UD OLLI Catalog, Spring 2022

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Focusing on the anatomy of the eye and its adnexa, we will review ophthalmic optics, visual fields, eye diseases, ocular manifestations of systemic conditions, perceptions and preventions.

P218 WHAT DARWIN DIDN’T KNOW * OLLI program: OLLI Online Course location: UD OLLI Online (virtual) Tuesday 10:45 a.m. - noon Dates of class: 2/8/2022 - 4/26/2022 Instructor: Harry Dillner Number of class sessions: 11 • Price for course: $50 Course format: Lecture Technological requirements for optimal viewing: Any screen with audio and video Explore discoveries in paleontology, embryology and genetics that confirm and strengthen the theory of evolution by natural selection. Today the theory has such great explanatory power for understanding living things that scientists confidently assert that nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

P218-01 WHAT DARWIN DIDN’T KNOW * OLLI program: Kent/Sussex Course location: Trinity Faith Education Bldg., Lewes (in-person virtual) Tuesday 10:45 a.m. - noon Dates of class: 2/8/2022 - 4/26/2022 Instructor: Harry Dillner Number of class sessions: 11 • Price for course: $50 Course format: Lecture Technological requirements for optimal viewing: Any screen with audio and video Same as P218 except for location. This section meets at the Trinity Faith Education Building in Lewes, Delaware, where on-site class members participate virtually in the online section of this course. Classroom-based participants interact virtually with both the online-based OLLI instructor and the online course participants, all viewing and participating in the online class together.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS All course information and course materials presented to OLLI class participants is intended to be informational only and should not be construed as healthcare, medical, business, financial, investment, legal, regulatory, tax or accounting advice.

Q237 ADVICE FOR FUTURE CORPSES AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM ** OLLI program: OLLI Online Course location: UD OLLI Online (virtual) Thursday 2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Dates of class: 2/10/2022 - 3/10/2022 • Class limit: 22 Instructors: Gary Soulsman, Linda Hall Number of class sessions: 5 • Price for course: $25 Course format: Discussion Technological requirements for optimal viewing: Audio & video with monitor/screen of 12” or more Required text: Advice for Future Corpses: A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying by Sallie Tisdale (ISBN 978-1501182174). This course is an examination of the peaks and troughs of aging-into-death by author Sallie Tisdale. A gifted writer and palliative care nurse, she has had a bedside seat with her patients. As a teacher of Buddhist practices, she offers a wise and steady approach to something that frightens most of us—our death and the death of our loved ones. More than a how-to manual or a spiritual bible, her book is a graceful— and witty—compilation of intimate and meaningful stories.

Q238 EMBRACING WIRELESS MIND-BASED THINKING OLLI program: OLLI Online Course location: UD OLLI Online (virtual) Monday 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Dates of class: 2/7/2022 - 3/7/2022 Instructor: Antoine Laguerre Number of class sessions: 5 • Price for course: $25 Course format: Discussion The aim of this course is to create an awareness about the concept of thinking in the digital age and to analyze the key components that relate to “PCS” thinking systems: problems, causes and solutions. The pedagogical content of this course is designed to help lifelong learners maintain a certain social media/life balance vis-à-vis the immeasurable amount of information that attracts our wireless minds on a daily basis. Learn how to use “PCS” to become more proactive than reactive and enhance your problem-solving abilities! 61

Hours of outside preparation: *0-1 **1-2 ***2 or more


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