Summer Classics

Make a New Year’s Resolution One for the Books!

Four Weeks of Seminars

Summer Classics Online

June 30–July 4 via Zoom

Summer Classics in Santa Fe, New Mexico

July 7–11 | July 14–18 | July 21–25

Summer Classics is a 35-year-old seasonal program conceived in the spirit of lifelong learning. Our seminar rooms, whether actual or virtual, provide the space to engage in rigorous conversations on timeless works.

A Summer Classics seminar is not a lecture, nor is it a book club. At St. John’s, seminars are lively, in-depth, and highly participatory conversations on enduring works that span fiction and nonfiction, math and science, poetry and philosophy, as well as visual, cinematic, and performing arts. Beyond the learning that takes place through the works and with one another in seminar, attendees describe their experience as “stimulating” and “restorative.”

Each July since 1991, St. John’s College creates a new catalog of Summer Classics seminars. Some seminar topics are from the college undergraduate Program while others venture into adjacent texts.

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