This exhilarating program encourages small-class dialogue among generations of alumni and offers participants a new perspective on an enduring topic, much like the famed Core Curriculum that all College students experience.
What Are Mini-Core Classes?
The CCAA presents three Mini-Core Class series each academic year, with each taking place across three evenings at a convenient Manhattan location. Mini-Cores offer College alumni the opportunity to revisit the Core and its profound intellectual impact in a seminar-like setting with a distinguished faculty member. Topics relate to the Core Curriculum and explore new texts or ideas with the intent of facilitating rich conversation, debate and discussion that expands one's perspective on the world in relation to enduring topics such as morality, humanity, justice and religion.
Readings are assigned about a month in advance to those who register.
How to Attend
Classes are offered three times each year and are limited to 30 participants in order to inspire close discourse and conversation, reminiscent of the seminar format of the Core.
The class fee is $160 per alumnus/a for each series and $100 per young alumnus/a (within 10 years of graduation).
Upcoming Classes
Spring 2024: Lit Hum at the Opera
Wednesday, March 27, April 3, and April 17
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Refreshments will be provided.
Registration is now open.
The role of individuals in society, the desire to overcome human mortality, the nature of reality as we know it are recurring themes in the intellectual journey that shapes the Core Curriculum. They cross historical, cultural, and geographical borders, as well as disciplinary boundaries, as they find expression in literature, philosophy, music, and the visual arts. In what is one of its most distinctive and exciting features, the Core asks students to explore the complexity of the human experience across the full range of its linguistic and artistic manifestations.
In this class, alumni will join Professor Giuseppe Gerbino, Professor of Music, Historical Musicology, and Department Vice Chair, in delving into the intertwined powers of literary fiction and musical expression. This is what happens when Literature Humanities goes to the opera.