Recorded HS

America’s Artistic Legacy, Part One

Join us for a journey through American history and culture through music, art, architecture, theater, dance, and literature -- from the Native Americans to the immigrants of Ellis Island and today’s newest immigrants, learn how the arts express the essence of life in America.

Recorded HS

America’s Artistic Legacy, Part Two

Join us for a journey through American history and culture through music, art, architecture, theater, dance, and literature -- from life on the prairie to post-war jazz, learn how the arts express the essence of life in America.

Recorded HS

American Democracy and Government

Learn the fundamentals of our American democratic republic -- Get a detailed study of our founding documents -- Explore the function of our government at the federal, state, and local levels. (This course fulfills many states' high school government education requirements!)

Recorded HS

American History and the Hit Musical Hamilton

The Broadway musical Hamilton is groundbreaking, exciting, thrilling - and historically accurate! Using the musical as our guide, we will explore the story it tells of early American history and the visionary dream of our founding fathers. We will also explore the deeply Christian elements of the story told by Lin Manuel Miranda.

Recorded HS

American Literature Part One: Age of Exploration through Reconstruction

American Literature Part Part One: Age of Exploration through Reconstructionis a survey course in American Literature covering works written by and about Americans from early exploration through post-Civil War. This course will align with HSC's American History: Part One.

Live HS

C.S. Lewis and The Screwtape Letters

Register for this course early as we expect it to fill and close! Lewis’ imaginative explications of the conditions of Hell and our sinful “thoughts” are the best of their kind in the last 700 years!

Live HS

Dante’s Inferno

Join Dr. Russell and your fellow students to learn why Dante is the greatest author of the greatest book on the greatest subject of any ever written by a man not known by the Church to be directly inspired by God!

Live HS

Dante on Dante

Kevin O’Brien, professional actor and host of EWTN’s TV series The Theater of the Word appears as Dante - in person via Zoom! Dante discusses his Vita Nuova, his love for Beatrice and several cantos in The Divine Comedy.

Recorded HS

Cultural Literacy for Catholics

What are some of the basic things all educated Catholics should know? Sadly, most Catholics don’t know them! From the point of view of Literature and its impact on culture, these basic “everybody should know this” stuff would include the issues we will examine in each class meeting.

Recorded HS

Dante’s Paradiso (Heaven) by Dante (Divine Comedy Series)

Dante teaches us what it means to be a Catholic in every element of our thought and culture. His work is not only sublimely beautiful but filled with the most important truths. The Comedy provides a vision of eternity in order to teach man how to live in time, in his brief excursus before forever.

Live HS

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Sign up today and learn why Hamlet is one of Shakespeare's finest plays. "To be or not to be" is the question, but the answer to this most complex of plays is beguilingly elusive. Join Professor Pearce and fellow students to go deep into Hamlet and find all of the answers.

Recorded MS

Humor in Literature

From light verse (funny poems) to the works of the American Humorists; from funny plays to comedies with serious themes, we will examine the role of Humor in literature - and in life! Our Final Project will be a fun poem, story, play, or video that each student will make, to be shared in class.

Recorded MS

Humor on Stage & Screen

In this middle school drama course, learn some of the best humorists and comedians in the history of Western culture. From Ancient Greek to Shakespeare, and Gilbert and Sullivan to Laurel and Hardy -- analyze humor on the stage and screen from a literary and historical perspective.

Recorded HS

Julius Caesar: Shakespeare in Production

Have you ever dreamed of being a producer? Do you love putting on plays? If so, this is the course for you! This course will explore the practical aspects of putting on a Shakespeare play, from beginning to end. Each student will prepare and discuss the facets of production.

Recorded HS

Jesus Christ: Icon of God (Christology)

Dive into Christology, the study of the person and work of Jesus Christ! A biblical understanding of Jesus Christ is crucial and this course will take you through a deep study of the Second Person of the Trinity.

Recorded HS

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847) (Victorian Classics)

One of the most famous novels of the mid-Victorian period, Jane Eyre exemplifies the Bildungsroman (“coming-of-age”) genre, and, in fact, radically defined that genre in the English literary tradition. Our studies will also address the novel’s biographical and historical context, providing insight into the mid-Victorian Period. In this course, we will come to know Jane Eyre and the remarkable novel that bears her name, studying both over six classes.

Recorded HS

Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Professor Pearce unlocks the Catholic meaning of The Lord of the Rings.

Recorded HS

Love and the Meaning of Life

We know as Catholics that “God is love.” We also know that it is our obligation to love God and to love our neighbors. We know that love, especially the sacrificial love of Christ on the cross, is central to the meaning of life. But what is love?