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 is open.
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.
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
Zoom
10:00 AM.....Peter Rousmaniere.....Immigration in the Trump Era
11:15 AM.....Chris Ryan.....The Bayeux Tapestry (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)
Tuesday Courses
Zoom
9:00 AM.....Peter Gilbert.....Frost in Winter
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)
Wednesday Courses
In-person
9:30 AM.....Tom Urgo.....On Location (Or Not?)
1:00 PM.....Lynnwood Andrews & Alice Schori.....Winter Botany (This course is sold out, but the Study Leaders have stated they are
willing to offer another section of the course if the wait list grows to at least
a minimum class size of 6)
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
3:00 PM.....Mary Kronenwetter, Jane Oneail, & Jeff Warner.....New Hampshire in Literature, Art, and Music
Thursday Courses
In-person
10:00 AM.....David Smith.....Protecting Ourselves from Scammers & Hackers
11:00 AM.....Jeanne Shafer.....Cara Romero; Indigenous Native American Photographer on Display at the Hood Museum
of Art
Zoom
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