ABOUT ADAM ROSE:
THE L IF EL O NG
LEA R NING INSTITUTE
Educated principally at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and the University
of Chicago, Adam Rose is a teacher and
scholar with over 20 years’ experience leading
Adam Rose
exceptionally effective, award-winning Great
AT NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY
Where Learning Never Retires
Books discussion courses in Western Classics for adult and
undergraduate students of diverse ages and backgrounds.
Mr. Rose’s teaching emphasizes the development of students’
cognitive skills (close reading, analytical thinking, careful
listening, precise speaking and powerful writing) and critical
empathy (viewpoint appreciation) as part of facilitating a
multifaceted appreciation of the text(s) studied. Mr. Rose
INTERSESSION
OFFERINGS
2017
teaches in the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults
at the University of Chicago Graham School and is the
President and Education Director of Great Discourses, a
provider of great books discussion courses for adults.
To learn more, please visit www.AdamRose.com or
www.GreatDiscourses.com.
Wednesdays, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
June 14, 21, & 28, 2017
ABOUT CARI BARNES:
As a passionate lifelong learner with degrees
in philosophy, computer science, law and
business administration underpinning careers
as an engineer and a patent attorney — as
Cari Barnes
well as extensive experience governing an
award-winning public library — Cari Barnes
Ms. Barnes’ courses often push the traditional boundaries
of the “liberal arts” by integrating classic texts of science,
technology and law with works of philosophy and fiction. Ms.
Barnes leads Great Books discussions in the Chicago area
and is President of the Midwest Great Books Council as well
as Marketing Director of Great Discourses.
To learn more, please visit www.LinkedIn.com/in/CariBarnes
or www.GreatDiscourses.com.
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224.233.2366 • www.nl.edu/lifelonglearning
brings a wide array of knowledge and talents to her teaching.
Contact information:
LLI Office
224-233-2366
[email protected]
Intersession Offerings
Registration
Wednesdays, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
June 14 – 28, 2017 (3 weeks)
Wednesdays, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
June 14 – 28, 2017 (3 weeks)
Could It Happen Here? Now?
Dystopian Fiction For Our Time
“Rags To Riches,” American Style: Classics
from Horatio Alger and Andrew Carnegie
Facilitator: Adam Rose
Facilitator: Cari Barnes
Course Description:
In a time when many believe that contemporary
events are unfolding in ways that bode ill for the
future, the dystopian classics of youth are the focus
of renewed interest as possible guides to “what
might happen”. This course will be devoted to a
careful, mature consideration of one such classic,
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis (the first
American writer to receive the Nobel Prize
in Literature in 1930)
as we seek both to
understand the text
as a literary work
originating in its own
time and place and to
glean possible insights into our own time and place.
Course Description:
Although the “rags to riches”
motif is ancient and widespread,
the American version has attained a unique place in world
culture. This course examines
two of the most well-known
— but often little-understood —
American embodiments of the “rags to riches” motif:
the fictional characters of Horatio Alger, Jr. on the
one hand, and the decidedly non-fictional Andrew
Carnegie (who rose from poverty to become one of
the richest men in the world) on the other. Readings
include Alger’s all-time best-selling novel Ragged
Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks
and Carnegie’s “Gospel of Wealth” essays.
Text:
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. Berkley 2005
[1935]. ISBN-13: 978-0451216588
Texts:
The “Gospel of Wealth” Essays and Other Writings
by Andrew Carnegie; Penguin Classics, 2006 [1889];
ISBN: 978-014303989X
SPACE IS LIMITED!
Current Members: $30
Non-Members: $75
To register:
www.regonline.com/LLIintersession2017
A waiting list will be maintained for each
offering, with the potential for a second class
being added.
Sign up now! Don’t delay!
Questions? Please contact:
LLI Office
224-233-2366 or
[email protected]
How I Served My Apprenticeship by Andrew Carnegie;
from “Youth’s Companion” 1896 (PDF handout)
Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot
Blacks by Horatio Alger, Jr. Suggested edition: Ragged
Dick and Struggling Upward by Horatio Alger, Jr.; Penguin Classics, 1985 [c. 1867]; ISBN: 978- 0140390339
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