Is humanity on the road to betterment or to self-destruction? We take a look at evidence from the past and the present, and from cultural and societal examples both real and imagined as we explore this existential question. Each week offers a different perspective from a different tutor. Join us on the road of discovery.

DELIVERY MODE

• Face-to-Face

COURSE OUTLINE

• Snakes and Ladders (Chris Puplick)
• The Dialect Between the Civilizational State and the Modern State in Understanding Human Freedom (Nazrul Islam)
• Does Humanity Have a Dystopian Destiny? (Sonya Thompson)
• “The War to End All Wars” – Will Humanity Ever Learn? (Sandy Killick)
• Individualism to Collectivism – Are We Evolving or Devolving (Sandy Killick)
• Democracy – Is It a Failed Attempt at Evolution? (Michael Pyne)
• Responses to Darwinism – Social, Political and Religious (Michael Taylor)
• Are Computers Making Us Stupid? (Sonya Thompson)
• The Evolution of Evolution – The History of an Idea (Michael Taylor)
• The Visual Arts and the Fallacy of Cultural Progress (Dominique Millar)