These adults are attending a respected institution of higher learning, perhaps in pursuit of lofty goals, and they’ve signed up for a course on great books. There, they find no escape from the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Anjalee Raval/MiC The most immediate source of controversy in any Great Books course is its name, ...

Chris Yates’ favorite class from his time at UNC in the '90s was a rigorous course based around deep discussion of classic texts on philosophy and history, trying to search for the deepest truths of ...

Scott Black invites the public to explore Great Books over dinner. The Tanner Humanities Center offers a taste of its Great Books course through engaging faculty talks paired with dinner and drinks.

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Here, I will ask how we can design such courses to maximize their intellectual and personal impact on ...

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become ...

Of the unmaking of great books, there is no end. Such is life. Only in fiction does the plot resolve in a tidy closing of narrative threads. Life is messier. If it does not dribble to a close, it ends ...