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PASADENA SENIOR CURRICULUM WINTER, 2008

"HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES"

THURSDAY SESSION

Helen Paxson, Coordinator

January 17
"EVOLUTION: WHAT THE FOSSILS SAY AND WHY IT MATTERS"
Donald Prothero, Professor of Geology, Occidental College

January 24
"EVOLUTION OF WEALTH AND INEQUALITY"
Jean Laurent Rosenthal, Professor of Economics, CalTech

January 31
"EXPERIMENTING WITH SOCIAL NORMS"
Jean Ensminger, Professor of Anthropology, Cal Tech

February 7
"A SENTIMENTAL MURDER: LOVE AND MADNESS IN THE 18 TH CENTURY"
John Brewer, Professor of History, CalTech

February 14
ART OF POLITICS"
Bill Boyarsky, Former City Editor, Los Angeles Times, Author, Lecturer, USC

February 21
"MONKEY GIRL: EVOLUTION, EDUCATION, RELIGION AND THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA 'S SOUL"
Edward Humes, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author

February 28
"WHY DID EUROPE CONQUER THE WORLD?"
How Politics and Economics Created a Comparative Advantage in Violence
Philip Hoffman, Professor of History, CalTech

March 6
'IDIOTS, HYPOCRITS, DEMAGOGUES AND MORE IDIOTS"
Paul Slansky, Author

PASADENA SENIOR CURRICULUM WINTER, 2008

"UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD OF BAROQUE ART "  

TUESDAY SESSION

Dr. Leonard De Grassi, Coordinator
Professor Emeritus of Art History, Glendale College

The course will provide an in-depth exploration and study of the arts as practiced in the Baroque period. Lectures will include discussions on history, culture, and the origins and functions of architecture, painting and sculpture.

The countries to be explored in this course are:

• Italy
• Spain
• The Netherlands

and, the significant artists relevant to each.

Dr. De Grassi will deliver all of the lectures and each will be accompanied with slides and hand-outs. A formal syllabus is not being printed as the intent of this course is to create a continuing conversation between the Dr. de Grassi and the students about the exciting topics being introduced.