Subject: Invitation - Yale Alumni College Spring Courses
From: "Yale Club of Washington, DC" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 19:30:02 +0000 (UTC)

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Yale Alumni College Spring Courses
Two Courses in March =nd April 2018

=strong>UCDC Washington Center, NoMA Workspaces, and Kramerb=oks and Afterwords Café

Washington, DC
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=span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: 14px;">Yale Alumni Colle=e is open to Yale alumni, family and friends. Courses will be seminar styl= with a maximum of 20 participants. Classes will be held at a location to =e determined in Washington, DC.

This semester in Washington DC, we welcome back Professor Paul Sullivan and are pleased to introduce Pr=fessors Susanna Lee and Mary Habe=k as new additions to our faculty.

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Paul Sullivan will teach the course "N=tural Resources and International Security: Energy, Water, Land, Conflict =inerals, and Food".  This class will look into how to make t=e use of natural resources more sustainable and less wasteful, how to hand=e resource conflicts better as well as climate change. This course will be=held at UCDC Washington Center, 1608 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 2=036.

Susanna Lee will bring you "Dreams and Disillusion in Nineteenth-Century France".  <=strong>This mini-course studies two of the greatest literary hits of the F=ench nineteenth-century, Balzac's Le Père Goriot =nd Flaubert's Madame Bovary (English versions<=strong>).  Susanna Lee is Professor of French and=Francophone Studies at Georgetown University, where she also directs the p=ogram in Comparative Literature.  This course will be held at NoMA Wo=kspaces, Union Station, 840 First Street NE, Third Floor, Washington,=DC 20002.

Mary Habeck will offer=a course that will explore "Understanding Extremism- Th= History of the War with al-Qa'ida and Isis".  Professor Hab=ck teaches courses on military history and strategic thought at Johns Hopk=ns School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Before coming to SAIS,=Dr. Habeck taught American and European military history in Yale's history=department, 1994-2005.  This course will be held at NoMA Workspaces, =40 First Street NE, Third Floor, Washington, DC 20002.

To register, visit the Yale Alumni College webpage.<=span>

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REGISTER HERE
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Taught by:    = Paul Sullivan, '86 PhD, Prof=ssor of Economics at the National Defense University, Adjunct Professor of=Security Studies at Georgetown University

Dates:   &nb=p;       Saturdays, March 10- April 14, 10am - 12=pm

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Location:  UCDC Washington Center 160= Rhode Island Avenue NW

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Course Description:

=This class will look into how to make the use of natural resources more su=tainable and less wasteful. It will also look into how to handle resource =onflicts better. Climate change will also be considered across the resourc=s to be discussed. The areas of focus will be South America (Chile, Argent=na and Bolivia), North and East Africa (the Nile Basin, Egypt, Sudan, Sout= Sudan, Ethiopia, etc), China-India-Pakistan-Tibetan Plateau, and the conf=ict minerals areas of Western and Central Africa. The domestic and interna=ional security aspects will include water conflicts, land disputes, minera=s tensions, food security, and other resource-based social and political (=nd even military and diplomatic) tensions and the like. No previous knowle=ge of the subject matter is needed. Dr. Sullivan will get all in the class=up to speed on the issues in a reasonable, fun and effective way.

=All readings will be via the internet. No need to purchase any books.

Course Fee: $450.00   Click here to g= to the Registration Page

"Dreams and Disillusion in Nineteenth-Century France"

REGISTER H=RE

Taught by:     Su=anna Lee, '92, Professor of French, Georgetown University   &nbs=;            &=bsp;           &nbs=;            &=bsp;           &nbs=;            &=bsp;           &nbs=;
Dates:       &=bsp;   Mondays, March 5- April 9, 5:30 - 7:00 pm  &nbs=;            &=bsp;           &nbs=;            &=bsp;           &nbs=;            &=bsp;           &nbs=;             =br> Location:       Kramerbooks and Aft=rwords Café, 1517 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036

Course Description:

This mini-c=urse studies two of the greatest literary hits of the French nineteenth-ce=tury, Balzac's Le Père Goriot and Flaubert's Madame Bova=y. Balzac's 1835 novel tells the story of a young man who has come to=Paris from the provinces and hopes to make his fortune. Revolted but mainl= fascinated by the corruption he finds, he sets out to conquer high societ=. Flaubert's 1857 Madame Bovary chronicles a discontented married woman wh= dreams of passion and romance, pursuing her fantasies into the gates of m=dness and ruin. Focus will be on close readings of plot, character, and st=le, as well as on political ideologies, the role of religion, the meaning =f narrative authority, the importance of gender and class, the rise of ind=strial production and capitalism, the definition of morality and moral aut=ority, the relationship between reality and writing, and the nature of lit=rary and cultural modernity.

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Course Fee: $395.00

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Click here to=go to the Registration Page

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"Understanding al-Qa'ida and Isis"

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Taught by: Mary Habeck, '89 MA, '96 Ph.D. Profes=or at Johns Hopkins (SAIS) and Georgetown University
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Dates: Tuesdays, March =- April 10, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Location: NoMA Workspa=es, Union Station, 840 First Street NE, Third Floor, Washington, DC 20002<=span>

Course Description:

This course will examin= in-depth the two main extremist groups, al-Qa'ida and ISIS, showing the c=ear distinction between extremism and ordinary Islam. We will analyze as w=ll the war that they are fighting with the rest of the world, beginning wi=h the historical roots of their hateful ideology, the rise of al-Qa'ida, a=d the creation of their strategies. The course will then take a chronologi=al look at the war itself, showing how the extremists viewed 9/11, Iraq, A=ghanistan, the Arab Spring, and much more. The course will end by asking i= this is a war that we can win.

Course=Fee: $450.00

Click here to go to th= Registration Page

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For more information:
Contact: Sharon Small
Phone: 203-436=9213
Email: Sharon.small@yal=.edu

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