OLLI101485 - Milestones in World Culture [Hybrid at TUCC]
Course Description
MILESTONES OF WORLD CULTURE
Instructor: Albert Fried-Cassorla
Day of Week: Monday
Dates: Sept. 29 - Dec. 8 (No class Oct. 13) (9 sessions)
Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: Hybrid at TUCC
This hybrid course explores major milestones in human history through the arts, offering a hopeful and global perspective on our collective achievements. Drawing from diverse cultures, students will engage with literature, visual arts, science, and architecture through readings, videos, and guest speakers. Weekly sessions feature rich discussions on aesthetics and moral themes, with materials provided in advance via email. Participants may attend the in-person class at Temple Center City or join online. Occasional instructor absences due to travel will be supplemented with assignments and email support. Highlights include visits from a ballet dancer and an Asian art expert, along with photos and artifacts from the instructor’s travels.
Maximum: *40 In-person/ 200 Online
Instructor Bio: Albert Fried-Cassorla has shared his passion for language, the arts, and creativity in a variety of settings. He taught Introduction to Poetry and Creative Writing for eight years at Gwynedd Mercy University, where his poetry courses featured extensive historical materials. At Temple University, he taught Advertising and Copywriting and served as president of the Philadelphia Direct Marketing Association. Earlier, he taught English in the Philadelphia School District. Many of his plays have been performed or read publicly, and he won the Philadelphia Dramatists Center’s Best New Play competition in 2019.
Notes
This is a hybrid course. Hybrid courses feature both in-person and online components that occur simultaneously. In-person students attend class with the instructor, while online students participate via Zoom, engaging with the same material in real time.
Please note that if you are signing up for the in-person section that you will be wait listed. Courses that are in high demand or have limited seating are designated as waitlisted. Throughout the course catalog, these courses are marked with an asterisk (*).When you register for a waitlisted course, you are added to a waitlist rather than securing an immediate seat. At the end of the registration and enrollment period, any wait listed class that is oversubscribed is run through the lottery system that will randomly assign available seats to students on the waitlist. This process ensures that seat allocation is fair and not based on when a member registers.
The virtual section of this course is Direct Enroll, which means there are plenty of seats for this class and you are enrolling directly into this section.