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FALL CLASSES START SEPTEMBER 2 — Registration & drop/add available through September 15

Rediscovering The Age Of Dinosaurs (R254)

R – Physical Sciences and Math

Wilmington (Arsht Hall) | September 5, 2025-December 5, 2025

Friday: 10:45 AM-12:00 PM

This is a hybrid course. One section meets on site at the location listed; and one section meets online only.

Required text: Raptor Red, Robert T. Bakker, ISBN 978-0-553–57561-3. In grade school we were taught that dinosaurs were dull-colored, unintelligent lizards. Some even thought that the largest of the dinosaurs had to have a separate brain in their tails. Discoveries have shown that dinosaurs had intelligence and emotions similar to animals today. With the help of the Great Courses, Paleontologist Kristi Curry Rodgers, and an intriguing novel, we investigate what has been discovered and hypothesized about dinosaurs in the past 60 years.

This offering meets for a total of 13 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: William Jones

JONES, WILLIAM — Long-term instructor at the Wilmington and Dover OLLI campuses. A Cornell graduate and retiree from DuPont and consulting, enjoys history, earth science and travel with his wife, Dot. (D289, F219, G487, G359, R254)

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