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OLLI AT SIERRA COLLEGE
FALL 2025 TERM
Courses Starting Soon!
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Some Interesting OLLI Courses Starting Soon!
OLLI Fall 2025 Classes
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Instructor: Brian Woodland
Dates: Thursdays, August 28 - September 11, 2025 | Sessions: 3
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Fee: $35.00
Location: Rocklin Campus | Building-Room: W-201
SKU: FalCHIST661
*Class Dates: 8/28, 9/4, & 9/11.
| | Course Description: This course will focus on the background and details of several historic events that currently are symbolized at historical sites and public monuments. We’ll study ten Revolutionary Boston sites where it all began. We’ll then take a look at five events during this war as well as the Charters of Freedom including the highlights of the Constitutional Convention. We’ll conclude with ten Civil War sites. You will learn not only about the famous sites, but also about a few lesser known but significant ones. Be prepared to learn multiple perspectives, fascinating details, and stories behind each location or monument. | |
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Instructor Biography: With a Bachelor of Science from Humboldt State University (1986), Brian Woodland has spent over three decades bringing history to life in the classroom. From 1987 to 2021, he taught American History, Civics, and Government to public school students, inspiring thousands with his energetic teaching style and deep passion for the past.
Beyond the classroom, Brian became a leader in history education, guiding fellow educators through professional development seminars for the Eureka Union School District (2012–2021). His expertise has also been featured at the California State History Conference, where he delivered compelling sessions for educators in both 2022 and 2025.
Whether he's engaging students or training teachers, Brian brings history off the page and into the real world, making it meaningful, memorable, and relevant.
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Instructor: Joan Griffin
Dates: Thursdays, August 28 - September 25, 2025 | Sessions: 4
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Fee: $45.00
Location: Rocklin Campus | Building-Room: W-110
SKU: FalCHIST731
*Class Dates: 8/28, 9/4, 9/11, & 9/25.
*No class: 9/11
| | Course Description: Back by popular demand! The first four First Ladies, Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, and Elizabeth Monroe, lived fascinating lives and played indispensable roles in their husbands' illustrious political careers. We’ll explore the lives and contributions of these women, America's Founding Mothers. How did they live? How did they influence their President husbands? Some historians say that without the assistance of their wives, none of their husbands would have found themselves elected to the Presidency. | |
Instructor: Marjon Fariba
Dates: Tuesdays, September 2 - October 14, 2025 | Sessions: 6
Times: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Fee: $45.00
Location: Rocklin Campus | Building-Room: W-110
SKU: FalCWELL251
*Class Dates: 9/2, 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 10/7, & 10/14.
*No class: 9/30
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Course Description: Discover the transformative connection between your breath, body, and heart in this holistic course designed to promote calm, balance, and resilience. Through a combination of powerful breathing techniques, gentle meditative movements, and deep relaxation practices, you’ll learn how to release tension, improve circulation, and support your heart’s natural rhythm. This course also invites you to explore the profound power of stillness through meditation and visualization, offering tools to harmonize your heart and mind, cultivate emotional balance, and find inner peace. Each session is crafted to help you activate your relaxation system, ease stress, and recharge your energy, leaving you feeling renewed, centered, and deeply connected to your well-being.
Bring a yoga mat if you have one.
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Instructor: Joseph Guida
Dates: Mondays & Wednesdays, August 25 - October 8, 2025
Sessions: 13
Times: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Fee: $70.00
Location: Nevada County Campus | Building-Room: N13-104
SKU: FalCFIT1171
*Class Dates: 8/25, 8/27, 9/3, 9/8, 9/10, 9/15, 9/17, 9/22, 9/24, 9/29, 10/1, 10/6, & 10/8.
*No class: 9/1
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Course Description: T’ai Chi, or the Form, is a physical exercise that promotes good health, relaxation and peace of mind. It has the advantages of regular exercise combined with a slowness of pace that western society so conspicuously lacks. The relaxed gentle movements of the T’ai Chi forms keep the body from being tense and awkward. Joseph Guida studied with and was trained by world renowned T’ai Chi Master Da Liu in the 1980’s. In the first class we will learn how to stand erect, balance on one foot and the opening movement. The second class will review the first class and move on to the second movement of the form.
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Instructor: Jason File
Dates: Fridays, September 12 - October 10, 2025
Sessions: 5
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Fee: $40.00
Location: Nevada County Campus | Building-Room: N6-206
SKU: FalCHUMA401
*Class Dates: 9/12, 9/19, 9/26, 10/3, & 10/10.
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Course Description: According to Jewish legend, in 1700BC a man named Abraham put his faith in a god named YHVH, and in return was instructed to "look up now at the sky and count the stars if you can. So uncountable will your descendants be." Those words, as it turns out, were prophetic. This course surveys the history, literature, beliefs and practices of the Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - religions which taken together comprise over half of the world's population.
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Instructor: James Pagliasotti
Dates: Mondays, September 8 - October 6, 2025 | Sessions: 5
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Fee: $45.00
Location: Online via Zoom
Recording: *This class is being recorded. *Recordings will expire after 30 days.
SKU: FalCHUMA481
*Class Dates: 9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, & 10/6.
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Course Description: The arrival and evolution of the first peoples in the Americas is a story that continues to reveal itself from mystery to majesty. From the time hominins began traversing the earth until they arrived at Turtle Island, one theory after another is undone by new discoveries. This class looks at the pathways to and through the Americas, the Indigenous Peoples who populated those lands, the diverse cultures they created, their encounters with each other and eventually with an alien race that tried to subjugate or exterminate them. It's a remarkable story that they survived and are yet persevering.
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Instructor Biography: James Pagliasotti, at age 23 became the first rock music critic and columnist for The Denver Post, where he produced a twice-weekly column and regular articles about music and the counterculture from 1968-74. His work appeared in Rolling Stone magazine and various other publications. He also did shows as a deejay at KRNW-FM radio in Boulder and at KFML AM&FM in Denver. He is the author of three books, a bi-monthly newsletter and blog jamespagliasotti.substack.com, and is the creator of Radical Radio: FREEFORM Radio Archive (www.radicalradio.media).
James Pagliasotti is a native of Colorado who has had the pleasure and challenges of growing up Western. His family includes several generations of laborers in the coal mines and other extractive industries, ranching and farming. He has a lifelong interest in Native American art and culture, has lived and worked with Indigenous peoples, and for a decade owned actor Gary Cooper's home in Montana.
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Instructor: Gopal Kapur
Dates: Thursdays, September 4 - September 18, 2025 | Sessions: 3
Times: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Fee: $35.00
Location: Online via Zoom
Note: *This class will not be recorded.
SKU: FalCHIST1111
*Class Dates: 9/4, 9/11, & 9/18.
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Course Description: Across recorded history, countless brilliant women have been heroines, fearless patriots, innovators, inventors, and investigative journalists. Some were acknowledged, even honored, many forgotten, but history moves on, and these women too often become lost in the male-dominated march of time. We will look at three remarkable women – Nellie Bly, Madam C. J. Walker, and Julia Morgan.
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Instructor: Emanuel Abramovits
Dates: Thursdays, August 28 - October 9, 2025 | Sessions: 6
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Fee: $45.00
Location: Online via Zoom
Recording: *This class is being recorded. *Recordings will expire after 30 days.
SKU: FalCMUSI551
*Class Dates: 8/28, 9/4, 9/11, 9/18, 9/25, & 10/9.
*No class: 10/2
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Course Description: Put some music fans in the same room and sooner or later, they will ask each other ‘what's your favorite song?’. If we talk about Rock fans, there will be some choosing Smoke on the Water, others Bohemian Rhapsody, some Stairway to Heaven and many will have other choices. With audiovisuals, stories and anecdotes, let’s discuss what makes these songs great, the context when they became classics, the songwriters, the performers, their cultural significance and their resonance across time. The focus here will be on Rock from the 60s and 70s, a period with plenty of great music to enjoy.
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Instructor: Gopal Kapur
Dates: Mondays, September 8 - September 22, 2025 | Sessions: 3
Times: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Fee: $35.00
Location: Online via Zoom
Note: *This class will not be recorded.
SKU: FalCWELL241
*Class Dates: 9/8, 9/15, & 9/22.
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Course Description: Nearly half of American adults suffer from cardiovascular and chronic diseases. While many commercial diets promise quick weight loss, research shows they succeed only 5% of the time, often leading to weight gain. The solution? Consistent good nutrition. In this course, you'll learn to align your daily nutrition with the principles of Mediterranean, MIND, DASH, and plant-based diets for a healthier life. Prior to class, students are encouraged to complete the anonymous EatSHARP personal nutrition assessment at https://eatsharp.org/. Individuals can stay anonymous.
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