The Course Catalog
Each quarter, we offer lifelong learners access to more than 40 courses at the University of Chicago.
Summer quarter course registration is now open. For questions, please contact grahamregistrar@uchicago.edu or call 773.702.7249.
Spinoza's Ethics Spinoza's Ethics
A deep dive into seventeenth-century's most controversial philosopher, Baruch Spinoza, variously portrayed throughout history as: "the accursed Jew of Amsterdam" and "the Atheistic Euclid" by some; a...
Suetonius: Lives of the Twelve Caesars Suetonius: Lives of the Twelve Caesars
In The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius examines the amazing and sometimes bizarre lives of the early rulers of the Roman Empire, beginning with Julius Caesar and ending with Domitian. Composed as...
Supreme Court Review, 2023-24 Term Supreme Court Review, 2023-24 Term
The Supreme Court of the United States will be completing its 2023-24 term this summer. In this course, we will read and discuss a selection of its most important decisions.
The Apocrypha and other Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period(400 BCE to 100CE The Apocrypha and other Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period(400 BCE to 100CE
This course on the Apocrypha and other Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period will be followed with a three quarter sequence on the New Testament 2024-2025.
The Grammar and Syntax of Cinematic Style—Past, Present and Future The Grammar and Syntax of Cinematic Style—Past, Present and Future
This course is a continuation of a project examining the nature and history of cinema with reference to (1) techniques of representation and attendant psychological depictions of emotional networks...
The Tone Poem and Musical Pictoralism The Tone Poem and Musical Pictoralism
How does music paint pictures and inspire emotion? Is it the power of suggestion from program notes, or is there really a musical language? This class examines the program music of Berlioz, Liszt...
Three Misanthropes Three Misanthropes
This course covers three plays focused on misanthropes: two by Shakespeare that are more tragic in tone (Timon of Athens and Coriolanus) and one comedy by Moliere (The Misanthrope). What makes these...
Three Rival Theories of Ethics Three Rival Theories of Ethics
What is the ultimate standard of morality? Is it the best possible outcome for the most people? Is it dutiful and self-sacrificial adherence to absolute rules? Or should ethics aim at cultivating...
Three Visions of International Politics Three Visions of International Politics
In the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, three eminent U.S. scholars offered competing views of how the post-Cold War world would work. In the early 1990s, Francis Fukuyama, Samuel...
War and Freedom in the Mississippi Valley War and Freedom in the Mississippi Valley
This course is an introduction to emancipation in the Mississippi Valley, which will include the State of Illinois and the critical town of Cairo in the South. Students will be exposed to a variety of...