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Humanity - Evolving or Devolving?
<p>Is humanity on the road to betterment or to self-destruction? We take a look at evidence from the past and the present, and from cultural and societal examples both real and imagined as we explore
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Is humanity on the road to betterment or to self-destruction? We take a look at evidence from the past and the present, and from cultural and societal examples both real and imagined as we explore this existential question. Each week offers a different perspective from a different tutor. Join us on the road of discovery.
DELIVERY MODE
- Face-to-Face
COURSE OUTLINE
- Snakes and Ladders (Chris Puplick)
- The Dialect Between the Civilizational State and the Modern State in Understanding Human Freedom (Nazrul Islam)
- Does Humanity Have a Dystopian Destiny? (Sonya Thompson)
- “The War to End All Wars” – Will Humanity Ever Learn? (Sandy Killick)
- Individualism to Collectivism – Are We Evolving or Devolving (Sandy Killick)
- Democracy – Is It a Failed Attempt at Evolution? (Michael Pyne)
- Responses to Darwinism – Social, Political and Religious (Michael Taylor)
- Are Computers Making Us Stupid? (Sonya Thompson)
- The Evolution of Evolution – The History of an Idea (Michael Taylor)
- The Visual Arts and the Fallacy of Cultural Progress (Dominique Millar)
Nazrul Islam
PhD (Sociology), MSc
Md Nazrul Islam holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Hong Kong and an MSc in Community Health and Health Management from Heidelberg University in Germany. With over twenty years of...
Sandy Killick
Sandra Killick is a leading authority in democracy education, adaptive leadership & systems thinking. A skilled facilitator, she creates spaces where people can have challenging, messy, necessary...
Dominique Millar
MA
Dominique has two Master's degrees in Italian art history and art curatorship. He was also the recipient of the prestigious Sir William Dobell Scholarship for Classical Drawing and Painting at...
Christopher Puplick
BA(Hons), MA
Chris Puplick AM served as a Senator for New South Wales and member of the Shadow Cabinet. He represented Australia at meetings of the UN General Assembly, the World Health Organisation and the...
Michael Pyne
MA, MEd, PhD
Michael has been teaching history for over 40 years, from high school to university level. He has written or co-written 13 history text books including HSC texts on the Arab/Israeli conflict and...
Michael Taylor
LLM, DPhil
Michael Taylor (LLM, DPhil) is new to the WEA but has extensive teaching experience over a long career. He began over thirty years ago as a College Lecturer in Moral and Political Philosophy at...
Sonya Thompson
MALP, MA
Sonya Thompson, MA, MALP, has taught in the subject areas of history and politics for over thirty years, much of that time with the WEA. Sonya holds postgraduate degrees in history, law and...