Current Term Offerings
OLLI Course Schedule for the Winter 2012 Semester     
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 No.TitleDayStart DateTime SessionsLocation
951Jewish Liturgical MusicTuesday1/24/20122:00 PM1Washington Plaza Baptist Church Sanctuary
952The Mongol EmpireWednesday1/25/20122:00 PM1Church of Good Shepard
953Funeral Directors and the African American Way of DeathFriday1/27/20121:00 PM1TA-3
954’S wonderful, ’s marvelous: The World of George and Ira GershwinSaturday1/28/201210:00 AM1Church of Good Shepard
955Trip Tales: IsraelTuesday1/31/201212:15 PM1219
956Living in Hungary: A New Culture, A New LanguageFriday2/3/20121:00 PM1TA-1
957Semper Paratus: The History of the U.S. Coast GuardMonday2/6/201212:15 PM1232
958Introduction to HumanismTuesday2/7/201211:45 AM1Lake Anne
959You and the Distant FutureWednesday2/8/20122:00 PM1TA-1
960To Read or Not to Read: So What’s the Question?Wednesday2/15/20122:00 PM1TA-1
961INOVA’s Simulation CenterFriday2/17/20121:00 PM1TA-1
962Tour and Lunch at Clyde’s Willow Creek FarmFriday1/27/201211:00 AM1Carpool
963Valentine’s Tea at Oatlands PlantationSaturday2/11/20121:00 PM1Carpool
964Can’t Scare Me, the Story of Mother JonesFriday2/17/20122:00 PM1GMU TheaterSpace
965The Plains Indian Wars 1862-1890 Bus TripMonday6/4/20129:30 AM1Bus
F101The Lure and Lore of GemsMonday1/23/20129:30 AM4TA-1
F102Watercolor PaintingThursday1/26/20122:00 PM4TA-C
F103Play Something CountryThursday2/2/20122:00 PM3TA-2
F201Navigating and Organizing Lifestyle Changes Facing SeniorsTuesday1/24/20129:30 AM4TA-3
F202I’m Retired, Inadequate or No Pension. What Now?Tuesday1/24/201211:45 AM4TA-2
F203The Tom Crooker Investment ForumWednesday1/25/201211:45 AM4TA-1
F204Tax Preparation SimplifiedThursday1/26/20129:30 AM4TA-1
F301The Burden of Victory: Postwar EuropeMonday2/6/201211:45 AM2TA-1
F302The Civil War, 1862–1863: Progress in the WestMonday1/23/20122:00 PM4TA-2
F303Founding America’s Middle Colonies, 1609–1730Tuesday1/24/20129:30 AM4TA-1
F304World War II Along the Southern Shore of the Baltic SeaTuesday1/24/201211:45 AM3TA-3
F305The Susquehanna BoomTuesday1/24/20122:00 PM4TA-3
F306National Park Ranger Potpourri IVWednesday1/25/20129:30 AM4Church of Good Shepard
F307Black Warriors from Lexington to the Persian GulfWednesday1/25/201211:45 AM4TA-2
F308Russia Study GroupThursday1/26/20129:30 AM4TA-3
F309Walls in the Age of GlobalizationThursday1/26/201211:45 AM4TA-1
F310China: From the Boxer Rebellion to the Triumph of MaoThursday1/26/20122:00 PM4TA-1
F401Readers’ TheaterMonday1/23/201211:45 AM4TA-3
F402A Modern Classic ― Howard’s EndMonday1/23/20122:00 PM4TA-3
F403Let’s Read — Sharyn McCrumbTuesday1/24/20129:30 AM4TA-2
F404Poetry WorkshopTuesday1/24/201211:45 AM4TA-C
F405Dystopian Literature: The Giver and The Hunger GamesWednesday1/25/201211:45 AM4TA-3
F406Wuthering HeightsThursday1/26/20122:00 PM4TA-3
F501Beginning ItalianMonday1/23/20129:30 AM4TA-2
F502Survival RussianTuesday1/24/20122:00 PM4TA-C
F503Spanish Conversational ForumWednesday1/25/20129:30 AM4TA-2
F504Basic Conversational SpanishWednesday1/25/201211:45 AM4TA-C
F601Religions of AsiaMonday1/23/20122:00 PM4TA-1
F602The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsThursday1/26/201211:45 AM4TA-2
F651Technology, Culture, Social Networks and the Arab SpringTuesday1/24/201211:45 AM4TA-1
F652A Washington CelebrationTuesday1/24/20122:00 PM4TA-1
F653Beyond the BorderlandsWednesday1/25/20129:30 AM4TA-3
F654CANCELED: The Year 1610, Part IIIThursday1/26/20129:30 AM4Tallwood
F655Aesop’s FablesThursday1/26/201211:45 AM4TA-3
F701What’s in the Daily News?Monday1/23/20129:30 AM4TA-3
F702The Afghan War: Two Years into the SurgeTuesday1/24/20122:00 PM4TA-2
F801Hospice and End-of-Life IssuesMonday1/23/201211:45 AM4TA-2
F802The Internet CloudMonday1/23/20122:00 PM4TA-C
F901Comfort FoodsMonday1/23/201211:45 AM4TA-C
L106Music SeriesWednesday1/25/201212:15 PM2232
L107Mixed-Media DrawingThursday1/26/201210:00 AM4236
L311Government and Politics in Ancient RomeMonday1/23/201210:00 AM4219
L312Colorful Characters on the Oregon TrailMonday1/23/201212:15 PM2232
L313Transportation Innovations that Changed HistoryMonday1/23/20122:30 PM4219
L314Windows on the 1950sTuesday1/24/201210:00 AM4232
L315Colonialism in South AfricaTuesday2/7/201212:15 PM2232
L316Naval Developments between the World WarsWednesday1/25/201210:00 AM4232
L317Immigration Patterns at the Turn of the 20th CenturyThursday1/26/201210:00 AM2232
L318Colonialism in IndiaThursday2/9/201210:00 AM2232
L412Writers’ Workshop: Writing the Mind AliveWednesday1/25/201210:00 AM4205
L413Readers’ Theater in LoudounWednesday1/25/201212:15 PM4236
L414Acting SkillsWednesday1/25/20122:30 PM4236
L415Strictly SonnetsThursday1/26/201212:15 PM4219
L604Islam, A Descendant of AbrahamMonday1/23/201210:00 AM4232
L704News of the DayTuesday1/24/20122:30 PM4236
L805George Mason’s Library OnlineTuesday1/24/201212:15 PM2209
L806Stem CellsThursday1/26/201212:15 PM3232
R104The Ongoing Pleasures of MusicMonday1/23/20122:00 PM4Lake Anne
R105Verismo OperaTuesday1/24/20129:30 AM4Lake Anne
R407The Poetry of AngstTuesday1/24/201211:45 AM4Lake Anne
R408From Literature to Film: James Joyce and John HustonTuesday1/31/20122:00 PM3Lake Anne
R409Literary RoundtableWednesday1/25/201211:45 AM4Lake Anne Bookstore
R410Evelyn Waugh — Brideshead RevisitedThursday1/26/20129:30 AM4Lake Anne
R411Movies That Are Not Quite MusicalsThursday1/26/20121:30 PM4Lake Anne
R603Difficult Texts of The BibleMonday1/23/201211:45 AM4Lake Anne
R656Questions of ValueWednesday1/25/20129:30 AM3Lake Anne
R703All the News Thatʹs Fit to PrintThursday1/26/201211:45 AM4Lake Anne
R803Family Systems and SeniorsThursday2/2/20129:30 AM3Lake Anne
R804Biographies: Lives in ScienceThursday1/26/201211:45 AM4Lake Anne
R902Bridge RefresherMonday1/23/20129:30 AM4Lake Anne