courses

CURRENT COURSES

WINTER TERM 2009 STUDY/DISCUSSION GROUP SCHEDULE
THE PLATO SOCIETY OF UCLA

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
10:00-12:00 #1:Brazil – Enroute to the First World Len Steinberg/Jerry Mehlman Room 201	10:00-12:00 #7: Americans in Paris Jan Booker/Carol Steinberg Room 201	10:00-12:00 #13: Food, Food, Food! Glorious Food! Jerry Beigel/Marilyn Thomas Room 201	10:00-12:00 #20: The American Economy: Looking Behind the Numbers Roy Helfgott/ Murray Spector Room 201	10:00-12:00 #23: The Cultural Revolution of the Sixties: Its Roots & Legacies Jill Spuehler/Katie McGovern Room 201
#2: Fateful Choices of World War II Bruce Porter/Jack Carter Room 202	#8: Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life Ron Miech/Shirley Monson Room 202	#14: Organized Crime Jim Kohn/Chuck Lipsey Room 202
#3: Latin American Short Fiction Lee Silver/Juanita Davis Room 203	#9: The Decline of the West (The Post-American World) Paul Glaser/Don Salk Room 203	#15: Victors and Spoils: Notorious Peace Conferences Alton Leib/Lee Zlotnick Room 203	#21: The United States: 1815-1848 Bob Glasser/Mel Leventhal Room 202	#24:Physics of the Impossible Don Spuehler/Mike/Michelle Denn Room 202
1:00-3:00 #4:Science in The Times Chris Holabird/ Ed Carstens Room 201	1:00-3:00 #10: The Many Sides of FDR Lee Johnson/Leo Roos Room 201	1:00-3:00 #16: Secularists and Other Free Thinkers: Relativism vs. Absolutism, Human Rights vs. Divine Right Ellen Lubic/Vera Hogan Room 201	#22: The Immune System Marilyn Slater/ Gloria Burton Room 203	#25: The Original Odd Couple: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell Jane Silver/David Edelbaum Room 203
#5: The 14th Century Linda Rohrer/ Ginger Leibovitz Room 202	#11: Let’s Go to a Museum Sally More/Mary Boulware Room 202	#17 The Aeneid Mads Bjerre/Phyllis Zasloff Room 202
#6: Josephus: Historian of the Jews Frank Morton/Barbara Camras Room 203	#12: The Physiology and Psychology of Aging Marianne Weil/Sue Allen Room 203	#18: Beautiful Minds Doing Beautiful Experiments! (1st 7 weeks) Carol Saltzman/Harvey Gold Room 203
		#19: Look Where You’re Walking: The Santa Monica Mountains (2nd 7 weeks) Lee Ann Kennedy/Sol Scope Room 203
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Colloquium Dates January 15, 2009 February 19, 2009 March 19, 2009 Plato: SDG Calendar W’09 11/10/08	Course Description Books- Available in lounge and on the website beginning Monday, November 17, 2008. Pre-registration forms available at the MIC desk on that date. Pre-meetings - Tuesday, December 9 – December 19, 2008	Term begins Monday, January 5, 2009 Term ends Fri., April 10, 2009 2nd 7 Weeks begins Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Sign Up: Thursday, December 4, 2008. 1:00 p.m. - Skirball Cultural Center	Holidays Martin Luther King Holiday Monday, January 19, 2009 Presidents’ Day Monday, February 16, 2009 Cesar Chavez Holiday Friday, March 27, 2009	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

The names following the course titles are those of the coordinator and co-coordinator