Spring 2023 Courses Begin Jan 30th!!! and Other Updates from the 1/23 Newsletter

Spring 2023 Session One begins Monday, January 30

There is still plenty of time to renew membership and enroll in Osher courses. Check out the spring course offerings in our Spring 2023 Catalog and on the OLLI Registration Portal

Online (Zoom) Courses

This week you will receive emails with the Zoom links for your online courses. If you have a course that starts on a Monday, you will receive the link today. If your course starts on a Tuesday, you will receive the link on Tuesday, and so on.

You will use the Zoom link for each class meeting.

In the same email, you may also receive a link for a OneDrive folder for your course. OneDrive is a Microsoft cloud service where your instructor can share course material with you. Please note that not all instructors use OneDrive.

You will also receive the Zoom/OneDrive email the morning of your first class.

In-Person Courses

This week you will receive emails with classroom assignments for in-person courses. If your course starts on a Monday, you will receive the email today. If your course starts on a Tuesday, you will receive the email on Tuesday, and so on.

You will receive the classroom assignment emails again on the morning of your first class.

Updates to Spring Catalog: 

Date Change

Literature and Society, Saima Sitwat (Spring Session One, Mondays, 1-2:30pm). This course will start Monday, February 6 and will meet for five weeks until March 6.

Challenges to Foreign Policy Today, Dennis Jett (Spring Session One, Fridays, 1-2:50pm). This course will start Friday, February 10 and will meet for five weeks until March 10.

Canceled

Northern Ireland: 1966 to 1994, Tony Novosel (Spring Session Two, Mondays 1-2:30pm)

Time Change

Zumba Gold, Lisa Sobek, (Spring Session Two, Saturdays 9-10am instead of 10-11am)

In Memoriam

You are a large and caring community. We want to honor those who have left us. Please reach out to us if you know of members who have died, and, if we can, we will include this information in the OLLI at Pitt Member Update. We will only publish items that have been made public by the family (obituaries) or that have been sent by a spouse or a sibling so that we know it is permitted. 

The OLLI community mourns the passing of: 

Natalie M. Rosenbloom

At Pitt: "Evil in the Stacks" Podcast

Did you know that the University Library System of the University of Pittsburgh is home to an extensive horror studies collection?

Learn more about the collection and an associated podcast in this week's University Times. The first two podcast episodes include discussions of horror comics and the Chiller Theater collection from Chilly Billy Cardille. Not for the faint of heart!