OLLI at Duke

08/07/2024

Fall 2024 Catalog is now live! Start planning your courses and preparing for registration opening August 20 & 21!

OLLI at Duke Fall 2024 course catalog. For more information visit www.Learnmore.duke.edu/olli

01/11/2024

📣Registration is now open for all of our winter courses! View the catalog below and head to our website to make your selections!

OLLI At Duke Winter 2024 course catalog. For more information please visit www.learnmore.duke.edu/olli

08/03/2023

Our Fall 2023 catalog is now available! Tell us what classes you're excited about in the comments. 👇

OLLI At Duke Fall 2023 course catalog. For more information please visit www.learnmore.duke.edu/olli

06/15/2023

What a great way to celebrate 45 years of OLLI at Duke! Thank you to everyone that joined us and to those that made our event successful.

See you in five years for our 50th!

05/22/2023

"Within the first three months of being online, we trained over 1,500 older adults just how to use Zoom. We were having these open Zoom basic sessions early on because we felt like we wanted everybody to just learn how to get on it. We were probably ten days ahead of most people when we started doing this." - Chris McLeod, Director, OLLI at Duke, speaks about through Covid on the Leading Learning Podcast.

Listen or read the transcript here:

Leading Learning Podcast interviewee Chris McLeod COVID permanently altered the operations and offerings of many learning businesses, and the Osher

04/04/2023

04/04/2023

OLLI in the news! Check out this article from Duke Today featuring OLLI instructors Betsy Dessauer and Ruth Caccavale, and some recent class members!

Fulfill Your Love of Lifelong Learning Staff and faculty are invited to join the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute for access to in-person and virtual courses Image Duke Osher Lifelong Learning Institute members pose for a photo during a class that explored art at the Nasher Museum of Art in early 2...

03/28/2022

The Spring 2022 course catalog is out now! Registration begins April 12 and 13 at 9 am. Click here to learn more: https://learnmore.duke.edu/olli

09/03/2021

Registration is Underway!
We are so excited for the Fall term to begin! You may register for any class up until the week after the first session of the class. Check out www.learnmore.duke.edu/olli to learn more!

If you’re looking to add a course, here’s a list of the available classes:

Exploring the Q***r South - Joshua Burford - 3301
Fitness at Home - Julia Rose - 3273
History of the Black Press - Carl Kenney - 3308
Watercolor Painting: Mallards - Carol Fynn - 3320
Introduction to Travel Writing - Michael Solender - 3289
Caste: A Discussion Group - Irene Newman - 3304
Art & Women I - Ruth Caccavale - 2877
Reading Northern Soldiers' Civil War Letters - Steven Gates - 3299
Federal Budget & Debt: So What? - Edward Johnson - 2885

The Backstory of a Poem: Sources of Inspiration - Terri Strug - 3296
Optics for the Curious: A Survey of the Study, Properties, and Uses of Light - Michael Paesler - 3318
Toward a More Equitable Durham: Parables, Paradoxes, and Partnerships - Cathy Rimer-Surles - 3323
New Lens: A New Way of Looking at Important Topics - Dick Chady - 1977
Abraham Lincoln & Slavery: We Cannot Escape History - Joe Simpson - 3311
Teachers in Fiction and Film: An Examination - Marjorie Lancaster - 3317

American Foreign Policy - William Davidshofer - 3313
L’Histoire des Francaises - Claire Davidshofer - 3301
Yoga Nidra: Systematic Relaxation - Eileen Friars - 3315
Community Engagement: Finding Your Path to Meaningful Involvement in Durham - Virginia Lee - 3297

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke seeks to engage the minds, elevate the spirit and foster the wellbeing of our members through a wide range of educational programs and opportunities for volunteer service and social activities. We embrace Duke University’s commitment to community servi...