**This course meets on Zoom for three weeks, May 18, 25, & June 1**
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.
After positive feedback from when this class was offered a couple of years ago, OLLI is again offering another three-week facilitated discussion of the most important issues facing us as citizens. The goal is to select the most critical topic(s) in each of the above weeks and to discuss these in-depth.
For example, if the course were being held this week the selected topic might well be vigilantism in the United States. The facilitators would, for example, lead a discussion on:
What are the drivers that make the United States unique among developed countries with regard to the level of gun violence?
How does the current state of political discourse influence one way or another the root causes of this violence?
What can we as citizens do?
Participants will be expected to be up on the latest major issues covered by the media during the weeks of the course. If participants have a specific topic in the news that they would like to discuss, please let the instructors know by email to OLLI at least two days before the next meeting. The facilitators will work with the results of these selections to select the topics and to initiate the discussions.
There are two ground rules:
1. Any topic may be suggested; and
2. In the discussions, all opinions need to be respected.
While we may and should disagree, we must not become disagreeable!
