FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 15, 1999 CONTACT: Laura J. Mulry St. John's College (505) 984-6104
Summer Classics is a series of week-long seminars that engender discussion and reflection on the great books. Participants select one seminar per week for up to three weeks. Each seminar meets for two hours, Monday through Saturday. With a maximum of 20, participants address the assigned readings in depth, led by members of the St. John's faculty or guests from other institutions. Following the seminar, conversations about the readings often continue through the lunch hour and into the afternoon.
Mornings are dedicated to the seminars, while afternoons are free to study, participate in college-sponsored excursions to historical sites throughout the region, or explore Santa Fe. Located in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the college is within walking distance of four major museums and the famous Canyon Road art galleries.
Each week a seminar is offered to coincide with performances at the Santa Fe Opera. With a completely rebuilt opera house, the Santa Fe Opera features some of the world's finest productions while offering a panoramic view of sunsets and stars. Tickets are available through the college for George Bizet's Carmen on July 23 and August 2; Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos on July 28; Mozart's Idomeneo on July 30 and Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites on August 4.
In addition to the opera seminars, this year's program offers a wide variety. Discover what it means to look at a painting in the seminar "Italian Medieval & Renaissance Art." Not an art history course, nor a survey course, this seminar investigates why a painting is great without the need for art-historical experts. Or choose from the Greek tradition with Aristotle's Politics or Euripides' Trojan Women, Electra, and Medea.
In "Cowboy Classics," participants will delve into the great West. Through the genre of the Western (The Virginian, Shane, Horseman, Pass By and the film High Noon), the Cowboy will be explored in literature, myth, and in harsh reality. In the seminar on Augustine's Confessions, the class will focus on themes that unite Augustine's personal story with his philosophy. Those who register for the Galileo seminar will read excerpts from Two New Sciences, not to master Galileo's arguments, but to bring out those assumptions which he introduced and which remain basic to contemporary scientific endeavor.
Participants in the Poulenc/Bernanos seminar will study the opera Dialogues of the Carmelites, based on Georges Bernanos' tragic drama with music composed by Francis Poulenc. They also will devote time to Bernanos' beautiful novel, Diary of a Country Priest and the sensitive film adaptation by Robert Bresson. In Nietzsche's The Gay Science, the cause, meaning, and consequences of the statement "God is dead" will be explored. T.S. Eliot's last poem, Four Quartets, is the topic of a seminar dedicated to discovering the work without the dubious benefit of secondary sources, as the poet himself surely intended.
The Shakespeare seminar will address the place of love in civilized living through the plays The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labour's Lost, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. A special attraction: Shakespeare in Santa Fe will perform The Two Gentlemen of Verona outdoors three nights a week on the St. John's campus.
Tuition is $690 per week, which includes all texts, receptions and lunches, and some excursions. A $50.00 discount is applied to registration received prior to May 1st. On-campus single occupancy accommodations (single sex student housing suites) are available for $460 /week including room and board (3 meals / day) for six nights and seven days.
Santa Fe is home to hundreds of fine restaurants, live music, dancing and more. St. John's College and Santa Fe combine to make the perfect destination for an educational vacation that is sure to be the highlight of the year.
For more information, contact Summer Classics, St. John's College, 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501- 4599; (505) 984-6104, visit our web site www.sjcsf.edu or E-mail: [email protected]. PHOTOS AVAILABLE.
St. John's College, with campuses in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and in Annapolis, Maryland, is an independent, non-denominational, four-year liberal arts college. The integrated curriculum is based on the chronological study of the foundations of Western civilization, beginning with Homer, Sophocles and Plato. St. John's also offers two graduate degree programs through its Graduate Institute of Liberal Education, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and the Master of Arts in Eastern Classics. For more information, please contact St. John's College, 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501-4599; (505) 984-6104, visit our web site at www.sjcsf.edu, or E-mail: [email protected].
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