If you find gasoline prices irritating, you may want to attend an evening class provocatively titled “End of the Age of Oil.”

Created by geophysicist Bruce Luyendyk, professor of earth science, for UCSB’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), the course flyer warns that a crisis looms as industrial societies compete for a diminishing resource. “Three dollars a gallon will soon be cheap,” he predicts.

Running five Wednesdays from July 12 through Aug. 9, Luyendyk’s class will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Goleta Valley Community Center, Room 1. It will cost $60 to $85, depending on whether or not the participant is an OLLI member.

“This is the first course we have ever scheduled in the evening hours,” says Jack Presnal, OLLI program manager, and it was done with employees in mind. Future evening classes will depend on the success of this time slot in attracting staff and faculty members to Luyendyk’s course, he adds.

Another offering in July is “Film and the Sacred,” taught by Richard Hecht, professor of religious studies. He will review five films—some, such as “The Last Temptation of Christ,” are controversial—over four Thursdays, from July 6-27, at 2 p.m., a more common time for an OLLI class.