OLLI Winter Semester Open House

You're invited to OLLI's FREE

Winter Semester Open House

showcasing our winter 2022 classes & instructors

Wednesday, December 15, 2021
at 3:00 pm Eastern
Online via Zoom (link to be sent to registrants)

Click here to RSVP.

Whether you are brand new to OLLI at BCC or a seasoned member of our learning community, you'll enjoy hearing from our terrific instructors and getting a sneak peek of our winter semester of non-credit classes at our free open house. No tests, no grades, just learning for the love of learning!

Join us Wednesday, December 15 at 3:00 pm EST to hear more about our winter classes from their instructors. Click here to RSVP for our free Winter Online Open House.

Our winter semester runs January 18 through March 7, 2022, and includes online courses and two in-person courses. Attendees at in-person courses will be required to wear masks and affirm that they are full vaccinated.

OLLI Winter Semester-at-a-Glance 

Click on the course names to read more about them.

Mondays

9:30 - 11:00 am  Writing a ‘Legacy Letter’ | Jay Sherwin | Online

11:30 am– 1:00 pm  Today's Headlines | Jeffrey Mann | Online 

1:30 - 3:00 pm  Plant-Based Diets: Making Food Choices to Heal the Planet, Fight Injustice, and Protect Your Health | Ginny Messina | Online

3:30 - 5:00 pm  Contemporary Economic Policy Issues | Various speakers | Online

Tuesdays

10:00 am - 12:00 pm  Tuesdays at the Movies: Howie's Coolest Movies | Howie Arkans | In person

1:30 - 3:00 pm Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Untold Tale | Carl Atkins | Online

3:30 - 5:00 pm Women Who Matter: Innovators in Science and Medicine | Katherine Kidd, Shirin Nash and Linda Neville | Online

Wednesdays

9:30 - 11:00 am  The Beginner's Guide to Genealogy | Lisa Swigart | Online (limited registration)

11:30 am - 1:00 pm Catullus and Horace in Latin | Jamie Keller | Online

1:00 – 2:30 pm Advances in Medicine | Various speakers | Online

1:30 - 3:00 pm Strategies for Reading and Writing Poetry | Kate Sontag | Online CLOSED- AT CAPACITY

3:30 - 5:00 pm The Evolution of Homo Sapiens | Stacy Wallach | Online and in person

7:00 – 8:30 pm A Place in the Choir | Jack Brown | Online

Thursdays

9:30 - 11:00 am "We The People?": Democracy on Trial | Thomas Hodgson and Katherine Kidd | Online (limited registration)  CLOSED- AT CAPACITY

11:30 am - 1:00 pm Conversations with Berkshire Historians | John Dickson with guest speakers | Online

1:30 - 3:00 pm William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury | Nancy Walters | Online (limited registration) CLOSED- AT CAPACITY

3:30 - 5:00 pm Reading George Saunders: How Does He Do It? | Linda Neville | Online

Fridays

9:00 – 10:30 am Forcing Justice: Violence and Nonviolence in Selected Texts by Thoreau and Gandhi | Albert Anderson | Online (limited registration)

11:00a - 12:30 pm Science Conversations | Peter Bluhm and Tony Segal | Online

1:00 - 2:30 pm Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast: Arrival to the Present | Michael Wilcox | Online

3:00 - 4:30 pm The Science of Aging | Various speakers | Online

Questions? Contact us at olli@berkshirecc.edu or 413.236.2190 (Mondays through Fridays, 9am - 4 pm EDT). We look forward to seeing you online.