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Life Enrichment

Seniors Program

Find a senior class near you!

Learning is a lifelong experience.

Our Senior Adventures in Learning (SAIL) program provides a wide variety of classes. Enjoy senior classes at our Catonsville, Dundalk, Essex, Hunt Valley and Owings Mills locations.

Our no-stress classes for seniors offer opportunity for social and cultural enrichment with no homework or tests! Choose from a wide range of subjects including arts and hobbies, history and politics, wellness, writing, cooking, technology, humanities and culture and much more. Learn new skills, develop hidden artistic talent and broaden your horizons!.

Students aged 60+ only have to pay class fees.

Spring 2026 Classes Fall 2025 Classes

Learn Lectures

Prefer bite-sized lessons? Take advantage of our Learn Lectures or Lunch and Learn senior classes.

  • Our Learn Lectures do not include lunch and cost $39.
  • Our Lunch and Learn Lectures feature a lecture followed by lunch at a nearby restaurant. The cost per class, including lunch, is $69.
Table depicts the dates, topics and cost of learn lectures for Winter and Spring 2025-26.
Date Topic Time Cost
1/16 MLK and the Civil Rights Movement (New!) 10:30 a.m.–Noon $39
1/28 Playing with Words: Ekphrasis 10:30 a.m.–Noon $69
2/2 Thurgood Marshall, Maryland's Champion of Justice (New!) 10:30 a.m.–Noon $69
2/6 Napoleon's American Sister-in-Law: The story of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte 10 a.m.–Noon $39
2/11 Maryland's Ice Age Peoples (New!) 10:30 a.m.–Noon $69
2/13 Billie Holliday: Lady Sings the Blues 10:30 a.m.–Noon $39
2/20 Rebuilding Syria's Agriculture and Forest Resources 10:30 a.m.–Noon $69
3/5 Two Chilis, No Waiting 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $39
3/6 Judy Garland: The Lady and the Legend 10:30 a.m.–Noon $69
3/11 The Science Behind the 10 Plagues 10:30 a.m.–Noon $69
3/13 The Strange Death of Rasputin 10:30 a.m.–Noon $39
3/18 Papercutting for Beginners 10:30 a.m.–Noon $69
3/27 Buffalo Bill and the Invention of the Wild West 10 a.m.–Noon $69
4/17 Impact of Climate Change on Maryland 10:30 a.m.–Noon $39
4/16 Ina Garten Revisited 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $39
4/22 Bosom Buddies: Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews 10:30 a.m.–Noon $69
4/24 U.S. Grant: General, President and Leader 10 a.m.–Noon $39
5/1 The Murder of Tsar Nicolas II and His Family 10:30 a.m.–Noon $69
5/6 Oscar Hammerstein 2nd: A Musical Theater Legend 10:30 a.m.–Noon $69
5/15 Women of the Civil Rights Movement 10:30 a.m.–Noon $39
5/18 Tales from the First Historian: Herodotus 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $69
5/22 Step into the Local Past: The History of the Hilton Mansion 9:30 a.m.–Noon $69
5/29 Cities of Roman Britain 10 a.m.–Noon $69

Register today!

We make it easy to register and pay for your Continuing Education classes. Whether online, by phone or in-person. Find the method that works best for you!

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Stephan Edmonston

Director, Seniors Program