Solving Easy Sudoku Puzzles
A Fun New Hobby
If you like puzzles and want to learn the basics of solving Sudoku, this is a good place to start. We will cover several elementary patterns...
National Parks: Visits to the Geological Wonders of North America
View and learn about America's National Parks
Yellowstone, Hawaii Volcanos, Mount Saint Helen, and other North American National Parks are locations that the Knowledge Seekers will visit...
U.S. Foreign Policy
Understanding the Process, Role Playing the Issues
This discussion group seeks an inside view of how U.S. foreign policy is made, drawing on cases developed by the Council on Foreign...
Understanding Complexity
Understanding physics better
The course will cover complexity science, introducing the core concepts and discussing ideas such as emergence, using twelve DVD lectures...
Mind-blowing Stories: Tales that are Amazing, Challenging, and True
Stories that are out the usual
This group will engage true stories that force us to think in new and unexpected ways about basic categories of human experience. To say it...
The Search for Meaning
Understanding reality and meaning
The quest to understand man’s underlying purpose has been proposed by Victor Frankl in "Man’s Search for Meaning" from which...
Current Events
Plenty to discuss at the local, nation, and global Levels
This discussion group is for people interested in current events happening at the local, national and global level. All opinions will be...
Tour of U-M Museum of Natural History
Enjoy a tour of Ann Arbor's newest museum
Join OLLI members on a guided visit to the UM Natural History Museum at their new location on North University Avenue. Many new exhibits and...
How Do Online Social Networks Influence People’s Emotional Lives?
Prof. Ethan Kross
Within a relatively short time span, online social networks have rapidly changed the way people interact, providing new opportunities to...
Periodical Innovations
Let's Look at the Future Together
Harpers and Atlantic monthly magazines have been the Instructor Paul Wenger’s reading staples for many decades and are recognized for...
Memoir Writing
Learn how to write your memoir
Participants will learn how to tell the stories of their lives and those of their ancestors. We will meet weekly, and each participant...
Understanding the Changing Face of Health Care Delivery
Understanding the Profound and Confusing Transformations
Profound and often confusing transformations have taken place in the last 20 years in the way the healthcare delivery system is structured....
Chinese 7
In-depth study
Understanding Chinese language fundamentally, learning Chinese systematically, and aiming to carry on conversations fluently. Instructor...
Thinking Rationally In an Age of Pseudoscience
What is pseudoscience?
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don't understand the differences between the...
Journey with Contemporary Award-winning Writers from Around the World
Do We See Things the Same Way?
In these sessions, participants will take a deeper look at how contemporary award-winning writers from around the world think and what...
“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the French Revolution
“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” is well-known as the stirring slogan of the French Revolution. In this study group, by means of an...
The 2020 Democratic Nomination: Who Gets to Choose, the Parties or the Voters?
An "Evenings With OLLI" Event
The Democrats have begun winnowing their original field of 20+ candidates down to the one who will eventually be their nominee for the 2020...
Restoring Justice to Targets of Online Harassment
Prof. Sarita Schoenebeck
Most social media sites sanction online harassment by removing content or banning users. However, these approaches largely write the...
Dear Diary: Exhibit Tour and Hands-on Exploration of Personal Writing
Join the exhibit curators in exploring the diary genre. We will begin with hands-on exploration and transcription of private diaries by 20th...
American Musical Theater
Enjoy traditional American Musicals
This course will cover the lives and the musical careers of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin and their contemporaries....
Great Decisions
World Affairs Critical to America
Great Decisions is the largest program on world affairs. The program model involves reading the Foreign Policy Association’s briefing book...
Advanced German
Let's Keep the Conversation Going
The course will be a continuation of Advanced German from fall 2019. The class will focus on the use of idiomatic German for conversation....
How We Can Find Peace in This Crazy World
How can mindfulness help me?
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy has been clinically proven to be at least as effective as drugs for depression - in other words, it...
Why We Use Social Media: Evolution, Neuroscience, and Problematic Use
Prof. Dar Meshi
Around two decades ago, Internet pioneers created online platforms that allow users to create profiles and interact with others. Today,...
Needlework Artists
An OLLI Shared Interest Group
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) has a new program option known as a Shared Interest Group (SIG). A SIG brings people together who...
How Volunteers Can Save Democracy
Voters Not Politicians (VPN) Grassroots Change
Voters Not Politicians (VNP) is the nonpartisan grassroots citizens group that led the 2018 ballot initiative to pass an anti-gerrymandering...
The American Novel
And The Grand Experiments in Our Country
“For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us,” declared John Winthrop as he...
The Doctor as a Patient: How it Changed Her Life
Rana Awdish, MD
Dr. Awdish’s near-death experience revealed a dark hole at the center of what was otherwise highly-proficient, astoundingly skillful care....
Mystery Book Club
An OLLI Shared Interest Group
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) has a new program option known as a Shared Interest Group (SIG). A SIG brings people together who...
Is Technology Killing Privacy?
Prof. Florian Schaub
Privacy is dead! Or is it? This talk will explore the darker side of social media, smartphones, smart speakers. How and why do these...
The Politics of Carbon
Part of the "Challenges of Climate Change" Lecture Series
Carbon pricing in the form of carbon taxes or cap-and-trade has been broadly embraced by economists for decades as the best policy option...
Mathematics for Those Who Hate Arithmetic
Learn how to do math
Did you hate math at school? Did it consist of rote learning, sheer drudgery, and application of procedures and formulas you did not...
U.S. 2020 Census: Count Every Person. Once. In the Right Place
An Evenings with OLLI Event
The 2020 Census is closer than you think. The U.S. population census is one of the most significant processes sustaining our American...
“Downstream from Here” by Charles Eisendrath
An OLLI Reads Event
Tom Brokaw calls Eisendrath “a reporter’s reporter” and the book, “lyrical.” Jeff Daniels adds “prepare to be inspired.” Ellen...
Some Perspectives on Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Dig deep into Macbeth
Witches! Prophecies! Murder! Madness! But also a deeper look at this tragedy from the perspective of our time. Participants will first read...
Should You Be Using a Password Manager?
What is a password manager?
One of the key identity security layers is having strong, unique passwords. In this class we’ll review password basics, and explore the...
The Road to Indie Publishing
Learn how to publish your book
More than one million independent books were published in the U.S. last year. Indie author and illustrator of Haggadah Regatta, Carol Levin...
Everything You Want to Know About China
And Didn't Know Who to Ask
We will discuss any topics you are interested in regarding China. The instructor, Yi Keep, will try to answer the questions you have or try...
“Working to Understand White Fragility”: In Preparation for and Reflection on Robin DiAngelo
An OLLI Reads Event
This two-session course is designed as an accompaniment to the March 13th campus visit by Robin DiAngelo, author of “White Fragility”....
Home Sweet Home: Aging in Place with Shared Housing
What is shared housing?
Shared housing programs are making a re-emergence amidst the rapid aging of our nation’s population. This is due in part to the desire of...
Mindful Self-compassion
Heal yourself with self-compassion
This course will introduce participants to the principles of Mindful Self-compassion (MSC). Self-compassion can be defined as learning to...
The Bee Lady Talks
Learn all about honeybees
Explore the life of the honeybee in and out of the hive. Victoria Dluzen McIntyre is an amateur apiarist whose love of honeybees comes to...
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: How Life Works, Part 1
Learn about biochemistry
This course is based on The Great Courses series of lectures by Prof. Kevin Ahern of Oregon State University. Part 1 will cover the...
How Criminal Justice Authorities Foster Mass Incarceration
And How They Can End It
During these three weeks we will examine the role of criminal justice authorities, such as prosecutors, judges and the courts, parole board,...
The Future of Healthcare in the U.S.
An OLLI Shared Interest Group
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) has a new program option known as a Shared Interest Group (SIG). A SIG brings people together who...
Shodo-Japanese Calligraphy
Brush and Ink to calm the mind and achieve peacefulness
Shodo-Japanese Calligraphy: Shodo is the art of drawing characters with brush and ink to express spiritual depth through the beauty of the...
American Mah-Jongg for the Novice
Don’t know your Bam from your Crak?
Don’t know your Bam from your Crak? Then come learn American Mah-Jongg. American Mah-Jongg is a fascinating and rewarding game of skill...
A Brief Review of Iran History and Culture
Still Lots to Cover...
The main goal of this course is to inform and give a better understanding about Iran to the study group. This includes a brief review of...
What About Weed? The Cannabis Controversy, Past, Present, and Future
Steven Strobbe
Weed, pot, marijuana, cannabis. Whatever you call it, the United States has a long, complicated, and conflicted history with this...
People Returning from Prison in Washtenaw County
How to Create Success
Allan Newman is chair of the non-profit, A Brighter Way. Its mission is to help people rebuild their lives after being released from prison...
