Examples of Study Groups

OLLI offers study groups in eight areas. Click on the links below to view recent study groups. Each semester OLLI offers new study groups and repeats popular study groups. Fall 2016 study groups will be listed online and available for registration in late July.

Subject Areas

Politics, Law & Government
Psychology, Sociology & Culture
Economics
Biology, Physics, Chemistry & Math
Visual Arts & Music
Literature & Language
History & Geography
Philosophy & Religion

Recent Study Groups

Politics, Law & Government
Critical Issues in American Policing
China's Resurgence and the Challenge to America
Understanding Energy and the Natural Gas Revolution
Global Public Health: International Organizations and Selected issues
U.S. and Global Challenges
Current Events and Public Policy
Current Events and Public Policy II
Today's Supreme Court: A Course for Citizens
Israel and the World

Psychology, Sociology & Culture

Immigration and American Life
Finding Your Family History on the Web
India: Culture, Traditions and Gandhi
Signs, Symbols and Archetypes — "What Lies Beneath"
TED Talks
Functions of Public Media: Past and Future
The American Songbook as Poetry, Psychology, and Manners
Writing and Sharing Your Family History
Having Fun and Living Healthier in Retirement

Economics
The Rise of the Robots 
Can We Adjust?
Financial Planning in Retirement
Boom and Bust
Climate Change: The Way Forward
Stock Market Theory: Classical to Modern

Biology, Physics, Chemistry & Math
The Cambrian Explosion: Body Plans for Life
Alternative Medicine and You: Promise, Reality, Potential
Quantum Biology
Advances in Understanding Human Cancer
Understanding Weather
Human and Animal Minds, and the Gap Between
Plate Tectonics and the Geology of North America

Visual Arts & Music
Drawing and Watercolor Painting
The Pocket Studio
Drawings on the Go
Looking at Architecture
Masterpieces of Music
Creating Art through Collage: Beginners and Advanced
Billings to Bernstein and Beyond: "Classical" Music in America
Prehistoric Rock Art
Part One: A Survey
You Can Play the Appalachian Dulcimer!
Collaboration in the Arts: A Celebration
Eight Great 20th Century Composers
A World of Textiles and Rugs

Literature & Language
Poetry Craftshop: Robert Frost, A Fascicle of Poems and Notes
Leaving Home
Cours de conversation en français
Wie ist Ihr Deutsch? Wollen Sie es auffrischen?
Hablemos en Español-Curso Intermedio
Basic Spanish
Part II
French — Back to the Basics
Orwell's Non-Fiction
Who Is Our Mutual Friend, Really?
Understanding Families Through Plays
The Latin American Short Story II (in English)
Recent Poet Laureates: Their Styles and Themes
Making Barsetshire
The Book of Job
Introduction to James Joyce and to Joycean Writers
Writing Down the Bones
The Good, the Bad, and the Mad: Doctors in Fiction and Film
Middlemarch
Enjoying The New Yorker Together
The Cock-eyed World of Aristophanes
Greek Comedy!
Great American Essays
Writing Nonfiction
Shakespeare's Theatrical London
Beginning Italian for Tourists
Shakespeare Seminar: A Close Reading of Othello

History & Geography
Seven Photographers Documenting 20th Century America
Ratification of the U. S. Constitution
Queen Elizabeth I — England's Renaissance Ruler
More New Perspectives on History
How the Second World War Happened — Fateful Choices
History and Analysis of the US Constitution
1914-1945 — Assessing Critical Events and Decisions
Red Menace
Off the Beaten Path — or a Bit Offbeat — Places in the DC Area
Reconstruction After the American Civil War
Quo Vadis Russia? Russia in the 20th Century from Lenin to Putin

Philosophy & Religion
The Quran & Modern Society
Nietzsche
Mastering the Skills of Mindful Awareness Practice
The Message of the Holy Quran
Western Culture and the Rise of Neo Darwinian Materialism after World War I
Isaiah Berlin: The Power of Ideas