Along with the rest of the country, I’m thinking about Dr. Martin Luther King today. MLK day is a day to not only remember the incredibly important work done in the African American community through the civil rights movement, but it also reminds me of what it means to be an American, to be discerning…
Category: The Program
Our Favorite Program Ghosts
Halloween season is upon us, and I thought it might be a good time to share some of our office’s favorite ghostly characters in the books we explore on the St. John’s program. While many of the stories that we read are not “ghost stories” in the modern sense, many things that happen in the…
Beethoven’s Third Symphony!
Student Life invited the entire St. John’s College Community to attend The Lensic’s Heroic Beethoven concert featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 Eroica on Sunday, September 22nd at 3:00pm. Tickets were donated to the college by ProMusica and The Lensic Performing Arts Center! Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony is particularly significant work to the college because everyone studies…
Seminar Skills: Thinking Interdisciplinarily
I was recently able to sit in on a presentation about college admissions for students and parents, focused primarily on liberal arts education. The speaker addressed the parents in the room and asked how many of them had heard of the job Social Media Manager ten years ago. User Experience Designer? Cloud developer? These are…
Seminar Skills – Learning Collaboratively
Liberal arts education is the topic of lots of discussion in much of the education-related media I see day-to-day. Many articles have been written about both its merits and weaknesses. As someone who graduated from a liberal arts school, had a great experience, and now works at another intense liberal arts school, I thought it might…
Game of Tomes – what would our favorite characters be reading?
The Admissions staff figured that some of the characters of ‘Game of Thrones’ would be into some of the books on our Program – we take a stab at which ones in the video below!
Some literary madness: St. John’s Admissions’ “Great Books Bonanza”
I love a good tournament. I’ve seen so many awesome faux-march madness brackets popping up around best Disney/Pixar movies to best pop songs of the 1990’s, so naturally, myself and couple of colleagues came up with the idea of doing a March Madness bracket applied to our very own Program. And so, reader, here is…
Happy Pi Day!
Check out this video below for a quick dive into the early history of Pi, and how Archimedes intersected with it. For more information on Math in the St. John’s Program, visit this link.
An Accelerated Option – Become a January Freshman
Are you enrolled somewhere and you find yourself wondering if anyone else cares about what’s being studied? Do you find textbooks boring? Can you imagine yourself surrounded by other people who actually want to learn? Does your mind drift toward the WHY of things? Perhaps you feel like you finally figured out what you want…
Why attend St. John’s? Top 9 Reasons
On behalf of Eric Poppele St. John’s tutor, Santa Fe The faculty of St. John’s College are not called professors. The job of a professor is to profess, that is, to tell what they know. We don’t lecture here. As tutors our job is to elicit thoughtfulness and inquiry. We ask questions not because we…
The Chalkboard 