Courses:‍ ‍

  • Epics 101: Primary & Secondary Epics

  • Drama 101: Greek & Roman Drama

  • Novels 101: Early Modern Novels

  • Poetry 101: Classical & Medieval Poetry

  • Epics 102: Heroic & National Epics

  • Drama 102: Medieval & Modern Drama

  • Novels 102: From 1818 to the Present

  • Poetry 102: Modern Schools of Poetry

Books Read by the Completion of this Program:

  • The Iliad, Homer

  • The Aeneid, Vergil

  • Beowulf, Anon.

  • The Divine Comedy, Dante

  • The Faerie Queene, Spenser

  • Paradise Lost, Milton

  • Evangeline, Longfellow

  • The Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow

  • The Ballad of the White Horse, Chesterton

  • Theban Cycle, Sophocles

  • Oresteia, Aeschylus

  • Alcestis, Euripides

  • The Children of Heracles, Euripides

  • The Madness of Hercules, Seneca

  • Everyman, Anon.

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare

  • The Rheingold, Wagner

  • Murder in the Cathedral, Eliot

  • Don Quixote, Cervantes

  • Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift

  • Tom Jones: A Foundling, Henry Fielding

  • Sense and Sensibility, Austen

  • Frankenstein, Shelley

  • The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy

  • The Sun also Rises, Hemingway

  • The Hobbit, Tolkien

  • Theogony, Hesiod

  • Odes and Epodes, Horace

  • The Canzionere, Petrarch

  • Triumph of Eternity, Petrarch

  • The Love Visions, Chaucer

  • Selections from Metaphysical Poetry

  • Selections from Romantic Poetry

  • Selections from Modernist Poetry

  • Selections from New Formalist Poetry

Certificate in Great Books

$400.00

The Certificate in Great Books will be comprised of 8 classes, with two classes focused on each of the four primary genres of great literature: Epics, Novels, Drama, Poetry. By the completion of these courses, students will be exposed to representative works from across the Western Canon, will have experience in the dialectic process, both as participants in Socratic discussions and as learners able to ask great questions from the Great Books. (Pricing is per class)