Recorded MS

The Most Ancient Game: an Introduction to Chess

Chess teaches students to anticipate potential problems, how to focus & concentrate, visualize a sequence of actions, weigh options, and understand actions have consequences. For both middle and high school students.

Recorded MS

Detecting Logical Fallacies, Part One

Middle school is a great time to introduce formal logic! Your student's brain has reached a point of neurological development where he or she is ready to grapple and consider material in a logical manner. This course combines the concrete with the abstract with a method that will lead your student to develop a habit of stepping back, analyzing a situation, and thinking logically.

Recorded MS

Detecting Logical Fallacies, Part Two

This course builds upon the skills and knowledge acquired in the course Detecting Logical Fallacies Part One and the idea that middle school is a great time to introduce formal logic. Your student continues the pursuit to combine the concrete with the abstract utilizing a method that will lead your student to further develop a habit of stepping back, analyzing a situation, and thinking logically.

Recorded HS

Formal Logic I

This six-week course establishes the rudiments of formal logic—the construction and detection of valid syllogism and formal and informal fallacies. The emphasis will be on examples taken from popular media.

Recorded HS

Formal Logic II

This course continues the exploration of formal logic begun in the "Introduction to Formal Logic" course. It looks closely at a wide variety of syllogism. such as Enthymemes, conditional, disjunctive, conjunctive, polysyllogisms, sorites, and dilemmas. Examples are taken from famous philosophers, such as Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, and Hume.

Recorded HS

Critical Thinking, Catholicism, and History

Modern sources of news and entertainment are cleverly designed to compel, persuade, sensationalize, and attract attention. The purpose of this class is twofold: to both teach students how to think critically about the information they encounter, as well as how to construct well-written arguments with appropriate, supporting source material. Few people in our society realize that the true benefit of studying history goes beyond the simple lessons of the past. Rather, by giving critical analysis to the interpretations of the past, students can themselves learn to identify and scrutinize sources of information and form their own opinions with greater wisdom.

Recorded HS

How to Fail at Logic

Know how to be utterly illogical and how to point this out to others. Logical fallacies are deviously rich and diverse, and you will master some of them in this course so as to never be deceived by them again.

Recorded MS

A History of Scientific Thought for Middle School Students

A romp through history of science. We will consider some great questions: What is science? What can we know? What can we observe? What can we change? Who are the great scientists? How does the Church view science?

Recorded MS

A Mastery of Mysteries for Middle School

Become a “mystery master” as we read together some of the greatest mysteries of all time, including Edgar Allan Poe, Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, Nancy Drew, Agatha Christie, and more! For middle school students.