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Welcome to the Osher Lifelong Learning Instituteat Sierra College Fall 2025 Registration Opens: Tuesday, July29th at 9am! Fall 2025 Term Dates: (M) August 25- (F) December 19 *Please Note: Sierra College is Closed on Fridays through August 8th > Fall 2025 Term > Tuition-free OLLI

Tuition-free OLLI   

Tuition-free OLLIOLLI at Sierra College has two types of courses: Club OLLI and Tuition-free OLLI. Each requires a different registration process. The OLLI Tuition-free courses are part of the Sierra College curriculum, but are still noncredit with no test or grades. You must be a Sierra College student to take these classes hence this separate registration process. Below is the information on how to register for these courses. It’s a bit more cumbersome but they are free!

  • If you are a new student or did not take a tuition-free course in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, you will need to complete an application along with your course registration form. Complete the application/registration form
  • If you did take a tuition-free course in the Spring 2025 or Summer 2025 semester, you are a current student and only need to complete the course registration form.

Please return your form(s)in one of the following ways listed below. Once we receive the forms, we will process your registration and send you an email confirmation separate from your Club OLLI confirmation.

  • Email to: olli@sierracollege.edu
  • Fax: 916-781-6248
  • In Person:
    • OLLI Office: 5100 Sierra College Blvd, W-205, Rocklin, CA 95677
    • Admissions & Records Office – Nevada County Campus, Student Services Building N1
  • Mail: OLLI at Sierra College, 5100 Sierra College Blvd, W-205, Rocklin, CA 95677
  • If you have any questions, please email first or call the OLLI office at 916-781-6290
  • Food In Film - From the Village to the Presidency (Rocklin)
  • Instructor: Ellen Sander
    Dates: 9/4/2025 - 10/9/2025
    Days: Th
    Times: 2:00 PM - 4:50 PM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Rocklin Campus
    Building-Room: D-12
    Seats Available: 21 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 83733

    Traditional food prepared in harmony with the seasons nurture, heal, and evoke the senses of time and place. This cinematic selection studies the cultural placement of food in the rural, the cosmopolitan, and the palace. 

    Films: Bread of Happiness, Little Forest, My Favorite Cake, Big Night, Secret of the Grain, Haute Cuisine.

    *Class Dates: 9/4, 9/11, 9/18, 9/25, 10/2, & 10/9.

    *Membership not required for Tuition-free courses! → Visit: Tuition-free OLLI page
    or... Determine which scenario applies to you below
    :

    If you DID NOT take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, complete our Tuition-free Application/Course Registration Form: Click Here!
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  • Food In Film - From the Village to the Presidency (NCC-Grass Valley)
  • Instructor: Ellen Sander
    Dates: 9/8/2025 - 10/20/2025
    Days: M
    Times: 12:30 PM - 3:20 PM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Nevada County Campus
    Building-Room: N12-103
    Seats Available: 25 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 83734

    Traditional food prepared in harmony with the seasons nurture, heal, and evoke the senses of time and place. This cinematic selection studies the cultural placement of food in the rural, the cosmopolitan, and the palace. 

    Films: Bread of Happiness, Little Forest, My Favorite Cake, Big Night, Secret of the Grain, Haute Cuisine.

    *Class Dates: 9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/6, & 10/20.

    *No class: 10/13

    *Membership not required for Tuition-free courses! → Visit: Tuition-free OLLI page
    or... Determine which scenario applies to you below
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    If you DID NOT take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, complete our Tuition-free Application/Course Registration Form: Click Here!
    If you DID take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, you are a current student and only need to complete our Tuition-free Course Registration Form: Click Here!

 

  • Gustav Mahler - The Music and the Man - Part 1 (Rocklin)
  • Instructor: Steve Miller
    Dates: 8/25/2025 - 10/6/2025
    Days: M
    Times: 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Rocklin Campus
    Building-Room: W-203
    Seats Available: 23 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 83740
    Mahler has become one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers. He acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century.

    *Class Dates: 8/25, 9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, & 10/6.

    *No class: 9/1

    *Membership not required for Tuition-free courses! → Visit: Tuition-free OLLI page
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    If you DID NOT take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, complete our Tuition-free Application/Course Registration Form: Click Here!
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  • Gustav Mahler - The Music and the Man - Part 1 (NCC-Grass Valley)
  • Instructor: Steve Miller
    Dates: 8/26/2025 - 10/7/2025
    Days: Tu
    Times: 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Nevada County Campus
    Building-Room: N15-101
    Seats Available: 30 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 82117
    Mahler has become one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers. He acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century.

    *Class Dates: 8/26, 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, & 10/7.

    *No class: 9/2

    *Membership not required for Tuition-free courses! → Visit: Tuition-free OLLI page
    or... Determine which scenario applies to you below
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    If you DID NOT take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, complete our Tuition-free Application/Course Registration Form: Click Here!
    If you DID take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, you are a current student and only need to complete our Tuition-free Course Registration Form: Click Here!

 

  • Gustav Mahler - The Music and the Man - Part 2 (Rocklin)
  • Instructor: Steve Miller
    Dates: 10/20/2025 - 12/1/2025
    Days: M
    Times: 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Rocklin Campus
    Building-Room: W-201
    Seats Available: 23 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 83741
    Mahler has become one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers. He acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century.

    *Class Dates: 10/20, 10/27, 11/3, 11/17, 11/24, & 12/1.

    *No class: 11/10

    *Membership not required for Tuition-free courses! → Visit: Tuition-free OLLI page
    or... Determine which scenario applies to you below
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    If you DID NOT take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, complete our Tuition-free Application/Course Registration Form: Click Here!
    If you DID take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, you are a current student and only need to complete our Tuition-free Course Registration Form: Click Here!

 

  • Gustav Mahler - The Music and the Man - Part 2 (NCC-Grass Valley)
  • Instructor: Steve Miller
    Dates: 10/21/2025 - 12/2/2025
    Days: Tu
    Times: 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Nevada County Campus
    Building-Room: N15-101
    Seats Available: 29 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 82118
    Mahler has become one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers. He acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century.

    *Class Dates: 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/18, 11/25, & 12/2.

    *No class: 11/11

    *Membership not required for Tuition-free courses! → Visit: Tuition-free OLLI page
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    If you DID NOT take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, complete our Tuition-free Application/Course Registration Form: Click Here!
    If you DID take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, you are a current student and only need to complete our Tuition-free Course Registration Form: Click Here!

 

  • Ongoing Memoir Writing (NCC-Grass Valley)
  • Instructor: Judie Rae
    Dates: 8/26/2025 - 9/30/2025
    Days: Tu
    Times: 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Grass Valley Campus
    Building-Room: N8-103
    Seats Available: 14 | Max Enroll: 20
    CRN: 82122
    This class is designed for people who have already taken the Beginning Memoir course, though all are welcome, and I will provide handouts for newcomers to acquaint them with the material. Every week students are given prompts, which they may choose to respond to.

    *Class Dates: 8/26, 9/2, 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, & 9/30.

    *Membership not required for Tuition-free courses! → Visit: Tuition-free OLLI page
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    If you DID NOT take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, complete our Tuition-free Application/Course Registration Form: Click Here!
    If you DID take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, you are a current student and only need to complete our Tuition-free Course Registration Form: Click Here!

 

  • Ongoing Memoir Writing (NCC-Grass Valley)
  • Instructor: Judie Rae
    Dates: 10/21/2025 - 12/2/2025
    Days: Tu
    Times: 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Grass Valley Campus
    Building-Room: N8-103
    Seats Available: 14 | Max Enroll: 20
    CRN: 83742
    This class is designed for people who have already taken the Beginning Memoir course, though all are welcome, and I will provide handouts for newcomers to acquaint them with the material. Every week students are given prompts, which they may choose to respond to.

    *Class Dates: 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/18, 11/25, & 12/2.

    *No class: 11/11

    *Membership not required for Tuition-free courses! → Visit: Tuition-free OLLI page
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    If you DID NOT take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, complete our Tuition-free Application/Course Registration Form: Click Here!
    If you DID take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, you are a current student and only need to complete our Tuition-free Course Registration Form: Click Here!

 

  • Our Time Is Now - Part 1 (Rocklin)
  • Instructor: Ellen Sander
    Dates: 9/2/2025 - 10/7/2025
    Days: Tu
    Times: 1:00 PM - 3:50 PM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Rocklin Campus
    Building-Room: W-201
    Seats Available: 22 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 83735
    Our Time Is Now, also distributed in North America under the title The Restaurant, examines the development of Sweden's social democracy beginning at the end of World War II. This period piece centered in a Stockholm restaurant examines class, gender, politics, and the development of the welfare state from 1945-1950. Swedish language production with English subtitles. 

    *Class Dates: 9/2, 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, & 10/7.

    *Membership not required for Tuition-free courses! → Visit: Tuition-free OLLI page
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    If you DID NOT take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, complete our Tuition-free Application/Course Registration Form: Click Here!
    If you DID take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, you are a current student and only need to complete our Tuition-free Course Registration Form: Click Here!

 

  • Our Time Is Now - Part 1 (NCC-Grass Valley)
  • Instructor: Ellen Sander
    Dates: 9/3/2025 - 10/8/2025
    Days: W
    Times: 12:30 PM - 3:20 PM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Nevada County Campus
    Building-Room: N12-103
    Seats Available: 28 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 82521
    Our Time Is Now, also distributed in North America under the title The Restaurant, examines the development of Sweden's social democracy beginning at the end of World War II. This period piece centered in a Stockholm restaurant examines class, gender, politics, and the development of the welfare state from 1945-1950. Swedish language production with English subtitles. 

    *Class Dates: 9/3, 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/1, & 10/8.

    *Membership not required for Tuition-free courses! → Visit: Tuition-free OLLI page
    or... Determine which scenario applies to you below
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    If you DID NOT take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, complete our Tuition-free Application/Course Registration Form: Click Here!
    If you DID take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, you are a current student and only need to complete our Tuition-free Course Registration Form: Click Here!

 

  • Our Time Is Now - Part 2 (Rocklin)
  • Instructor: Ellen Sander
    Dates: 10/28/2025 - 12/9/2025
    Days: Tu
    Times: 1:00 PM - 3:50 PM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Rocklin Campus
    Building-Room: W-201
    Seats Available: 22 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 83736
    Our Time Is Now, also distributed in North America under the title The Restaurant, examines the development of Sweden's social democracy beginning at the end of World War II. This period piece centered in a Stockholm restaurant examines political organizing and the rising of the welfare state in tandem with gender identity and the individual in society, 1955-1962. Swedish language production with English subtitles. 

    *Class Dates: 10/28, 11/4, 11/18, 11/25, 12/2, & 12/9.

    *No class: 11/11

    *Membership not required for Tuition-free courses! → Visit: Tuition-free OLLI page
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    If you DID NOT take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, complete our Tuition-free Application/Course Registration Form: Click Here!
    If you DID take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, you are a current student and only need to complete our Tuition-free Course Registration Form: Click Here!

 

  • Our Time Is Now - Part 2 (NCC-Grass Valley)
  • Instructor: Ellen Sander
    Dates: 10/29/2025 - 12/3/2025
    Days: W
    Times: 12:30 PM - 3:20 PM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Nevada County Campus
    Building-Room: N12-103
    Seats Available: 28 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 82523
    Our Time Is Now, also distributed in North America under the title The Restaurant, examines the development of Sweden's social democracy beginning at the end of World War II. This period piece centered in a Stockholm restaurant examines political organizing and the rising of the welfare state in tandem with gender identity and the individual in society, 1955-1962. Swedish language production with English subtitles. 

    *Class Dates: 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, & 12/3.

    *Membership not required for Tuition-free courses! → Visit: Tuition-free OLLI page
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    If you DID NOT take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, complete our Tuition-free Application/Course Registration Form: Click Here!
    If you DID take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, you are a current student and only need to complete our Tuition-free Course Registration Form: Click Here!

 

  • Truckee-Tahoe Community Band (Truckee)
  • Instructor: Randy Humphreys
    Dates: 8/20/2025 - 12/10/2025
    Days: W
    Times: 6:00 PM - 9:05 PM
    Sessions: 16
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: 
    Building-Room: Tahoe-Truckee-T1-231
    Seats Available: 29 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 82140
    Were you in Band in High School? Middle School? Do you wish you still played? Do you consider yourself a music loving amateur performer? If so, this class is for you! Welcome to the Truckee-Tahoe Community Band. If you have the desire to play with others in an ensemble setting, and prior but not necessarily current experience, then join us on Wednesday nights for a musical adventure. We will work together to interpret and perform fun band literature. The class will culminate in a performance. Music builds community – come join us!

    *Class Dates: 8/20, 8/27, 9/3, 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/1, 10/8, 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/3, & 12/10.

    *No class: 10/15

    *Membership not required for Tuition-free courses! → Visit: Tuition-free OLLI page
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    If you DID NOT take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, complete our Tuition-free Application/Course Registration Form: Click Here!
    If you DID take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, you are a current student and only need to complete our Tuition-free Course Registration Form: Click Here!

 

  • Truckee-Tahoe Community Chorus (Truckee)
  • Instructor: Brittney May
    Dates: 8/18/2025 - 12/8/2025
    Days: M
    Times: 5:45 PM - 8:35 PM
    Sessions: 15
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: 
    Building-Room: Tahoe-Truckee-T1-231
    Seats Available: 45 | Max Enroll: 50
    CRN: 81982
    Truckee-Tahoe Community Chorus: The course is designed for college-aged students through seniors for the study of selected styles and periods of music culminating in the performance of selected repertoire. The course curriculum includes discussion of musical elements, composition, vocabulary and history as well as vocal technique.

    *Class Dates: 8/18, 8/25, 9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/6, 10/20, 10/27, 11/3, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24, 12/1, & 12/8.

    *No class: 9/1 & 10/13

    *Membership not required for Tuition-free courses! → Visit: Tuition-free OLLI page
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    If you DID NOT take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, complete our Tuition-free Application/Course Registration Form: Click Here!
    If you DID take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, you are a current student and only need to complete our Tuition-free Course Registration Form: Click Here!

 

  • Understanding the Japanese Incarceration and Intergenerational Conflict Through Historical Fiction (NCC-Grass Valley)
  • Instructor: Ellen Sander
    Dates: 10/27/2025 - 12/1/2025
    Days: M
    Times: 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Nevada County Campus
    Building-Room: N6-206
    Seats Available: 30 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 83739

    The Japanese Incarceration and tenuous sociopolitical and race relations prevalent in Seattle's International District during the 1940s are documented in Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. This historical fiction novel investigates enduring prejudicial consequences and their lasting socio-political and cultural imprints. 

    *Class Dates: 10/27, 11/3, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24, & 12/1.

    *Membership not required for Tuition-free courses! → Visit: Tuition-free OLLI page
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    If you DID NOT take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, complete our Tuition-free Application/Course Registration Form: Click Here!
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  • Understanding the Japanese Incarceration and Intergenerational Conflict Through Historical Fiction (Rocklin)
  • Instructor: Ellen Sander
    Dates: 10/30/2025 - 12/11/2025
    Days: Th
    Times: 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM
    Sessions: 6
    Fee: $0.00
    Location: Rocklin Campus
    Building-Room: W-201
    Seats Available: 26 | Max Enroll: 30
    CRN: 83738

    The Japanese Incarceration and tenuous sociopolitical and race relations prevalent in Seattle's International District during the 1940s are documented in Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. This historical fiction novel investigates enduring prejudicial consequences and their lasting socio-political and cultural imprints. 

    *Class Dates: 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20, 12/4, & 12/11.

    *No class: 11/27

    *Membership not required for Tuition-free courses! → Visit: Tuition-free OLLI page
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    If you DID NOT take a tuition-free class in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, complete our Tuition-free Application/Course Registration Form: Click Here!
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