The Course Catalog

Introduction to Creative Nonfiction Introduction to Creative Nonfiction

This course is designed for individuals who want to explore creative nonfiction, two words that might seem like an odd pairing. However, the genre is rooted in a long tradition of telling stories...

Introduction to Hume: The Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and the Principles of Morality Introduction to Hume: The Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and the Principles of Morality

This class will take up the groundbreaking work of David Hume, specifically looking at the groundbreaking theories of understanding and morality that catalyzed Kant's career as an attempt to prove...

Introduction to Playwriting Introduction to Playwriting

This course is designed for beginning playwrights as well as writers of other media who want to explore the genre. The course will emphasize what makes a scene work, how to develop characters through...

Introduction to Practicing Free Expression Introduction to Practicing Free Expression

Discourse rests at the nexus of academic inquiry, freedom of expression, and democratic participation.. The rigorous testing and refining of ideas necessary for pursuing knowledge and advancing...

Introduction to the Basic Program: How to Discuss Classic Texts Introduction to the Basic Program: How to Discuss Classic Texts

This course introduces students to the Basic Program practice of close reading and discussion. The text we will read closely and discuss is the U.S. Constitution. We will practice abandoning all our...

Introduction to the Basic Program: How to Read Classic Texts Introduction to the Basic Program: How to Read Classic Texts

This course is intended to address some of the more persistent and daunting difficulties we face when beginning to read classic texts of the Western cultural tradition.

We will begin from...

James Baldwin James Baldwin

In this survey of American author James Baldwin, we will look critically at the relationship between Baldwin’s corpus and the various roles Baldwin adopted, was assigned, or was posthumously given. We...

James Joyce's Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce's Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce's collection of short stories, Dubliners, and his semi-autobiographical first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, will serve us as an introduction to a three-quarter treatment...

James Joyce’s Ulysses 1 James Joyce’s Ulysses 1

In Ulysses, James Joyce composed arguably the modernist novel par excellence. In the course of telling a story, Joyce explores not only the lives of his characters, but also story-telling itself. The...

John Rawls: Theory of Justice John Rawls: Theory of Justice

We will read and discuss John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice. This book is an influential and comprehensive attempt to provide a philosophical justification for a conception of justice that supports broad...