Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)

Course Materials for Spring Term Classes are posted below.

Files are PDF unless otherwise noted.

Spring Term class materials will be posted below by Monday of each week as they become available.

#2 - Climate Change and the RV

• Questionnaire

#3 - The Presidency of George Washington

• Outline
• Bibliography

#4 - The Inuit - How Did They Do It?

• Outline
• Reading List
• Internet Sources
• Class 1
• Class 2
• Class 3
• Class 4
• Class 5
• Class 6
• Class 7

#5 - WW II

• Sicily and Italy
• Central Pacific Campaign
• D-Day
• Stalingrad - text
• Stalingrad - slides
• Tarawa Kwajalien Majuro
• Second Battle of France
• Willie and Joe's War
• WWII Aircraft
• Instructor's Notes 5/9
• Operation Dragoon
• Operation Market-Garden
• Battle of the Bulge

#12 - Healthcare Reform

• Class 1
• Cost of Defensive Medicine
• Kwashiorkor cited by Prime Healthcare in bills
• Perinatal care abstract
• Healing Health Care - Third Party Payor
• Class 2

#14 - Crosswords

• Link to instructor's course web page

#18 - Flower Gardening

• Handout

#20 - English Country Dance

• Glossary
• Origins

#24 - Birding Oregon

• Birding Festivals

#32 - Exploring Family Dynamics thru Film

• Outline
• Link to Time Magazine article "Playing Favorites"

#33 - Choose the Optimism Option

• Don't Retire - Rewire
• Healthy Optimism
• Retire Ready bibliography
• Seven Secrets of Sleeping Soundly
• Top 10 Tips to Reduce Your Anxiety
• To Ten Time Management Tips

#36 - Don't Blow It! Communication Skills

• Syllabus
• Empathy
• Have To ... Choose To
• How to Listen
• Need to Matter
• Some Basic Needs We All Have
• Steps to Saying No

#37 - Seven Secrets for Winning at Aging

• Outline

#40 - Values for Living

• Slides

#44 - They're Singing Our Song

• A Song Is Born
• The 30s - Part I
• The 30s - Part II
• The 40s - Part I
• The 40s - Part II
• The 50s
• The 60s
• Discography

#45 - Baroque 17th Century Art in Italy, Spain and France

• Slide List

#47 - Lorrie Moore

• Outline

#49 - Best American Short Stories 2011

• Outline

#51 - April with Emily

• Poems to Explore

#57 - Dante's Inferno

• Course Schedule
• Introduction to Allegory
• Some General Considerations

#63 - Film Festivals VII and VIII

• Outline

#66 - Shakespeare 101

• Syllabus
• Survey
• Romeo and Juliet Close Readings
• Romeo and Juliet Prose
• Romeo and Juliet Prologue
• Mercutio's Dying Speech
• As You Like It - Jacques
• Hector - Troilus and Cressida
• Henry V - Crispin's Day
• Ulysses - Troilus and Cressida
• My Mistress' Eyes
• Archetypes overview

#67 - Chekhov Short Stories

• Outline

#68 - The Shakespeare Authorship Question

• Syllabus

#71 - Training for Service on a HOA

• Outline

#73 - Baroque 17th Century Art in Italy, Spain and France

• Slide List

#81 - E-books

• Link to instructor's course web page

#83 - Skin

• Weeks 1 and 2