Full payment is due at the time of reservation. Twenty-five percent of the payment is non-refundable, while the remaining seventy-five percent can be refunded if a request is made by September 1, 2024. See Cancellation Policies for more information.
St. John’s College Classics Seminar programs offer a discount to full-time licensed teachers (K-12). With proof of current employment as an educator, participants receive a fifty percent discount on seminar tuition. Discounts are available to the first 16 teacher registrants. When registering online, please select the “Educator pricing” and proceed when prompted to enter eligibility requirements, including the contact information of someone who is authorized to verify your educational employment, during checkout. For additional questions about this discount, please contact classics(at)sjc.edu.
No-fee seminar changes offer registrants flexibility. If for any reason you need or prefer to switch your seminar, you can transfer your enrollment to any other seminar with an open space, at no extra cost. If the cost of the new seminar is less than your original seminar, a refund for the difference will be issued.
A partial refund of seventy-five percent of the total seminar fee is available for cancellations made before September 1, 2024.
If St. John’s College cancels a seminar, then participants will receive either a full refund, a pro-rated refund for any seminars that have not occurred, or an option to continue an in-person course on an online platform.
The college reserves the right to cancel a seminar due to low enrollment. All registrants in a cancelled seminar qualify for a full refund and will be offered priority enrollment in an alternative seminar of their choice with available capacity.
Should a seminar need to be cancelled due to a natural disaster or similar event, participants will be notified by email, and every attempt will be made to reschedule.
If a seminar is listed as “sold out” on the online registration page, please register your interest using the online wait list form. No fee is required to join the wait list.
If a spot in the desired seminar becomes available, those on the wait list will be offered the spot in the order that they joined the wait list.
If you are contacted and offered an open spot, you will be asked to respond in a specific number of days to claim the seat. If you decline or we don’t hear from you in the allotted time, the seat will be released to the next person on the wait list. If the wait list has been exhausted, the seminar will be reopened to new registrants.
The college reserves the right to make tutor substitutions if necessary. All affected registrants will be notified of a tutor substitution.
Information regarding seminars will be communicated by email. For questions please email classics(at)sjc.edu. Please note the seminar program email address has changed.
Registration, Zoom links, and meeting information will be communicated by email according to the schedule shared in the registration confirmation. Please look for a confirmation email after you register.
Seminar text edition information is listed below each month’s reading in the Reading List.
For the best personal seminar experience, you are strongly encouraged to use the recommended text edition and translation as listed in the Reading List.
We invite you to visit the online St. John’s College Bookstore to purchase your seminar texts. We understand you have many choices for book purchases, and your support is appreciated.
Those who are new to a St. John’s College seminar—online or in-person—are invited to read this introduction to the seminar method: Learning Through Conversation.
Please note that although this document addresses the in-person format, it is equally applicable for an online seminar. (Online St. John’s College seminars are, in their essence, the same format as in-person seminars.)
The Zoom Guide for Seminar Participants contains technical instructions as well as helpful hints for participating in a St. John’s College seminar hosted on the Zoom platform.
Zoom invitations will be emailed to you prior to the start of your seminar at the following intervals: two weeks before your first class, and one day before each class. Online seminars are 1.5 hours long, and schedules include Mountain Time and Eastern Time.
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