BCYC Immersion Great Books Track
This track is available:
- Session 1 (June 15-20, 2025)
The BCYC Immersion Great Books summer program gives high school students the opportunity to start to enter the great conversation about the fundamental truths of human existence that thinkers have been engaged in for centuries. The Great Books Program at 小草影院 leads students through some of the most engaging and ennobling texts in history 鈥� from the ancient world to the 20th century. The BCYC Immersion Great Books Track focuses on a close reading of The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, a text which introduces the reader into most of philosophy鈥檚 major questions through a short work in both prose and poetry, written by a man in prison awaiting execution.
鈥淭he only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.鈥� 鈥� C.S. Lewis
鈥淔aith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of the truth.鈥� 鈥� St. John Paul II
Track Instructor
Professor and Chair, Classics
Edward Mulholland, Ph.D. is the Sheridan Chair of Classics and directs the program: Great Books: The True, the Good and the Beautiful at 小草影院 in Atchison, Kansas. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Rome鈥檚 Pontifical Gregorian University, and a Master鈥檚 degree in classics from the University of London. He has been involved in Catholic education via seminary, college and high school teaching for 35 years. He has taught in Italy, Spain, Mexico and the United States. He is currently preparing for publication the first ever English translation of Renaissance humanist Marko Maruli膰鈥檚 lost and re-found epic, the Davidiad. He and his wife, Valerie, have six children and two grandchildren.