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Spring 2018
L607 - St. Paul and the First Christians - Instructor: Jack
Dalby
Slides [PDF]
F651 - Ethics: Philosophical Approaches - Coordinator:
Rachel Jones
The Ethics of Culture [PDF]
Aristotle, Alain Locke,
and �The Ethics of Culture� [PPT]
Winter 2018
F601 - The Jesus of History - Instructor: Jack Dalby
Slides [PDF]
Fall 2017
F601 - The Jesus of History - Instructor: Jack
Dalby
Slides [PDF]
F602 - Survey of Non-Traditional Beliefs - Instructor:
Linda Bender
Session I:
Introduction, Sources, Mystical Traditions, What Is
a Mystic [DOCX]
Session II:
Resolution of Karma [DOCX]
Session III:
Reincarnation [DOCX]
Session IV: Free Will Choice [DOCX]
Session V: Chakras,
Aura, Kundalini [DOCX]
Session VI:
Astrology, Healing System [DOCX]
Resources, all
classes [DOCX]
Additional Discussion
Topics [DOCX]
F603 - The Great Christian Schism: East and West -
Instructor: John Rybicki
Class 1 [PPT]
Class 2 [PPTX]
Class 3 [PPT]
Class 4 [PPT]
R606 - The Jesus of History - Instructor: Jack Dalby
Slides [PDF]
F653 - Culture Wars in Modern America - Instructor: David
Heymsfeld
Culture Wars - Class
1 [PDF]
Class 2 Part 1 [PDF]
Part 2 [PDF]
Class 3 Part 1 [PDF]
Part 2 [PDF]
Gay Rights - Part 1 [PDF]
Part 2 [PDF]
F658 - ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist
Organization - Instructor: Ahmet S.Yayla
Open LetterTo Dr.
Ibrahim Awwad Al-Badri [PDF]
Summer 2017
F601 - Jesus at the Movies - Instructor: Jack Dalby
Slides [PDF]
Spring 2017
F603 - Genesis: The Beginning of Wisdom? - Instructor: Gilah
Goldsmith
Jewish Versions of
Genesis in English [ODT] [DOC] [PDF]
Recommended Reading [ODT] [DOC] [PDF]
R606 - Jesus at the Movies - Instructor: Jack Dalby
Handout [PDF]
F651 - Mass Media Today - Coordinators: Lillian Brooks,
Terri Feldmayer, Camille Hodges,
Gloria Loew, Jeff Milstein, Peg O�Brien
The Changing Faces Of
Us Media Today - Dr. Richard T. Craig [DOCX] [PDF]
Does the Media Need
Fixing? - Steve Herman, VOA [PDF]
Winter 2017
F658 - Family History Research and Analysis - Instructor:
Ann Moore Campbell
Day 1 [PPTX] [PDF]
Ancestral Chart [PDF]
Family Group Sheet [PDF]
Five generation family
tree chart [PDF]
Claire Kluskens -
Introduction to Genealogy at the National Archives [PDF]
Fall 2016
F601 - Survey of Non-Traditional Beliefs - Instructor: Linda
Bender
Agenda, version 3 [PDF]
Session I -
Introduction, Sources, Mystical Traditions [DOCX] [PDF]
Session II - Karma [DOCX] [PDF]
Session III -
Reincarnation [DOCX] [PDF]
Session IV - Free Will
Choice [DOCX] [PDF]
Session V - Chakras
with Aura Discussion [DOCX] [PDF]
Session VI - Astrology,
Healing Systems [DOCX] [PDF]
Additional Discussion
Topics [DOCX] [PDF]
Resources [DOCX] [PDF]
F604/L609 - Religion in American History - Instructor: John
Turner
The 19th Century [PPTX] [PDF]
New England Puritanism [PPTX] [PDF]
Religion and the
American Founding [PPTX] [PDF]
L607 - The Jesus of History - Instructor: Jack Dalby
Class 1 [PDF]
F654 - Created Equal: America�s Civil Rights Struggle -
Coordinators: Camille Hodges, Johnnie Hicks
The Abolitionists -
Stefan Wheelock [DOCX] [PDF]
Summer 2016
L607 - A History of Bible Translations, or Which Bible is
Which? - Instructor: Gilah Goldsmith
Recommended Reading [ODT] [PDF]
Chronology of Bible
Translations [ODT] [PDF]
Session 2 - Birth and
Development of NT [DOC] [PDF]
L659 - Understanding India - Instructor: Vinod Jain
Understanding India [PDF]
L662 - International Washington - Instructor: Vinod Jain
Around the World in
Washington D.C. [PDF]
L663 - Globalization: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow -
Instructor: Vinod Jain
Globalization:
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow [PDF]
Spring 2016
F601 - Eastern Orthodoxy: the Ancient Church - Instructor:
Panorea Stalter
Intro to Orthodoxy
through the Creed [PDF]
F602 - Religious Ideas in Transition: The Books of the
Maccabees - Instructor: John Rybicki
Background �The Texts
�Implications [PPT] [PDF]
The Defeat of Foreign
Evil by the Power of God [PPT] [PDF]
Maccabees [PPT] [PDF]
R606 - God�s Problem: Why Do We Suffer? - Instructor: Jack
Dalby
Handout [PDF]
R659 - Human Difference, Cultural Understanding, and Social
Healing - Instructor: Tony Whitehead
Course Syllabus [DOC] [PDF]
Course slides [PPT] [PDF]
Who Am I - Multiple
& Core Self Assignment [DOC] [PDF]
Appendices for Workshop
in Cultural Understanding [DOC] [PDF]
Notes on Five Sexes [DOC] [PDF]
Winter 2016
F655 - Introduction to �What Now, Cuba?� - Coordinators:
Walt Carlson, Johnnie Hicks
About MEDICC [PDF]
Tips for Travel to Cuba [PDF]
Introduction to "What
Now, Cuba" [VIDEO] (posted Jun 16, 2016)
Fall 2015
F601 - Judaism, Jews and Jewishness - Instructor: Gilah
Goldsmith
Jewish Organizations in
America [ODT] [PDF]
Basic Jewish Texts [ODT] [PDF]
Reading List [ODT] [PDF]
Chronology - Ancient
Jewish History [ODT] [PDF]
Chronology - Late
Antiquity [ODT] [PDF]
F603 - How Jesus Became God - Instructor: Jack Dalby
Handout [PDF]
F605 - From God To The Afterlife in Judaism, Christianity,
and Islam - Instructor: John Rybicki
Part 1 [PPTX] [PDF]
Part 2 [PPTX] [PDF]
Part 3&4 [PPTX] [PDF]
Part 5 [PPTX] [PDF]
Part 6&7 [PPTX] [PDF]
L608 - Survey of Non-Traditional Beliefs - Instructor: Linda
Bender
Session 1 - Intro [DOCX] [PDF]
Session 2 - Karma [DOCX] [PDF]
Session 3 -
Reincarnation, Akashic Records [DOCX] [PDF]
Session 4 - Free Will
Choice [DOCX] [PDF]
Session 5 - Changing
Your Energy [DOCX] [PDF]
Session 6 - Chakras,
Mystery Schools [DOCX] [PDF]
Resources - All Classes [DOCX] [PDF]
Summer 2015
F603 - Joseph in Africa, the Story of a Story - Instructor:
Morgan Johnson
KAMHUKA KASINA GUSE [PDF]
Lion woman [PDF]
Tale of Two Brothers [PDF]
Joseph B for OLLI, Part
1 [PDF]
Part 2 [PDF]
תלדות toldot [PDF]
Megabe Beluy Johannis [PDF]
Mysteriat Zaman [PDF]
Zenahu laYosef [PDF]
Coptic Version [PDF]
OE. Introduction [PDF]
OE. Berber stories
compared [PDF]
Koran - transliterated [PDF]
Jan Knappert's hadith
translation [PDF]
Hadith translation in
process [PDF]
Crowther's testimony [PDF]
Lamin Sanneh on
Crowther [PDF]
R607 - Meet the Mormons - Instructor: Douglas B.
Turner
Class 1 - Origins [PDF]
Part 2 [PDF]
Class 2 - The Plan [PDF]
Part 2 [PDF]
L654 - War on Poverty - Instructor: Glenn Kamber
The Great Society -
Lyndon Johnson�s War on Poverty [PPT] [PDF]
L655 - Today�s Classrooms, Tomorrow�s Leaders - Instructor:
Laura Rahn
Technology as a Tool [PDF]
Spring 2015
F601 - A House Divided: The Councils of the Early Christian
Church... - Instructor: Pete Gustin
List of Heresies [DOC] [PDF]
Council of Ancyra [DOC] [PDF]
R605 - The World is About to End... - Instructor: William A.
Reader
Class 1 - Origins - [PPTX] [PDF]
Class 2 - The
Antichrist and his Impact - [PPTX] [PDF]
Class 3 - Secularized
& Catholic Apocalypticisms - [PPTX] [PDF]
L607 - The Historical Saint Paul - Instructor: Jack
Dalby
Presentation slides [PPTX] [PDF]
Winter 2015
F604 - A History of Bible Translations - Instructors: Gilah
Goldsmith, Pete Gustin
Translations of the
Hebrew Scriptures (Tanakh) into English [PDF]
Books of the Bible
Chart [PDF]
Chronology of Bible
Translations [DOC] [PDF]
Recommended Reading [DOC] [PDF]
Birth and Development
of the New Testament [DOC] [PDF]
L606 - How Jesus Became God - Instructor: Jack Dalby
Presentation slides [PPTX] [PDF]
F653 - When the Walls Fell: Ending the Cold War -
Instructor: Richard Melanson
Reading and Discussion
Schedule--
January 22--James Wilson Graham, The Triumph of
Improvisation, pp.1-62.
January 29--Graham, pp. 63-115.
February 5--Graham, pp.116-169.
February 12--Graham, pp. 170-204.
L655 - Crime, Crime Prevention and Contemporary Crime Issues
- Instructor: Cynthia Lum
Evidence-Based Policing [PDF]
Additional readings and
videos [Website]
Fall 2014
F604 - Introduction to Rabbinic Judaism - Instructor: Gilah
Goldsmith
Amoraim [PDF]
Mishnah [PDF]
Tannaim [PDF]
Time Line [PDF]
L607 - Prophetic Messianic Expectation - Instructor: John
Rybicki
Development, Meaning,
Fulfillment [PPT]
Development, Meaning,
Fulfillment - Series 2 [PPT]
Isaiah [PPT]
The Books of the
Maccabees [PPT]
F651 - The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright - Instructor:
Claudia Day
Bibliography [PDF]
Handout Week 2 [PDF]
Handout Week 4 [PDF]
Handout Week 5 [PDF]
Week 6 - Room With No
View [PDF]
1958 Visit to the Glass House [PDF]
R659 - The Nuremberg Trials - Instructor: Steve
Greenhouse
History and Legacy [PPTX]
Summer
2014
F603 - The Historical Saint Paul - Instructor: Jack
Dalby
The Historical St. Paul [PDF]
F652 - The Best of TED - Instructor: Russell Stone
T.E.D. 1 topics only [DOCX] [PDF]
T.E.D. 1 topics with
links [DOCX] [PDF]
F653 - 1965 in America: The Year Everything Changed - Instructor:
Richard Melanson
Note: Students enrolled in this class are
strongly encouraged to watch the PBS American
Experience documentary on Tuesday evening, June 24
entitled Freedom Summer as background for our
discussion of civil rights and racial tensions.
Discussion
schedule:
June 26, Patterson,
Preface and chapters 1-3 (38 pages)
July 3, Patterson,
chapters 4 and 5 (50 pages)
July 10, Patterson,
chapters 6-8 (50 pages)
July 17, Patterson,
chapters 9-12 (61 pages)
July 24, Patterson,
chapters 13, 14, and Epilogue (44 pages)
Spring 2014
F651 - Cultures and Religions of the Middle East - Johnnie
Hicks
F652 - The Changing Middle East � A Roundtable Discussion -
Johnnie Hicks
CLICK
HERE for documents for F651
/ F652.
F653 - Foundations of Moral Theory - Coordinators: Ted
Kinnaman, Abbie Edwards
Aristotle�s Virtue
Theory - Rose Cherubin [PPT]
Winter 2014
R654 - The CIA and the 1954 Guatemalan Coup - Instructor:
Richard Melanson
Course outline [DOCX] [PDF]
Fall 2013
L606 - The Idea of a Soul in Judaism - Instructor: Michael
Leavitt
Part 1: Introduction
and the Bible - Lecture Notes [PDF]
Bibliography of Jewish
Soul [DOC] [PDF]
F653 - Cultures and Religions of the Middle East -
Instructor: Johnnie Hicks
Week 1_Cultures and
Religions [PDF]
Week 1_Sacred
Geographies
Week 2_Zoroastrianism [PDF]
Week 2_Children of
Abraham [PDF]
Week 2_The Baha'i Faith [PDF]
Week 2_Understanding
Islam [PDF]
Week 2_Who are the
Christians [PDF]
Week 3_The Arab World [PDF]
Winter 2013
L605 - The Jesus of History - Instructor: Jack Dalby
Presentation slides [PDF]
Fall 2012
F652 - Introduction to the Maya Calendars and Hieroglyphic
Writing
Instructor: Graham Atkinson
Numbers and Calendars [PPTX] [PDF]
The Writing System [PPT] [PDF]
Maya Ceramics [PPT] [PDF]
Tortuguero Monument 6
and 2012 [PPT] [PDF]
Iconography [PPT] [PDF]
R654 - Life Lessons from the Great Myths
Gilgamesh - Bob Bohall [PDF]
Spring 2012
F651 - 1846 in the United States and the World -
Coordinator: Bob Lawshe
May 3: Women and the
Lady Book - Wendy Campbell [PPT] [PDF] - Large files
Winter 2012
F652
- A Washington Celebration - Coordinator: Bob Lawshe
Jan 31 and Feb 7: OLLI
member and resident poet Mike McNamara
George Washington�s favorite play: Cato
(A Tragedy in Five Acts)
Fall 2011
F602 - Sheol�Gehenna�Hell: Thoughts on Divine Punishment -
Instructor: John Rybicki
Week 1 - Thoughts on
Divine Punishment [PDF]
Week 2 - Gehenna in the
Christian Scriptures [PDF]
Week 3 - The Parables [PDF]
Week 4 - Differing
Views [PDF]
F603 - Jesus, Paul and the Law - Instructor: John Rybicki
Week 1 - Paul�s
Writings on the Law [PDF]
Week 2 - Jesus &
The Law [PDF]
L605 - Seven Voices, Seven Faiths
Sep 19: Bahaʹi Faith -
Mitchell Jacobson [PPT] [PDF]
Oct 3: Unitarian
Universalism - Reverend Anya Sammler-Michael
Unitarian Universalism [PDF]
Sixteen Historical Affirmations of the Unitarian
Universalist Faith [PDF]
How
UU's Practice their Religion [PDF]
Oct 10: Islam -
Chaplain Farhanahz Ellis [PDF]
Oct 24: Judaism - Rabbi
Linda Joseph [PDF]
F653 - Improving the Education of Low-income and Minority
Children -
Coordinator: Jack Underhill
Improving Education of
Low-Income and Minority Students in FCPS [PDF]
Formative vs. Summative [PDF]
Accountability Document [PDF]
FCPS 2011 State of the
Schools Report [website]
Oct 27 - Promise the
Future - David Brewer [PDF]
L655 - Deep Roots: Mythology and Us - Instructor: Bob Bohall
Week 1 - Origins,
Definitions and Differences [PDF] [PDF
notes pages]
Week 2 - Other
Traditons and Stories [PDF] [PDF
notes pages]
Week 3 - Mythology;
Myths of Humanity [PDF] [PDF
notes pages]
Week 4 - Supernatural
Beings [PDF] [PDF
notes pages]
Week 5 - Gilgamesh [PDF] [PDF
notes pages]
Week 6 - Body and Soul [PDF] [PDF
notes pages]
Week 7 - 4000 BCE to
Middle Ages [PDF] [PDF
notes pages]
Week 8 - Middle Ages to
present [PDF] [PDF
notes pages]
Summer 2011
R651 - The Psychology of Voter Behavior - Instructor: John
Johns
How Do We Know What We
Know? [PDF]
Voting Behavior [PDF]
Winter 2011
F651 - Aristophanes� Clouds
The Development of
Greek Theatre - Kathie West [PDF]4.8MB
Aristophanes� The
Clouds - Barbara Nelson [PDF]3.5MB
The Clouds - Bob Lawshe [PDF]3MB
L655 - Psychology of Voter Behavior - John H. Johns
How Do We Know What We
Know? [PDF]
Voting Behavior [PDF]
Fall 2010
F651 - Deep Roots: Mythology and Us - Bob Bohall
Week 1 - Origins,
Definitions [PPT]4MB [PDF]1MB
Week 2 - Neolithic,
Definitions [PPT]4.4MB [PDF]1MB
Week 3 - Creation [PPT]2.9MB [PDF]1.3MB
Week 4 - Cosmos and
Humanity [PDF]6.7MB
Week 5 - Supernatural
Beings [PPT]6.6MB [PDF]3.5MB
Week 6 - Samhain and
Gilgamesh [PPT]2.8MB [PDF]2.5MB
Week 7 - Body and Soul [PDF]5.6MB [PDF
w/notes]3.3MB
Week 8 - Paganism [PDF
w/notes]
Spring 2010
F601 - Nicomachean Ethics: Part III - Bob Lawshe
Aristotle's Ethics [PDF]
F602 - Topics in Philosophy
Apr. 19: Philosophy and
craft - Jeanne Day
A
note from Jeanne Day [Word] [PDF]
Project Gutenberg: Symposium,
by Plato
F603 - The Great Christian Schism - John Rybicki
The Church Divided,
Part I [PPT] [PDF]
The Church Divided,
Part II [PPT] [PDF]
The Church Divided,
Part III [PPT] [PDF]
The Church Divided,
Part IV [PPT] [PDF]
L608 - Six Voices, Six Faiths
Mar 25: Rabbi Michael
Ragozin - Judaism [PPT] [PDF]
Apr 1: Rev. Anya
Sammler-Michael - Unitarian Universalist
Handout for class [Word] [PDF]
Slides [PDF]
Apr 15: Rev. Kate
Bryant - Christianity [PPT]2.3MB [PDF]0.9MB
Winter 2010
L607 - Epictetus - Bob Lawshe
A Stoic and Socratic
Guide to Life [Word] [PDF]
Fall 2009
F603 - Nicomachean Ethics: Part 1 - Bob
Lawshe
Handout [Word] 5MB [PDF] 0.8MB
Summer 2009
F602 - Government-Funded Religion - Rabbi Jack Moline
Interfaith Alliance Home Page Government
Funded Religion
"Keeping the Faith" [PDF]
Spring 2009
F601 - Topics in Philosophy
Week 1 - Andrew Light:
Climate Change [PowerPoint]7.5MB [PDF]3.5MB
Week 2 - Irmgard
Scherer: The Beautiful Soul [MS
Word] [PDF]
F602 - Plato�s Republic: Part III
Plato's Theory of Forms [MS
Word] [PDF]
Epictetus [MS Word] [PDF]
F604 Isaiah the Prophet: Differing Views
John Rybicki - Complete
handout [PowerPoint] [PDF]
F606 - Poverty, Homelessness and Hunger in the World�s
Richest Nation
Week 1 - Jack
Underhill: US Poverty & Inequality [MS
Word] [PDF]
Winter 2009
L604 - Explorations
in Religion
Week 1 - Hinduism
in India [PowerPoint] [PDF]
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Photos Note: PPT files below
are very large (5-10MB)
1st set [PPT] [PDF]
2nd set [PPT] [PDF] (Rajdhani Temple)
3rd set [PPT] [PDF]
Fall 2008
603 - Plato's Republic: Part 1 [PDF] [MS Word]
Some
Platonic
Images [PDF] [MS
Word] (added Dec 4, 2008)
Updated version of the Myth of
the Ring of Gyges:
The
Black
Hole (YouTube video, added Dec 8, 2008) |