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 As students challenge the status quo of academic requirements at the University, one LSA Honors ...

Louis Menand, a writer and professor of English at Harvard University, has the soul of an anatomist. His best writing calmly takes things apart to discover how they were built and how they work. But ...

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.

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, ...

The planning of new degree programs at colleges and universities is a deliberate process. Among other things, it involves months of: Discussions among the administration and the faculty. Attention to ...

Roosevelt Montás came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a child, got his bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. from Columbia and ultimately came to run its Core Curriculum program. This is ...

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. During my grade school years in the early 1970s, I read everything. Books, of course — ...

IT is characteristic of our lively American culture at the present time that one of the biggest publishing ventures of recent years — a twomillion-dollar enterprise — should be backed by (1) a senator ...

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 ...