Courses

BASC10101 - Basic Program Year One: Autumn
BASC10202 - Basic Program Year One: Winter
BASC10303 - Basic Program Year One: Spring
BASC12010 - Works of the Mind Luncheon and Lecture
BASC17011 - Lecture and Show, a Basic Program and Chicago Shakespeare Theater Partnership Series
BASC50026 - T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets and “Tradition and the Individual Talent"
BASC50076 - Hermann Broch's Sleepwalkers
BASC50087 - The Two Machiavellis
BASC70013 - Revisiting Downton Abbey - Seasons 5 and 6
BASC70014 - Cosmos and Cinema - Mysteries of Projective Identification
BASC70017 - Chekhov’s Plays and Short Stories
BASC70020 - Exploring Poetry’s Forms, Musics, Rhetorics, Impacts
BASC70023 - The Complete Shakespeare: The Comedies
BASC70024 - Dylan Thomas' Poetry
BASC70025 - Tom Stoppard’s Hapgood and Travesties
BASC70026 - The Landmark Julius Caesar
BASC70027 - Viewing “In” and “Fanning” Out: The Self-referential Experience of the Cinematic Universe
BASC70028 - Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: What Made the Monster?
BASC70029 - J. M. Coetzee: Two Recent Novels
BASC70030 - Shakespeare As You Like It and Twelfth Night
BASC70033 - The Devil: Romantic and Modernist
BASC70034 - Stoppard's The Real Thing and The Hard Problem
BASC70035 - Beginning Rich Trilogy: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Jazz
BASC70036 - Philosophers of the French Enlightenment
BASC70037 - A Philosophy of Human Habitation: Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space
BASC70038 - Two Jewish Masters of the Short Story: Singer and Malamud
BASC70039 - Freud: From Hysterical Misery to Ordinary Unhappiness
BASC70040 - Joseph Brodsky: Poet and Thinker
BASC70041 - William Blake Songs of Innocence and Experience and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
BASC70042 - The Philosophy of Francis Bacon
BASC70043 - Basic Program Exploration of the Visual Arts
BASC70045 - The Confucian Philosophy of Mengzi (Mencius)
BASC70046 - How to Read Classic Texts: Expository and Literary
BASC70047 - Religious Dilemma in Film
BASC70055 - Foundations of Chinese Poetry: The Ancient Book of Songs
BASC70056 - Nabokov's Other Writings
BASC70057 - Nabokov's Russian Novels
BASC70059 - Introduction to the Basic Program: How to Read Classic Texts
BASC70064 - Beckett's Happy Days and Endgame
BASC70065 - The Archeology of Cinema
BASC70070 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez: "100 Years of Solitude" and Collected Stories
BASC70072 - The Archeology of Cinema, Part 2 - Further Excavations
BASC70074 - Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater
BASC70081 - Verdi and Wagner: Cornerstones of Opera in Western Civilization
BASC70084 - Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Alice Walker's Color Purple
BASC70090 - The Iliad Re-imagined
BASC70091 - Literary Reformations: Robinson Crusoe and Jane Eyre
BASC70092 - Middlemarch
BASC70094 - Chekhov and Carver: Two Masters of Short Story
BASC70098 - Sallust and the Late Days of the Republic
BASC70099 - Bruno Schulz
BASC70100 - How to Read Classic Texts: 75th Anniversary Edition
BASC70101 - Philosophy in the Buddhist World
BASC70104 - Wittgenstein's On Certainty
BASC70111 - Philip Roth’s Short Novels
BASC70114 - The Silver Age of Russian Poetry
BASC70121 - James Joyce's Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
BASC70122 - James Joyce’s Ulysses 1
BASC70124 - Abraham Lincoln, Religion and Slavery in America
BASC70127 - Dickens: David Copperfield and Great Expectations
BASC70128 - Reading the Torah Closely: The Book of Deuteronomy
BASC70131 - Don Quixote
BASC70134 - Joseph Conrad, the Outsider
BASC70135 - Journey to the East
BASC70136 - Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The Log from the Sea of Cortez and The Long Valley
BASC70138 - The United States Constitution
BASC70144 - Novels of Willa Cather: My Antonia,Death Comes for Arch....
BASC70160 - Rousseau’s Political Thought: "The Discourses" and "Social Contract"
BASC70161 - Proust: The Prisoner
BASC70163 - Infinite Jest: Bookends
BASC70165 - History Two Ways: Yourcenar and Saramago
BASC70166 - Reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
BASC70169 - The Uses of Science Fiction, Part One: Imagining the Future
BASC70170 - The Holy Land Through the Ages I: Prehistory to the Roman Empire
BASC70171 - Proust: The Fugitive
BASC70178 - Shakespeare’s Henriad: Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Henry V
BASC70179 - The Devil Two Ways: Goethe and Bulgakov
BASC70180 - The Art and Ends of Reading: The Novel II—The Sound and the Fury
BASC70181 - Hiding in Plain Sight: Love, Art, and Self in Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March
BASC70182 - Proust: Finding Time Again
BASC70183 - The Holy Land Through the Ages 3: From the Ottoman Empire to the Modern State of Israel and Palestinian Territories (1450-2019 CE)
BASC70185 - Infinite Jest: Part 2
BASC70186 - Berlin Alexanderplatz Two Ways
BASC70187 - The Uses of Science Fiction: Versions of the Human
BASC70188 - Virginia Woolf: Five Novels
BASC70189 - Novels of George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss and Daniel Deronda
BASC70190 - The Art and Ends of Reading: Poetry
BASC70191 - Freedom in Black and White: Black Philosophical Literature and the “Western” Canon
BASC70192 - Philosophy and Film
BASC70193 - Plato’s Early Dialogues
BASC70196 - What are Ghost Stories About?
BASC70197 - Livy, The War with Hannibal
BASC70198 - French Literature: Stendhal's The Red and the Black and Balzac's Pere Goriot
BASC70199 - Women of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, Iphigenia in Aulis
BASC70201 - Chekhov: Essential Short Stories
BASC70202 - The Existential Influence of Presentation Platforms on the Character of Cinema
BASC70205 - A Mirror for Princes: Xenophon's Study of Leadership and Rule in the Cyropaedia
BASC70207 - Monks, Harlots and Demons in the Desert: Early Monastic Literature
BASC70208 - The Book of Psalms (Bible)
BASC70209 - Henry Fielding's History of Tom Jones
BASC70210 - McCarthy's New Novels
BASC70211 - Nietzsche and the Project of Revaluation: Beyond Good and Evil
BASC70213 - Fernando Pessoa’s Multitude
BASC70215 - The Art and Ends of Reading: The Novel: Reading as Kenosis: Reduced to Zero—Beckett, Three Novels
BASC70216 - Plato's Laws
BASC70217 - Great Big Novels: Hugo Les Misérables
BASC70218 - Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and As I Lay Dying
BASC70219 - Prophets and Prophecy in Ancient Israel: The Book of the Twelve (Minor Prophets)
BASC70220 - The Art and Ends of Reading: Tragedy
BASC70221 - Kierkegaard’s Either/Or and Beyond
BASC70222 - Very Short Kafkaesque Fiction
BASC70223 - Prophets and Prophecy in Ancient Israel: Jeremiah and Ezekiel
BASC70225 - Great Big Novels: Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov
BASC70226 - Willa Cather: Novels of the New World
BASC70227 - Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy: Henry VI, Parts 1-3, Richard III
BASC70228 - Proust’s Library
BASC70230 - The Worlds of Jorge Luis Borges
BASC70231 - The Art and Ends of Reading: Short Fiction: The Art of Brevity
BASC70235 - Contemporary Philosophy of Mind
BASC70236 - W. B. Yeats and The Celtic Revival
BASC70239 - James Baldwin
BASC70240 - Love in Black and White: Baldwin, Hurston, and Lorde
BASC70241 - Plato: Gorgias and Phaedrus
BASC70242 - Shakespearean Comedies: As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure
BASC70243 - What are Islands for, in Novels?
BASC70245 - Suetonius: Lives of the Twelve Caesars
BASC70246 - Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
BASC70247 - Poetry and Prose of Hart Crane
BASC70248 - The Apocrypha and other Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period(400 BCE to 100CE
BASC70249 - John Rawls: Theory of Justice
BASC70250 - Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo
BASC70251 - Women of Euripides--Women of Troy: The Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache
BASC70252 - Introduction to Hume: The Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and the Principles of Morality
BASC70253 - A Republic If You Can Keep It
BASC70254 - Spinoza's Ethics
BASC70255 - How To Read Ancient Greek Art and Archaeology
BASC70256 - The Grammar and Syntax of Cinematic Style—Past, Present and Future
BASC70257 - Bulgakov's Master and Margarita
BASC70258 - An Introduction to Maimonides
BASC70261 - History of Sparta
BASC70262 - Calvino's Worlds
BASC70263 - Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves
BASC70265 - Goethe’s Faust: Knowledge, Striving, Bliss
BASC70266 - Foundations of Western Metaphysics: Unity and Change: Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Aristotle
BASC71001 - Introduction to the Basic Program: How to Discuss Classic Texts
BASC80012 - Reading Silas Marner
BASC80013 - Kafka: Three Short Stories
BASC80025 - Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas
BASC80026 - Virginia Woolf’s The Years
BASC80027 - Supreme Court Review: 2022-23 Term
BASC80028 - Antigone Deep Dive
BASC80029 - Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Humankind in a Series of Letters
BASC80031 - Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone
BASC80032 - Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
BASC80033 - Aristotle and the American Indians
BASC80034 - Gulliver’s Travels
BASC80035 - Three Misanthropes
BASC80036 - Supreme Court Review, 2023-24 Term
BASC80037 - Deep Dive: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
BASC80038 - Reading Aristotle, On the Soul (De Anima, Peri Psyches)
BASC80039 - Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White
BASC80040 - Freedom and Equality in the New World
BASC80041 - Indo-Iranians from Herodotus
BASC80089 - The Book of Exodus: A Close Reading (1)
BASC80120 - Melville’s Billy Budd and Other Stories
BASC80128 - Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor
BASC80129 - A Close Reading of Aristotle on Justice and Friendship
BASC80131 - Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree
BASC80136 - Genesis: A Close Reading
BASC80141 - Mencius: Psychology, Morality, and Power in Ancient China
BASC80147 - Lotus in the Mud: How Buddhism Keeps Reinventing Itself
BASC80148 - Reading the Women in the Book of Genesis
BASC80149 - If Women Ruled the World: Virginia Woolf's Essay Three Guineas
BASC80150 - The Essential Gogol
BASC80151 - Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents
BASC80152 - The Origin of Democracy
BASC80161 - Comparative Myths: Gilgamesh, Baal and Anath, Theogony (Hesiod)
BASC80165 - James Joyce’s Ulysses
BASC80166 - Chinese Philosophy
BASC80171 - Imagination and Critique: More’s Utopia
BASC80181 - Satire, Irony, and Critique: The Praise of Folly
BASC80214 - The Qur'an
BASC80223 - Church and State:Exploring Kant's Religion.....
BASC80224 - Pirsig's Progress: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance as a Modern Spiritual Journey 
BASC80421 - Livy on the Birth of the Roman Republic
BASC80521 - Dystopian Novels for Our Time
BASC80621 - Introduction to Buddhism and Buddhist Sutras: Ashvagosha’s Buddhacarita (The Life of Buddha)
GSYM10001 - Graham Symposium 2022
WRIT52202 - Character Intensive
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