OLLI at Tufts Winter 2024 Catalog

WINTER 2024

OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT

TUFTS UNIVERSITY

Registration begins November 28th, 2023 and runs through Jaunary 11th, 2024.

To our Tufts Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Community Members,

We hope you enjoy our Winter 2024 offerings! We have courses covering the short stories of Katherine Mansfield to the Greatest Performances in Figure Skating History to Verdi’s Requiem, and everything in between!

Based on membership feedback, our winter terms will all be held virtually on Zoom. We will be offering in-person courses again during our Spring and Summer 2024 sessions.

As always, our team is available to answer any questions via phone, email, Zoom, or in-person! Please do not hesitate to reach out to us.

We wish you and yours a wonderful start to the holiday season and look forward to engaging with you all in the new year!

Your Tufts Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Team,

Callan B. Moody Associate Director

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

Kathy Scanlon Program Administrator University College

Rebekah Plotkin Director, Professional and Custom Education University College

WINTER 2024

Lunch and Learn Talks

All talks will be held on Zoom 12:15 - 1:15pm ET.

JANUARY 17

WEDNESDAYS ON ZOOM

Understanding the Latest in the Science of Successful Brain Aging

Maureen O’Connor

PsyD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Director of Research, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center

JANUARY 24

How to Lock Down Your Personal Information

Ken Gagne

Technical Account Manager at Automatic, former Editor at Computerworld and Web Designer at MIT

JANUARY 31

FEBRUARY 7

Dr. Lisa Ceglia

Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, Director, Metabolic Bone Diseases Clinic Your Bones and You

Joseph Boskin

Professor Emeritus, History and Ethnic and Urban Studies, Boston University American Humor: A Comedy of Pretzels

Study Group Descriptions & Instructor Bios

Virtually on Zoom

“An Ideal Family”: Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories

Petra Bittner, Outside Instructor

Tuesday, 1pm - 3pm (1/16, 1/23, 1/30, 2/6)

4 Sessions, Highly Interactive - Lots of Discussion

$100

Katherine Mansfield’s innovative and perceptive stories are aglow with color. The Garden Party collection was written towards the end of her short life, at the beginning of the 20th century. Many tales in this anthology are set in the author’s native New Zealand, others in England. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience. Please obtain The Garden Party and Other Stories (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) ISBN-13: 978-1-959891-29-1, and read “An Ideal Family” and “Life of Ma Parker” for our first meeting. This is a continuation of the course offered in Fall 2023, but please note that having taken the Fall course is not required to enroll in this class.

Required material: Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party and Other Stories (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition); Click here to purchase on Amazon, $13.20

Petra Bittner is a German native from Berlin who holds degrees in English literature (Ph.D.) and teaching German as a second language (MA/Staatsexamen). She lived in Boston from 1998 to 2007, teaching language and cultural studies classes for Boston University, Harvard University and MIT. Between 2007 and 2020, she taught cultural studies and business communication courses for various universities in Munich. At the same time, Petra Bittner was a literature docent and language instructor for the adult education center in Munich (Münchner Volkshochschule).

Delectable: An Exploration of Food Writing

Phoebe Hyde, Outside Instructor

Wednesday, 10am - 12pm (1/17, 1/24, 1/31, 2/7)

4 Sessions, Highly Interactive - Lots of Discussion

$100

Over the four weeks, we will discuss a selection of essays and short stories about food: making, eating and serving it. We’ll discuss structure, audience, context, and effect, and think carefully about food production and distribution, culture and class, and ideas of service. In the second half of each class we will do some of our own writing, inspired (or provoked) by the pieces we’ve just discussed. On the last day, we may share our favorite experiments with the group. Readings will be less than 25 pages, and are compiled in Best American Food Writing 2018, which is required for this class.

Required material: Ruth Reichl, The Best American Food Writing 2018; Click here to purchase on Amazon, $10.37

Phoebe Baker Hyde is a Boston-area author and writing instructor who helps learners from teens to seniors find joy in the written word and develop unique and competent writing voices. She combines responsive, student-centered instruction in skills with thoughtful discussion, engaging writing experiments, and examples from texts as diverse as her students. Her memoir, The Beauty Experiment, was published in 2013; her essays and short fiction have appeared in The New York Times, L.A. Times, Salon.com, and numerous literary journals.

Exploring English(es)

Julia Appel, Tufts Graduate Student

Friday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm (1/19, 1/26, 2/2, 2/9)

4 Sessions, Somewhat Interactive - A Mixture of Lecture and Discussion

$100

English is the most spoken language in the world, and an official language in 58 countries on 6 continents. As a result, there is not just one English, but many. In this course, we’ll listen to, analyze, and discuss English dialects, varieties, creole, pidgins, and mixes from around the world, introducing relevant topics in linguistics along the way. We’ll also learn about and discuss the cultural and political implications of English’s far reach, both historically and at present. There may be occasional short readings or videos, but they will be reviewed in class.

Julia Appel is a Tufts junior studying International Relations. She is originally from Milwaukee but didn’t discover until arriving at Tufts that she does in fact have a slight Wisconsin accent. Julia has always been fascinated by the way people use language. She has experience teaching English to adult Spanish speakers and Russian high school students. Through these experiences, as well as time spent in Russia, Israel, and Kyrgyzstan, she became interested in peoples’ attitudes towards and experiences with English, as well as the many different ways it is spoken.

Greatest Performances in Figure Skating History 1968-2024

Gary Cahn, Tufts Alum

Wednesday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm (1/17, 1/24, 1/31, 2/7)

4 Sessions, Somewhat Interactive - A Mixture of Lecture and Discussion

$100

During this class we’ll watch the greatest figure skating performances from the past 56 years. We’ll discuss what makes each of these performances among the best of all time. This is your chance to compare these great champions with those who will skate at the 2024 U.S. National Figure Skating Championship from January 22 – 28, 2024 and World Championship, which will be held March 18-24, 2024. We will watch performances by Torvill and Dean, Michelle Kwan, Paul Wylie, Peggy Fleming, Scott Hamilton, Kurt Browning, Gordeeva and Grinkov, John Curry, YuNa Kim, Nathan Chen, and 24 others. Figure skating history was changed forever by these brilliant champions. Come to this class to hear and see why.

Gary Cahn has been an avid figure skating fan since he was 18, and has a very large collection of figure skating videos. He has taught courses on figure skating as well as investing, bridge, digital photography, and computers. He received a BA from Tufts University and an MBA from Dartmouth College.

Guided Meditation (Yoga Nidra)

Yolanta Kovalko, Outside Instructor

Monday, 6pm - 7pm (1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2/19, 2/26)

6 Sessions, Minimally Interactive - Mostly Lecture

In this class Yolanta, a Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health certified yoga teacher and meditation practitioner, will introduce participants to Yoga Nidra, a form of meditation and transformation grounded in the wide and deep field of yogic tradition. Students will be guided through what Yoga Nidra teaches are the five levels of being: Physical Body, Energy Body, Emotional Body, Mental Body, and Intuitive/Spiritual Body. In the process, they will have the opportunity to experience becoming more aware, and to explore the deepest place within themselves, their true Self. Participants will be encouraged to find a place to recline or lay down while participating in the course.

Yolanta Kovalko has been teaching at OLLI since Fall 2018 and is thrilled to be part of their team of group leaders! She recently retired from the Tufts Community Health Department and is a certified yoga and meditation teacher. She has taught yoga and meditation in her Somerville studio, Ball Square Yoga, for the last 5 years. She has been practicing yoga for the last 15 years. In addition to being certified in Hatha Yoga and Chair Yoga, she is also Kripalu certified as a Guided Meditation teacher with a specialization in Yoga Nidra (Sleep Yoga), a form of meditation grounded in yogic.

Hellfire and Deliverance: A Guided Tour of Verdi’s Requiem

Elke Jahns-Harms, Tufts Faculty Member

Monday, 9:30am - 11:30am (1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12)

4 Sessions, Somewhat Interactive - A Mixture of Lecture and Discussion

$100

“Only a genius could have written such a work,” said Brahms of Verdi’s Requiem.

Indeed, this monumental piece includes some of the most powerful, joyful, terrifying, heartrending, and sublime music ever written, with all the drama and emotion we would expect from one of our most beloved opera composers. Who are the characters, what are they singing about, and how does the music illustrate the text? We will begin with some background on Verdi and a brief overview of the historical, cultural, and musical context in which he wrote this unusual setting of the mass for the dead. Then we will listen to the music together, highlighting key elements and sharing reactions. We will also watch the documentary Defiant Requiem, which tells the powerful true story of Jewish prisoners in a WWII concentration camp who sang this piece to uplift their spirits and defy their captors. Whether you are an old fan of classical choral music, or you’ve never stepped inside a concert hall, this is for you! Please note that this course will be best enjoyed on a larger screen with good speakers (i.e. not a smartphone).

Elke Jahns-Harms holds a Master’s in Music and a PhD in International Relations. She currently teaches International Development Aid at The Fletcher School of Tufts University, and previously taught Music and Social Change at the New England Conservatory. A professional flutist and amateur singer, Elke loves to make classical music engaging for wide audiences and has taught dozens of music appreciation classes for novices and experienced musicians alike at OLLI, community centers, retirement communities, and public libraries.

The Great Ocean of Truth: Inside the Enlightened Minds of Eighteenth Century British Natural Philosophers

David Cooper, OLLI Member

Monday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm (1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12)

4 Sessions, Somewhat Interactive - A Mixture of Lecture and Discussion

$100

The 1700s was a Revolutionary time—American, French, Industrial, Intellectual. Why? We will take three specific examples and use them to gain insights into that brave new world; Wedgwood as engineer and entrepreneur, estimating the size of the Solar System, and the research of Isaac Newton. The pre-work is to think from first principles starting from a simplified problem statement which I will distribute ahead of our sessions—books and Google are strongly discouraged. We will struggle together with these real challenges using what was known in the eighteenth century. Let’s think like them; let’s use the tools that they had and then let’s check off our ideas against what was actually done. Maybe that will give us an appreciation for those times. No prior business or technical experience is essential but could add interesting perspective to our discussions.

David Cooper is a University of Cambridge Natural Scientist and Chemical Engineer (now retired) who primarily worked on “new and improved” consumer goods in Europe, North America and East Asia. Fascinated by all things British and Eighteenth Century. An amazing time to have lived which can put today’s “world” into perspective.

Lessons in Chemistry

Grace Hall, OLLI Member

Friday, 10am - 12pm (1/19, 1/26, 2/2, 2/9)

4 Sessions, Minimally Interactive - Mostly Lecture

$100

Lessons in Chemistry is a recent popular novel. Throughout the novel there are frequent references to chemical reactions or other aspects of chemistry, either by the protagonist, Elizabeth Zott, or in describing her work. However, there is very little explanation of what she is referencing. This course will describe some of the chemistry involved, most of it taken from the cooking/chemistry show. You may enjoy the course more if you have read the book, but it is not a prerequisite.

Grace Hall has a Bachelor’s in chemistry from Douglass College (Rutgers University) and a Master’s from the University of Iowa. She taught at the Agricultural Technical Institute of Ohio State University and worked for Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, a pharmaceutical company (later absorbed into what is now Sanofi). What she likes best about being a Study Group Leader is deciding on a topic (rather than having it assigned) and sharing information about chemistry without worrying about tests or grades.

Religion in Ancient Egypt

Hannah Male, Tufts Alum

Monday, 10am - 12pm (1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12)

4 Sessions, Minimally Interactive - Mostly Lecture

$100

Mostly through a lecture-based course, students will learn about different aspects of religion in ancient Egypt through the lens of different economic and social classes (i.e elite as well as lower on the economic scale). A lot of the information covered and our evidence streams will come from burials and funerary culture. Students will also learn about what ancient Egyptian writings say about religion and religious practices.

Hannah Male, history and archaeology buff, is a 2019 graduate of Tufts History and Museum Studies MA program. Her coursework has focused on the ancient world and the history of archaeology. Ultimately she hopes to become a curator of Egyptian and/or Near Eastern antiquities. She is currently located back home with family in CT and offers ancient history/social studies tutoring services.

Right Brain Photography

Eli Vega, Outside Instructor

Tuesday, 10am - 12pm (1/30, 2/6, 2/13, 2/20)

4 Sessions, Highly Interactive - Lots of Discussion

$100

This highly interactive course piggybacks on the author’s award-winning book by the same title. You will learn creative in-camera concepts, principles, and techniques, without having to spend hours in front of your computer manipulating images. You will learn two photography paradigms/models in the book. Included in those models are concepts and techniques like intuition, extracting, impressionism, and surrealism through photography, and eastern philosophy applications to photography. You will learn how to see with your imagination, not your eyes. Please note that a digital camera is reccomended for this course, however, a large portion of the material, roughly 70%, will be interesting, fun, and useful for those who use their smart phone cameras.

Eli Vega is a highly-published and award-winning photographer and author. He has written two books on the subject of photography. He has taught photography for thirty years, including field workshops in Rocky Mountain National Park, and for OLLI throughout the country since 2012. He is a certified facilitator and makes his classes casual, engaging, and fun. He has made presentations to camera and art groups for twenty years and has served as a judge for two national photography competitions. Having studied art for three years, Eli takes an artistic approach to photography, emphasizing the creative aesthetics side of photography.

Talking Sondheim

Gail Leondar-Wright, Outside Instructor

Thursday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm (1/18, 1/25, 2/1, 2/8, 2/15, 2/22)

6 Sessions, Somewhat Interactive - A Mixture of Lecture and Discussion

The recently deceased Stephen Sondheim is commonly thought to be the most significant musical theater composer and lyricist in the contemporary theatre, and the single most influential force in bringing the Broadway musical into the modern era. Let’s continue to explore his work together. You need not have attended previous Sondheim classes or have any prior knowledge of Sondheim’s work to enjoy this series. After a quick-paced two-part review of the major works of Stephen Sondheim and a deep exploration of how Sondheim used rhymes to reinforce thematic ideas and tell the story, we’ll explore three of his musicals: Road Show, Assassins, and Anyone Can Whistle. We’ll analyze Sondheim’s lyrics, melodies, and storytelling techniques. For those of you who have taken “What Makes Sondheim Great,” this is new content (with a tiny bit of review).

“Talking Sondheim” is a terrific opportunity to connect with fellow enthusiasts and deepen your appreciation of Sondheim’s work. Homework will consist of watching fulllength video captures of three shows and/or listening to selections from the cast album, or (in some cases) watching a video synopsis. $150

Gail Leondar-Wright has taught classes exploring Stephen Sondheim’s genius for a number of lifelong learning communities connected with universities and religious congregations in the Boston area and around the country. She has supported the Pasadena Playhouse productions of Sondheim musicals with a series of virtual lectures, and was a panelist at the 2023 BroadwayCon session: “I Know Things Now: Remembering Stephen Sondheim.” She holds an MA in Performance Studies from New York University and a BA in Drama from The University of California at Berkeley.

The Epic Cinema Of David Lean

Allan Elfant, OLLI Member

Tuesday, 1pm - 5pm (1/16, 1/23, 1/30, 2/6)

4 Sessions, Highly Interactive - Lots of Discussion

$100

David Lean is considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time as well as a most important and popular figure in British cinema. He was renowned for his grand-scaled historical epics where he combined rich characterization with gorgeous landscapes. We will view four of his epic films: Bridge Over The River Kwai, Lawrence Of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Passage To India. Due to the length of each film, please note that the classes will be 4 hours or more. Optional weekly readings will be provided via the internet.

Allan Elfant has a B.A. in psychology from Brooklyn College and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from New York University. He was in clinical practice for over 40 years and held teaching positions at several universities. He has led over 200 presentations at national and regional professional conferences and meetings, and has led two dozen study groups for our OLLI on various cinematic, psychological and philosophical themes. Many of these study groups have been film classes.

The Extraordinary Life of Eleanor of Aquitaine

Dénia Lara, Tufts Alum

Wednesday, 4pm - 6pm (1/17, 1/24, 1/31, 2/7)

4 Sessions, Somewhat Interactive - A Mixture of Lecture and Discussion

$100

No other woman ruler made a mark on medieval history quite like Eleanor of Aquitaine. The wife of two kings and the mother of five monarchs, it would in fact be an injustice to reduce her accomplishments to marriage and motherhood. She was a political strategist, a crusader, a regent, a prisoner, a muse, and a champion of the arts. There have been many biographies of Eleanor, some academic, some sensational. In these four sessions, we aim to take a look at the complete person, the many fascinating stages of her long reign, and the mind that made such an impression upon the courts of Western Europe.

Dénia Lara is a museum professional and artist currently working in the education department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she organizes public programs for adult audiences. She has a Master’s degree in Art History and Museum Studies from Tufts, specializing in the Middle Ages. Dénia’s research interests include the culture of the Normans, Migration Period arts, and contemporary connections to the medieval past.

The Life & Times of Robert Mapplethorpe

Barry Schoenfeld, Outside Instructor

Monday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm (1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2/26, 3/4)

6 Sessions, Somewhat Interactive - A Mixture of Lecture and Discussion

$150

“I’m looking for the unexpected. I’m looking for things I’ve never seen before.”

— Robert Mapplethorpe, Art News, 1988

Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989), was a highly regarded, if controversial photographic artist, who gained notoriety for his portrayal of sexually explicit images. Although many of his works — including exquisitely lit images of flowers and other early works are uncontroversial, a series of homoerotic and other sexually explicit photographs made him posthumously a political target and a central figure in a First Amendment clash over the legal meaning of art and obscenity. Although both his life and his career were short-lived, there is much to learn, hear and see in this course. This course will introduce students to Mapplethorpe’s biography and impact, his early influences, and his photography via the themes of his self-portraits, flowers, celebrities, and his explicit photos and their impact. IMPORTANT NOTE: This course will include sexually explicit photos.

Barry Schoenfeld has over 40 years’ experience in business in New York and Los Angeles, and currently Palm Springs. He graduated from Cornell and has taught at UCLA, USC and the University of Arizona “live”—and online for OLLI at Duke, Tufts, Johns Hopkins, University of California at Riverside, and Cal State San Bernardino. His passions range from performing & fine art to history to archaeology, and he delights in sharing this knowledge with OLLI members through facts, figures, anecdotes, audio, video and interactive discussions.

The Sacred Valley of Peru—Storytelling in History, Tourism, and NGOs

Emma Maganzini, Tufts Graduate Student

Friday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm (1/19, 1/26)

2 Sessions, Somewhat Interactive - A Mixture of Lecture and Discussion

$50

Join us as we reflect on Peru’s complex history, the effect of tourism on Peru’s culture, and a variety of non-profit organizations in the Sacred Valley region of Peru. We will discuss the Spanish invasion of the Incan Civilization, then dive deeper into analyzing how the story of history changes from different perspectives. We will analyze how Peru (and locations such as Machu Picchu) became tourist attractions. We will examine how organizations in the Sacred Valley are impacting agriculture, healthcare, and education, and how citizens around the world can learn from them. This class will entail reading passages together and active discussion.

Emma Maganzini is passionate about history, the experiences of others, and civic involvement. This past semester she lived in Urubamba, Peru for three months as part of the Tufts Civic Semester program. While there, she took classes on Latin American Civilizations, explored local communities in the Sacred Valley, and visited and worked with local organizations. Emma loves rock climbing, which made her love the Andes mountains even more! She is a freshman at Tufts University and currently lives in Medford, Massachusetts.

Two Novels by Colette: The Vagabond and Chéri

Emese Soos, Tufts Faculty Member

Wednesday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm (1/17, 1/24, 1/31, 2/7)

4 Sessions, Somewhat Interactive - A Mixture of Lecture and Discussion

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), though little known in this country, is considered one of the finest French writers of the early 20th century. We will read and discuss The Vagabond (1910), set in the Montmartre music hall milieu of Paris, and Chéri (1920), a curious love story between an aging courtesan and a very young man, who agrees to an arranged marriage. Set in the waning days of the Belle Epoque, the story gains complexity from family and societal pressures. Both works are available on Amazon.

Required material: Gabrielle Sidonie Colette, The Vagabond (Dover Publication, 58362nd edition); Click here to purchase on Amazon, $7.99; Gabrielle Sidonie Colette, translated by Rachel Careau, Chéri and The End of Chéri (Norton Publication); Click here to purchase on Amazon, $14.79 $100

Emese Soos majored in French and history at Mount Holyoke College, earned a Ph.D. in French from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and taught at Tufts for over 30 years. Some of her favorite teaching experiences focused on the arts during the Belle Epoque (1885-1914) and post-WWI French writers.

Writing a ‘Legacy Letter’

Jay Sherwin, Outside Instructor

Thursday, 10am - 12pm (1/25)

1 Sessions, Somewhat Interactive - A Mixture of Lecture and Discussion

$25

A legacy letter (also called an “ethical will”) is a written document that allows people to share their life lessons, express their values and transmit their blessings to future generations. A legacy letter is shorter than a memoir, typically just a few pages. Writing one is a rewarding experience that creates an enduring gift for family, friends and loved ones. This workshop includes discussion and brief writing exercises to help you examine your life history, explore your values and capture important insights. It offers advice, encouragement and a model structure to help you draft and complete your own legacy letter.

Jay Sherwin has practiced law, given away money for five different charitable foundations and served as a hospital chaplain. In 2019, he created the Life Reflections Project to educate people about legacy letters, ethical wills and other legacy documents. Jay has extensive experience facilitating adult learning programs and he has taught this online course for OLLI programs nationwide. He holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD from Northeastern University School of Law.

Study Group Proposals

Do you have an idea for a course you would like to see? Offer a Tufts OLLI Study Group!

Have you recently read a new book that you would like to discuss with others? Or traveled to a new destination that inspired you to learn more about the culture and history of that location? Share those interests and passions with Tufts OLLI members by leading a study group! Our members enjoy learning about topics in history, literature, current events, film, STEM — the list goes on!

Don’t worry if you’ve never led a class before: our Curriculum Committee will happily talk you through the process or help you formulate your ideas, so your study group will be as enjoyable an experience for you as it will be for the participants. The Tufts OLLI office provides training and materials for new study group leaders, and support for courses taking place virtually on zoom or in-person. Member instructors are eligible for a free class as a thank you for being a study group leader.

We are currently looking for proposals for our Spring 2024 and Summer 2024 terms. The submission deadlines and term dates and modalities can be found below, but if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to the Tufts OLLI office at osherlli@tufts.edu or the Tufts OLLI Curriculum Committee at oshercurriculumcommittee@tufts.edu .

Visit https://universitycollege.tufts.edu/lifelong-learning/osherlli/ propose_a_studygroup to propose a study group today!

June

Summer

Study Group Registration & Policy Information

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Become a Member or Renew your Membership for Registration Day

◦ Membership is required for class registration.

◦ Membership runs from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024 and costs $75/year.

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Registration Runs

November 28, 2023 Through January 11, 2024

◦ Register online by visiting our website, https://universitycollege.tufts.edu/ lifelong-learning/osherlli/schedule , and logging into our membership portal using the username and password created when you renewed or purchased this year’s membership.

◦ Add the OLLI courses you would like to take to your shopping cart and checkout!

Please note that a 2023-2024 membership fee is automatically added to your shopping cart. Once you enter your username and password, this fee will be removed if you already renewed your membership for this year.

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Instantly Know Your Winter 2024 Schedule

◦ Payment is due to complete your class registration. The same day you register and pay for your classes you will know what courses you are enrolled in and/or what waitlists you are on!

◦ As long as there are seats available for a course, you can adjust your schedule up to four business days before the start of the term.

REGISTRATION SCHEDULE

◦ Winter Registration Opens: Tuesday November 28th, 2023

◦ Add/Drop Period: Tuesday, November 28th, 2023 - Thursday, Ja nuary 11th, 2024

◦ Classes Begin: Monday, January 16th, 2024

FINANCIAL AID

Partial tuition remission is available on a limited basis. For more information, please contact our office at osherlli@tufts.edu or (617) 627-5699.

REFUNDS, WITHDRAWALS, AND CANCELLATIONS POLICIES

The OLLI policies for refunds, withdrawals, and course cancellations can be found on our website, https://universitycollege.tufts.edu/lifelong-learning . Those members participating in the program are responsible for reading and adhering to all policies found there.

Thank you to the Curriculum Committee and the Lunch and Learn Committee for their dedication, hard work, and assistance with planning our winter term!

Tufts University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

039 Carmichael Hall Medford, MA 02155

Phone: 617-627-5699

Email: OsherLLI@Tufts edu

Web: universitycollege.tufts.edu/lifelong-learning