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Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

UWAA Members can become OLLI-UW Members and register for a free course (up to $75 value)! Returning members can receive 20% off a normal-priced course.

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Washington (OLLI‑UW) gives adults over the age of 50 the opportunity to learn for the joy of learning, without tests, grades, or papers.

Courses are led by current and retired UW faculty and experts from the community. Classes are offered both Zoom and in-person courses – some at the UW!

March-April 2024 Courses

Zoom

• Cybersecurity: Policy and Politics
• A Sociological Discussion of Groups in the Workplace
• Science Solutions to Climate Change and Pollution
• The Journey of Relinquishment in Herman Hesse’s novel, Siddhartha
• Two Contemporary Native Artists: Jaune Quick-To-See Smith and Preston Singletary
• The Sixties in America: From Rebellion to Rights to Commodity
• Rock Year By Year: 1958-1961
• Psychology Fundamentals: A 101 Overview
• The Fourth Dimension: One billion Years of Washington Geology
• AI for Regular People
• Writing a Slice of Your Life
• Billy Wilder in Hollywood: Director, Writer, and Social Critic / RTVF Authorship: The Films of Billy Wilder
• Museum Masterpieces in the United States, part 1

In Person

• Save Snoqualmie Falls! Field Trip
• Russia and China: War, Repression, Autocracy – Past, Present, Future
• The Calder Experience: Art Moving Through Space and Time
• Houses of Worship Tours, Part 2: Eastern and Alternative Religions 
• Olmsted Walking Tour – Green Lake
• Readers Theater
• America in the 1850s: Origins of the Civil War

May-June 2024 Courses

Zoom

• Mathematical Models of Dynamic Physical Systems: How engineers think about things – Models, methods, attitudes
• Gershwins & Company 
• Aeon+Psyche and The Sociology of Knowledge
• Israel & Palestine: We Need to Talk
• The Power of Choreographic Storytelling: The “Legs” of a Broadway Musical

In Person

• Four Presidential Elections: Third-Party Candidates Who Made a Difference 
• From Hope to Hostility: The Epic Journey of US-China Relations Since Nixon – Course I: The Movers and Shakers
• Famous Sea Voyages
• Discovery Park: The Glacial History of Puget Sound
• Israel & Palestine: We Need to Talk
• Photographing Kubota Garden
• From Hope to Hostility: The Epic Journey of US-China Relations Since Nixon – Course II: Great Power Competition

March Lectures:

Upcoming Lectures 

• Nutrition during active cancer treatments  (Hybrid)
• The Last Stargazers (Zoom)
• Journey into the Brain (In Person)
• Early Mukilteo History and Prohibition Years (In-Person)
• Fungal Fruits of the Forest – Choice Edible Mushrooms of the PNW (Zoom)

For more information on classes and registration CLICK HERE. OLLI-UW has a low annual membership fee of $40 and a minimal fee per course. For questions email olli@uw.edu.

Become an OLLI-UW Member and register for a free course this Autumn 2023 (up to $75 value). Returning OLLI-UW members get 20% off a normal priced course.

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