE STARTS. UNFORTUNATELY, WE CANNOT ACCEPT BOOKINGS AFTER THAT TIME.
THE WORLD ABOUT US (ONLINE COURSE)
Various tutors
Tuesday 20 January 10.00 am – 12.00pm, 5 weeks
Fees: £50/£40 Code: 09 205
We each live at the centre of our own known world. This short course offers excursions into the less familiar, exploring key moments, movements, ideas and people whose influences shape the past, present and possibly our future. Questions and discussion are encouraged as five different tutors invite you to share their interest in a topic that fascinates them.
This course will cover the follow topics:
Jan 20 David Johnson – The History of Mass Media
Jan 27 Beatrice Spengos – Heaven on Earth – a short survey of Byzantine Art
Feb 3 Laszlo Farklas – Migration in the 21st century – Causes and Consequences
Feb 10 Renato Ammannati – The Invincible Armada and the Attempt to Invade Britain
Feb 17 Kate Quartano Brown – Haydn, Nelson, Emma Hamilton and a fake volcano!
THE PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE (IN-PERSON CLASS)
Antony Black
Wednesday 18 February 10.00 am – 12.00pm, 1 week
Fees: £10/£8 Code: 09 216
Homo sapiens is often celebrated as the peak of living beings. But by our knowledge and appetites we are destroying our habitat through carbon emissions. We have so far proved incapable of reducing them to the extent needed for the continuation of life as we know it, possibly for any form of human life. We seem incapable of cooperating on a global scale. What does this say about us as a species?
WORLD POLITICS IN THE 21st CENTURY (IN-PERSON COURSE)
Renato Ammannati
Wednesday 11 March 10.00 am – 12.00pm, 5 weeks
Fees: £50/£40 Code: 09 224
This course will illustrate the major critical areas of the globe since the collapse of the Soviet Union and will explain the reasons why they have become a source of conflict among world powers
Lifelong Learning Dundee 