Literary genius can take innumerable shapes and forms through novels, plays, and poetry. Brilliant minds use their gifts to entertain, inspire, engage, and enlighten about philosophical and artistic concerns, social trappings, and human conceit. This course examines a selection of great minds each semester through a curated reading list that illuminates the particular brilliance of each individual featured author.
Students should read The Trojan Women by Euripides for the first class. 

1. The Trojan Women by Euripides 

2. The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan 

3. Macbeth by Shakespeare

4. The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette

5. Prometheus Unbound by Percy Shelley 

6. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 
 
 
 
Continuing Education Units (CEU) : 0

You'll walk away with

• Increased cultural literacy
• Knowledge of major authors and texts

Ideal for

• The curious and creative
• Professionals who use critical thinking