The Prisoner is the fifth volume in Proust's novel, The Search for Lost Time. Albertine is the prisoner named in the title, and readers of the earlier volumes will guess easily who her jailer is! Join...
Throughout his multi-volume novel, In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust refers widely to texts, art, and architecture from the ancient, medieval, renaissance, and modern periods. In this course, we...
Ryan Coogler by Gage Skidmore. Ta-Nehisi Coates by Gabriella Demczuk.
The hugely successful film Black Panther was both entertaining and empowering for black Americans. But the film also connects to themes that go deep in our culture: slavery, oppression, the Black...
This course will consist of a close reading of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man – a text now considered one of the greatest works of modern literature. Each class session will consist of distinct short...
While Kant’s magnum opus sometimes scares readers off, those who have a guide and persist with it are usually stunned by the consistent logic of the work and the powerful vision and scope of its...
Using the strategy laid out in Mortimer Adler’s classic How to Read a Book, this course is devoted to developing a thorough understanding of Plato’s Republic by reading it once quickly to get an...
Silas Marner is the story of a sincerely religious young man who is betrayed by a friend who frames him for a crime he did not commit, alienating is fiancé and ruining his life.
In this first course in a multi-term study, students will examine the Book of Deuteronomy. The fifth and final book of the Torah, the Book of Deuteronomy (meaning “second law” or “repetition of the...
Having completed the core curriculum and become better readers and thinkers, many Basic Program students want to revisit key works from the early years in order to find out what they missed the first...
Having completed the core curriculum and become better readers and thinkers, many Basic Program students want to revisit key works from the early years in order to find out what they missed the first...