In your second term, you will, if you wish, be assigned a mentor, with whom you can discuss ideas and to whom you can turn for advice and guidance. Your mentor will be drawn from the University community or from the public or private sector. A limited number of internships are available for those interested in volunteering time in such organizations as a business, government department, museum or gallery. As a member of the College, you will be enrolled in a Humanities Seminar in each of your four years of study. The seminars are the core of the program.
Disciplinary perspectives shift from one seminar to the next.
Each seminar is taught by two faculty members and consists of three hours of lectures and one and a half hours of tutorials each week. Primary texts include Homer's Iliad and Odyssey , Plato's Republic , St. Augustine's City of God , Dante's Divine Comedy , Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne , Shakespeare's King Lear , Mozart's Magic Flute , Rousseau's Emile , Beethoven's Eroica Symphony , Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women , Marx's Communist Manifesto , Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus , and Margaret Laurence's The Diviners . Among the secondary works you might examine are E.M.Cornford's From Religion to Philosophy and Northrup Frye's Great Code . The curriculum includes 16 other designated and optional courses that will introduce you to key events, texts, artistic works, and criticism in the fields of philosophy, literature, history, art and music, science, classical civilization, anthropology, religion, politics, and economics. The College's program offers a choice of four Concentrations.