Course Offerings & Registration
You MUST be a current member of Osher to enroll in a class or event. No exceptions.
- Membership is nonrefundable, regardless of whether you are able to enroll in your desired course.
- We no longer process refunds for courses, except for the classes that are cancelled by the OLLI office, hospitalization, death or a significant life event, which prevents you from participating.
- You will no longer need a login (username and password) to register for classes and events.
- All class enrollments are online with a credit card on our secure server.
- We no longer process phone orders.
Winter 2019 Courses:
- Course Registration begins, Friday, December 14 at 1 p.m.
- Courses Start Monday, January 7 - Friday, March 29
Long Courses:
- Putin’s Russia: “The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep" - starts January 7th
- A Potpourri of Science (Room Change)- starts January 8th
- Film Odyssey: Just in It for the Laughs - Five Comedy Motion Picture Masterpieces! - starts January 9th
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Dreams and Realities: California Up to the San Francisco Earthquake - starts January 10th
- A Tour of the Universe: The Solar System and Extrasolar Planet (Room Change) - starts January 10th
- The U.S. Navy, 1791 – 1991: Strategy, Operations, and American Foreign Policy - starts January 11th
- Opera: The First Hundred and Fifty Years (Room Change)- starts January 11th
- Politics in Music - starts February 11
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Antisemitism: The Dynamics and History of the “Longest Hatred” - starts February 14th
- Archaeology and Ancient Engineering - starts February 16th
- Antebellum America and the Age of Jackson - starts February 20th
- International Trade: Myths and Reality - starts February 22nd
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The Germans in France During World War II: Defeat, Occupation, Liberation, and Memory - starts March 8th
Short Courses:
- Economic Crisis: The 2008 Recession: Its Present and Future Impact - starts January 7th
- Introduction to Meteorology: From Global Scale to Mesoscale - starts January 8th
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The 2018 Midterm Elections: Watershed Moment or Watered-Down Results? - starts January 22nd
- Opera in Your Neighborhood: Moby-Dick and Madama Butterfly - starts February 4th
- Successful Science! The Science of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project (Room Change) - starts February 8th
- California Poets of Nature and the Environment: An Illustrated Look at Poetry and the California Landscape - starts February 12th
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John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry - starts February 13th
- A Brief History of Viet Nam - starts February 14th
- Osher Museum Series: World-Class Art in Your Own Backyard
Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center and Anderson Collection - starts February 26th
- Theatre Behind the Scenes: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - starts February 26th
- The 1918 Flu Pandemic - starts March 5th
- Experience Morocco: Its History, Culture, and People - starts March 9th
Maker Lab
- Maker Lab for Your Own Creations - starts January 11th
Special Event
- Spotlight on SCU Faculty: Shannon Vallor: AI and a Future Worth Wanting: How to Harmonize Machine and Human Values - on March 1st