The Wake Forest Alumni Association is proud to announce its 2009 Summer Lifelong Learning at Wake Forest program. This program provides continuing education opportunities for alumni, parents, staff and friends of Wake Forest. This year’s courses are scheduled for June 19-20, 2009 and are offered by esteemed faculty, Drs. David Coates, Dilip Kondepudi, Bill Leonard and Provost Emeritus Ed Wilson. Please review the course schedule below and consider joining us for an enriching experience.
Debating Capitalism
Saturday, June 20, 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Wingate Hall, Room 301
Professor David Coates, Department of Political Science
$135 Course Fee
http://pdc.wfu.edu/class/p862wv0qbQ
An introduction to some of the core debates on the nature, desirability and potentiality of capitalism. Participants will be introduced to competing definitions of capitalism, to competing claims about the desirability and strengths of various models of capitalism, and to competing claims about the effects of those models on different societies, social groups and environments.
Seeking Sustainable Energy Resources
Friday and Saturday, June 19 & 20, 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Wingate Hall, Room 301A
Professor Dilip Kondepudi, Department of Chemistry
$300 Course Fee
http://pdc.wfu.edu/class/p858g8ZbZ3
This seminar will focus on critical analysis of current global energy usage and the sustainability of the sources that provide the energy. It will then address the quest for sustainable energy resources, the role of technology, innovation and public policy. Participants will engage in intellectually rigorous discussions and comment on the options they think are the best.
“They Don't All Agree in One Tune:" Assessing Religious Identity in America
Friday, June 19, 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Wingate Hall, Room 202
Bill Leonard, Dean, School of Divinity
$135 Course Fee
http://pdc.wfu.edu/class/p859xNby1s
In this seminar, you will consider the following:
- Religious identity and religious experience: the nature of conversion
- Religious identity and liberty of conscience: the nature of dissent
- Religious identity and social responsibility: the nature of service
- Religious identity and spirituality: the case of Thomas Merton
Imagination and Insight in Twentieth Century Poetry
Friday and Saturday, June 19 & 20, 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Wingate Hall, Room 201
Provost Emeritus Edwin G. Wilson (’43)
$300 Course Fee
http://pdc.wfu.edu/class/p861dyX684
In this seminar, you will consider how three great poets – Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, and T.S. Eliot – responded to the “Waste Land” of the first several decades of the twentieth century: a time in so many ways like our own early twenty-first century. What did these poets see? What did they say? Their poetry, it is suggested, is enduringly valid, as much for our generation as for their own. In this two-day course, you will listen to these three poets, but also to poets like A. E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, C. Day Lewis, W. H. Auden, and Philip Larkin. We will “hear” them, and we will try to understand what they are saying.
To register, please visit www.pdc.wfu.edu or click on the links provided under each course title. Courses are open to alumni, parents, staff and friends of Wake Forest. The course fee includes all course materials and meals on Friday and/or Saturday.
Note: All courses must have a minimum number of participants. Should a course fail to meet the minimum enrollment requirement, it will be canceled and your enrollment fee will be refunded in full.
If you are planning two nights’ accommodations in Polo Residence Hall on campus, the cost is an additional $120.00. Accommodations are also available at the Graylyn International Conference Center (www.graylyn.com), the Courtyard by Marriott Winston-Salem – Hanes Mall (www.marriott.com/instr), the Courtyard by Marriott – University (www.courtyard.com), Residence Inn by Marriott (www.residenceinn.com), and Sundance Plaza Hotel, Spa & Wellness Center (www.choicehotels.com/hotel/NC486).
Space is limited so register early to ensure your place. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to return to campus and learn from the rich resource that is our outstanding Wake Forest faculty. For more information about the Lifelong Learning program, please contact Patricia Boone, Alumni Affinity Programs Officer, at boonepm@wfu.edu or 336.758.4278.
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