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

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous love story ever written. Its cultural influence is so profound that Shakespeare’s “star cross’d” lovers have become synonymous with the very meaning of romantic love.  In this course, Joseph Pearce, editor of the Ignatius Critical Edition of Romeo and Juliet, asks and answers these questions as he invites students to see the play through Shakespeare’s Catholic eyes.

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.

Live HS

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Explore one of Shakespeare’s greatest and most controversial plays alongside Professor Pearce, the author of three books on Shakespeare and editor of the Ignatius Critical Edition of The Merchant of Venice. In six classes, you will learn about Shakespeare’s life and Catholicism as well as grappling with the questions the play asks about choice, justice, and joy.

Recorded HS

Catholic Middle Ages

Join this Medieval History course for a comprehensive overview of the European Middle Ages that helps your student understand and make connections with history and today, as well as see the connection between the Church & history.

Recorded HS

The Winter’s Tale: 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.

Live HS

Catholic Middle Ages

Join this Medieval History course for a comprehensive overview of the European Middle Ages that helps your student understand and make connections with history and today, as well as see the connection between the Church & history.

Recorded HS

Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

Often vacillating wildly between the terrible and the comic, Bram Stoker's 1897 novel of blood and passion stands as one of the greatest and most baffling masterpieces of Gothic fiction. The work brings together a host of disparate but compelling themes: tensions between antiquity and modernity, the powers and limitations of technology, the critical importance of feminine virtue, the difference between superstition and religion, the nature of evil, and the complex relationship between ancient faith and scientific enlightenment.

Recorded HS

Early Modern Europe: 1648-1789

As Europe recovers from the age of the religious wars, advances in science and the opening up of the New World will lead to new challenges that will first strain and then finally break the old order of Christendom.

Recorded HS

Making of the Modern World, Part One

This course examines how the Modern World -- our world -- came to be. It looks at the revolutionary ideas that created, first in Europe and then the entire world, an understanding of man and his relationship to God, the Church, and the state that was in many respects radically different from the understanding of these things that prevailed in the Middle Ages.

Recorded HS

Making of the Modern World, Part Two

This course examines how the Modern World --- our world --- came to be. It looks at the revolutionary ideas that created, first in Europe and then the entire world, an understanding of man and his relationship to God, the Church, and the state that was in many respects radically different from the understanding of these things that prevailed in the Middle Ages.

Live MS

Plutarch’s Pericles

Let’s meet the man who brought Athens to the height of her power and then dragged her into a war that nearly destroyed her! The Golden Age of Athens can also be called the Periclean Age. Come see what made Athens so golden in the fifth century—sculpture, architecture, philosophy, rhetoric, war on land and sea, and plague. This life has it all. We’ll get to know the man and see what lessons we can draw from him today. How can we lead well? What mistakes does he make? From whom did he learn the most?