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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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 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 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: 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...