Course Catalog Spring 2018
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ONLINE & MAIL REGISTRATION BEGINS APR. 17 9 AM A Vibrant Learning Community COURSE CATALOG SPRING 2018 1 3 2 CONTENTS CLASS DATES Important News for Spring . 3 Spring Quarter 2018 How to Use This Catalog . 3 May 7 – June 29 Locations & Parking . 3 Online & Mailed Registration Options & Instructions . 3 Registration Begins CONTACT Classes by Category . 4 Apr. 17, 9 am Classes by Number . 8 513-556-9186 Telephone uc.edu/ce/olli Schedule-at-a-Glance . 21 [email protected] Maps . 41 Registration Begins Apr. 24, 9 am Friends of OLLI . 42 Registration Form . 43 Classes Offered Registration Restrictions Each school year, OLLI offers more than 500 courses ranging You may not register for more than one class that meets at from eight-week seminars to one-time presentations on the same time. If you send in a registration that includes a wide range of topics. Along with professors and other two or more classes that meet simultaneously, you will be educators, volunteer moderators who lead each class registered for only one of them. include professionals from nearly every field and passionate hobbyists. Attendance Although attendance is not mandatory, your presence in OLLI Membership the courses for which you register enhances the learning Anyone aged 50 or older is eligible to join OLLI and take OLLI experience for you and your classmates. If you attend classes courses. The only other prerequisite is a desire to learn. for which you are not registered, you will be taking a space reserved by someone who is registered, and you may be Pricing & Refunds asked to leave the classroom. • Quarterly membership: $80 With paid membership: Teaching a Class • Multi-week courses: $5 If you would like to share your expertise with the OLLI • Most one-time programs: $0 community, please consider becoming a volunteer No refunds under $10. moderator. Visit uc.edu/ce/olli or call 513-556-9186. Refunds after quarter begins at director’s discretion. Disclaimer Scholarships The views and opinions expressed in OLLI courses are Financial assistance is available to cover the full membership strictly those of the moderators and their guest speakers. fee for those who need it. We are grateful for scholarship gifts Course content has not been reviewed by the Osher Lifelong from donors to Friends of OLLI. For scholarship application Learning Institute at the University of Cincinnati. Consult information, please call 513-556-9186 or email [email protected]. your financial advisor before acting on any implied or actual recommendations concerning the investment of your money. Wait Lists Consult your doctor before following any medical, nutritional, If a class you want is full, you may place yourself on a wait list. or exercise program or advice. If a place opens in that class, the first person on the list will receive a call and have a limited time to respond before the Cover Photos place is offered to the next person on the list. If you do not 1. Moderator Ralph Moon held the audience spellbound with his presentation on the life and poetry of Paul Lawrence Dunbar. receive a call, there is not a place for you in the class. Please do not attend classes for which you are not registered even if 2. Magic happens at OLLI! OLLI member Kathy Richardson assists you are on the wait list. Moderator Paul Ketterer with a card trick in Mind over Matter: Magic Show. 3. The picture of lifelong learning, Joan Murray is holding two copies of Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections, her battered 40-year-old copy filled with notes and the new one she acquired for ongoing study. Photo: Jim Slouffman 2 OLLI COURSE CATALOG | Spring 2018 Osher Lifelong Learning Institute HOW OLLI WORKS IMPORTANT NEWS FOR SPRING REGISTRATION OPTIONS • Online and mailed-in registration begins April 17, 9 a.m. 1 . Register online at uc.edu/ce/olli. This is the fastest way Because of changes at UC to protect your identity and to register. Instructions are below and online. You will credit card information, OLLI cannot accept telephone know immediately if the classes you want are available. registration until April 24. You may mail or bring your 2 . Complete and mail or bring in the registration registration with payment by check, and it will be form. Include payment by check. Your registration will processed beginning April 17. be processed in order of postal cancellation date after • When attending OLLI programs, you must wear the registration opens. name badge and lanyard you receive during the first 3 . Because of changes at UC to protect your identity and week of classes. Returning students: save and reuse the credit card information, OLLI cannot accept telephone ones you have. registration until April 24. Beginning April 24, you may • For security reasons, the door to the classroom building call the office at 513-556-9186 to register by phone using a at ADI is locked except 15 minutes before and 15 credit card. minutes after each class start time. Outside those times, you must ring the bell and show your OLLI name badge ONLINE REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS for admittance. 1. LOGIN. Go to uc.edu/ce/olli and click on Register . Click Login in the shaded box at top left. If you are a new HOW TO USE THIS CATALOG member, follow the instructions to Create a New Account. Courses are listed three ways in this catalog: All others, login with email address. Each person must have an individual account and register separately. 1 . Schedule At-A-Glance organized by location/day/time. If you are available only on a particular day of the week or 2. SUBSCRIBE. Select your membership by clicking interested in taking classes at only a single location, use Subscriptions near the top of the shaded menu box. Click this section printed on buff-colored paper in the center View Dates, Select, and Add to Shopping Cart. Skip this of the catalog. It is also a handy pull-out guide to keep step if you purchased membership in advance. track of the classes that interest you while you browse the catalog. 3. REGISTER FOR CLASSES. From your Shopping Cart/ Pending Schedule, click Add Another Class. Use the 2 . By Course Number including complete description of category listings in the shaded menu box on the left. course content, biography of the moderator, meeting day, For each course, click View Dates to Select and Add to date or date range, time, location, and cost. Shopping Cart. Continue to Add Another Class to your 3 . By Category alphabetically by course title. Begin here Pending Schedule in this manner. Use Remove Class and if you are looking for classes on a particular topic. Use the Recalculate Shopping Cart to remove errors or duplicates. course number to find the complete course description, moderator biography, and other details. 4. CHECK OUT. When your Pending Schedule is complete, scroll to the bottom of the screen to select Checkout and Continue Registration. Complete all payment information LOCATIONS & PARKING and Submit Payment. You will receive an email within UC Victory Parkway Campus (VPC)—2220 Victory minutes confirming your payment and class schedule. Pkwy., 45206. Classes take place in the Administration and Classroom buildings. Passes for free parking in the East Lot accessed from Cypress St. distributed during first week of classes and later at OLLI office in VPC Admin 207. TROUBLE SHOOTING! • You cannot register for courses that meet at the 3201 E. Galbraith Rd., 45236 Adath Israel (ADI)— same time on the same day. If you want to attend (Amberley). Park for free in the adjacent parking lot. a one-time class or Extra Treat that meets during Absolutely no food or drink is permitted at this facility. one of your multi-week classes, call the office at Ohio Living Llanfair (OHLL)—1701 Llanfair Ave., 45224 513-556-9186. (College Hill). Park for free in visitor parking. • If registration is open and you don’t see courses listed, Spring Grove Cemetery (SGC)—4521 Spring Grove Ave., check that the box labeled “Term” says “Spring 2018.” 45232. Park for free in the adjacent lot. You may also need to refresh your browser. See page 41 for maps of each major location . The • If you have questions or problems, call 513-556-9186. addresses of other locations are listed within the individual Office hours are Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. course descriptions. at the University of Cincinnati OLLI COURSE CATALOG | Spring 2018 3 Classes by CATEGORY ART & ART HISTORY 2544 Considering the Death 2646 CABVI’s Services to FINANCIAL & RETIREMENT Penalty in Ohio (VPC- Help People Adapt to PLANNING 8577 Cincinnati Art Museum MON) Vision Loss (VPC-TUE) Tour: Terracotta Army 3211 “Crash and Burn”: (OTHER-FRI) 3309 Controversial Issues 3311 Eating to Live (ADI-TUE) Stock Market Crashes (ADI-TUE) and Strategies to 3431 Drawing the Line (ADI- 8112 Fitter Sitters: Simple Manage Risk (ADI- TUE) 6091 Dusty Rhodes—From Steps to Improve MON) Radio to Public Office Balance, Strength, and 3826 Photography as Art: (OHLL-FRI) Stamina (OTHER-TUE) 3100 Discussions on Your The Lives and Work Financial Life (ADI- of Photography’s 1603 Let’s Talk Current 8113 Fitter Sitters: Simple MON) Modernist Pioneers Events (VPC-TUE) Steps to Improve (ADI-THU) Balance, Strength, and 3539 Financial Workshop: 3540 Local Government and Stamina (OTHER-TUE) Your Source for 3426 Seeing Art—An How It REALLY Works Financial Education Alternative View (ADI- (ADI-TUE) 8218 Float, Flex, and Be Fit (ADI-TUE) TUE) (OTHER-WED) 5116 Lock ‘Em Up and 4217 How to Beat the High Throw Away the Key 3632 Happy Feet, Happy COMPUTERS & Cost of Dying (ADI- (VPC-WED) Bodies through MON) TECHNOLOGY Restorative Exercise