Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

Registration for the Spring 2021 semester is open now! Visit the Osher Registration page to get started.

Registration for the Spring 2021 semester is open now! Visit the Osher Registration page to get started.

Visit the Browse Curriculum page to view the Osher Institute’s Spring 2021 programs.

• All Spring 2021 presentations will be offered via the Zoom Webinar platform as a livestream event and recorded.
• Members will receive two reminder emails: an email one week before and an email one hour before the presentation begins. These emails contain the Zoom Webinar link and Webinar ID. Multi-session short courses will have a new link sent for each class session.
• Members registered for each presentation will receive a link to the recorded program within 30 days of the final session. Members may view the recordings at their leisure, as often as they like, through June 30, 2021.
• Livestream registration will close seven (7) days prior to the presentation’s start date.
• Technical support is provided through the Osher Institute office at (208) 426-6554.

Watch a Practice Livestream Session

We are excited to partner with The Great Courses Plus to provide Osher Institute members with additional learning opportunities throughout this academic year. Through our partnership, members can purchase access to their own account, valid until July 31, 2021, for only $35.

Registration is open now! Visit the Osher Registration page and select “Access to The Great Courses Plus.”

All information regarding your account through the Osher Institute will come from osher@boisestate.edu. Per the catalog description, there is a two-week waiting period to receive your username and password.

Once we receive your login information from The Great Courses Plus, we will send it to you from the Osher Institute email address.

Registration for the Spring 2021 semester is open now! Visit the Osher Registration page to get started.

New! If you missed out on a great program that was offered in an earlier semester, you now have an opportunity to enjoy these programs at your leisure. Simply select the recorded presentation that you wish to view and a link will be provided via email. Recorded programs may be viewed anytime and as often as you wish through June 30, 2021.

Here are the available sessions from the Fall 2020 semester:

• 50 Years of NPR
• A Republic, If You Can Keep It
• Agricultural Pesticides
• Beyond the Peregrine: 50 Years of Raptor Conservation
• Chinese Mining in Idaho
• Defining Terrorism
• Elephants and Rhinos
• Global Conflict in the 21st Century
• Hearing Loss and Treatment
• How Vaccines Work
• Is This Pain Arthritis
• Passion to Action: The Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial
• Race, Class, Gender, and Rock n’ Roll
• Recreation in the Boise Foothills
• Spider Biology for Arachnophobes
• The Art and Times of Sandro Botticelli
• The Channeled Scablands
• The Dawn Mission
• The Evolution of Gastrointestinal Medicine
• The Monsters That Saved Hollywood
• The Spartans
• Too Fit to Fall: Exercise and Parkinson’s Disease
• Trauma in the Criminal Justice System
• Trauma Surgery

To register for an archived program, contact Customer Services at (208) 426-1709.

The Yanke building is closed to the public until further notice. Visits to the Yanke building and Osher Institute office may be made on an appointment-only basis. Guests are required to sign in for contact tracing. Individuals are no longer required to wear facial coverings indoors or outdoors on campus, with some exceptions. Individuals who are not fully vaccinated are strongly encouraged to continue wearing facial coverings. For more information, refer to Boise State’s COVID response health guidelines.

To request an appointment, please contact the Osher office at
(208) 426-6554 or osher@boisestate.edu.

If you have an appointment, please park in a space marked with a visitor’s sign on the east side of the parking lot.