Introduction to The Great Tradition Micro-Courses

NOTE: This course has been archived and recreated as single courses that need to be registered for individually. To register, follow the links below.

Micro-Courses Offered From Kepler Education Over the next Three Years

January 2023

• Friday 1/13/23
  • John Erskine’s The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent

February 2023

• Friday 2/24/23
  • Cicero’s On Old Age

March 2023

• Friday 3/17/23
  • Mortimer Adler’s The Goods of the Mind

April 2023

• Friday 4/21/23
  • Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

May 2023

• Friday 5/19/23
  • Robert Hutchins’s Liberal Education

June 2023

• Friday 6/30/23
  • Dorothy Sayers’s The Lost Tools of Learning

August 2023

• Friday 8/18/23
  • Michael Faraday’s The Chemical History of a Candle

September 2023

• Friday 9/15/23
  • Mortimer Adler’s The 12 Paideia Principles

October 2023

• Friday 10/20/23
  • T. S. Eliot’s Tradition and the Individual Talent

November 2023

• Friday 11/17/23
  • Lancelot Hogben’s Mathematics, the Mirror of Civilization

January 2024

• Friday 1/19/24
  • Zoran Zivkovic’s The Library

February 2024

• Friday 2/23/24
  • Mortimer Adler’s With the Mind’s Ear

March 2024

• Friday 3/22/24
  • Cicero’s On Friendship

April 2024

• Friday 4/19/24
  • Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy

May 2024

• Friday 5/17/24
  • Jacques Barzun’s What is a Classic & What Use the Classics

June 2024

• Friday 6/21/24
  • Mortimer Adler’s Paideia Problems and Possibilities

August 2024

• Friday 8/23/24
  • C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters

September 2024

• Friday 9/20/24
  • Andrew Russell Forsyth’s Mathematics in Life and Thought

October 2024

• Friday 10/18/24
  • Thomas à Kempis’s The Imitation of Christ

November 2024

• Friday 11/15/24
  • Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life

January 2025

• Friday 1/17/25
  • G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy

February 2025

• Friday 2/21/25
  • Virginia Woolf’s How Should One Read a Book?

March 2025

• Friday 3/21/25
  • Robert Hutchins’s The Education of Adults

April 2025

• Friday 4/18/25
  • Excerpts from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

May 2025

• Friday 5/16/25
  • Mortimer Adler’s Teaching, Learning, and Their Counterfeits

June 2025

• Friday 6/20/25
  • Matthew Arnold’s The Study of Poetry

August 2025

• Friday 8/22/25
  • Plutarch’s Of Bashfulness

September 2025

• Friday 9/19/25
  • Molière’s The Misanthrope

October 2025

• Friday 10/17/25
  • William James’s On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings

November 2025

• Friday 11/14/25
  • Francis Bacon’s The Sphinx

January 2026

• Friday 1/23/26
  • Mortimer Adler’s The Three Columns Revisited