Past, Current, & Proposed Future Classes
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Class Title |
When / Tentative |
Description |
Leader/ Coordinator |
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A Politically
Incorrect Guide to American History, Part I & II |
Fall 2006 - Winter
2007 |
A study based on the
text, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, by Dr.
Thomas E. Woods, Jr..
Each week we will have a 40 minute lecture, followed by questions and
discussion. |
Dr. Thomas E. Woods,
Jr. / W.C. McPherson, Jr., George Crispin |
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An |
Spring
2007
- Spring
2008 |
This class rewrote the
Constitution for the State of |
W. C.
McPherson |
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Liberalism: The
Classical
Tradition |
Spring 2008 |
A discussion based on the book
of
the same name by Ludwig von Mises. Classical Liberalism
believes in free markets, private property, the
rule of law, limited government, and maximum individual liberty. |
George Crispin/ W. C. McPherson |
|
What's New (Current Events) |
Spring 2008 |
This class will be either a discussion group where issues and events in the news are discussed by the class or on occasion a guest speaker(s) may be brought in to discuss a particular issue followed by a Q&a session. This class is intended to run in any term that the Great Decisions class is not running. No subject will be removed from the table as long as the discussions remain collegial. Various discussion formats will be tried as the class progresses. | W. C. McPherson |
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Energy
The Master Resource |
TBD |
A discussion group based on the book
of the same name by Bradley and Fulmer. Fundamental
questions will be discussed. What is energy? Where does it come from?
Current policy; Are we running out of oil? Is the globe warming? and more. The book is the best
single primer on energy. It discusses electricity, coal fired plants,
nuclear fission, natural gas, hydroelectric, plants, wind power,
geothermal energy, microturbines, solar power, biomass, fuel cells, and
more. |
TBD |
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The Lost
Literature Of Socialism |
TBD |
Discussions based on the book of the
same name - written by a literary critic who believes that the writings
of many Socialists have been ignored or forgotten and that is a serious
mistake. The book is an attempt to correct the imbalance. For example,
de Tocqville - “The state can make of mankind anything it
wants - that sums up their theories.” George Orwell -
“There is something wrong with a regime that needs a pyramid
of corpses every few years.” Hitler - “How, as
socialist, can you not be an anti-semite.”
Marx - “ Watson begins by stating his
purpose, “As a literary historian I seek to open doors to a
new debate by studying class, revolution and race through largely
forgotten texts of the age that stretches from Marx to Hitler |
TBD |
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Essays
on Classical Liberal Thought |
TBD |
A Class using a series of essays
containing classical liberal beliefs. This ongoing serries of
essays and excerpts will include works of many classical and modern
champions of classic liberal thought Including Ludwig von Mises, Tom
Bethell, Lawrence M. Ludlow, Edward Fesser and many others.
Each week the class will be given the essay to be covered the next week
to allow them to read and evaluate before discussing it in
class. All essays to be covered in a class will be handed out
the week before. |
George
Crispin / TBD |
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