Course Objective: The course objective is to familiarize students with the great ideas contained in the original works by the greatest ancient Greeks, chronologically, beginning with the works of Homer, which are seminal to classical and Western civilization (see course syllabus for specific titles studied). Authors of the works studied this semester include: Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Euripedes, Sophocles, Aesop, Herodotus and Plutarch.
- Teacher: Alicia Arango
- Teacher: Steve Bertucci
- Teacher: Mrs. Amanda Charron
- Teacher: Tim/Lauren Rupar
- Teacher: Miss Marissa Standage
- Teacher: Mary Zimmerman
- Teacher: Mr. Matthew Zimmerman
Course Objective: To familiarize students with the great ideas contained in the original works written by the greatest ancient Greeks (not covered in the first semester course) which are foundational to classical and Western civilization (see course syllabus for specific titles studied ). Authors of the works studied this semester include: Thucydides, the Pre-Socratics [Thales, Anaximenes, Anamimander, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Melissus, Zeno, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Leucippus, Democritus, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Hippocrates and Euclid.
- Teacher: Alicia Arango
- Teacher: Steve Bertucci
- Teacher: Mrs. Amanda Charron
- Teacher: Ms. Maureen Grimm
- Teacher: Tim/Lauren Rupar
- Teacher: Ms. Meaghan Scott
- Teacher: Miss Marissa Standage
- Teacher: Mary Zimmerman
- Teacher: Mr. Matthew Zimmerman
Course Objective: To familiarize students with the great ideas contained in the original works written by the greatest ancient Romans, beginning with Virgil, which are foundational to classical and Western civilization (see course syllabus for specific titles studied ). Authors of the works studied this semester include: Virgil, Livy, Plutarch, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Tacitus, Lucretius, Epictitus, Marcus Aurelius, Ptolemy, Galen, Plotinus, Moses [the last author from an earlier age, influenced Roman civilization in this period]).
- Teacher: Alicia Arango
- Teacher: Steve Bertucci
- Teacher: Miss Marissa Standage
- Teacher: Mary Zimmerman
- Teacher: Mr. Matthew Zimmerman
Course Objective: To familiarize students with the great ideas contained in the original works written by the greatest ancient Romans (not covered in the previous course) and the greatest writers through the early Middle Ages, from Plotinus through Dante, which are foundational to Western civilization (see course syllabus for specific titles studied). Authors of the works studied this semester include: the Evangelists Matthew and John, Augustine, Boethius, Muhammed, Bede, Tennyson, Maimonides, a’Kempis and Dante.
- Teacher: Alicia Arango
- Teacher: Steve Bertucci
- Teacher: Miss Marissa Standage
- Teacher: Mr. John Walsh
- Teacher: Mary Zimmerman
- Teacher: Mr. Matthew Zimmerman
Course Objective: Course Objective: To familiarize students with the great ideas contained in the original works written by the greatest authors in the High Middle Ages to the Renaissance, from Chaucer through Cervantes, which are foundational to Western civilization (see course syllabus for specific titles studied). Authors of the works studied this semester include: Chaucer, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Thomas More, Erasmus, Copernicus, Calvin, Montaigne, and Cervantes.
- Teacher: Alicia Arango
- Teacher: Steve Bertucci
- Teacher: Abbie Herbst
- Teacher: Miss Marissa Standage
- Teacher: Mary Zimmerman
- Teacher: Mr. Matthew Zimmerman
Course Objective: To familiarize students with the great ideas contained in the original works written by the most influential authors in the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, from Shakespeare through Pascal, which are foundational to the ongoing dialogue of Western civilization (see course syllabus for specific titles studied). Authors of the works studied this semester include: Shakespeare (8 Plays), Galileo, Descartes, Bacon, Hobbes, Milton, and Pascal.
- Teacher: Alicia Arango
- Teacher: Steve Bertucci
- Teacher: Abbie Herbst
- Teacher: Miss Marissa Standage
- Teacher: Mary Zimmerman
- Teacher: Mr. Matthew Zimmerman
Course Objective: To familiarize students with the great ideas contained in the original works written by the most influential authors in the Enlightenment to the Modern Era, from Locke through De Tocqueville and the American Federalist papers and Constitution, which are foundational to the ongoing dialogue of Western civilization (see course syllabus for specific titles studied). Authors of the works studied this semester include: Shakespeare (4 Great Tragedies and the Tempest), Moliere, Racine, Swift, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson, De Tocqueville, Mill, and Austen.
- Teacher: Alicia Arango
- Teacher: Steve Bertucci
- Teacher: Sophia Kozinski
- Teacher: Miss Marissa Standage
- Teacher: Mary Zimmerman
- Teacher: Mr. Matthew Zimmerman
Course Objective: To familiarize students with the great ideas contained in the great books written in the modern era, from Kant through Einstein, which are most influential in the ongoing dialogue of Western civilization (see course syllabus for specific titles and authors studied). Authors of the works studied this semester include: Kant, Goethe, Hegel, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Smith, Marx, Lincoln, Thoreau, Twain, Darwin, Orwell, Einstein, Cather.
- Teacher: Alicia Arango
- Teacher: Steve Bertucci
- Teacher: Sophia Kozinski
- Teacher: Miss Marissa Standage
- Teacher: Mary Zimmerman
- Teacher: Mr. Matthew Zimmerman