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One Bear Place #97116
Waco, Texas 76798
1-888-710-1859
Phone: (254) 710-1121
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LLL 2012 WINTER/SPRING COURSE SCHEDULE
LL1201 |
“Crossroads: Why is Waco Where It Is?” — David Lintz
Wednesday, January 11, 18, 25, February 1 • 10:00-11:30 a.m. • 4 sessions
Location: Red Men Museum and Library
David Lintz, director of the Red Men Museum and Library, will use current information from the fields of geology, paleontology, archaeology, and historic European contact and settlement to examine why Waco is where it is in Central Texas and the factors that contributed to preparing this area for eventual settlement and prosperity.
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“The Best of the Best: Four Epic Epochs in Music and the Men Responsible” — Dr. Will May
Tuesday, January 17, 24, 31, February 7 • 10:00-11:30 a.m. • 4 sessions
Location: Hughes-Dillard Alumni Center
Dr. Will May, dean of the Baylor School of Music, will lead a class on the history of classical music that recognizes some composers as “innovators” and others as “culminators” of a style. These four sessions will explore particular works and the contributions of four individuals who are among the “best of the best”: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Debussy.
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“The Evolution of American Political Parties” — Dr. David Smith
Thursday, January 26, February 2, 9, 16 • 10:00-11:30 a.m. • 4 sessions
Location: Columbus Center
This course will look at the way American political parties have changed through the years, beginning with their emergence in the early 1790s. Dr. David Smith, Baylor professor of history, will look at how different parties have emerged and disappeared, and how they’ve even reversed their positions from decade to decade.
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“Tour Special Locations on Baylor Campus — the Texas
Collection, Truett Seminary,
and Mayborn Museum”
Monday, February 6, 13, 20, 27 • 10:00-11:30 a.m. • 4 sessions
Location: Meet at Hughes-Dillard to board shuttle to locations
This is an opportunity to visit three locations on the Baylor campus with the comfort of a shuttle from the Hughes-Dillard Alumni Center to the Texas Collection, Truett Seminary, and Mayborn Museum. One facility will be highlighted each week with a tour and educational information. Class is limited to 30.
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“The Past, Present, and Future of College Athletics” — David Smoak
Wednesday, February 8, 15, 22, 29 • 10:00-11:30 a.m. • 4 sessions
Location: Hughes-Dillard Alumni Center
David Smoak, sportscaster and program director on 1660 ESPN radio, will share his expertise from many years of studying, broadcasting, and interviewing the sports world and its participants. Issues discussed will be budgets, the influence of television, the Bowl Championship Series, super conferences, and realignment.
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“C. S. Lewis: Heaven and Hell in Daily Life” — Dr. Joshua King
Thursday, February 9, 16, 23, March 1 • 2:00-3:30 p.m. • 4 sessions
Location: Armstrong Browning Library
Dr. Joshua King, Baylor professor of English, will discuss Lewis’s thinking that heaven and hell were matters of daily life rather than vague destinations. Works covered include Screwtape Letters, Preface to Paradise Lost, The Great Divorce, and The Abolition of Man.
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“Local Chambers of Commerce Changing Cities” — Jim Vaughn
Tuesday, February 21, 28, March 6, 13 • 10:00-11:30 a.m. • 4 sessions
Location: Greater Waco Chamber Building
Jim Vaughan, president and CEO of the Greater Waco Chamber, will trace the history of the chamber movement in the U.S.; focus on the power of a community vision and strategic plan; present the case for a chamber’s economic development program; and summarize successes (and failures) in building cities.
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“Great Directors of Hollywood’s Classical Age” — Dr. Chris Hansen
Tuesday, February 21, 28, March 6, 20 • 1:00-2:30 p.m. • 4 sessions
Location: **Changed to Hughes-Dillard Alumni Center **
This course, led by Dr. Chris Hansen, professor in Baylor’s Department of Communication Studies, will review and discuss several of Hollywood’s great directors from the golden age of cinema. Directors to be covered will include Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles. The class size is limited to 32.
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“Finding Happiness and Meaning in Hard Times” — Dr. Michael Frisch
Thursday, March 1, 8, 22, 29 • 11:00-12:30 p.m. • 4 sessions
Location: Columbus Center
Dr. Michael B. Frisch, Baylor professor of psychology and neuroscience, will lead a discussion in how our lingering economic crisis poses a challenge to all of us. The science of positive psychology and well-being offers proven techniques for building a life of happiness, meaning, and joy in the best and worst of times.
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“Christianity Contrasted” — Dr. Candi K. Cann
Tuesday, April 3, 10, 17, 24 • 10:00-11:30 a.m.• 4 sessions
Location: Columbus Center
Baylor assistant professor of religion Dr. Candi K. Cann will compare and contrast Christianity with Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism, focusing on the historical development precepts and how these world religions contrast with Christianity.
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“Citizen’s Watershed Academy – Part 2” — Melissa Mullins
Wednesday, April 4, 11, 18, 25 • 2:00-3:30 p.m. • 4 sessions
Location: First meeting at Hughes-Dillard then on site
This class will further explore concepts begun in Citizen’s Watershed Part 1 two years ago and will again be led by environmental education specialist Melissa Mullins. We will visit the new City of Waco Dissolved Air Flotation Plant (drinking water) as well as the new Bullhide Creek plant in Lorena (wastewater).
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“Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte: A Study in Contrasts” — Dr. Dianna Vitanza
Thursday, April 5, 12, 19, 26 • 10:00-11:30 a.m. • 4 sessions
Location: Columbus Center
Dr. Dianna Vitanza, chair of Baylor’s English Department, will lead a discussion focusing on two novels by each writer, Emma and Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and The Professor and how those books illustrate both the differences between the two authors and the time periods in which they were written.
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