Wonderlust Wonderings...
A talented teacher who expertly taught the basics of very complicated subjects, Weather and Climate. Her enthusiasm about those subjects kept me so engaged and excited to learn more! She addressed all learning styles. It was fun!
Course Participant, Introduction to Weather and Climate


HAPPY EASTER!
TOUR WORLD FAMOUS ART & CULTURE SITES
Are you itching to get out of the house? Travel? Explore?   Now you can tour renowned museums and take in their inspiring offerings while maintaining social distancing and ‘stay at home’ directives.
 
Walk amongst innovative outdoor exhibits. Take a virtual journey to breathtaking museums around the world. Tour 6 now-closed exhibitions you may have missed in person. Google Street View now offers virtual  Arts & Culture tours . The quality and in many cases, information offers quality engagement and education.
 
Visit New York, Paris, Amsterdam, Florence, Sao Paulo, Berlin, Mexico City at a click of your mouse and stroke of the track pad. If not already, you may end up adding one of these fabulous breathtaking sites to your bucket list!
Spectacular and obscure cultural sites
From Chicago to Istanbul, the American Southwest to  Romanesque Churches of the Bourbonnais viewing images from  The Media Center for Art History at Columbia University feels like a time travel experience. The Media Center’s mission is to develop and support fieldwork and research projects documenting, presenting, and interpreting works of art, architecture, archaeology, related history and cultural heritage sites.  Start your cultural & historical adventures here .
OLLI OUT & ABOUT
Renaissanced
Students in Renaissance Civilization: 1300-1500, a course taught by Dr. Jason Nice at CSU Chico, were instructed to visit the Turner Print Museum. Despite the fact prints were not all from the Renaissance era, students had to write a one-page paper about the print, analyzing the complicated and enduring themes of the Renaissance. Typically each student writes a 10 to 15 page research paper, and although some students were thrilled, others found the limited writing space difficult and challenging. The end result  (here)  was impressive work and words capturing the broad themes of the Renaissance . (34min)

Enjoy this February 2020 short video compliments of OLLI at CSU Chico and fellow OLLI@CSU Chico members.
 
Enjoy!
GREAT DECISIONS
Enjoy this week’s short introductory film on The Philippines and the U.S., compliments of the Foreign Policy Association Great Decisions program. FPA Brief: “The Philippines has had a special relationship with the United States since the islands were ceded by Spain to the United States after the Spanish-American War at the end of the 19th century. However, since the election of Rodrigo Duterte, the country has pivoted more toward China, and away from the U.S. Duterte has also launched a largescale war on drugs that many criticize for its brutality. What does the future hold for U.S. relations with the Philippines?”
For additional resources on this topic visit   here .
 
Great Decisions will be offered by MSU-Wonderlust during the  Winter 2021 semester, featuring a lineup of 8 new FPA selected topics and briefings.
GLOBAL COVID-19 UPDATES
T he Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)  is an independent population health research center at UW Medicine, part of the University of Washington, that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. IHME makes this information freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health. If you enjoy big data,  read more about IHME and the daily COVID-19 projection updates .
NOTE- OLLI BIG DATA VIDEO GLITCH
If you viewed the  Is Technology Killing Privacy?   OLLI @ UMich talk with professor Florian Schaub, you may have noticed the abrupt ending. Our apologies! OLLI@UMich has been notified of this glitch and is hoping to upload a complete version of this fantastic and very timely video. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Stay tuned!
Exciting News!

Wonderlust is soon to become the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Montana State University.