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“Tackling a new or favorite text with kindred spirits and thoughtful, inclusive tutors is transforming in every way.” —Summer Classics participant

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Weeklong Seminars in July 2024

Discover a new or favorite text to study this summer in the seminar catalog by category.

Online Seminars

July 1–5 via Zoom

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July 8-12, 15-19, and 22-26 in Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Summer Classics is a 30-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 “transformational” 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.  The theme for 2024’s catalog, On the Motion of the Heart, encompasses the essence of the liberal arts education of St. John’s College. This theme comes from the title of a science text and evokes human motivations, ideals, and sentiments. Follow your heart to find a match in the 2024 course catalog.

For registration inquiries please email classics(at)sjc.edu.

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What Participants Are Saying About Summer Classics

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An utter joy in every way: seminars, Santa Fe setting (with its opera, chamber music, choral group, rare opportunity, sun and low humidity, general beauty), the rare opportunity to be with people who love great books the way we do and share our love for classical music and good conversation. We’ve made wonderful lasting friendships here over the years that make each new year like the best kind of family reunion.”

A great way to make time for oneself and to explore something in greater depth and have conversations that are focused—an experience not readily or often created outside of St. John’s College.”

Conversation with a roomful of interested adults who have read the same great work and who want to figure out together what it means. An absolutely joyful experience, probably like no other you have in your ordinary day to day.”

Intellectually rewarding, community-based discussions of some of the best and most important written works that are available to us.”

Summer Classics is like a nice cold drink on a hot summer day, it refreshes and reinvigorates your mind. It is the opportunity to discuss important themes and topics with other curious individuals across a spectrum of ages and life experience.”

Challenging and engaging conversations with a diverse group of life-long learners, facilitated by expert St. John's tutors, in a spectacular and interesting setting. What more could you ask for in a summer activity?”

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