The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at San Diego State University offers intellectually stimulating, university-quality courses for students age 50 and better. There are no tests or grades, just the thrill of learning with like-minded peers. Free campus parking is included.
Osher @ SDSU
Join an engaging, vibrant community of like-minded peers and keep on learning with Osher @ SDSU.
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The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at SDSU is a non-profit education program designed for adult learners aged 50 and better who want to fuel their passion for learning, develop new interests, and share a forum for friendship and socialization. Each year, Osher hosts intellectually stimulating classes, interest groups, local trips, and special events for our members.
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What’s Happening at Osher
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at SDSU invites you to our Summer 2023 Course Information and Registration Guidance Session on:
Date: June 16, 2023
Time: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Location:
SDSU Extended Studies Center (ESC),
Computer Lab - Room 207 (2nd floor)
5701 Hardy Ave
San Diego, CA 92115
Click Here to RSVP no later than June 12th!
Osher will be providing refreshments.
Complimentary parking for those who RSVP by June 12th with their license plate number.
Hear From Our Members
Love the format: meet once a week for four to six weeks; no tests, just thought-provoking discussions.
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Make new friendships along the way! View the list of courses and contact us today for any questions.
Need Support?
Email: osher@sdsu.edu
Phone: (619) 594-5152
Course Title | Dates | Days | Times | Fee |
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Aging, Finance and Retirement | ||||
Four-Week Course: Injury Prevention and Management As We Age |
2/25-3/17 |
Tuesday |
1-2:50pm |
$49 |
Lecture: Making Money Whether the Stock Market Goes Up or Down |
3/13 |
Friday |
11am-12:50pm |
FREE |
Lecture: Inspiring Women to Financial Independence |
3/17 |
Thursday |
9–10:50am |
FREE |
Lecture: Famous Last Words: A Discussion of High-Profile Wills and Estates and What You Can Learn From Them For Your Estate Planning |
4/9 |
Tuesday |
1–2:50pm |
FREE |
Three-Week Course: The Field of Life: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work |
4/16-4/30 |
Thursday |
10-11:50am |
FREE |
Lecture: Advance Care Planning at Any Age |
5/11 |
Monday |
11am-12:50pm |
FREE |
Arts and Humanities | ||||
Two-Week Course: International Silent Films |
2/8-2/15 |
Saturday |
1-3:50pm |
$40 |
Lecture: Romeo and Juliet’s Guide to Love: 7 Lessons from the Most Romantic Play Ever Written |
2/12 |
Wednesday |
11am-12:50pm |
$15 |
Four-Week Course: Vietnam & the American War |
2/12-3/4 |
Wednesday |
3-4:50pm |
$49 |
Lecture: The Beatles 1966 North American Tour |
2/13 |
Thursday |
11am-12:50pm |
$15 |
Six-Week Course: Art History: The World's Greatest Buildings, an Architectural Survey |
2/14-3/20 |
Friday |
9-10:50am |
$74 |
Lecture: Dwight Eisenhower: Soldier, Statesman, Patriot |
2/17 |
Monday |
1-2:50pm |
$15 |
Edventure: Culture & Cuisine of Italy |
2/18 |
Tuesday |
12-2pm |
$39 |
Lecture: Living Forever |
Tuesday |
2/18 |
1-2:50pm |
$15 |
Four-Week Course: Music and the Brain |
Wednesday |
2/19-3/11 |
2-4:30pm |
$69 |
Six-Week Workshop: Films of Resistance and Resilience |
2/27-4/2 |
Thursday |
11am-1:50pm |
$94 |
Four-Week Course: Connecting Art, Anatomy, and Religion Along the Italian Peninsula |
3/5-3/26 |
Thursday |
2-3:50pm |
$49 |
Three-Week Course: History of the String Quartet |
3/9-3/23 |
Monday |
9-11:30pm |
$49 |
Six-Week Course: Cold War America |
3/9-4/13 |
Monday |
1-2:50pm |
$74 |
Edventure: Native Flora & Fauna of San Diego |
3/17 |
Tuesday |
10am-3:30pm |
$39 |
Lecture: National Parks in Your Neighborhood |
3/23 |
Monday |
11am-12:50pm |
$15 |
Edventure: Kumeyaay Life Prior to the 1769 European Arrival |
3/24 |
Tuesday |
10am-3:30pm |
$39 |
Six-Week Course: Art History: The Public Art, Architecture, and History of San Diego |
3/27-5/1 |
Friday |
9-10:50am |
$74 |
Four-Week Course: Deep in Shepard Territory: A Hand's on Study of Sam Shepard's Buried Child |
4/1-4/22 |
Wednesday |
10-11:50am |
$62 |
Four-Week Course: The Emerging Middle Class Society: America in the Early 1800s |
4/4-4/25 |
Saturday |
10-11:50am |
$49 |
Six-Week Course: A Foreign Film Series with Jungian Footnotes |
4/6-5/11 |
Monday |
10am-12:50pm |
$94 |
Lecture: Prayer & Politics: The Hawaiian Revolution and the American Teachers Caught in the Middle |
4/9 |
Thursday |
11am-12:50pm |
$15 |
Two-Week Course: Boogie Woogie to Electric Slide: Dance in Popular Culture |
4/10 & 4/17 |
Friday |
1-2:50pm |
$35 |
Two-Week Course: Introduction to Philosophy of Mind |
4/16 & 4/23 |
Thursday |
11am-12:50pm |
$35 |
Four-Week Course: Religion and the American Presidency |
4/23-5/14 |
Thursday |
3-4:50pm |
$49 |
Edventure: Disturbed in Their Nests: A Look at the Refugee Crisis |
4/28 |
Tuesday |
11am-1pm |
$39 |
Edventure: Cygnet In The Wings: Behind the Scenes of Our Most Successful Midsize Theatre |
4/29 |
Wednesday |
11am-1pm |
$19 |
Lecture: The Development of Transportation in San Diego: A Community Perspective |
4/30 |
Thursday |
11am-12:50pm |
$15 |
Personal Development/Special Interest | ||||
Eight-Week Workshop: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction |
2/19-4/15 |
Wednesday |
1-3:30pm |
$199 |
Six-Week Course: Wine Tasting: Old World vs. New World |
2/24-3/30 |
Monday |
3-4:50pm |
$179 |
Four-Week Course: Beginning your Memoir |
3/7-3/28 |
Saturday |
10-11:50am |
$49 |
Six-Week Morkshop: Hands-on with Cybersecurity and You! |
Wednesday |
3/18-4/22 |
4-5:50pm |
$74 |
Four-Week Workshop: The Zentangle Method |
3/24-4/21 |
Tuesday |
11am-1:30pm |
$74 |
Workshop: Mindful Based Stressed Reduction: All-Day Retreat |
3/28 |
Saturday |
9a-4pm |
$199 |
Six-Week Workshop: The Practice of Chi Kung, an Ancient Chinese Technique for Energy Enhancement |
4/3-5/8 |
Friday |
11am-12:50pm |
$74 |
Lecture: The Last Lecture: Reflections on 38 Years in a Feminist Classroom |
4/8 |
Wednesday |
9-10:50am |
$15 |
Lecture: 50 Years at the San Diego Zoo: A Conversation with Chuck Bieler, San Diego Zoo Director Emeritus |
DATE |
DAY |
TIME |
$15 |
Politics and Current Events | ||||
Lecture: How We Elect Politicians in an Age of Instant Information and Instant Gratification |
2/8 |
Saturday |
11am-12:50pm |
$15 |
Six-Week Course: Why It’s the FIRST Amendment! Why Freedom of Speech and Religion Remain so Important and Controversial |
2/10-3/16 |
Monday |
11am-12:50pm |
$74 |
Four-Week Course: Inside the Marble Palace: The U.S. Supreme Court's Powers, Procedures, and Predicaments |
2/10-3/16 |
Friday |
11am-12:50pm |
$49 |
Two-Week Course: The Aftermath of the Arab Spring: Humanitarian and Development Challenges Facing the Arab World |
2/19 & 2/26 |
Wednesday |
11am-12:50pm |
$35 |
Lecture: The Green New Deal: What It Is and What It Is Not |
2/27 |
Thursday |
2-3:50pm |
$15 |
Two-Week Course: International Bill of Human Rights |
2/27 |
Thursday |
11am-1:50pm |
$35 |
Lecture: Climate Change, San Diego, and You |
5/6 |
Wednesday |
1-2:50pm |
$15 |
Two-Week Course: How California works |
5/8 & 5/15 |
Friday |
11am-12:50pm |
$35 |
Religious Studies | ||||
Six-Week Course: Mysticism: The Sacred Fire at the Heart of Religion |
2/10-3/16 |
Monday |
3-4:50pm |
$74 |
Four-Week Course: The Jewish Heritage of two Feminist Catholic Saints |
2/11-3/3 |
Tuesday |
9-10:50am |
$49 |
Six-Week Course: Crime and Consequence: A Judaic Perspective on Criminal Justice |
2/13-3/19 |
Thursday |
2-3:50pm |
$74 |
Four-Week Course: What is God? |
3/6-3/27 |
Friday |
2-3:50pm |
$49 |
Two-Week Course: Eastern Philosophy: An Introduction to Taoism |
3/7 & 3/14 |
Saturday |
10-11:50am |
$35 |
Sicx-Week Course: The Wisdom of Hinduism |
3/23-4/27 |
Monday |
3-4:50pm |
$74 |
Lecture: So What Happened After Jesus’s Death?: The Inconsistent Easter Stories of the New Testament |
3/14 |
Tuesday |
1-2:50pm |
$15 |
Lecture: Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment |
5/5 |
Tuesday |
10-11:50am |
$15 |
Sciences | ||||
Lecture: Celestial Globes, History, and the Art of Science |
2/21 |
Friday |
1-2:50pm |
$15 |
Lecture: The Geology of Fossil Fuels and of Human Consumption. |
2/28 |
Friday |
1-2:50pm |
$15 |
Lecture: The Mars to Come: Madness, Genius, and the Work of Nikola Tesla |
3/21 |
Saturday |
10-11:50am |
$15 |
Lecture: The New Science of Astrobiology |
3/26 |
Thursday |
10-11:50am |
$15 |
Lecture: Earthquakes of the San Diego Region |
4/15 |
Wednesday |
2-3:50pm |
$15 |
Special Events | ||||
Spring 2020 Kickoff Event |
1/31 |
Friday |
9:30am-12:30pm |
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SDSU Love Library Discovery Session and Tour |
2/20 |
Thursday |
10am-11:30am |
FREE |
Getting the Vote: The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage in the United States |
2/22 |
Saturday |
10-11:50am |
$15 |
OLLI Cafe |
2/24 |
Monday |
1-2:30pm |
FREE |
Feminisim: Not the "F-word" Anymore |
2/29 |
Saturday |
10-11:50am |
$15 |
OLLI Cafe |
3/25 |
Wednesday |
11am-12:30pm |
FREE |
A Literary Treasure Revealed: "Getting" Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis |
4/1 |
Wednesday |
1-2:50pm |
$15 |
SDSU Arts Alive Theater Event: Metamophosis by Franz Kafka |
4/12 |
Sunday |
2-4pm |
$19 |
OLLI Cafe |
4/24 |
Friday |
1-2:30pm |
FREE |