K-12
Virtual Grad Course with UChicago: The Founders and the Classics
The University of Chicago Graham School, with the support of the Jack Miller Center, is offering this virtual graduate course for social studies educators.
This course, specifically designed for teachers, will seek to address the question: how, and to what extent, were the U.S. Framers influenced by the Greek and Roman classics? Readings for the course will include primary sources from thinkers such as Aristotle, Polybius, Cicero, Hobbes, Locke, Franklin, and Adams, as well as works of contemporary scholarship.
The course will be taught by University of Chicago Instructor Dr. Kendall Sharp. It will meet synchronously from Monday June 30 to Wednesday July 2, and then after the Independence Day holiday, from Monday July 7 to Friday July 11. Sessions will run from 9:30 am to 12 pm Central Time.
Participants will earn 075 University of Chicago Units upon completion of the course (equivalent to 2.5 graduate credit hours). Full tuition scholarships will be provided to teachers enrolling in the course.