ElizaG Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 I'm wondering if anyone has come across a reading list or plan for studying "Great Books" over 3 years. This could be intended for high school, college, or personal use. And the arrangement doesn't have to be chronological. Just wondering what's out there. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizaG Posted August 21, 2014 Author Share Posted August 21, 2014 So far, the only one I've found is in Notre Dame's Program of Liberal Studies. It was founded in 1950 as the four-year General Program, but was soon changed to a three-year program that started in the second year of university. (There's an interesting PDF article on its history here.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Omnibus is 3 year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 (edited) . Edited July 12, 2022 by SilverMoon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostintheCosmos Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Directed Studies at Yale consists of three year-long courses that are taken by college freshman simultaneously; one could arrange the reading lists sequentially instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tress Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Directed Studies at Yale consists of three year-long courses that are taken by college freshman simultaneously; one could arrange the reading lists sequentially instead. I have nothing to contribute to this thread, but....I would love to be able to take those courses! :001_tt1: I'm not sure I would have been ready for them when I was 18yo...but then again, I'm pretty sure those kind of courses weren't and aren't available around here. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EndOfOrdinary Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Directed Studies at Yale consists of three year-long courses that are taken by college freshman simultaneously; one could arrange the reading lists sequentially instead. I have nothing to contribute to this thread, but....I would love to be able to take those courses! :001_tt1: I'm not sure I would have been ready for them when I was 18yo...but then again, I'm pretty sure those kind of courses weren't and aren't available around here. :glare: I could have cared less about school much when I was going through it. A large part of me is beginning to wish I had been given a classical education so that I would have cared more! My son is so humanities focused that many of these great books have become household names around here due to my studying up for middle and high school. To think there are colleges where I could sit in classes and have such learned people talk to me about so many great thinkers and ideas is just a delicious thought! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizaG Posted August 23, 2014 Author Share Posted August 23, 2014 Thank you to everyone who's posted. There's a partial list of college and university programs here, at the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas site. It has several that are one, two, and four years long, but no other three-year ones. The Foundation Year Programme at King's College, Dalhousie University is in six parts, so it could also be spread over three years. Of course, then it wouldn't be a foundation year. :p It does seem strange that students at some schools are doing the GB in the first year, and more typical studies for the other three -- and ND does the complete opposite. It gets back to the question of the role of liberal studies. Are they a preparation for university, or a replacement for it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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