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Past Courses
2023 marks the seventieth anniversary of the publication of Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March. How well has it aged? While not his greatest novel (by consensus that title belongs to Herzog)...
One of the most distinctive writing systems ever devised, the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic system covered the walls of temples, tombs, coffins for four thousand years of Egypt’s history. This course...
In this workshop, we will strive to write for what audiences want now: to be in the moment with vibrant characters embroiled in tumultuous change amid social, economic, and natural environments...
An emperor makes history. A proofreader invents it. Who has more freedom? Marguerite Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian (1951) and Jose Saramago’s The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989) pose old...
Our multi-year seminar on the Iliad continues. This time, we turn our attention to books 17 through 20, where highlights include Hera’s seduction of Zeus and Patroclus' aristeia and death. Each class...
This interdisciplinary course will explore the emergence of coffee as a culturally, socially and economically significant product in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, and follow its...
Why are our newspapers and social media feeds all of a sudden filled with stories about mushrooms and fungi? From our forests to our fridges, fungi shape our daily lives in fundamental ways, but this...
This interactive, non-credit course at the Graham School offers adult learners an opportunity to explore the roots and ramifications of Fascism with intellectual historian David Gutherz. Next year...
Reading is a skill. And that like many skills, one can get better at reading through theoretically-informed practice. In this short course, we will examine the theoretical perspective on good reading...
This course is a special extended edition of the Basic Program methods course offered as part of our celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the program. One of the foundational premises of the Basic...