History’s Greatest Voyages of Exploration

History’s Greatest Voyages of Exploration

Thursdays, November 3 – December 15, 2016 | 10:00 am | Special Interest Room

No Charge | Pre-Registration Required

Facilitator: Karen Zarse

Throughout history, one of the deepest human impulses has been the drive to explore, encounter, and reveal the unknown. In this course, you will join a quest to study the greatest explorers of world history and understand their motivations; religious impulses, pursuit of commerce, desire for conquest, and drive for scientific knowledge.  It begins with the pre-modern explorers working without advanced technologies yet achieving epic results, to exploration of the harshest environments in the Arctic, Antarctic, the ocean depths, and outer space.  Course content is from The Great Courses with Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Ph.D., University of Tennessee.

There is no charge for this course but you must pre-register. A maximum of 15 participants will be accepted.