Life Long Learning in the GU Learning Community

The Georgetown University Association of Retired Faculty and Staff (GUARFS) invites you to join us in a life-long learning activity. We offer non-credit mini-classes, usually six per semester. The courses are taught, on a volunteer basis, by retired faculty and others on a wide variety of topics, such as politics, art, literature, and science, that engage the community in the intellectual life of the University.

Recent courses have included:

• Exoplanets, the Habitable Zone, and Greenhouse Warming
• Psalms of Lamentation: Dealing with Suffering
• Highlights of African-American Literature
• Jews, Christians, and the Holocaust (Shoah)
• The Grimms’ Magic Tales
• Encountering Islam Beliefs and Muslim Practices
• Global Trends in International Migration
• Contemporary Philosophy of Mind

For more information about GU Learning Community contact: guretirees-learningcommunity@georgetown.edu

Registration is Open for Spring Courses!

All Spring 2020 Courses will be taught virtually on Zoom.

Preregistration is required. Register at Spring 2021 Learning Community Program

• Gabriel García Márquez and Magical Realism–Professor Gwen Kirkpatrick 
• Herman Melville and Flannery O’Connor— Professor Paul R. Lilly
• Contemporary Challenges to Democratic Governance focusing Primarily on Presidential Systems— Professor Arturo Valenzuela
• Controversies in Global Business— Professor Stanley Nollen
• LGBTQ+ Memorials: Definitions and Case Studies— Ronald M. Johnson
• Indigenous Peoples and Environment: Engaging Cultural Wisdom for Ecological Challenges— Bette Jacobs

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