Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Exploration and application of range of interactive methods and arts-based strategies with participants from UCLA and broader Los…

Learn Italian online through our first year college-level course to develop linguistic fluency and gain proficiency in all four communicative skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) as well as cultural competence. 

Learn Italian online through our first year college-level course to develop linguistic fluency and gain proficiency in all four communicative skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) as well as cultural competence.

Learn Italian online through our first-year college-level course to develop linguistic fluency and gain proficiency in all four communicative skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) as well as cultural competence.

Osher (50+).  This course introduces you to the elements of plays and will show you how they these artistic creations can inform and even transform lives.  Scenes are performed by professional actors.

This course stresses rhetorical techniques and skillful argument. Students analyze a variety of academic prose and write a minimum of 20 pages of revised text.

This introductory Earth Science course covers elements of Earth Science, Earth materials; nature and interpretation of geologic evidence; study of geologic processes, and historical aspects of geology.

We've all seen dinosaur skeletons and other fossil organisms in museums, but don’t know much beyond their size. Come learn how paleontologists use their bones and other lines of evidence to uncover how these animals lived.

Lecture, three hours. Comparative study of proto-Indo-European nominal and verbal morphology and its historical development into most important of oldest attested descendant languages. S/U or letter…

Seminar, three hours. Examination of transmission of Latin classical literature in late antiquity, Middle Ages, and Renaissance to understand processes by which Latin literature has been preserved.…

This introduction to literary analysis includes close reading and carefully written exposition of selections from one or more of the principal modes of literature: poetry, prose, fiction, and drama.

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Get an overview of the craft of writing graphic novels, graphic memoirs, and comics, in this lecture for beginners.  

Uncover the secrets behind the mesmerizing world of TV series creation in the role of a TV showrunner.

Osher (50+). In this fundraiser, we play games that illustrate the concepts of John Wooden's Pyramid of Success.

Osher (50+). In this course, we explore how jazz evolved in San Francisco from 1916-1966.

In this course, we examine the American Revolution within a geopolitical context.

In this course, we track the story of westward expansion from the Revolution up through the 1850s

Osher (50+). This course explores the experiences of the eyewitnesses to the Holocaust.

Explore the fascinating history of currency and the intricate monetary policies of the first decentralized cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. This course demystifies the complexities of asymmetric cryptography, hashing and supporting peer-to-peer networks.