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Join our community of self-directed learners at the Shimer Great Books School, and engage the great conversation through a classical liberal arts curriculum.
- Shimer Great Books School: Humanities
Choose a Bachelor of Arts in the Humanities through the...
- Shimer Great Books School: Humanities
Shimer Great Books School (pronounced / ˈ ʃ aɪ m ər / ⓘ SHY-mər) is a Great Books college that is part of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Prior to 2017, Shimer was an independent, accredited college on the south side of Chicago, originally founded in 1853.
Aug 18, 2021 · Founded in 1853, and a Great Books school since 1950 (it was affiliated with the University of Chicago from 1896 to 1958), Shimer persisted as a fiercely independent liberal arts college,...
Choose a Bachelor of Arts in the Humanities through the Shimer Great Books School and study intersections of philosophy, literature, theology, and the arts.
Jun 2, 2017 · Here is the official announcement from North Central. This is the culmination of at least two years of negotiations, planning, curriculum redesign, and more work by more people than you can imagine -- a major step toward securing the future of Shimer's unique educational mission.
Shimer Great Books School provides and preserves education centered on discussion of enduring questions and issues. Historically influential original sources are studied through Socratic questioning in small seminar classes, following the kind of Great Books curriculum advocated by Robert Maynard Hutchins.
Nov 23, 2021 · At the Shimer Great Books School, you will explore the work of the world’s first theorists of society, along with that of modern social scientists, as they create and refine the various...
