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General Offerings

In addition to our Core Program, we offer a variety of courses focused on particular great books, ancient languages, and other related subjects. These courses offer opportunities to focus one’s learning in a welcoming intellectual community.

Our courses are open to adults 16 years or older from all educational backgrounds and walks of life. Most courses meet weekly for between 1-2 hours.

Unless otherwise noted, meetings take place online via Zoom.

Enrollment for the Summer 2026 term closed on April 3rd.
Enrollment for the Fall 2026 term will open on July 30th.

Course types

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Reading groups

In a reading group, you choose one or more great books to study and meet regularly for discussions  with a group of 8-15 peers.

Discussions are led by an experienced reader and guide in conversation in accordance with our discussion guidelines and core principles

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Intensive reading groups

Intensive reading groups are an opportunity to go deeper with one’s own thinking and the thinking of others.

The size of the group is smaller, allowing each reader more conversational space, and readers are asked to write and share short weekly reflection papers.

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Subject tutorials

When possible, we organize small group meetings with a tutor competent in subjects such as: the art of writing, ancient languages, and mathematics.

The number of readers, duration, and mode of instruction all vary according to the subject being taught and the tutor’s approach.

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Summer 2026 Offerings

Enrollment for the Summer 2026 term closed on April 3rd.
Enrollment for the Fall 2026 term will open on July 30th.

When reviewing our offerings, please note the following:

  • Except for in-person courses, all meeting times are listed in U.S. Eastern Time and dates follow the convention of month/day/year.
  • Unless otherwise noted, meetings are conducted in English and take place online.
  • All workloads are approximate.
A catalog of our Summer 2026 Offerings is also available in PDF and spreadsheet formats.

In-Person Courses

Courses take place in-person at the identified locations on the identified dates and times. Meeting times are listed in local time.

Annapolis, MD | Dante, Inferno
  • Wednesdays, 6:15-7:45 PM ET, 6/17-7/01 (3 wks)
  • Commitment: 60-70 pages/week
 
Austin, TX | William Shakespeare, Macbeth
  • Thursdays, 6:30-8:00 PM CT, 8/27-9/03 (2 wks)
  • Commitment: 1/2 play/week
  • This course will be held in-person in Austin, TX
 
Brooklyn, NY | Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
  • Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET, 5/20-6/24 (6 wks)
  • Commitment: 30 pages/week
 
Grand Rapids, MI | Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818 edition)
  • Wednesdays, 5:00-7:00 PM ET, 7/8-8/5 (5 wks)
  • Commitment: 35-40 pages/week
  • This course will be held in-person on the campus of Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI.
 
New York, NY | Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House, Ghosts, Wild Duck, The Lady from the Sea, Hedda Gabler, and Master Builder
  • Mondays, 7:30-9:00 PM ET, 5/25-6/29 (6 wks)
  • Commitment: 80 pages/week
 
HYBRID (weekly): Princeton, NJ | John Milton, Paradise Lost (1674 edition)
  • Tuesdays, 4:00-5:30 PM ET, 6/2-9/1 (14 wks)
  • Commitment: 30 pages/week (1 book/week)
  • This group will have a hybrid setup, with 10 readers joining online and 10 readers joining in-person from Princeton, NJ.

 
HYBRID (monthly): Princeton, NJ | John Milton, Paradise Lost (1674 edition)
  • 6:00-7:30 PM ET
  • Commitment: 120 pages/month (4 books/month)
  • Meeting dates:
    • 6/23: Books 1-4
    • 7/21: Books 5-8
    • 8/18: Books 9-12
  • This group will have a hybrid setup, with 10 readers joining online and 10 readers joining in-person from Princeton, NJ.
 
San Francisco, CA | Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
  • TBD
  • Commitment: 90 pages/week
 
Washington, DC | Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
  • Thursdays, 6:00-8:00 PM ET, 6/11-7/9 (5 wks)
  • Commitment: 90 pages/week

Subject Tutorials

Each subject tutorial meets at the listed days and times to study the identified subject. Participants may be given assignments to complete before each meeting: these are given to assist in learning and no grades or credit will be given.

Introductory language tutorials are open to any reader who is willing to put in the effort of learning a new language.

Intermediate language tutorials typically involve the translation of texts and are most appropriate for those who have spent at least a year studying the relevant language.

Advanced language tutorials are appropriate for readers who already have some experience reading texts in the relevant language (for example, through recent participation in intermediate language tutorials).

Please note: all meeting times are listed in U.S. Eastern Time and dates follow the convention of month/day/year. All workloads are approximate.

Intermediate Ancient Greek: Aristotle, Physics, Book II
  • Mondays, 7:00 PM-8:30 PM ET, 5/18-9/07 (17 wks)
  • Commitment: 40 Bekker lines/week
 
Intermediate Ancient Greek: Herodotus, Histories
  • Fridays, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM ET, 5/22-8/14 (13 wks)
  • Commitment: 3-4 pages (Greek)/week, 30-40 pages (English)/week
  • The first 30 minutes of each session will be devoted to reviewing grammar. The remaining 90 minutes will be devoted to translation. Greek texts and commentary will be provided. Participants are expected to read the whole of the Histories in translation alongside the Greek selections that the group will translate.

 
Advanced Ancient Greek: Leonidas of Tarentum, Pastoral epigrams and Theocritus, Idyll 7
  • Saturdays, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM ET, 5/23-6/27 (6 wks)
  • Commitment: 45 lines/week
 
Advanced Ancient Greek: Epigrams and fragments from Nossis, Anytè, Erinna
  • Sundays, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM ET, 5/24-6/28 (6 wks)
  • Commitment: 35 lines/week
 
Introductory Biblical Hebrew
  • Wednesday and Sundays, 7:00-9:00 PM ET, 6/7-8/9 (10 wks)
  • Textbook: Beginning Biblical Hebrew by Mark Futato
  • Commitment: 1-2 chapters/week
 
Intermediate Latin: Plautus, Casina
  • Tuesdays, 3:00-4:30 PM ET, 5/19-7/7 (12 wks)
  • Commitment: 40 lines/week
 
Advanced Latin: Bonaventure, Itinerarium mentis in Deum
  • Sundays, 4:00-6:00 PM ET, 5/24-7/26 (10 wks)
  • Commitment: 300 lines/week (1 chapter/week)

Intensive Reading Groups

Groups meet on the identified dates and times to discuss readings in the listed texts.

Readers are expected to write short reflection papers each week and share them with the entire group. Reflection papers are intended as an aid to thinking and conversation, and no grades are given. To learn more about our approach to writing, see our guidelines for writing.

Please note: all meeting times are listed in U.S. Eastern Time and dates follow the convention of month/day/year. All end dates are provisional. All reading loads are approximate.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, The Supplicant Maidens, and Prometheus Bound
  • Mondays, 8:00-10:00 PM ET, 6/8-8/24 (12 wks)
  • Commitment: 500-800 lines/week plus weekly reflection papers
 
Ancient Greek Writings on Knowledge and Mathematics: Hesiod, Works and Days; Parmenides, Fragments; Plato, Meno; Plato, Republic (selections); Aristotle, Physics, Book II; Aristotle, Metaphysics (selections); Aristotle, Posterior Analytics (selections); Euclid, Elements (selections); and Theodosios, Spherics (selections)
  • Fridays, 12:30-2:30 PM ET, 5/22-8/28 (15 wks)
  • Commitment:
    • 30 pages of reading/week for Hesiod, Parmenides, and Plato
    • 10 dense pages/week for Aristotle, Euclid, and Theodosios
    • Readers will also be asked to present two proofs from the mathematical texts to the group, in place of reflection papers for those weeks
 
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars (First Part)
  • Mondays, 12:00-1:30 PM ET, 5/18-7/6 (8 wks)
  • Commitment: 10 pages/week plus weekly reflection papers
 
Soren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
  • Mondays, 7:00-9:00 PM ET, 6/8-8/24 (12 wks)
  • Commitment: 13 pages/week plus 400-800 words of writing/week
 
Plutarch, Parallel Lives (selections) & William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra
  • Sundays, 5:00-7:00 PM ET, 5/24-9/6 (16 wks)
  • Commitment: 40 pages/week plus 1-2 pages of writing/week

Reading Groups

Groups meet on the identified dates and times to discuss readings in the listed texts. Unless otherwise noted, meetings are conducted in English and take place online.

Please note: all meeting times are listed in U.S. Eastern Time and dates follow the convention of month/day. All end dates are provisional. All reading loads are approximate.

Thomas Aquinas, On Kingship
  • Saturdays, 1:00-2:30 PM ET, 5/23-6/20 (5 wks)
  • Commitment: 10 pages/week
 
Aristophanes, Birds, Knights, Assemblywomen, Peace, and Wealth
  • Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 PM ET, 6/16-7/14 (5 wks)
  • Commitment: 60-65 pages/week (1 play/week)
 
Aristotle, On the Heavens
  • Fridays, 4:00-6:00 PM ET, 6/19-8/14 (9 wks)
  • Commitment: 3-4 chapters/week
 
Aristotle, On the Soul; On Memory and Recollection; On the Motion of Animals; On Sense Perception; On Sleep; On Dreams; and On Divination in Sleep
  • Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET, 6/3-12/16 (29 wks)
  • Commitment: 5-10 dense pages/week
 
Jane Austen, Emma
  • Fridays, 6:30-8:00 PM ET, 5/22-7/31 (11 wks)
  • Commitment: 45 pages/week
 
Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
  • Wednesdays, 10:00-11:30 AM ET, 6/24-7/29 (6 wks)
  • Commitment: 35 pages/week
 
George Berkeley, The Principles of Human Knowledge
  • Mondays, 3:15-5:00 PM ET, 5/18-6/8 (4 wks)
  • Commitment: 22 pages/week
 
Bhagavad Gita
  • Thursdays, 9:00-10:30 PM ET, 7/2-7/23 (4 wks)
  • Commitment: 50 pages/week
 
Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III
  • Wednesdays, 5:00-6:30 PM ET, 5/27-6/10 (3 wks)
  • Commitment: 10 poems/week
 
Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III
  • Sundays, 8:00-10:00 PM ET, 7/12-7/26 (3 wks)
  • Commitment: 10 pages/week
 
Selected poems by William Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, and John Keats
  • Mondays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET, 6/15-9/7 (13 wks)
  • Commitment: 10-15 pages/week
 
EN ESPAÑOL: Roberto Bolaño, Los detectives salvajes
  • Fridays, 1:30-3:00 PM ET, 5/22-6/26 (6 wks)
  • Commitment: 100 pages/week
  • This course will be conducted in Spanish


EN ESPAÑOL: Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

  • Saturday, Sunday, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM ET (05/23-06/27) (6 wks)
  • Commitment: 15-20 pages/week
  • This course will be conducted in Spanish.

IN-PERSON: San Francisco, CA | Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
  • TBD
  • Commitment: 90 pages/week
  • This course will be held in-person in San Francisco, CA
 
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
  • Tuesdays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET, 5/26-7/28 (10 wks)
  • Commitment: 44 pages/week
 
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
  • Saturdays, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM ET, 5/23-7/18 (9 wks)
  • Commitment: 50 pages/week
 
EN ESPAÑOL: Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote
  • Saturdays, 3:00-5:00 PM ET, 7/4-9/12 (11 wks)
  • Commitment: 100 pages/week
  • This course will be conducted in Spanish
 
EN ESPAÑOL: Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote
  • Sundays, 2:00-3:30 PM ET, 6/14-11/1 (21 wks)
  • Commitment: 50-60 pages/week
  • This course will be conducted in Spanish
 
Confucius, Analects
  • Thursdays, 9:00-10:30 PM ET, 7/30-8/20 (3 wks)
  • Commitment: 30-40 pages/week
 
Anne Conway, The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy
  • Tuesdays, 8:30-9:45 PM ET, 6/23-7/14 (4 wks)
  • Commitment: 15-20 pages per week
 
Heldris de Cornuälle, Le Roman de Silence
  • Wednesdays, 1:30 PM-3:00 PM ET, 8/12-10/14 (10 wks)
  • Commitment: 600 lines/week
 
IN-PERSON: Annapolis, MD | Dante, Inferno
  • Wednesdays, 6:15-7:45 PM ET, 6/17-7/01 (3 wks)
  • Commitment: 60-70 pages/week
  • This course will be held in-person at the public library in Annapolis, MD
 
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground and Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
  • Tuesdays, 10:30 AM-12:00 PM ET, 5/26-7/21 (9 wks)
  • Commitment: 25 pages/week
 
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
  • Tuesdays, 8:00-9:30 PM ET, 6/9-8/4 (9 wks)
  • Commitment: 35 pages/week
 
Marie de France, Lais; Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart; and Guillaume de Lorris & Jean de Meun, The Romance of the Rose
  • Tuesdays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET, 6/23-8/18 (9 wks)
  • Commitment: 50-70 pages of narrative prose/week
 
Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
  • Wednesdays, 8:00-9:30 PM ET, 5/20-8/19 (14 wks)
  • Commitment: 60 pages/week
 
Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
  • Saturdays, 7:30-9:30 PM ET, 5/30-7/25 (9 wks)
  • Commitment: 50 pages/week
 
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure and Plato, Apology
  • Tuesdays, 8:00-10:00 PM ET, 6/16-8/4 (8 wks)
  • Commitment: 60-80 pages/week
 
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
  • Wednesdays, 7:00-9:00 PM ET, 6/17-7/29 (7 wks)
  • Commitment: 30-35 pages/week
 
Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology and other essays
  • Sundays, 10:00-11:30 AM ET, 5/24-7/12 (8 wks)
  • Commitment: 25-30 dense pages/week
 
Hermann Hesse, Demian
  • Mondays, 8:00-9:30 PM ET, 6/1-6/15 (3 wks)
  • Commitment: 45 pages/week
 
IN-PERSON: New York, NY | Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House, Ghosts, Wild Duck, The Lady from the Sea, Hedda Gabler, and Master Builder
  • Mondays, 7:30-9:00 PM ET, 5/25-6/29 (6 wks)
  • Commitment: 80 pages/week
  • This course will be held in-person in NY, NY
 
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
  • Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET, 5/20-7/22 (10 wks)
  • Commitment: 60 pages/week
 
James Joyce, Dubliners
  • Tuesdays, 1:00-2:30 PM ET, 6/9-9/15 (15 wks)
  • Commitment: 6-50 pages/week (1 short story/week)
 
Franz Kafka, “A Hunger Artist” and other stories
  • Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET, 6/3-7/22 (8 wks)
  • Commitment: 20-40 pages/week
 
Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis”, “The Hunger Artist”, and “The Burrow”
  • Saturdays, 10:30 AM-12:00 PM ET, 7/4-7/25 (4 wks)
  • Commitment: 15 pages/week
 
Kalidasa, Selected plays
  • Thursdays, 9:00-10:30 PM ET, 5/21-6/25 (6 wks)
  • Commitment: 40-50 pages/week
 
Soren Kierkegaard, Repetition
  • Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 PM ET, 6/4-8/13 (11 wks)
  • Commitment: 10 pages/week
 
Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of our Time
  • Wednesdays, 8:00-9:30 PM ET, 6/3-7/1 (5 wks)
  • Commitment: 40 pages/week
 
Abraham Lincoln, Selected speeches and writings
  • Thursdays, 7:00-9:00 PM ET, 5/21-6/25 (6 wks)
  • Commitment: 5 speeches/week
 
IN-PERSON: New York, NY | Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
  • Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET, 5/20-6/24 (6 wks)
  • Commitment: 30 pages/week
  • This course will be held in-person in NY, NY
 
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
  • Saturdays, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM ET, 5/30-8/01 (10 wks)
  • Commitment: 80 pages/week
 
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
  • Tuesdays, 8:00-9:00 PM ET, 7/7-8/11 (6 wks)
  • Commitment: 65 pages/week
 
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
  • Tuesdays, 7:00-9:00 PM ET, 6/2-8/18 (12 wks)
  • Commitment: 50 pages/week
 
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
  • Tuesdays, 8:00-10:00 PM ET, 6/9-8/18 (11 wks)
  • Commitment: 56 pages/week
 
HYBRID (weekly): Princeton, NJ | John Milton, Paradise Lost (1674 ed.)
  • Tuesdays, 4:00-5:30 PM ET, 6/2-9/1 (14 wks)
  • Commitment: 30 pages/week (1 book/week)
  • This group will have a hybrid setup, with 10 readers joining online and 10 readers joining in-person from Princeton, NJ.
 
HYBRID (monthly): Princeton, NJ | John Milton, Paradise Lost (1674 ed.)
  • 6:00-7:30 PM ET
  • Commitment: 120 pages/month (4 books/month)
  • Meeting dates:
    • 6/23: Books 1-4
    • 7/21: Books 5-8
    • 8/18: Books 9-12
  • This group will have a hybrid setup, with 10 readers joining online and 10 readers joining in-person from Princeton, NJ.
 
Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book 1
  • Wednesdays, 8:00-9:30 PM ET, 6/3-7/8 (6 wks)
  • Commitment: 70 pages/week
  • Readers will be expected to read the entirety of Book 1 before the first meeting
 
Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
  • Thursdays, 12:00-1:30 PM ET, 5/21-7/9 (8 wks)
  • Commitment: 60 pages/week
 
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Antichrist, and Ecce Homo
  • Mondays, 8:00-9:30 PM ET, 6/1-8/31 (14 wks)
  • Commitment: 20 pages/week
 
Blaise Pascal, Pensées
  • Wednesdays, 7:30-9:00 PM ET, 6/17-8/12 (9 wks)
  • Commitment: 20-25 pages/week
  • This course will require readers to use the following edition: Pensées and Other Writings (trans. by Honor Levi, Oxford University Press, 2008)
 
Plato, Apology, Crito, and Euthyphro
  • Mondays, 9:00-10:30 AM ET, 7/6-7/20 (3 wks)
  • Commitment: 20 pages/week
 
Plato, Apology, Crito, Euthyphro, and Phaedo
  • Sundays, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM ET, 7/12-8/16 (6 wks)
  • Commitment: 30 pages/week
 
Plato, Cleitophon and Republic, Book 1
  • Sundays, 2:00-4:00 PM ET, 8/2-9/20 (8 wks)
  • Commitment: 4-6 pages/week
 
Plato, Gorgias
  • Tuesdays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET, 5/19-6/9 (4 wks)
  • Commitment: 25 pages/week
 
Plato, Gorgias
  • Mondays, 2:00-3:30 PM ET, 5/18-6/1 (3 wks)
  • Commitment: 25 pages/week
 
Plato, Meno and Protagoras
  • Mondays, 4:00-5:30 PM ET, 5/18-6/8 (4 wks)
  • Commitment: 15 pages a week
 
Poetry about Renaissance Art
  • Tuesdays, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM ET, 5/19-6/30 (7 wks)
  • Readers in this course will discuss poems by W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, Derek Mahon, Rainer Maria Rilke, John Stone, etc., as well as artworks by Breughel the Elder, Piero di Cosimo, Donatello, Pisanello, Titian, and Leonardo da Vinci
  • Commitment: 2 pages/week and time spent looking at images of artworks
 
IN-PERSON: Washington, DC | Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
  • Thursdays, 6:00-8:00 PM ET, 6/11-7/9 (5 wks)
  • Commitment: 90 pages/week
  • This course will be held in-person in Washington, D.C.
 
Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
  • Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET, 6/3-8/19 (12 wks)
  • Commitment: 50 pages/week
 
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men
  • Wednesdays, 10:00-11:30 PM ET, 6/24-7/15 (4 wks)
  • Commitment: 30 pages/week
 
John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture
  • Thursdays, 8:00-9:30 PM ET, 7/23-8/13 (4 wks)
  • Commitment: 30 pages/week
 
Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
  • Sundays, 3:30-5:00 PM ET, 5/24-7/19 (9 wks)
  • Commitment: 50 pages/week
 
Walter Scott, Waverley and Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped
  • Mondays, 2:30-4:00 PM ET, 5/25-7/13 (8 wks)
  • Commitment: 80 pages/week
 
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
  • Mondays, 8:00-10:00 PM ET, 6/1-6/29 (5 wks)
  • Commitment: 1 act/week
 
William Shakespeare, Hamlet and King Lear
  • Thursdays, 8:00-9:30 PM ET, 5/21-7/9 (8 wks)
  • Commitment: 1-2 acts/week
 
William Shakespeare, Hamlet and King Lear
  • Fridays, 4:00-5:30 PM ET, 6/19-8/21 (10 wks)
  • Commitment: 1 act/week
 
IN-PERSON: Austin, TX | William Shakespeare, Macbeth
  • Thursdays, 8:30-10:00 PM ET, 8/27-9/03 (2 wks)
  • Commitment: 1/2 play/week
  • This course will be held in-person in Austin, TX
 
William Shakespeare, King Lear and Macbeth
  • Mondays, 2:00-3:30 PM ET, 5/25-8/3 (11 wks)
  • Commitment: 30 pages/week (1 act/week)
 
William Shakespeare, Sonnets
  • Wednesdays, 10:00 PM-12:00 AM ET, 5/20-9/2 (16 wks)
  • Commitment: 10 sonnets/week
 
IN-PERSON: Grand Rapids, MI | Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818 edition)
  • Wednesdays, 5:00-7:00 PM ET, 7/8-8/5 (5 wks)
  • Commitment: 35-40 pages/week
  • This course will be held in-person on the city campus of Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI
 
Muriel Spark, The Comforters, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Loitering with Intent, and The Girls of Slender Means
  • Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET, 5/20-7/22 (10 wks)
  • Commitment: 60-80 pages/week
 
Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
  • Mondays, 7:30-9:00 PM ET, 6/15-8/10 (9 wks)
  • Commitment: 20 pages/week
 
Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
  • Tuesdays, 8:00-9:30 PM ET, 5/19-7/21 (10 wks)
  • Commitment: 20 pages/week
 
Selected films by Jacques Tati: Jour de fête, Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, Mon oncle, PlayTime, Trafic, and Parade
  • Tuesdays, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM ET, 6/23-7/28 (6 wks)
  • Commitment: 80-120 mins/week
  • Readers are responsible for acquiring access to the assigned films (all are available by subscribing to the Criterion Channel)
 
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
  • Thursdays, 10:30 AM-12:00 PM ET, 5/21-8/6 (12 wks)
  • Commitment: 100 pages/week
 
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
  • Thursdays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET, 5/21-8/13 (13 wks)
  • Commitment: 100 pages/week
 
Sigrid Undset, The Master of Hestviken
  • Thursdays, 9:00-10:30 PM ET, 7/23-12/10 (21 wks)
  • Commitment: 55-70 pages/week
  • Readers will be required to submit questions for discussion to a shared document each week
 
EN ESPAÑOL: Lope de Vega, Fuenteovejuna
  • Saturdays, 8:30-10:00 AM ET, 7/11-8/1 (4 wks)
  • Commitment: 30 pages/week
  • This course will be conducted in Spanish
 
Tarjei Vesaas, The Birds
  • Thursdays, 8:30-10:00 PM ET, 6/25-7/30 (6 wks)
  • Commitment: 80 pages/week
  • Readers will be expected to read the entirety of The Birds before the first meeting
 
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
  • Thursdays, 8:00-9:30 PM ET, 5/21-6/25 (6 wks)
  • Commitment: 70 pages/week
 
Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
  • Mondays, 7:00-8:30 AM ET, 6/1-8/17 (12 wks)
  • Commitment: 150 pages/week
 
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855 edition)
  • Mondays, 8:00-10:00 PM ET, 7/27-8/31 (6 wks)
  • Commitment: 20 pages/week
 
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
  • Sundays, 9:00-10:30 AM ET, 6/7-7/26 (8 wks)
  • Commitment: 35 pages/week
 
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • Tuesdays, 4:00-5:30 PM ET, 5/19-6/9 (4 wks)
  • Commitment: 3 chapters a week
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