**This course will be held In-Person**
Each week brings a vast array of important and complex political and social developments. Analysis and coverage by print, social, and mass media sometimes clarify but often obscure what is really going on and why. It is hard to navigate through this maze. The stakes are particularly high during a presidential election year.
After positive feedback from students when this class was given during the Summer Session, and multiple requests to continue the class in light of the upcoming presidential and congressional elections, OLLI is offering a special three-week facilitated discussion of matters pertaining to the presidential and down-ballot congressional elections. Students will meet for two weeks prior to the election, and one week afterwords. As the campaign unfolds we will select the most critical topic(s) in each of the above weeks and discuss these in-depth.
Participants will be expected to be up on the latest developments related to the election and covered by the media during the weeks of the course. If participants have a specific topic they would like to discuss, they will be expected to let the instructors know by email to OLLI at least four days before the next meeting. The facilitators will work with the results of these selections to choose the topics, identify discussion questions, and to facilitate the analysis of the class.
Here are the ground rules:
1. Topics in the three weeks will focus on the presidential and congressional races and events leading up to the election and, for the last week, be focused on the issues and factors that affected or may have played key roles in the outcomes of the election.
2. In the discussions, all opinions need to be respected.
While we may and should disagree, we must not become disagreeable!
