Lifelong Learning Courses
- “The Holy Trible”: Coordinated Readings from the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Qur’an
- “We Must Not Be Afraid To Be Free”: The Trials of George Anastaplo
- “Condemned to be Free”: Introduction to the “Existential Phenomenology” of Jean-Paul Sartre
- “In the Midst of Winter, I Discovered Within Me an Invincible Summer”: Albert Camus’s The Rebel
- “It Can’t Happen Here”? Sinclair Lewis on Tyranny in America
- (Cinematic) Visions of Christ
- A Raisin in the Sun Deep Dive
- Huck / James
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (ZAMM / ZMM) “Sidecar”
- 21st-Century African-American Perspectives on Race
- A Matter of Black and White: 20th Century Perspectives on Race
- Abraham in Ancient Texts
- African-American Classics
- An Introduction to Sigmund Freud
- Apologies of Socrates and Gospels of Jesus
- Arts of Affluence [1]: Wealth and the American Dream
- Arts of Affluence [2]: (Passive) Investing on Wall Street
- Arts of Affluence [3]: Families and Inheritance (Planning)
- Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 1
- Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 2
- Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 3
- Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 4
- Co-Evolution of Christianity and (Rabbinic) Judaism
- Comedies of Aristophanes
(Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk) - Could It Happen Here? Now? Dystopian Novels for Our Time
- Delivered from Destruction: The Bible’s Exodus and Virgil’s Aeneid
- Divine Epics [1]: Hebrew Bible, Iliad, and Qur’an
- Divine Epics [2]: Homer and the Bible
- Divine Epics [3]: The Qur’an and The Aeneid
- Does Humanity Have a Death Wish? Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents
- East Meets West: Islam
- Forming Christianity: Selected Texts of Early Christianity
- Freud on the Human Condition
- George Orwell: 1984 and the English Language
- Hannah and Hitler
- How to Read and Discuss Great Books
- How to Read Classic Texts
- How to Read Plato’s Dialogues as Literature
- How to Read Religious Texts as Literature
- How to Read the Book of Genesis as Literature
- How to Read the U.S. Constitution as Literature
- Hubris and Empire: Livy on the Early History of Rome
- In the Face of Adversity: Homer’s Odyssey and the Bible’s Job
- Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Introduction to the Nag Hammadi Library
- Introduction to the Qur’an as Literature
- Introduction to the Talmud
- Jesus for Jews (and Others)
- Lost Books of the New Testament
- Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed
- Manifestations of the Kabbalah: The Zohar
- One-Day Hebrew Bible
- One-Day New Testament
- One-Day Qur’an
- One-Day Three Traditions
- Pirsig’s Progress: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance as a Modern Spiritual Journey
- Reading Prometheus Bound and Frankenstein … Twice!
- Reading Descartes’s Meditations … Twice!
- Reading Machiavelli and Macbeth … Twice!
- Reading Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals … Twice!
- Reading Plato’s Republic … Twice!
- Reading Rousseau’s Origin and Foundations of Inequality … Twice!
- Reading Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice … Twice!
- Reading the Washington-DuBois Debate … Twice!
- Shakespeare and His Others: Comparisons across Time and Space
- Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice as Christian Comedy
- Shakespeare’s “Letter to the Ephesians”: The Comedy of Errors as a “Christianized” (Not “Plagiarized”) Pagan Play
- Socrates Who Does (Not) Know: Gorgias, Charmides, Laches, Lysis
- Sweet Homer, Chicago: A Summer Reading of the Iliad
- Taking Judaism to the Gentiles: Josephus, Philo and Paul
- The Foundation of Free Speech? John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty
- The Nature of Knowledge: Plato’s Theaetetus and Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy
- The Philosophy Behind A Raisin in the Sun
- The Trial and Death of Socrates
- To Be, or Not to Be, a Victim? Reading Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy … Twice!
- Tragedy and Comedy of Shakespeare: Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice
- Two Feminisms: Beauvoir’s The Second Sex and Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind
- Why They Hate Us: Cinematic Visions of ‘The Other Side’
Congregation Courses
- Abrahamic Notions of the Afterlife
- Apologies of Socrates and Gospels of Jesus
- Book of Job and the Invention of Faith
- Book of Mormon
- History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice as Christian Comedy
- The Other “New Testament”: An Introduction to the Talmud and Rabbinic Judaism
Online Courses
- “Rags to Riches”, American Style: Classics from Horatio Alger and Andrew Carnegie
- “The Holy Trible”: Coordinated Readings from the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Qur’an
- “We Must Not Be Afraid To Be Free”: The Trials of George Anastaplo
- “Condemned to be Free”: Introduction to the “Existential Phenomenology” of Jean-Paul Sartre
- “In the Midst of Winter, I Discovered Within Me an Invincible Summer”: Albert Camus’s The Rebel
- “It Can’t Happen Here”? Sinclair Lewis on Tyranny in America
- A Raisin in the Sun Deep Dive
- Huck / James
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (ZAMM / ZMM) “Sidecar”
- 21st-Century African-American Perspectives on Race
- A Matter of Black and White: 20th Century Perspectives on Race
- African-American Classics
- Apologies of Socrates and Gospels of Jesus
- Arts of Affluence [1]: Wealth and the American Dream
- Arts of Affluence [2]: (Passive) Investing on Wall Street
- Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 1
- Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 2
- Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 3
- Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults: YEAR 4
- Book of Job and the Invention of Faith
- Comedies of Aristophanes
(Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk) - Could It Happen Here? Now? Dystopian Novels for Our Time
- Delivered from Destruction: The Bible’s Exodus and Virgil’s Aeneid
- Does Humanity Have a Death Wish? Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents
- Freud on the Human Condition
- George Orwell: 1984 and the English Language
- God’s Gadfly: A Socratic Method Seminar on Socrates
- Hannah and Hitler
- Homer’s Iliad
- Homer’s Odyssey
- How to Read and Discuss Great Books
- How to Read Classic Texts
- How to Read Plato’s Dialogues as Literature
- How to Read Religious Texts as Literature
- How to Read the Book of Genesis as Literature
- How to Read the U.S. Constitution as Literature
- Hubris and Empire: Livy on the Early History of Rome
- In the Face of Adversity: Homer’s Odyssey and the Bible’s Job
- Introduction to the Book of Genesis as Literature
- Introduction to the Qur’an as Literature
- Of Marriages and Manners: Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
- On Human Excellence [1]: Plato’s Meno as ‘Philosophical Drama’
- On Human Excellence [2]: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics as ‘Practical Wisdom’
- Pirsig’s Progress: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance as a Modern Spiritual Journey
- Reading Prometheus Bound and Frankenstein … Twice!
- Reading Descartes’s Meditations … Twice!
- Reading Machiavelli and Macbeth … Twice!
- Reading Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals … Twice!
- Reading Plato’s Republic … Twice!
- Reading Rousseau’s Origin and Foundations of Inequality … Twice!
- Reading Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice … Twice!
- Reading the Washington-DuBois Debate … Twice!
- Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice as Christian Comedy
- Shakespeare’s “Letter to the Ephesians”: The Comedy of Errors as a “Christianized” (Not “Plagiarized”) Pagan Play
- Socrates Who Does (Not) Know: Gorgias, Charmides, Laches, Lysis
- The Foundation of Free Speech? John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty
- The Nature of Knowledge: Plato’s Theaetetus and Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy
- The Philosophy Behind A Raisin in the Sun
- The Trial and Death of Socrates
- To Be, or Not to Be, a Victim? Reading Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy … Twice!
- Two Feminisms: Beauvoir’s The Second Sex and Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind
- Virtue as Moderation: An Introduction to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics