Tuition & Benefits

Online tuition includes seminar registration and optional online events. In-person tuition includes seminar registration and the following benefits during the week(s) of your attendance:

• Food and beverage, including the Opening Reception, Morning Mingles, and weekday lunches with your fellow participants and tutors.
• Use of our newly renovated Pritzker Student Center with remodeled lounges, coffee shop, and bookstore.
• Access to our historic Meem Library and the intellectual engagement of faculty and guest lectures.
• Special events and scheduled activities exclusively for Summer Classics participants, including film screenings, guided hikes, and the Graduate Institute Open House and Wine Tasting.
• Access to our gym, fitness classes (from weightlifting to outdoor yoga), tennis and pickleball courts, and available rental equipment (racquetball, bikes, etc.).
• Access to purchase tickets for Wednesday and Friday evening Santa Fe Opera performances at our special group rate.
• MULTIPLE SEMINAR PARTICIPANTS: Enroll in more than one seminar and enjoy the convenience of your course texts being purchased for you and delivered by mail free of charge.

See Resources for Participants for more information. Multiple seminar participants, see Other Policies for more details.

Pricing Guide

Full payment is due at the time of registration. See the cancellations section for more information.

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Teacher Discount

St. John’s College offers a discount to full-time K–12 teachers or a licensed homeschool provider. With proof of current employment, participants receive a 50% discount on seminar tuition. Discounts are available to the first 30 teacher registrants. When registering online, please select that you are a teacher and then provide the name and address of your place of employment and contact information of someone who is authorized to verify your employment. You will need to enter the discount code EDUC to apply the price change. For additional questions about this discount, please contact classics(at)sjc.edu.

Our discount for teachers is made possible in part by generous support from the Linda N. Schaefer Endowed Summer Classics Scholarship Fund and the Peter Pesic Science Institute Endowed Fund.

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No-Fee Seminar Changes

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 equivalent 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.

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Cancellations

A partial refund of 75% of the total seminar fee is available for cancellations made before June 1, 2026, while 25% of the seminar fee is non-refundable.

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Waitlist

To join a waitlist for a full seminar (listed as “sold out”), submit your request online through the registration page. No fee is required to join the waitlist.

If a spot in the desired seminar becomes available, those on the waitlist will be offered the spot in the order that they joined the waitlist.

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 waitlist. If the waitlist has been exhausted, the seminar will be reopened to new registrants.

Occasionally, a large waitlist will indicate a level of interest that warrants exploring the addition of a new seminar section; therefore, we invite you to use the waitlist so we can best serve your interests.

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Other Policies

Tutor Substitution

The college reserves the right to make tutor substitutions if necessary. All affected registrants will be notified of a tutor substitution.

Low Enrollment OR Rescheduling

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.

Multiple-Seminar Participants

If you register for more than one seminar, texts are provided free of charge. Book distribution for multi-seminar registrants begins in March 2026. Those who qualify will be contacted by email in advance to arrange for shipping. This complimentary service is available only if you register for multiple seminars before June 15, 2026. This deadline ensures that your books will arrive with enough time for you to read them before your first seminar, and also helps to account for unforeseeable shipping delays.

Minors

Participants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian and must notify the Summer Classics office that they are a minor at the time of registration. Persons 15 to 18 years of age may find our Summer Academy more appropriate for their participation.

filming and photography

St. John’s seminars are conversations. Conversations are live events among those present in the class; therefore classes are not recorded, even if the person interested in recording asks permission from the tutor and class members. This is a policy for all St. John’s classes.

St. John’s College reserves the right to take official photography of Summer Classics attendees for communications and promotional purposes.

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