You attend classes without advance reading, and generally go into no greater depth than a popular magazine would. You certainly do not strain to understand an important, but abstruse, work, of the sort pursued in graduate schools or an honors course. John's is, together with its sister school in Annapolis, Maryland, a proud and defiant guardian of the Western cultural tradition. Thus, in addition to attending the daily seminars led by two tutors apiece, participants are housed in student residences on the campus of St. John's, and receive all three meals daily in the student dining hall. Festive arrival and farewell receptions are also included in the charge.
Seminars meet daily for two hours apiece.
Chimayo and Taos, Los Alamos, Bandalier National Monument, Indian reservations, and the in-city art galleries, museum, shops, and historic structures of Santa Fe itself. The Peloponnesian War in the course of a seven-day stay. It was a remarkable intellectual experience, that continues to resound in memory, and yet the week was exhilarating and happy, as we each day emerged from Greece of the fifth century B.C., into the southwestern sunlight, and roamed the mountain scenery of New Mexico by car. St. John's catalogue for its summer seminars is ready each year by the end of December. Participants discuss five books in the course of that single week, having been expected to have read most of them in advance.