OLLI101588 - BBC Geology Documentaries
Course Description
BBC GEOLOGY DOCUMENTARIES
Instructor: Eric Clausen
Day of Week: Tuesdays
Dates: June 4 – July 2 (5 sessions)
Time: 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: Online via Zoom
This five-week course features three documentaries from Iain Stewart’s BBC Men of Rock series about how Scotland shaped modern day geologic ideas and two documentaries from the BBC Journeys into the Ring of Fire series in which Iain Stewart travels to California and Peru to look at how geology shaped the land and the people who live there. Each class will begin with an introduction by the instructor, followed by the documentary and then a class discussion. Should availability change comparable documentaries and/or lectures will be used.
Maximum: 100
Instructor Bio: Eric Clausen earned a BA in geology at Columbia University and a PhD in geology at the University of Wyoming. He taught geology at Minot State University in North Dakota and now holds the position of professor emeritus. He moved to the Philadelphia area in 2013 and is working on research related to erosional landform feature origins.
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