2021 Pod & Specialty Courses
Great Books Online is offering a truly unique array of literary adventure spanning time and genres that is sure to pique your child's intellectual curiosity each and every week.
- Pod classes are limited to 6 students for a deeply enriching academic experience.
- Specialty courses explore areas of individual interest, development, and growth with a community of inspired learners.
To learn more about classes that will spark your child’s interest, contact us via email info@greatbookssummer.com, or call/text 203-612-9470.
2021 Pod & Specialty Classes:
Middle School
Debate Class
Become a better thinker, speaker, & leader through debate! This exciting new class will be led by Duncan Andrew Crowe, a former World Universities Debating Championship Grand Finalist. He currently serves as an international debate judge and coach.
- Dates to be Determined
- 6 Weeks
- Limited to 12 students
Pod Casting
Learn podcasting from an experienced producer! From where to get ideas for stories to interview tips and editing basics, you’ll leave this course feeling inspired and armed with the tools you need to tell stories through audio. Skills covered in this interactive course will include interviewing, script writing, sound collecting, and developing your own storytelling voice.
- Thursdays at 7:00pm Eastern for 60 Minutes
- 4 Weeks - Starting January 21
- Limited to 6 students
Ethics
Explore the difference between vice & virtue. “Ethics” encompasses a broad range of value judgments that affect our actions every day. From Plato, Kant, and John Stuart Mill to The Good Place and “Everyday Ethics” students will read, evaluate, and debate the diverse ways that ethical systems have been constructed. Each course meeting will take an ethical framework, apply it to an everyday situation, and explore the consequences of that combination. In this seminar, students will be asked to challenge their assumptions, argue cases from multiple angles, and become more comfortable with ambiguity and the limits of objective reason.
- Mondays at 7:30pm Eastern for 60 Minutes
- 4 Weeks - Starting January 21
- Limited to 6 students
High School
Criticism 101
Learn to levy feedback like a pro. With social media anyone can share their opinion about a movie they just saw. But if your interest in media is matched by your love for writing, you might be a critic in the making. we will explore the role of the media critic, read a variety of different styles of criticism, and create our own media studies magazine with original reviews.
- Saturday at 12:00pm Eastern for 60 Minutes
- 4 Weeks - Starting January 16
- Limited to 6 students
The Supreme Court
Students are invited to join us to probe Supreme Court cases. This exciting new class is led by celebrated former ACLU attorney Chris Hansen, who has argued and won multiple landmark cases in the Supreme Court
- Dates to be Determined
- 4 Weeks
- Limited to 16 students
Contact us with any questions about our Pod & Specialty Courses.
