A 12-Month Immersive Course in Humanities (Continued)

Today we continue our 12-month immersive program in arts and culture. Below I’m sharing my week-by-week guide for months 4 through 6.

As some have noticed, our approach is not strictly chronological—although it is loosely chronological. I am trying to pace and diversify our efforts in order to optimize the reader experience.

I will keep this manageable—we will only do around 250 pages of reading per week. That’s a daunting constraint, and rules out some options (no War and Peace in this course, sorry). But even with this limitation, we can still work wonders.

Don’t be discouraged if you hit rough patches along the way. That’s part of the process. As they say in sports training: “No pain, no gain.”

If you can do this as part of a group, you will gain extraordinary benefits from discussing the weekly readings. But even solitary travelers will benefit from this journey.

You may also want to check out various online resources (such as video tutorials) to enrich and expand your responses to this material. For example, I point you to the Catherine Project, which offers online courses on many of these works.

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