Political Science & Current Events   

Take a tour of the art and science of hurricane forecasting! Course topics will include understanding Florida's hurricane history, the basics of what makes the most powerful storms on Earth tick, how scientists "see" hurricanes today and prepare society for their impacts, and how tropical cyclone activity may change globally in the 21st Century. 

Some of the most prominent folk singers of the twentieth century, Woody Guthrie, Sis Cunningham, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Burl Ives, etc., were also political activists with various associations with the American Communist Party. Using FBI documents, video footage, and music, the lectures will bring to life these artists and the systematic way they were subject to government surveillance and suppression.

By May be found at the following website: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-folk-singers-and-the-bureau-the-fbi-the-folk-artists-and-the-suppression-of-the-communist-party-usa-1939-1956/., Fair use, Link

In this course, we will examine the last 100 years of Russian history through a closer look at the personalities of its rulers: Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khruschev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin. Each week, we will consider one of these major Soviet or post-Soviet leaders. We will explore their personal backgrounds, how each of them came to power and held on to power, and how their personalities and peculiarities affected the course of Russian history.

By Unknown author - [1] [2], Public Domain, Link