OLLI Fall 2020 Online Semester

OLLI's fall semester of online courses is now open for registration!

September 21 through November 12, 2020
Classes run six weeks (except where noted)  

Enjoy OLLI at BCC's live, interactive courses from the comfort of your own home using the free, easy-to-use  Zoom program (we'll show you how!) No tests, no grades, no prerequisites (except OLLI membership), just learning for the love of learning. 

Register online here or call 413.236.2190 (Mon-Fri, 9am-4pm) to register by phone with a credit card, or with any questions you may have. To sign up for OLLI couses, you must be an OLLI annual member. Not a member yet? Sign up here! 

OLLI Fall Semester-at-a-Glance
Click on the course names to read more about them.

Mondays

• M101: Today's Headlines | Steve Tobin | 9:30am -11:00am
• M102: Outsider Art | Larry Goldberg | 11:30am - 1:00pm
• M103: Before Barney: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs | Steve Somkin | 1:30pm - 3:00 pm
• CLOSED- AT CAPACITY M104: What is Art? What is Beauty? | Laszlo Dienes | 3:30pm - 5:00pm

•  T101: Pilgrims: History, Myth and Legacy | John Dickson and Jesse Waldinger | 9:30am -11:00am
• T102: Deceptions in War | Greig Siedor | 11:30am - 1:00pm
• T103: Women as Leaders | Diane Whitehead | 1:30pm - 3:00 pm
• T104: Janey, Read by the Author | Richard Matturro | 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Wednesdays

• ·W101: Passion, Piety, Plagues, and Polities: The World of the Middle Ages | Phil Deely | 9:30am -11:00am
• W102: Disasters: Natural, Industrial, Manmade | Alan Rubin | 11:30am - 1:00pm
• W103: Indigenous American Cultures: Cross-Pollination with European Thought | Michael Wilcox | 1:30pm - 3:00 pm
• W104: Hot Topics | moderated by Steve Tobin with weekly speakers | 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Thursdays

• R101: Real Estate Investment in the 21st Century | Stephen Pearlman | 9:30am -11:00am
• ·R102: King Lear on the Page and the Stage | Anne Berman | 11:30am - 1:00pm
• R103: Transformative Technologies | various speakers | 1:30pm - 3:00 pm
• R104: Beyond Mountains, More Mountains: Reading & Comparing Exceptional Poems (LR) | Robert Ronnow | 3:30pm - 5:00pm

• F101: Constitutional Law in the Time of COVID-19 | Tom Gerety| 9:30am -11:00am
• F102: The Berkshires: Coming of Age 1840-1890 | Carole Owens | 11:30am - 1:00pm
• F103: CLOSED- AT CAPACITY Dressed Up Poetry: Fun with Forms (LR) | Kate Sontag | 1:30pm - 3:00 pm
• F104: Das Boot: The Uncut Version | Robert Miller & Richard Matturro |3:30pm - 5:30pm

Not sure which classes you want to take? Sign up for one or more Flexpasses, which allow you to take six individual class sessions of your choice with a semester, as long as the class in not full. Click here to learn more about Flexpasses.

Course fees are $50 for one, $95 for two or three, and $125 for four or more within a semester. Each Flexpass counts as one course.  Needs-based partial scholarships are available. For more information on scholarships, call Executive Director Megan Whilden at 413.236.2192.

Classes are are held weekly, usually for 90 minutes per session, Monday through Friday, during the day. They will be recorded, so if you miss one you may watch it later. 

Questions? Contact us at olli@berkshirecc.edu or 413.236.2190