![]() ![]() The instructors were then-Kenan director Elizabeth Kiss and Julian Harris, then the undergraduate president of the Honor Council and later a Rhodes Scholar. It was the first-ever Osher (then DILR)-Duke 'house course," with Mary Semans, Rose and Saul Boyarsky, and Pelham Wilder among the students in the first class. The intergenerational course originated more than a decade ago as an initiative of the new Kenan Institute for Ethics, which was trying innovative ways to help students focus on ethics. The emphasis of the course is on "Who am I becoming?" rather than on "What's the right thing to do?" Alden said "People tell very poignant stories – an adoption, a child who went to prison for drugs - and relate how that has informed their perspective," Alden said. "It is a terrific model, with undergrads benefiting from the wisdom - and often real mentorship - of their elders and the overgrads grow in their appreciation of young people's perspectives on the topics." "We often get a difference of opinion," Alden said, on topics from health care access to romantic relationships. There are spaces for eight Duke students and eight OLLI members. Duke undergrads will partner with OLLI "overgrads" to share perspectives on current issues.Īlden, founding coordinator for service learning at Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics and now adjunct faculty in the Program in Education, says there is usually a waiting list of undergrads eager to take "Intergenerational Ethics,: which comes with a full half academic credit. The classroom environment is casual and relaxed.īetsy Alden and Melissa Mills will lead an exploration of different generations' perspectives on ethical issues relevant in the world today. Instructors share their expertise and passions in courses without.tests, papers or grades. It's part of a national network of more than 117 campus-based chapters. OLLI at Duke's fall offerings range from "An Exploration of Art and the Brain" to "Africa 2013." For the full list of September-December courses, click here. 13.įor a nominal membership fee, adults can join campus life, registering for courses that touch on the fine arts, mastery of an iPad or Duke sports history./p> To enroll online, go to search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do? method=load&courseId= 8295620.įor more on David Halperin, see his website, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke will offer more than 100 11-session courses during the fall semester beginning on Sept. OLLI classes do not have tests, grades, or educational requirements, and exemplify "learning for the love of it."Įnrollment for "UFOs – Encounter, Mystery, Myth," opens on December 4, 2018. It offers more than 400 courses annually that conform to an arts and sciences curriculum, in addition to courses on fitness, cooking and hands-on arts. The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke seeks to engage the minds, elevate the spirit and foster the wellbeing of its members, who number more than 2300. ![]() The concluding session will pause to notice the remarkable new respectability UFOs have attained since the 2016 election, and ask once more: what does it mean? It will explore the myth of the "Men in Black," the experience of alien abduction, and the enigma of what happened near Roswell, New Mexico, in the summer of 1947. The OLLI course will begin with a case study: the supposed UFO landing at Westall High School in Melbourne, Australia, in April 1966. His non-fiction book Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO will be published in 2020 by Stanford University Press. He's the author of five books on Jewish mysticism and messianism and a novel, Journal of a UFO Investigator, published in 2011 by Viking Press and translated into Spanish, Italian, and German. His area of special interest has been religious traditions of heavenly ascensions and otherworldly journeys. from Berkeley in 1977, and from 1976 until his retirement in 2000 he taught Judaic studies in UNC's Department of Religious Studies. Halperin was a teenage "UFOlogist" back in the 1960s. The question to ask of them is not "Where do UFOs come from?" or "How do they fly?" but "What do they mean?"-for us as individuals, as a culture, as a species. "UFOs are a myth," says Halperin, "and myths are real." Like collective dreams, they emerge from the depths of our unconscious, bearing vital messages for us. Halperin, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will teach a course early next year on "UFOs – Encounter, Mystery, Myth." The course will be offered through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Duke University and will run from January 7 to March 25, 2019. From the OLLI catalog, Winter 2019 DURHAM, N.C. ![]()
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