Join us for fun & learning this fall!
We’re excited to list a preliminary roster of classes planned for the Fall 2026 semester at UD’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) program for age 50-plus.
- Hundreds of classes offered, held weekly for 5, 11 or 13 weeks
- Learn something new or refresh previous skills.
- One low membership fee, take as many classes as you like!
- SAVE THE DATES — Priority Registration opens July 30-August 11; classes start September 8
Fall 2026 Course Preview List
Courses, formats and schedules are subject to change. Detailed digital catalog with schedule and course descriptions will be available online July 15 (estimated).
Art History and Appreciation
- Slow Art Experience — Wilmington
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Fine Arts
- Abstract Art Workshop: Int. — Online
- Acrylic Painting — Lewes, Wilmington
- Art of Collage: Painting with Paper — Lewes
- Artists’ Open Workshop — Wilmington
- Basket Weaving — Lewes
- Beginner Pastel Drawing and Painting — Wilmington
- Beginner Watercolor I — Lewes
- Beginner Mixed Media: Watercolor and Ink — Ocean View
- Best of Fun Photography — Wilmington
- Beyond Beginner Watercolor With the Art Studio — Online
- Book Binding — Wilmington
- Bookmaking Techniques: Art Studio — Wilmington
- Card Making — Lewes, Ocean View, Wilmington
- Cartoon Workshop — Wilmington
- Ceramics — Wilmington
- Close Knit and Crochet Group — Wilmington
- Creative Fun With Clay — Wilmington
- Digital Darkroom and Gallery — Wilmington
- Drawing — Wilmington
- Drawing Cartoons — Wilmington
- Editing With Lightroom Classic — Online
- Fiber Arts and Fabric Dyeing: Art Studio — Wilmington
- Gel Printing Workshop — Wilmington
- Ikebana — Wilmington
- Intermediate Painting Workshop — Lewes
- Jewelry Making: CCArts — Wilmington
- Junk Journaling — Wilmington
- Knitting and Crocheting Workshop — Wilmington
- Knitting — Dover, Lewes, Ocean View
- Make ‘N Take — Wilmington
- Mixed Media Botanical Painting: Art Studio — Wilmington
- Mixed Media Painting and Collage — Wilmington
- More Fun With Crochet — Lewes
- Open Studio — Wilmington
- Paint a Tranquil Watercolor Seascape: Art Studio — Wilmington
- Painting with Tea: Art Studio — Wilmington
- Paper to Pixels — Dover
- Pastel Painting Workshop — Wilmington
- Photography: Basic — Online
- Polymer Clay for Everyone — Wilmington
- Printmaking: Art Studio — Wilmington
- Stained Glass — Lewes
- Stained Glass: Art Studio — Wilmington
- Watercolor: Art Studio — Wilmington, Online
- Watercolor: Beg., Int. — Wilmington
- Wow, Color! — Wilmington
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Performing Arts Appreciation
- Beethoven: Life, Music, Hearing — Ocean View
- Best of Rock and Soul on Film — Online
- Broadway: Music and Lyrics — Wilmington, Online
- Classical Music: Famous Women Conductors — Wilmington
- Classical Music: Orchestras of the World — Wilmington
- Classical Music: The Symphony — Wilmington
- Drama: The Diplomat — Wilmington
- Exploring Bluegrass Music — Wilmington
- Favorite Movies on the Big Screen — Lewes
- Films: 1930-1959 — Wilmington
- Gotta Move! Streisand in the 60s — Wilmington, Online
- Listening to Jazz — Ocean View
- Masters of Cinema: Odds and Ends 1 — Dover, Online
- Mel Brooks: Man, Myth, Legend — Wilmington
- Music of George Gershwin — Dover, Online
- Opera: Ready to Learn — Wilmington
- Operas of Richard Wagner — Wilmington, Online
- Photographic Art Discussion — Wilmington
- Retro Reels: 80s and 90s Movies — Wilmington, Online
- World Cinema in the 21st Century — Wilmington
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Performing Arts Participation
- Acting on Stage: Foundations — Wilmington
- Band: Beginning 1, 2 — Wilmington
- Band: Intermediate — Wilmington
- Caught in the Act! — Wilmington
- Chamber Choir — Wilmington
- Chamber Music Explorers — Wilmington
- Chorus — Lewes, Wilmington
- Clarinet Ensemble — Wilmington
- Concert Band — Wilmington
- Drum Circle: Open Jam — Wilmington
- Easy Guitar: Play for Joy — Wilmington
- Flute Choir — Wilmington
- Folk Guitar — Wilmington
- Guitar Music Jam — Wilmington
- Guitar: Int., Adv. — Wilmington
- History of Rock and Roll: Acoustically — Lewes
- Home Digital Recording — Wilmington
- Humor: Improv to Sketch Comedy — Lewes
- Improv at the OLLI — Wilmington
- Madrigal Singers — Wilmington
- Musical Movies off Key: Playful Sing-a-Long — Wilmington
- Native American Flute — Wilmington
- OLLI Players Present — Wilmington
- OLLI Plays the Blues — Wilmington
- Open Mic & Karaoke — Wilmington
- Orchestra — Wilmington
- Recorder Ensemble — Dover, Wilmington
- Rock Band — Wilmington
- Slow Jam — Dover
- String Ensemble — Wilmington
- String Instruction: Beg., Int. — Wilmington
- The Beatles: 1962-66 — Wilmington
- Toastmaster Speechcraft — Wilmington
- Traditional Music Slow Jam — Lewes
- Ukulele Group — Wilmington
- Using Computers to Learn to Play Music — Online
- Violin Instruction: Adv. — Wilmington
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General Studies
- Conversation to Action: Community and Civic Power — Wilmington
- Co-Op Hiking: Wilm. Trail Club — Wilmington
- Current Conversations for Women — Lewes
- Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning — Online
- Inside Our National Parks — Wilmington, Online
- Know/Grow Yourself: Behavioral Style — Lewes, Online
- Leadership at OLLI — Wilmington
- Let’s Talk Walt Disney World — Wilmington
- Responding to Authoritarianism — Online
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat — Dover
- Teach a Course at OLLI — Wilmington
- The Gothic Cathedral — Wilmington, Online
- Thought Provoking Ted Talks, Trivia — Wilmington
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Genealogy
- Family History Narratives — Wilmington
- Genealogy Research: Open Computer Lab — Wilmington
- Genetic Genealogy: Int. DNA Analysis — Wilmington
- Overview of Genealogy Research — Online
- Using Family Tree Maker Software — Wilmington
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Culture
- Classic Sci-Fi Movies — Dover
- Country Line Dancing — Wilmington
- Film Studies: Women Directors — Wilmington
- Films of Mel Brooks — Wilmington
- Revelations of Awareness — Online
- History and Art of UD Wilm. Campus — Wilmington, Online
- “No!”: Americans Protest — Wilmington
- 1776! The Year and The Musical — Lewes, Online
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History
- Age of Conflict: Where We Are in History — Wilmington
- Alexei and the Mad Monk Rasputin — Wilmington
- America in the 1990s: Clinton Years — Wilmington, Online
- Ancient History: Early Civilizations — Wilmington
- Anglo-Saxon England — Online
- Architecture: Colonial Philadelphia to Abu Dhabi — Wilmington
- Building the Iron Rails that United America — Lewes, Online
- Civilizations of Mesoamerica and the Andes — Wilmington
- Delaware Aviation History — Wilmington
- Espionage in WWII — Dover, Online
- Explosive Middle East — Wilmington, Online
- FDR’s Inner Circle of Women — Lewes
- Feast of Fools and the Arts of Resistance — Lewes, Online
- Federalist Papers — Wilmington, Online
- Female Blues Royalty: 1920s-1980s — Wilmington
- France After Napoleon — Wilmington, Online
- Genius for War — Dover
- George III: Last King of America — Online
- Great American Women — Dover
- History of Medieval Science — Online
- History of the Blues — Lewes, Online
- Holocaust: Two Wars — Wilmington
- How Advertising Reflects History — Wilmington
- How American Women Won the Right to Vote — Wilmington
- International Rivalries and Strategic Decisions — Wilmington
- Into the Arms of Strangers — Lewes, Online
- It’s Elemental: Discovery and Science — Online
- Making Manhattan: World’s Greatest City — Online
- Monster Folklore — Dover
- Pompeii: Time Capsule of Roman Life — Wilmington, Online
- Racism in America: History We Didn’t Learn in School — Wilmington
- Shakespeare’s Kings: History as Drama — Wilmington
- South Asia in Five Stories — Newark
- Superstars of the American Presidency — Lewes, Ocean View, Online
- The Beat is the History — Lewes, Ocean View, Online
- The DuPont Story: Family, Company — Wilmington
- The Role of Privateering in the Wars for Independence — Lewes, Online
- The U.S. Navy in the Civil War — Wilmington
- Trains & Boats & Planes — Wilmington, Online
- Tudor England — Lewes
- Unsung Heroes of WWII — Wilmington
- Viking Age Explorers & Traders — Wilmington
- We Can Do It! Women of the 1940s — Lewes, Online
- Will of the People: Readings in Democracy — Wilmington
- Women in the American Revolution — Lewes, Online
- Women in the Revolution — Dover, Online
- World War II in the Pacific — Ocean View, Online
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Literature
- American Poetry 1945-2025 — Wilmington
- Book Club: The Frozen River — Dover, Online
- Celebrating Notable Women — Wilmington, Online
- Gatsby for Grown-Ups — Lewes, Online
- Joan Didion: Life and Works — Wilmington
- Novels by the Lost Generation, 1920-1944 — Wilmington
- OLLI Book Club — Wilmington, Online
- Our Future through 19th Century British Literature — Wilmington
- Picture Book History — Lewes
- Plumbing Shakespeare’s Imagination — Dover
- Poet Talk — Online
- Reading Moby Dick — Wilmington
- Shakespeare in Performance — Wilmington
- The Arrogant Ape — Lewes
- The Moral Puzzle of Hamlet — Lewes, Online
- The New Yorker: Review and Opinion — Online
- The Poetry of A.E. Stallings — Wilmington
- Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea Series: A Mythology — Wilmington
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International Affairs
- Beyond James Bond — Dover, Online
- Great Decisions 2026 — Wilmington, Online
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Philosophy and Religion
- Applying Stoicism Principles — Online
- Buddhism for Beginners — Wilmington
- Christianity: One or Many? — Wilmington
- Early Church History: Apostolic Fathers — Wilmington
- Ethical and Moral Dilemmas — Wilmington
- Forgiveness Benefits the Forgiver — Wilmington
- Harvesting the Gifts of Age — Wilmington
- Let’s Talk About Dreams — Online
- Near Death Experiences — Wilmington
- Skeptics and Believers: Religious Debate — Wilmington
- The Problem of Evil — Wilmington
- The Sufi Poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi — Online
- Twelve Inspirational Truths As We Age — Wilmington
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Writing
- Aspiring Poets — Online
- Creative Writing Workshop — Wilmington
- Fiction to Inform Policy — Lewes, Online
- Let’s Workshop Our Nonfiction Writing! — Wilmington
- Novel Writing Intro — Wilmington
- Poetry Writing Workshop — Online
- Writing Nonfiction — Online
- Yes! You Can Write Nonfiction — Wilmington
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Information Technology
- Artificial Intelligence — Wilmington
- Excel: Introduction — Wilmington
- I Know My Computer: Basics — Wilmington
- Photos for Mac — Wilmington
- Podcasting with AI without Recording — Lewes, Online
- PowerPoint Fundamentals: Adv. — Wilmington
- Smartphones and Their Applications — Online
- Windows 11 Management — Wilmington
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Languages
- American Sign Language ASL — Lewes, Wilmington
- French Book Group Cercle De Lecture — Wilmington
- French Conversations: Talking About Films — Dover
- French for Travelers — Dover, Online
- French: Beg., Int. — Wilmington, Online
- German Seminar — Online
- German Short Stories 8 — Online
- German Songs Auf Deutsch 1 — Online
- German: Enjoy Learning! — Online
- Italian: Beginning — Wilmington
- Latin: Beginning to Intermediate — Newark
- Russian: Functional Conversation — Lewes
- Spanish for Beginners — Lewes
- Spanish for the Fun of It — Wilmington
- Spanish Next Level: Student-Led Conversations — Wilmington
- Spanish: Advanced Conversation — Online
- Spanish: Fifth Semester — Wilmington
- Spanish: Intermediate — Online
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Life Sciences
- Basics of Human Biochemistry — Wilmington, Online
- Eco Team — Wilmington
- Evolution of Walking — Wilmington
- OLLI Bird Watching Club — Wilmington
- Plant Health and Global Food Security — Lewes
- The Botanist Darwin — Lewes
- Thinking About Beekeeping? — Wilmington
- Zoo Trip: Primate Behavior — Wilmington
- ReLearn From Your Body — Lewes, Online
- ReLearn How to Move: Feldenkrais — Lewes
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Health and Wellness
- Applied Kinesiology for Health and Wellness — Lewes
- Easy Fall Walk — Lewes
- English Country Dance — Lewes
- Food Science: Facts and Fiction — Wilmington, Online
- Healthy Eating Workshop — Lewes
- Infectious Disease: Beginning of the End? — Wilmington
- International Folk Dance — Lewes, Ocean View, Wilmington
- International Recreational Folk Dance, Level 2 — Wilmington
- Master the Dream of Your Life — Ocean View
- Meditation and Breathwork — Ocean View
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction — Online
- Moderate Walks in Fall — Lewes
- Move to the Music — Wilmington
- Nutrition after 50 — Newark, Wilmington
- Overview of Qigong — Lewes
- Pacific Island Dance — Ocean View
- Plant-Based Eating for Fun — Lewes
- Resolving Conflict at Home and Work — Lewes
- Rhythms of Life: Drum Circle — Lewes
- Seated Exercise: All Abilities — Ocean View
- Tai Chi, Tai Chi Chih — Lewes, Wilmington
- Tai Chi: Yang Style 8, 24-Form — Wilmington
- Taking Charge of Your Health — Dover
- The Future of Medicine — Lewes, Online
- The Three-Lens Integrated Decision — Lewes, Online
- Think You Have An Allergy? — Wilmington
- Trauma and Recovery — Wilmington
- Understanding Medicalese: Common Terms — Newark, Wilmington
- Walk for Fitness and Fun — Ocean View
- Walking Kent County with Webby — Dover
- Walking, Talking, Enjoying Life — Wilmington
- Yoga: Basic, Chair, Mind & Body — Wilmington
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Physical Sciences and Math
- 1 Man, 3 Global Disasters — Wilmington
- Climate Change and Disasters — Lewes, Online
- Einstein’s Relativity — Wilmington, Online
- Environmental Issues — Wilmington, Online
- Further Fun in Fundamental Math — Wilmington
- Gemology: Brief Introduction — Wilmington
- Mysteries of Mars — Lewes, Online
- Powering Tomorrow: Nuclear in the Mix? — Wilmington
- Solar System and Beyond — Wilmington
- The World of Diamonds — Lewes
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Economics, Finance, Political Science, Law
- Breakthrough Investing — Online
- Burden of Proof: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt — Lewes
- Controversial Issues — Dover, Lewes
- Current Issues: Lecture and Discussion — Wilmington, Online
- Elder Law: Plan Today, Protect Tomorrow — Online
- Financial Workshop — Ocean View, Online
- Getting More Through Negotiations — Wilmington
- Gold Guard: Avoiding Fraud — Lewes
- History of AI — Lewes, Online
- History of Money and Government Spending — Wilmington
- How To Sell a House in 30 Days — Wilmington
- Investing for Successful Retirement — Online
- MaxAmazing Your Retirement — Online
- Media and Public Opinion in the 2026 Elections — Online
- Mid-Term Elections 2026: Issues and Results — Wilmington
- Money Matters, Master It! — Wilmington
- Navigating Modern Markets for Financial Success — Ocean View, Online
- OLLI Investment Study Group — Online
- Preparing and Selling Your Home — Online
- Principles of Investing: Financial Markets — Wilmington, Online
- Reading Stockcharts: Basics — Online
- Retirement by Design — Lewes
- Rule of Law: Functioning Democracy — Wilmington
- The Constitution’s Rights and Wrongs — Wilmington
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Extracurricular Activities
- Beginning Knitting — Ocean View
- Canasta for Beginners — Wilmington
- Canasta: Game Play — Wilmington
- Card Games for Fun — Ocean View
- Chess Club — Lewes, Wilmington
- Craft Circle: Sit and Stitch — Dover
- Crossword Puzzles Intro — Lewes
- Genealogy Interest Group — Online
- Mah Jongg Club — Lewes, Ocean View
- Mah Jongg: Beg. — Ocean View, Wilmington
- Mah Jongg: Game Play — Wilmington
- Mah Jongg: Int., Adv. — Lewes
- Mexican Train Dominoes — Wilmington
- Osher Craft Circle — Lewes
- Tree Club — Wilmington
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Courses, formats and schedules are subject to change. Detailed digital catalog with schedule and course descriptions will be available online July 15 (estimated).
Kent/Sussex | Wilmington
