Saturday, April 21, 2012

COLLEGE FOR A DAY TODAY

The adult school has a great one-day event today....


Learn something new at College for a Day! Join us for a day of stimulating and challenging college classes with provocative and award-winning teachers. This is college without the stress and the tests. Buffet lunch included with all-day registration.
9:30-10 a.m. CHECK IN AND COFFEE
10-11 a.m.  PSYCHOLOGY: THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF SOUL BELIEFS
DR. DANIEL OGILVIE is professor of Psychology at Rutgers University and has been with the university for 41 years. He has become interested in questions regarding the soul - whether it is what separates us from other species or is manufactured by humans. 
11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. ENGLISH: SUSAN GLASPELL: PIONEER TO PLAYWRIGHT

DR. MARTHA CARPENTIER has been teaching at Seton Hall University since 1989. The recent focus of her research has been Susan Glaspell whose eleven plays and co-creation of the Provincetown Players were crucial to the origins of American drama. /p>
12:15-1 p.m. LUNCH
1-2 p.m. POLITICAL SCIENCE: IDEOLOGY THEORY AND POLITICS

DR. ROBERT M. PALLITTO is an associate professor of political science at Seton Hall University. His research focuses on contemporary political theory and constitutional law. He is a published author and his most recent book, Torture and State Violence in the US: A Documentary History, was published in 2011 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
2:15-3:15 p.m. ARCHEOLOGY: WHAT'S NEW IN EGYPT'S PAST

DR. JONATHAN GOLDEN teaches in the Department of Religious Studies, the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies and the Theology School at Drew University, specializing in the areas of Religion, Anthropology and the Middle East-ancient and modern. He is an expert of Egyptian Archeology and particularly such colorful characters as Rameses the Great, Akhenaten, the Heretic King, and Tutankhamen.

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