Courses

Learn how to preserve and care for the Lowcountry’s unique native trees using Conservation Arboriculture practices, while dispelling common misconceptions about tree risk and removal.

This course explores the National Airspace System, Air Traffic Control, and how the FAA serves a growing and diverse range of airspace stakeholders, from commercial airlines to drones.

This is an OLLI Digital Library recording and is available to view until December 31, 2025.

Learn how fasting can positively impact the body by exploring how fasting is different for men and women and how to incorporate different strategies to maximize health.

Everyday spices not only add fabulous flavor to your food, but they also provide nourishment to the body for daily maintenance and support for those times when ailments arise.

This course explores the Indigenous history of Hilton Head during colonial times, examining the impact of Spanish invasion, the arrival of the Yamasee, and the little-known but bloody conflict that marked their departure.

Learn about the Heyward family's history that dates back to around 1670.

This presentation discusses the impact of The Intolerable Acts and the First Continental Congress, featuring some of the incidents leading to the Revolutionary War including the Gaspee Burning and the Boston Tea Party as background to the Intolerable Acts.

This course explores the cultural, political, and racial upheavals that made 1968 the most turbulent year of the 1960s, tracing key events from assassinations to music, media, and the presidential election.

This course offers a brief history of immigration to the United States from its colonial beginnings to the present day. Topics to be covered: reasons for immigration, largest immigrant groups, immigration patterns, and restrictions imposed upon immigration.

Learn about a small select group of women who flew military aircraft during WWII.

July 1863, provides the context for a number of human interest stories and fascinating side-bars that bring the impact of Gettysburg down to a grassroots level.

This is an OLLI Digital Libraryrecording and is available to view until December 31, 2025.

Operation Nordwind in the Alsace Lorraine area was a follow-on offensive in January 1945 following the Battle of the Bulge. This American victory paved the way for the entry into southern Germany. The series is based on interviews with combat veterans, several visits to the battlefields by the presenter, after-action reports, and period topo maps.

This is an OLLI Digital Libraryrecording and is available to view until December 31, 2025.

Don Wright will discuss the difficulties he, as a person from a Western culture, faced when initially studying the history of precolonial Africa, and then teaching it to students who carried the same Western notions about such things as borders, boundaries, and personal identity. And he will include, as he puts it, "some related stuff that I find interesting."

Take a look at our Solar System and the names behind the planets.

Get a wide perspective on the pros and cons of owning an electric vehicle.

Learn about the Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) process, from case intake to lead generation.

Explore the origins and early evolution of baseball, from founding myths to the rise of Major League Baseball as big business.