OSHR 1015 - Great Decisions "Plus"

Noncredit

Delivery/Location: Off-Campus , Fort Collins

This course is offered through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Colorado State University. You must be a member of Osher to enroll in this course.

Three topics have been selected for in-depth discussion in this course. The first meeting on each topic will follow the traditional "Great Decisions" model. Discussions will focus on the reading provided to you by the Foreign Policy Association’s booklet which will be mailed to you prior to the first class meeting. The second meeting on each topic will examine those related areas that participants wish to pursue based on the perspectives they have acquired from reading the material or from their own reading and knowledge of these topics. The three spring 2008 topics include:

  • Latin America - "The Latin American Left" - Though oil-rich Venezuela's radical President Hugo Chavez continues to agitate American policy makers, strong economic performances in Brazil and Chile are causing many to rethink the U.S. relationship with this region.
  • Russia - "Reexamining Russia" - From espionage to oil-blackmail, critics of Russia claim the Kremlin is centralizing power and distorting or diminishing democracy. Are such charges justified, and what should the world expect in the post-Putin era?
  • Defense and Security - "Waning War Machine: The State of the US Military" - Counterterrorism; Reconstruction; Nation Building; Are America's armed forces prepared to fight today's battles and simultaneously protect the homeland, or are U.S. military resources and personnel dangerously over- stretched and strained?

Noncredit courses do not produce academic credit nor appear on a Colorado State University academic transcript.

Instructors

Kay Easley

Kay Easley, M.S., Chair of the International Relations Committee of the Larimer County League of Women Voters is coordinating this session.