Basic Program of Liberal Education

Past Courses

sepia toned image of a covered wagon
BASC70226

Willa Cather's unique literary voice took on the experience of American settlers in a new land with a passion and diversity no other writer has shown. We will explore a variety of landscapes and lives...

Black-and-white photograph of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
BASC70104

Ever wondered how it is that we know what we think we know? Dive into twentieth-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s accessible and engaging On Certainty, in which a new mode of inquiry into...

Ighigenia in Aulis
BASC70199

A deep dive into three of Euripides' plays featuring distinctly different monumental heroines, this class, the first of a planned ongoing series on women in Greek tragedy, will explore three plays by...

BASC70145

Virginia Woolf's October 1928 Orlando: A Biography is at once a bubbling jeu d'esprit of playfulness, humor and imagination, a keen critique of women's disinheritance and critics' cruelty, and a paean...

Red text reading "THE SADDEST WORDS" appears over a gray backdrop in this close-up of the cover of Michael Gorra's book The Saddest Words.
BASC50095

We take our title from the recently published, critically acclaimed work by Michael Gorra, “a mesmerizing work of literary thought that recontextualizes Faulkner in light of the most plangent cultural...