Association of Main-Campus Retired Faculty  The Georgetown University Learning Community Non-credit, short courses on the Georgetown University Campus, for persons 55 ‘or better.’ Spring 2012 Course Program (Room–assignments will be posted well before the first class-meeting.) Preregistration is required. Class-size will be limited. Link to registration form is below. For a printable schedule click here. Registration fees are $30 for one course, $50 for two or more courses. Dues-paid members (and their spouses) of the AMCRF, the DC Alumni Club, the Library Associates, and LC faculty are exempt from fees. Introduction to Milton’s Paradise Lost Jason Rosenblatt Tuesdays, March 13, 20, 27 1:15-2:45 p.m. We will devote one class session apiece to books 1, 4, and 9.  Please bring a copy of the poem to class in whatever edition you prefer. For the first class session, devoted to book 1, we will look closely at the opening invocation (lines 1-26) and its relation to genre (epic), religion, history, and Milton's life.   We will spend most of the first class discussing the portrait of Satan (any surprises?) and some of the book's famous epic similes: lines 283-313, regarding Satan's shield and spear, and his legions lying on the burning lake; lines 738-51 (Mulciber's fall from heaven); and 768-88 (the devils trooping to Pandemonium).  Please be prepared to read your favorite lines aloud. Jason Rosenblatt is Professor of English, Emeritus. God and Galileo John Haught Wednesdays, March 14, 21, 28 10:15-11:45 a.m. These three sessions provide a brief introduction to several questions in the conversation of modern science with traditional theology. Session One provides a brief survey of ancient cosmology and the spiritual shock brought about by the Copernican revolution and Galileo’s new science. Session Two describes and evaluates the main ways in which theology deals with science today, and Session Three, after discussing the “new atheism” of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, proposes ways in which Galileo’s voice may still provide significant illumination. John Haught is Senior Fellow, Science and Theology, Woodstock Theological Center and Distinguished Research Professor of Theology, Emeritus. William Faulkner Paul R. Lilly Thursdays, March 15, 22, 29 10:15-11:45 a.m. The first class will discuss Faulkner's short story, "That Evening Sun" (1931), for insights about characters and themes he developed earlier, as well as about half of As I Lay Dying (1930). The next two classes will examine some of his story-telling experiments in As I Lay Dying and Light in August (1932), such as multiple view points and stream-of-consciousness. Paul R. Lilly is Professor of English, Emeritus at The State University of New York, Oneonta. He concentrates on modern and contemporary American literature. The Problem of God, Part Two Otto Hentz, S.J. Wednesdays, March 21, 28 3:00-4:45 p.m. Father Hentz will take the participants through the essentials of the course he teaches undergraduates so that they will learn what one professor does with the course. Otto Hentz, S.J., Associate Professor of Theology, was born in 1938 and entered the Society of Jesus in 1955 after graduation from the Jesuit high school in Philadelphia, St. Joe’s Prep. Jesuits teach for three years before theology and ordination and, a classics major, he expected to teach classics in one of our high schools but was sent to teach philosophy at GU (1962-1965). Following the ordinary course in theology, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1968, did his doctorate at the University of Chicago, and returned to GU as a professor of theology in 1973. The Eurozone Crisis Revisited Karl H. Cerny Tuesdays, April 10, 17, 24 10:15-11:45 a.m. The class will review the several stages of the crisis since 2009. We will analyze the dominant and changing role of France and Germany throughout the crisis and the impact of the crisis on the structure and functioning of the Eurozone and European Union. Karl H. Cerny is Professor Emeritus and former Chairman of the Department of Government. His teaching and research interests include the political systems of Western Europe, NATO, and the European Union. Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Ellen Henderson Tuesdays, April 3, 10, 17 1:15-2:45 p.m. Most of us thought that slavery was stopped by the Civil War. However, slavery and the trafficking of humans occur more often now than at any time in history. Human trafficking is now the second largest money maker among illicit international criminal activities (up there with arms trafficking and drug trafficking). Internationally it is estimated that there are about 27 million slaves. They are in bonded labor, agricultural servitude, domestic servitude and sex slavery. This short course will look first at the international situation and the role of the U.S. government in efforts to prevent global trafficking then at U.S. domestic trafficking/slavery and finally at the Washington DC regional situation -- as DC is a hotspot for many forms of trafficking especially in domestic minor sex trafficking. We will examine the role of NGOs in efforts to prevent trafficking and to rescue and rehabilitate freed slaves. Ellen Henderson is Professor of Biology, Emerita. To REGISTER for Spring 2012 courses, please click here. Checks should be sent to: GU Learning Community Registration, Georgetown University School for Continuing Studies, 3101 Wilson Blvd., Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22201. Please fillout a Course-Evaluation Form for each course that you complete. If you have questions, please e-mail Kimberly Woolf  at  lifelonglearning@georgetown.edu or telephone The Center for Continuing and Professional Education (CCPE) at 202-687-7000. Click here to view a short video of part of a lecture given by Professor Emerita Joan Holmer on October 32, 2008 in a GU LC course     "Approaches to Shakespeare: Textual, Theatrical, and Thematic." (Viewing the video requires the "quick time video player". Click here for a free download of the QTVP program.) PRIOR-SEMESTER Course Programs Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007 Spring 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005 and Spring 2006 Opinions expressed by GULC instructors are their own and do not necessarily reflect opinions of Georgetown University, the Association of Main-Campus Retired Faculty, the DC Alumni Club, the Library Associates, or the School for Continuing and Professional Studies.