Lifelong Learning

Charleston Area Lifelong Learning (CALL) offers a series of multi-week classes that are fun to learn and provide more in-depth experience than offered at CCR's Monday lectures. CALL also provides a great way to meet and make new friends who share similar interests. 

All CALL courses are $25 each. 
You do not need to be a Center for Creative Retirement (CCR) member to take CALL classes.

Fall Term 2026

CALL's Fall Term runs from Oct 13th through Nov 20. 

Details are being finalized!  Watch this space for the Online Catalog and link to registration.

 Among the courses we will be offering:

  • Russ Hutchins will teach a three-week course on U.S. vice presidents.
    This will be an AM Zoom class.
  • In November, Russ will present a timely three-week class on Putin’s Russia.
  • Cale Shipman will once again host a three-week course called When Our Music Ruled the World.
    If you enjoyed his previous class, be assured this is new material, not a repeat, so sign on to continue the musical journey.
  • Diana Barth will lead a journey to Canterbury via Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
    We'll read one Tale a week for six weeks.
  • John Barth will host a 6-week course that examines WWI through the eyes of 3rd Squadron of the RAF.
    We'll be looking at all of the changes to warfare they experience and learn some stories of individual pilots in their own words, recorded in books and memoirs.
  • Preston Burns has a one-day presentation, sharing his trip to Timbuktu.
And that's just the beginning!

Would you like to teach?

The Lowcountry has attracted a plethora of your peers who have interesting topics to share.

We are always looking for facilitators to share interesting topics. Class topics have ranged from gardening to elections, poetry to physics.

Facilitators earn a stipend of $150 per course.

Course Proposal Form

Learn. Teach. Connect.

Retired U.S. Air Force Officer John Barth offered a course on The Evolution of Aerial Warfare.
John Barth offered a course on The Evolution of Aerial Warfare.
Physics in art, literature, music and more: Former Eastern Michigan professor John Preston presents a course on Physics for the Humanities
John Preston addresses a packed classroom of life-long learners in the course "Physics for the Humanities"
Summerville Artist Guild President Beckly Sharpe facilitates an "Introduction to Drawing" course.
Artist Becky Sharpe stands before a screen showing drawings or shoes with the title of her topic "Contour Drawing Shoes" of shoes
From fades and dissolves to jump-cuts and cut-ins, Tony Young facilitates a course on video editing.
Instructor Tony Young assists a C.A.L.L. participant during a course on video editing.
C.A.L.L. offers opportunities to learn/teach on topics from astronomy to poetry.
An instructor demonstrates the workings of a telescope at a C.A.L.L. course
 
 

CALL provides an opportunity to go back into a classroom with your peers, to facilitate a class or just to learn. It’s a great way to make new friends while exploring those topics you always wanted to learn more about.