The Course Catalog

Each quarter, we offer lifelong learners access to more than 70 courses at the University of Chicago.

Autumn quarter courses are now open for registration below. Click through on any course below to register online. For questions, please contact grahamregistrar@uchicago.edu or call 773.702.7249.

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BASC64211
BASC64211 Autumn

Alumni Sequence: The American Tradition Year II Alumni Sequence: The American Tradition Year II

In the second year of this sequence, we follow out the trajectory of some of those fracturings considered in the spring quarter – especially the conflicts about race, slavery and regionalism that...

BASC61111
BASC61111 Autumn

Alumni Sequence: The Romans Year I Alumni Sequence: The Romans Year I

The Romans first year courses will focus on the history and politics of Rome, delving into influences on our own history and institutions. The Autumn Quarter Seminar looks at Roman heroes and anti...

War of Athens
BASC40101 Autumn

Basic Program Year Four: Autumn Basic Program Year Four: Autumn

The Year 4 Seminar texts cover a wide range time periods and genres, including philosophy, biography, satire, and romance, which connect through the themes of love, character, and humor as they...

Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant's painting, "Antigone at the Bedside of Polynice"
BASC10101 Autumn

Basic Program Year One: Autumn Basic Program Year One: Autumn

Since 1946, the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults has engaged lifelong learners in reading, discussing, and building community around the foundational texts of literature, philosophy, and...

Cleopatra: The oil painting "Cleopatra" by John William Waterhouse (1888). Death Pentheus Louvre: Pentheus torn apart by Agave and Ino on an Attic red-figure cosmetics bowl lid, c. 450–425 BC.
BASC20101 Autumn

Basic Program Year Two: Autumn Basic Program Year Two: Autumn

The Year 2 seminar is devoted to three great plays: Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Euripides' The Bacchae, and Shakespeare's Anthony & Cleopatra. A close reading of Aristotle's Poetics will enhance our...

APUC11009 Autumn

Big Data and AI before the Computer Big Data and AI before the Computer

We live amidst a “Big Data” revolution, a moment of exponential data accumulation and the accelerated development of technologies that process it. Computer scientists have developed machine-learning...

Bizet's Carmen
HUAS78081 Autumn

Bizet’s Carmen: Musical, Theatrical, and Social Perspectives Bizet’s Carmen: Musical, Theatrical, and Social Perspectives

Peer beyond the languid haze of Seville’s fabled cigarillo factory to explore Georges Bizet’s Carmen (1875) from musical, social, and theatrical perspectives. What does the Afro-Cuban dance rhythm of...

Craft Across Genres
WRIT51805 Autumn

Craft Across Genres Craft Across Genres

This course is designed for individuals who want to develop their writing skills across genres, with an examination of how particular techniques, in varied texts, can offer new ways of thinking about...

Dante’s Paradiso
HUAS26006 Autumn

Dante’s Paradiso and its Deep Waters Dante’s Paradiso and its Deep Waters

In the third part of his great epic, Divine Comedy, Dante sets his course “for an uncharted sea.” The Paradiso picks up the central questions (include divine justice, salvation for virtuous pagans...

Dante’s Purgatorio
HUAS26005 Autumn

Dante’s Purgatorio: Can Love Go Wrong? Dante’s Purgatorio: Can Love Go Wrong?

In the second part of his great epic, Divine Comedy, Dante and Virgil have crawled out of Hell to find themselves at the base of Mount Purgatory—and they are very quickly in for surprises. Most...