Boarding School Books

This course will present opportunities for students to explore, interrogate, and reflect upon the experience of elite, residential learning. In the course of reading fiction

Off the Shelf: A Tutorial

The tutorial approach to learning is a very old method of education that allows students to explore ideas on their own terms. For this class,

Chinese 3

In this intermediate level course, students reinforce what they have acquired in the previous levels and expand and deepen their skills in listening, speaking, reading,

American Voices

In this course, we will use a wide range of American short stories, poems, and novels to sample the many voices and issues that have

French 1

In this introductory course, students learn basic French communication skills – while also exploring the cultures of the Francophone world. They engage in their own

Politics & Science of Memory

There may be nothing more important to human beings than our ability to enshrine experience and recall it. While philosophers and poets have elevated memory

History of Capitalism

With its celebration of innovation, return on investment, and creative destruction, capitalism appears to be about the future. But it can be understood only by

Understanding the Holocaust

The Nazi regime relied on long-standing strains of anti-Semitism as well as newer racial ideologies to gather support for their purposeful and highly systematic attempt

Latin 6 Honors

The Latin 6 seminar, conducted in English, is a special topics course, designed for advanced students in the Latin curriculum who have completed Latin 5.

French 2

This second level course focuses on increasing communicating skills, both in written and oral form, through the lens of grammatical acquisition. Students are exposed to,

Latin 5 Hon.:Surv. of Lat. Lit

Latin 5 Honors: Survey of Latin Literature This two-term advanced seminar examines sacred and secular Latin texts from the Middle Ages, with particular attention to

French 3

The third year of language study is pivotal. Using the skills gained in the first two levels as a springboard, the students expand and deepen