In this rich humanities seminar, students engage primarily with four towering masterpieces—Hamlet, Macbeth, The Divine Comedy, and The Brothers Karamazov—as they confront the deepest questions of the human experience: justice, guilt, free will, redemption, and the presence (or absence) of God.

Guided by a seminar teacher who acts as a fellow pilgrim rather than a lecturer, students will encounter the authors themselves as the primary instructors. Through close reading, shared inquiry, and lively conversation, we allow Shakespeare, Dante, and Dostoevsky to shape our minds and imaginations.

Students will write frequent reflective and analytical essays, not to summarize or “master” the texts, but to wrestle with them—responding as thinkers, as writers, and as human beings.

This is not a class for passive learners. It is a seminar for the brave.

In person classes held Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at St. Augustine School in Mendota Heights throughout the school year. $1500/per semester, plus book fees or $2800/per semester for a combination of Humanities and Sacramental Imagination seminars. Formal evaluations with the student, parents, and teacher at the end of the semester. SPOTS LIMITED. Register below.