History of California and Current Events — Case Study: Berkeley, CA
Pam Gleason
Thursday, Mar. 31, 2022, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (PT)
Repeats every Thursday until Thursday, Mar. 31, 2022
Price: $155.00
This course is a survey of California’s multiethnic history with a focus on the historic influences and implications that affect culture and current events in California. Berkeley, California provides plenty of colorful examples of how individual agency changed the course of history. Class topics will link the historic context of California’s current crises and challenges — a severe housing shortage, global warming, out-of-control fires in the wildland-urban interface, economic disparity, and systemic racism — alongside California’s extraordinary international leadership in innovation, technological development, and affluent living.
Pam Gleason is a local history buff and tour guide whose Guidebook to Berkeley will be on bookshelves soon. She’s worked at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism since 2007 and has degrees in political economy and history. She misses the “How Berkeley Can You Be?” parade and is intrigued when individual agency changes the course of history.
This is an In-Person, Livestreamed & Recorded Course
- Classes will be held in person at Freight & Salvage (2020 Addison St, Berkeley).
- Classes will also be streamed live simultaneously and recorded. Videos will post Friday of each week.
- Course materials, including videos, will remain available to view and enjoy through May 28.
- All links and materials will be posted in the Member Dashboard. Learn more.
Schedule Highlights
- Course starts on Thursday, March 31 and ends on Thursday, May 5.
- Classes run for six weeks at two-hours per session.