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- 3-Course Package - Spring
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Fee: $200.00
This 3-course package allows you to select 3 spring courses for $200. This applies to 3-, 4- and 5-week courses. Add this package to your cart and sign up for courses in the same transaction or later. Sign up one at a time or all 3 at once. Package cannot be applied retroactively. Limit 1 package per person per quarter.
*Osher Online courses and field trips are not eligible with this package.
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- 6-Course Package - Spring
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Fee: $400.00
This 6-course package allows you to select 6 spring courses for $400. This applies to 3-, 4- and 5-week courses. Add this package to your cart and sign up for courses in the same transaction or later. Sign up one at a time or all 6 at once. Package cannot be applied retroactively. Limit 1 package per person pre quarter.
*Osher Online courses and field trips are not eligible with this package.
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- Animal Behavior: For a Happier Life with Dogs and Cats (In-Person)
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Happy dogs and happy cats are easier to take care of and more fun to live with. Find out what will boost your friend’s happiness —and yours, too! This class will include an overview of the history of dog training and animal welfare practices. Get an update on the latest in applied animal behavior science. Learn how to understand what dogs and cats are saying by observing their body language. You will receive information on practical and inexpensive things you can do to make dogs and cats in your home more confident, at ease, playful, and safe. The class will include plenty of question and answer time where you can ask your behavior and training questions about your dogs or cats. Great information for shelter and rescue volunteers as well as anyone concerned about our overflowing local animal shelters.
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- The Superpowers of Birds in Migration (In-Person)
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Two million flaps. That's how many times a bird weighing less than a small grape must beat its wings to fly from its winter grounds in South America to its breeding grounds in the Far North. And yet billions of birds make this arduous journey twice a year, passing through our state in wave upon wave of flights in spring and fall. It is a wondrous phenomenon of nature, one that we are just beginning to understand. Come along on the birds' journey this spring, as master birder Connie Sidles explains, in a two-part class, the most recent science of how and why birds migrate.
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- Confessions of a Met Opera Violinist and How I Learned to Love ‘The Ring’ (In-Person)
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Opera expert Erica Miner recounts her journey from her childhood as a young violin student to her 21 years at the Met Opera. In the process, she highlights her encounters with some of the Met’s leading opera stars of the time and describes what it was like to work with such luminaries as Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, Leonard Bernstein, James Levine, and Renée Fleming. AND in her 21 years at the Met, Former Metropolitan Opera violinist Erica Miner once calculated she played more hours of Wagner’s music than that of any other composer. Here she discusses the pros and cons of her extensive and intensive experiences performing Wagner’s operas in the Met orchestra pit.
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