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.
Reading groups
In a reading group, you choose one or more great books to study and meet regularly for discussions with a group of 8-14 peers. Discussions are peer-led in accordance with our core principles.
Intensive reading groups
Modeled on our old tutorial format, 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.
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 preferences of the tutor.
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.
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED FOR OUR SUMMER 2025 TERM. Placement emails will be sent on or before 5/12. Registration for our Fall 2025 term will open in early August.
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.
Introductory computing theory
Introductory ancient Greek
Intermediate ancient Greek
Intermediate ancient Greek: Plato’s Republic, Book 10
Advanced Latin: Augustine’s Confessions, Book 1
Introductory Sanskrit
Intensive Reading Groups
Groups meet on the identified dates and times to discuss readings in the listed text(s). 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.
Please note: all meeting times are listed in U.S. Eastern Time and dates follow the convention of month/day/year. All reading loads are approximate.
Aristotle, On the Parts of Animals
Writings on Technology and Human Flourishing
Reading Groups
Groups meet on the identified dates and times to discuss readings in the listed text(s). 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/year. All reading loads are approximate.
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God
Thomas Aquinas, Selections from the Summa Theologica on Charity and Love
Aristotle, On the Soul
Georges Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
EN ESPAÑOL: Pedro Calderón de la Barca, La vida es sueño
On the Monastic Life: John Cassian’s Conferences
Dante, The Divine Comedy
The Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and selections from The Federalist Papers
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish
Robert Frost, North of Boston
Geoffrey Hill, Tenebrae
Homer, Odyssey
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris
The Idea of the Individual
Henry James, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima and The Tragic Muse
Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ
Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
The Poetry of Li Qingzhao
Lu Xun, Call to Arms
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Molière, The Misanthrope, Amphitryon, Tartuffe, and The Learned Ladies
Plato’s Gorgias and Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen
Plato’s Parmenides and the Fragments of Parmenides
Plato, Timaeus
Two Views on Rome: Montesquieu’s Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline and Books 1-5 of Augustine’s City of God
Rousseau, Essay on the Origin of Languages and Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men
Shakespeare, Coriolanus, The Winter’s Tale and Measure for Measure
Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
John Steinbeck, East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath
IN-PERSON (Boston University, Boston, MA) Writings on Utopia and Human Flourishing
Virgil, Aeneid
Oscar Wilde, Selected writings
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
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