What do The Odyssey, Beloved and The Communist Manifesto have in common? At first glance, very little—but when placed together in a Great Books course, they become part of a larger conversation about ...

Imagine that you are a student at Boston College and you see that a philosophy professor is offering a yearlong course on great books. Maybe you are an intellectual type of student who loves to read ...

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.

The most immediate source of controversy in any Great Books course is its name, which inevitably prompts the question: What makes a great book? And more importantly, who? This was the first question ...

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 ...