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Many situations both personal and professional require the ability to make credibility determinations, and often quickly. Presented in an entertaining and interactive format, this seminar will provide both a fascinating overview and practical application of the research and techniques facilitating modern lie detecting.
Outcomes: Learn to spot the phony in a variety of situations through the techniques and tactics discussed in Dr. Patrick´s two recent books, the revised version of the New York Times bestseller Reading People; and Red Flags: Frenemies, Underminers and Ruthless People, augmented with the latest, cutting edge research.
Format: 50% lecture, 50% discussion
Wendy Patrick, J.D., M.Div., Ph.D. is a career prosecutor who has been named Public Lawyer of the Year by the California State Bar Public Law Section, voted by her peers as one of the Top Ten criminal attorneys in San Diego by the San Diego Daily Transcript, and has completed over 165 trials ranging from hate crimes to domestic violence to first-degree murder. She is the author of Red Flags (St. Martin´s Press), co-author of the New York Times bestseller Reading People (revision, Random House), a media analyst, and a media personality with over 6,000 appearances in media including CNN, Fox News Channel, and Fox Business Network. She has her own radio show called "Today with Dr. Wendy" on KCBQ, does a biweekly radio tour called "Weekly Legal” for Fox News Radio, has a weekly slot called "Inside the Law" on Fox 5 San Diego, is a regular guest on Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
has a weekly segment called "On the Docket" on America's Voice News, appeared regularly as a behavioral analyst on Australia´s Seven Network, and served frequently as a guest host for KOGO radio San Diego. Dr. Patrick has her own online column in Psychology Today and has been quoted in a variety of sources including the New York Times, USA Today, US News and World Report, Washington Post, Associated Press, Cosmopolitan, The Oprah Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, CSNBC, CNN.com, and The Christian Science Monitor. On a personal note, Dr. Patrick holds a purple belt in Shorin-Ryu karate, is a concert violinist with the La Jolla Symphony, and plays the electric violin professionally with a rock band.Possible Scenarios: US vs China • US vs N Korea • US vs Iran • Israel vs Iran • US vs Russia • India vs China • India vs Pakistan (Kashmir) • the US vs Turkey • …And the list goes on. Will it be a nuclear war? Will it be a cyberwar? Will it be an accident? Will it just be a misunderstanding in translation or culture? Who will move first? Does it make a difference if the leader is male or female? Who will you bring to the dance? This class brings hypothetical scenarios that examine all the possibilities about who, how, why, and (maybe) when WW3 might begin. Or perhaps it’ll just become a board game.
Outcomes: Recognize geopolitical machinations of powerful and not so powerful nation states. • Hypothesize various riggers for WW#3 or any war. • Consider who your war partners might be. • Analyze which nations will opt out and why. • Examine how misunderstandings in language and culture are dangerous in a diplomatic crises.
Format: 70 % lecture, 30% discussion
Nadine Bopp, M.A. is a retired college professor who taught courses in sustainable design, urbanism, science, and social science at the School of the Art Institute, Columbia College, and Depaul University in Chicago. Having worked in medical research and environmental planning, her research interests always combine components of science and design. Bopp’s queries in all her research include a historic perspective to answer the question “How did we get to now?” Her mindset is to never stop learning, and it is the driver behind her continued research and desire to share her discoveries.
This course will explore current events with a focus on constitutional law at the Supreme Court and in other corridors of power. Largely driven by what’s “hot” in the news when the course is taught (and responsive to issues that class members wish to focus on), this course will dig beneath the surface perspectives presented by the media and pundits. We’ll focus on legal doctrines and tradeoffs behind these controversies. For example, assuming that the Court continues to take cases about vaccine and mask mandates, the course would focus in-depth on the legal issues about personal liberty and religious freedom that underlie these controversies.
Outcome: Analyze and discuss current news events within the context of legal doctrines and precedents.
Format: 80% lecture, 20% Q&A / group problem-solving
Glenn C. Smith, J.D., LL.M., is a constitutional law professor at California Western School of Law. He also teaches a Supreme Court simulation class in which the students learn about the Court by playing roles of current justices and advocates. He is the author of Constitutional Law for Dummies and writes about a variety of legal issues for scholarly journals and publications aimed at non-legal audiences. He is a regular commentator in print and electronic media regarding the Court and its cases.
Despite an unremarkable childhood and a lackluster military career up to the outbreak of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant became one of the most consequential leaders in American history. He became the greatest general of the Civil War and with the exception of Abraham Lincoln, no man did more to preserve the Union. As President, he confronted the Ku Klux Klan and protected the rights of millions of newly freed black Americans. Grant was a simple, humble Midwestern man who as Walt Whitman once put it was, “nothing heroic, and yet the greatest American hero.”
Outcomes: Understand the role Ulysses Grant played in leading the Union army to victory in the Civil War. • Comprehend how Grant managed Reconstruction through his Presidency.
Format: 90% lecture, 10% discussion
Blaine Davies received an M.A. in History from Boise State University, a bachelor’s in Business from San Francisco State University, and an Idaho Secondary Teaching Credential in History and U.S. Government. He taught U.S. History at Boise State University from 2003 to 2017, and before that was a product marketing manager for Hewlett-Packard. Davies has traveled extensively in the United States and internationally, and especially enjoys visiting the U.S. historical sites he discusses in his lectures. He also enjoys playing tennis and pickleball, ballroom dancing, and reading and reviewing historical novels.