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For one thing, when students try to study all of these subjects together, they don’t have much time to study them in depth. Students and professors find themselves racing through the Odyssey in...

Freshmen are working on their Literary Tradition annotated essays about the Divine Comedy or Paradise Lost, and starting perhaps to dream about Rome. Sophomores are consolidating their Core...

I want to tell two stories from my time teaching at other institutions, two tales that, in their negative valences, highlight what is for me one of the most powerful positive aspects of the Core...

Last time, I wrote about Dr. Alvis’ two questions of a liberal education. I have tried this idea on some of my colleagues, and some of them responded that they do something similar in their...

It’s crunch time. There’s no other way to say it. Students came back from turkey and stuffing to find something entirely different on their UD plates: the final push, the last texts to read,...