Winter Term 2025

Term Dates: January 6 - March 14, 2025

Click the image above to view the winter course catalog. Move through the pages using the right and left arrows. You can click on Study Leader names (in both the catalog and on this page, below) to view biographies.

This file and our print catalog feature brief course descriptions; for FULL course descriptions, click on the course links listed below.

Registration opens on Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 12:01 AM.

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If you see an abbreviation following any course title, this indicates that the course is being shared with Osher at Dartmouth by another program. RIT stands for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Rochester Institute of Technology; AIL stands for Adventures In Learning. These shared courses take place solely on Zoom.

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Monday Courses

In-person

9:30 AM.....Richard Comi.....Societal Implications of Medical Advances
10:00 AM.....Jed Williamson.....Accidents in Outdoor Pursuits - Their Causes and Cures
3:00 PM.....Stephen Flanders.....Delectable Food Films

Zoom

11:15 AM.....Chris Ryan.....The Bayeux Tapestry (RIT)
11:15 AM.....Nancy McAfee.....The History of Sculpture: Part 2 (RIT)
11:15 AM.....Tracy Mitchell.....Love, Labels, and Learning LGBTQ+ Basics (RIT)
11:15 AM.....Debbie Huff.....A Women, Four Camels, and A Dog (RIT)
12:30 PM.....Jeannie Lindheim.....Valuable Hospital Clowning Techniques You Can Use in Your Life
Please note: On page 20 of our printed catalog, the end time and cost for "Hospital Clowning" are listed incorrectly. It ends at 1:30 PM and is free (membership required).
1:30 PM.....Mary Eberhardt.....Microplastics All Around Us (RIT)

HyFlex

12:30 PM.....Jürgen Ewert.....Science & Technology; Horn of Plenty or Snake in the Grass? (In-person)
12:30 PM.....Jürgen Ewert.....Science & Technology; Horn of Plenty or Snake in the Grass? (Zoom)

Tuesday Courses

In-person

9:30 AM.....Iain Sim.....Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches and Beyond
11:30 AM.....David Grant.....Huck and James
11:30 AM.....Inge Brown.....The Mysterious East—Mongolia, Where Is It?
1:00 PM.....Brian Fowler.....The Old Man of The Mountain's Lasting Legacy

Zoom

9:00 AM.....L. Jon Grogan.....The “Reel” Custer: Hollywood and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
9:00 AM.....Hilary Llewellyn-Thomas.....Appreciating Historical Fiction
9:00 AM.....Peter Gilbert.....Frost in Winter
9:30 AM.....Richard Mallory.....Franz Schubert: The Last Two Years (RIT)
9:30 AM.....Marie Levin.....The U.S. and the Middle East: 1914 to September 11, 2001 (RIT)
11:15 AM.....Timothy McDonnell.....The Adirondacks: New York's Great Wilderness Park (RIT)
11:15 AM.....Michael Tanenhaus.....Linguaphile: How Lanaguage Permeates Our Lives From Infancy to Death (RIT)
2:00 PM.....Robert Grafstein.....Free Trade: Engine of Growth or Instrument of Destruction?
2:00 PM.....Maryanne Garbowsky.....Casting Into One’s Self: Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River”

HyFlex

10:00 AM.....Joseph Ronan.....Taking Life Seriously: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (In-person)
10:00 AM.....Joseph Ronan.....Taking Life Seriously: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Zoom)
5:00 PM.....Clara Sava-Segal.....Diverse Minds: What We Know and Don’t Know About Psychiatric Disorders and Dementias 1 (In-person)
5:00 PM.....Clara Sava-Segal.....Diverse Minds: What We Know and Don’t Know About Psychiatric Disorders and Dementias 1 (Zoom)

Wednesday Courses

In-person

9:30 AM.....Tom Urgo.....On Location (Or Not?)
1:00 PM.....Lynnwood Andrews & Alice Schori.....Winter Botany

Zoom

9:00 AM.....Terrance Darcey.....More Short Fiction from the New Yorker Archive
9:30 AM.....Carol Emanuelson, Beverly Marshall, Kathleen Hunter, David Bashaw, Sage Chase, and Julie Machen.....Women Who Made A Difference (AIL)
10:00 AM.....Vic Henningsen.....Portrait of a Mind - Three Letters from Thomas Jefferson
11:30 AM.....David Grant.....Huck and James
3:00 PM.....Mary Kronenwetter, Jane Oneail, & Jeff Warner.....New Hampshire in Literature, Art, and Music
4:30 PM.....Marilyn Roberts.....Shakespeare’s Tyrants: Richard III and Macbeth 

HyFlex

10:00 AM.....Bruce James.....Poking the Climate Beast: Science & Ethics (In-person)
10:00 AM.....Bruce James.....Poking the Climate Beast: Science & Ethics (Zoom)

Thursday Courses

In-person

9:30 AM.....Christiana Whittington & Lee Emerson.....Germany: From Monarchy to Modernity, Through Politics and Culture
10:00 AM.....David Smith.....Protecting Ourselves from Scammers & Hackers
10:00 AM.....Sally Matless.....Encounter as Revelation of Presence in Martin Buber's "I and Thou"
11:00 AM.....Jeanne Shafer.....Cara Romero; Indigenous Native American Photographer on Display at the Hood Museum of Art
12:30 PM.....Gael Clauson & Patti Warren.....Put Some ART in Your HEART...2
2:30 PM.....Tom Wilson.....Traveling in Canada

Zoom

9:00 AM.....Bradley Truax.....Why Accidents Happen: The Science of Human Factors
11:30 AM.....Jon Stableford.....E. B. White, Reconsidered
2:00 PM.....Gloria Finkelstein.....French Inventions and Vocabulaire
2:00 PM.....Morris Kaplan.....Spanish Grammar and Conversation
2:00 PM.....Alan Schnur.....Ulysses S. Grant: President and Brilliant General or Butcher?

HyFlex

10:00 AM.....Charles Buell.....The Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s (In-person)
10:00 AM.....Charles Buell.....The Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s (Zoom)

Friday Courses

Zoom

10:00 AM.....Hugh Willard.....Against Type: Ageism in Today’s World

Weekends & Special Schedules: Tuesdays & Thursdays

In-person

10:00 AM.....Peter LaBelle & Steve Rauh.....Introduction to Curling