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CURRENT COURSES SDG PROPOSAL FORM
FALL 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:
America and the Birth of the Modern World:1788-1800
12 years that changed the world
Mel Leventhal/Allen Moss
10:00-12:00 Room 201
#7
International Immigration and Discrimination
Ralph Boulware/Bud Shapiro

 

10:00-12:00 Room 201
#13:
Pale of Settlement
Eastern European Jews

Jerry Gallop/ Paul Cohen


10:00-12:00 Room 201
#20: The Social and Political History of Opera
Joann Toll/ TBA
10:00-12:00 Room 201
#23:
Novels of the 1920's

Bob Glasser/Renee Hurewitz

10:00-12:00  Room202
#2: Stolen Art

Carol Steinberg/
Leonard Steinberg

10:00-12:00Room202
#8:
Lesser known events that Changed America
Judith Glass/
Arthur Bernstein

 

10:00-12:00 Room 202
#14: Energy and Global Warming
Mary Gallegos/
Victor Weingarten

10:00-12:00 Room 202
#21: Cultural Evolution: What makes Us Human?
Bill Meisel/ Gus Andrews
10:00-12:00 Room 202
#24: The many Faces of Democracy
Joel rapp/ Leo Roos
10:00-12:00 Room 203
#3:
The life And Work of Frank Lloyd Wright
Roz Klein/
Bob Thibodeau
10:00-12:00 Room 203
#9:  Tolstoy's War and Peace
Joan McMaster/Lucille Harris
10:00-12:00 Room 203
#15: Women in the Middle Ages: A Glass Half Full
Jack Kaczorowski/
Karen Fintzy

10:00-12:00 Room 203
#22: Famoes U.S. Losers: Defeated Presidential Canditates
John Harris/ Jim Kohn
10:00-12:00 Room 203
#25 Greco_Roman Mythology
Bill McGovern/ Katie McGovern
1:00-3:00 Room 201
#4:
Great 20th Century Trials
Irv Shimer/
Arthur Gelber  
1:00-3:00  Room 201
#10: The World is Flat
Mike Skolnick/Barry Watt

1:00-3:00 Room 201
#16: Dante's Devine Comedy
Phyllis Zasloff/ Carol Segal

Colloquium Dates
September 18, 2008
October 16, 2008
November 20, 2008
(PLATO open)

Holidays

Veteran's Day:Tuesday, Nov.11,2008

Thanksgiving Holiday,
Thursday & Friday
Nov. 27-28, 2008

Rosh Hashana, Tuesday
Sept. 30, 2008
(PLATO open)
Yom Kippur, Thursday,
Oct. 9, 2008
(PLATO open)

Sign Up: 
Thursday, Aug 7, 2008.  1:00 p.m.-Skirball Cultural Center


 

Course Description Books- available in lounge and on the website beginning
Monday July 21, 2008
 Pre-registration forms
available at the MIC desk on that date. Pre-meetings
Mon. Aug.11-22, 2008

1:00-3:00 Room 202
#5
The Roaring 20's and the Great Depression

Sheri Ross/
Linda Roher

 

1:00-3:00 Room 202
#11: American Tycoons
Richard Sheinbaum/
Barbara Levitt
1:00-3:00 Room 202
#17 Budapest to New York: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World (1st 7 weeks)
Gunther Schiff/ Dave Hirsch

 
Term begins
Tues. Sept.2 ,2008.
Term ends
Mon. Dec. 8, 2008.
2nd 7 Weeks begins
Oct. 22, 2008
1:00-3:00  Room203
#6:
The Abuses and Misuses of Science
Harvey Gonick/ Herb Conrad
1:00-3:00 Room 203
#12: Ireland's Amazing Saga of Struggle and Success
Lee Johnson/ George Alexander
1:00-3:00 Room 202
#18:
The End of Empire: The Secret History of India's Independence (2nd 7 weeks)
Frank Morton/ Barbara Camras
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
#19 Nobel Prize Winners in Economics: Money, Markets and Mayhem
Ellen Lubic/ Carole Eglash
The names following the course titles are those of the coordinator and co-coordinator