Arnie Goldstein

Arnie received Bachelor’s (Magna Cum Laude) and Master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from the City College of New York and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the City University of New York. He was employed for 49 years in the petroleum and petrochemical industries as an engineer, executive, and consultant specializing in the management of intellectual property assets. He was an Adjunct Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and a volunteer docent at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City. He was honored to receive a “Teacher of the Year Award” from the FILL program for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Courses Arnie teaches:

Origins, Strategies and Outcomes of the Second World War- This course traces the origin of the Second World War to the outcome of the First World War and to the Great Depression of 1929 that facilitated the rise of totalitarian nations in Europe and Asia. These totalitarian nations attempted to overthrow by violence the world order that had been established after the First World War and seize for themselves the territory and wealth of neighboring nations. The course covers the strategies used by the belligerents to achieve their objectives and the outcomes of the War, both positive and negative, many of which are still with us, more than 70 years later.

A Brief History of the Twentieth Century- This course covers the major themes and events that mark the 20th century as unique within recorded human history. Themes include, but are to limited to: the vast increase in world population during the 20th century and the need to provide food and potable water for billions of people, the growth in world trade, urbanization, energy usage and supply, literacy, electronic communications, computing technology, human rights, public health, immigration, and both prosperity and poverty. Events covered include the run-up to World War I, its settlement and outcomes; the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the creation of the Soviet Union; the 1920s-1930s which witnessed economic and political chaos; World War II, its settlement and outcomes; the dawn of the Nuclear Age; the the growing role of the United States in world affairs; the many colonial wars involving Europeans and their break-away colonies in Africa and Asia, resulting in the creation of many new nations; the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union known as the Cold War; the dissolution of the Soviet Union; and the “clash of civilizations” evident at various times during the 20th century. These themes and events will be examined both from a world-wide and US prospective, as will be their connection to the present day The course is a multi-semester offering, each semester composed of six lectures.