Computerized Investing: Asset Allocation and Mutual Funds
Investment Strategies
We expect to improve your overall investment knowledge as well as your investing strategies as we present methods of using various...
Rosie the Riveter and the Willow Run Bomber Plant
You Thought You Knew It All
This presentation for those 50 and over highlights the role of women in the defense industries during WWII. The “Save The Bomber Plant...
Beginner Chinese Conversation
And How to Travel in China
This course, for those 50 and over, will introduce some basic Chinese conversational phrases, and provide help to answer the questions...
An Afternoon in the Company of Sondheim’s Company
Enjoy Sondheim's Music
After a brief informal introduction by Marilyn Scott, the group will watch the 2011 concert version of this musical, which explores the ups...
American Musical Theater – Golden Age of Broadway, 1943-1968
Enjoy Musical Theater
This series will include composers and lyricists Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Jule Styne, Irving Berlin, George and...
OLLI Dialog on Freedom & Diversity with Dilip Das
An OLLI "Special Event"
Freedom is a core value, a proud symbol of what it means to be American. The meaning of freedom has evolved over the 243 years since our...
Mah-Jongg
Tired of Old Maid?
Mah-Jongg is a Chinese game resembling Gin Rummy, but is played with colorful tiles instead of cards. It is easy to learn and can become...
What Makes Some Music “Great”?
Enjoy & Discuss Great Music
Ultimately a question Louis cannot answer, he will try to illuminate the greatness about selected/popular concert pieces. Why do we love the...
Reading Women’s Lives
Women's Literature
This study group will read one memoir/month written by women. Several will focus on aging and old age, some on grief and loss, some on...
American Dialogue
A Talk with the Founding Fathers
This study group will discuss the ideas in “American Dialogue: The Founders and Us”, by Joseph J. Ellis. Ellis positions our...
De Facto and De Jure Apartheid: On the Moral, Politcal and Policy Failures of the Post-Apartheid State: A Call for an Official State Apology for Apartheid in South Africa
Yazier Henry
Legal Apartheid was politically, legally and procedurally dismantled after a protracted antiapartheid struggle in South Africa in 1994....
Memoir Writing
Tell the Story of Your Life
Participants will learn how to tell the stories of their lives and those of their ancestors. We will meet weekly, and each participant...
How Does a Single Protein Molecule Cause an Array of Diseases? The Story of the Magic Protein NLRP3
Understanding Cell Biology
In some cases, the malfunction of a signal molecule in our body causes diseases. Here the protein NLRP3 will be taken as an example. The...
National Issues
Study Group on Issues of Your Choosing
This study group for those 50 and over, facilitated by Barbara Comai and Leo Shedden, will focus on domestic public issues of great...
India’s Religious Traditions
Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism
India is home to the ancient religious traditions, Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. They differ significantly from Abrahamic religions on...
Gerrymandering
Rejecting the Obvious
Now that it’s clear that efforts to deal with gerrymandering cannot be litigated in federal court, the question is whether state...
Ypsilanti – 1800 to the Present – A Rich & Unique History
An "Evenings With OLLI" Event
Begin the evening with a guided tour of the Ypsilanti Historical Society Museum and Archives to learn about the complex history of...
Education Inequality and Income Inequality in South Africa since the End of Apartheid
David Lam
When apartheid ended in 1994, South Africa had one of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. Inequality in education was both...
The History of Antisemitism
Learn about Antisemitism
The story of antisemitism is a story of hatred and horror, a story of lies and cruelty, a story of good people doing worse things. It is a...
Film Classics
Enjoy & Discuss Great Films
Why do some films seem so much better than others and maintain a reputation for what seems forever? Why do these films have an impact on the...
Touring Our Nation’s Capital – Washington D.C.
a Great Courses Great Tour
Washington D.C. attracts visitors from around the world on a daily basis. While the aura and intrigue of politics may draw many, Washington...
A Brief Review of Iran History and Culture
History, Society, Revolutions, and US Relations
The main goal of this course for those 50 and over is to inform and give a better understanding about Iran to the study group. This includes...
Advanced German V
Continue the Use of Idiomatic German in Conversation
The course for those 50 and over will be a continuation of Advanced German of winter/spring ‘19. The class will focus on the use of...
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Adaptation and Influence A Guided Exhibit Tour
Join us for a gallery talk and guided exhibit tour with Instructors Sigrid Cordell, Juli McLoone, and Angie Oehril. The tour for those 50...
South African Performing Arts in the New Democracy
Anita Gonzalez
Learn about South African music, theatre, and dance in the new millennium. A generation of young artists bring distinctive voices to a newly...
Women’s Issues
Based on the Book “Half the Sky”
This is a women’s discussion group based on Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn’s book “Half the Sky; Turning Oppression into...
Solving Difficult Sudoku Puzzles
So if the Beginners Class is Too Basic for You…
This is a class for Sudoku fans, 50 and over, who can solve the easy puzzles but want more techniques for solving the difficult ones. Each...
The Public Health Crisis of American Gun Violence
How We can Make a Difference
Physicians for the Prevention of Gun Violence (PPGV) is a Michigan based organization that educates physicians on the prevention of gun...
A Current Look at Flint
An OLLI "Out of Town" Event
In conjunction with OLLI’s hosting of the Great Michigan Read program on October 21, 2019, focusing on Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha’s update...
Real Heroines: Women and Words, 1800-1930
Literary Women
If you think all those recent movie heroines were amazing, this study group will introduce you to some real heroines who did amazing feats...
Community, Collaboration, Communication, and Change:
The Power of Civil Engagement by Older Adults
Civic engagement refers to the ways in which citizens participate in the life of a community in order to improve conditions for others or to...
Art and Design in the Age of Jane Austen
“Pride and Prejudice” as a Window into Issues of the Day
We will discuss Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, in which she alludes to issues such as the unmarried woman, inherited wealth,...
On Listening to Holocaust Survivors
Almost 50 Years of Personal Learnings
This seminar for those 50 and over is based on the instructor’s forty years of interviewing, teaching about, and writing about Holocaust...
Responding to Women Rowing North with Poetry
Improve your life
Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing as We Age is the subtitle to Mary Pipher’s book. Using the sections of the book as a guide we...
“Daring Greatly”: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Letting People In is a Good Thing
Join us for a study of Brene Brown’s popular book “Daring Greatly”. This book talks about how we are all enough and having the courage...
Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?
How to Make it Serve Democracy Instead
This course is based on the book titled Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?, by Robert Kuttner (cofounder and coeditor of The American...
Environmental Writing from Thoreau to the Present
Reading about Environmental Writing
We will sample the best and most influential American environmental writing, using as our text Bill McKibben’s excellent "American...
Innovative Disruption – A Youth Dialogue on Reforming Exclusionary Systems in South Africa
Gigi Ngcobo and Nomzamo Ntombela
South Africa’s history of Apartheid has resulted in its youth inheriting the task of innovatively transforming exclusionary systems and...
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers
Eight Generations of Treasures
This PowerPoint presentation, based on the William L. Clements Library’s 2017 book of the same title, is a captivating look at the lives...
Homer’s Iliad
Reading the Iliad
Using Robert Fagles’ translation of the Iliad, we will do a close reading and discussion of the poem. Our main focus will be on Homer’s...
OLLI Reads "What the Eyes Don't See"
In Collaboration with Michigan Humanities’ Great Michigan Read
This is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders,...
Escape from Nazi Germany and the Holocaust to Shanghai
Berl Falbaum,
Hitler came to power in 1933. At that time there were approximately 500,000 Jews in Germany and approximately 180,000 Jews in Austria. They...
Oxford Style Debates Covering Key Issues of Our Time
Do You Agree, Disagree, or Did They Change Your Mind?
Join this discussion for those 50 and over where we will observe and then discuss 3 different debates as featured on the UK/US series...
We Are Going Back to School...At Cranbrook
An OLLI "Out of Town" Event
It’s back to school time at Cranbrook Institute. We will start our day with a lecture and conversation about the history of Cranbrook,...
The Relationship Between Science and Religion
Discussion about Science & Religion
Through guided group discussion, we will look at the history and current state of the relationship between the scientific community and the...
John Le Carre´ and the Cold War on Film – Part I
Mysteries: Interpreted
Our series of detective mystery films continues with the spy genre. We’ll screen four film adaptations of John LeCarré’s literate spy...
Why National Policy Still Fails Black Women in the United States
The Need for New Social and Public Policies
This course for those 50 and over will examine how the social and legal structural oppression of Black American women is perpetuated in...
Renewable Energy in Michigan: Technologies, Public Policies, and Trends
Learn about Renewable Energy
Earth’s sun and wind are increasingly replacing fossil fuels as sources of energy. A big question is how much of our electric supply can...
TED Talks
Let’s Watch and Discuss
TED is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to “ideas worth spreading,” via powerful talks. TED began as a conference...
Restoring Movement via Electrodes Implanted in the Brain
Can Electrodes Help the Brain?
The dream of using signals from the brain to restore motor control in people with paralysis or amputation is getting closer to reality....
