Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Spring 2008
A History of Polar Exploration  

Instructor: Sharon Michalove

Semester: Spring 2008

Day and Time: TBA

Duration: 6 weeks

Location: OLLI at the Research Park, 2021 South First St., Champaign

Course Fee: $25.00

Week 1: Introductory survey of polar exploration through the ages, 
discussion on why people are willing to undertake exploration, film 
"Shackleton's Boat Journey" 

Week 2: Spurlock Museum (collection of materials from U of I expedition of 
1913)

Week 3: The Northwest Passage from Frobisher to Franklin; Film "Arctic 
Tomb"

Week 4 Race to the North Pole: Cook and Peary, Film "The Deadly Arctic 
Expedition"

Week 5: Below the Convergence: Early Antarctic Exploration from Cook 
through Borchgrevink, Film: .Antarctic Pioneers.

Week 6: The Golden Age of Antarctic Exploration: Scott, Amundsen and 
Shackleton, Film "90° South"