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

How to be an Excellent Student: Note Taking, Test Taking, and How to Get an A

How to take the best notes from a lecture and from a text, how to listen and read “actively” for greater connection and higher comprehension, the best ways to prepare for a test, how to take timed tests effectively, and more!

Live HS

I Call You Friends – the Friendship of Tolkien and Lewis

Come and learn how the friendship of JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis impacted their literary works as well as their faith. In exploring the relationship of these two men, you will come to a deeper appreciation of their works and also for literary analysis - and a deeper appreciation of the role of friendship in the Church.

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

Purgatorio (Purgatory) by Dante (Divine Comedy Series)

Dante Alighieri is the only “secular” author in praise of whom a Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church has written an encyclical letter. His Holiness Benedict XV’s “In Praeclara Summorum” of 1921 rightly says, “We admire in him not only supreme height of genius but also the immensity of the subject which holy religion put to his hand. If his genius was refined by meditation and long study of the great classics it was tempered even more gloriously, as We have said, by the writings of the Doctors and the Fathers which gave him the wings on which to rise to a higher atmosphere than that of restricted nature.”

Live HS

Revolt from Reality: Tracing the History from the Lie of the Serpent to Today’s Insanity

Join this Church history course with Gary Michuta, author of the book by the same name, Revolt from Reality, and trace history from the Incarnation to today’s cultural minefield.

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.

Recorded HS

The Canterbury Tales (Medieval Lessons for Modern Catholics Series)

Chaucer was the master at making Catholic nobles laugh at the failings of others until they realized those characters were a bit too much like themselves. This great moralist, like a comic Dante, lets his characters boast and strut until they have convicted themselves out of their own mouths.

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.