A Student's Guide to the Core Curriculum and A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning

A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO THE CORE CURRICULUM (Print edition available here)
Students today have tremendous freedom to choose the courses they will take. With such freedom, however, students face a pressing dilemma: Which courses convey the core of an authentic liberal arts education, transmitting our civilizational inheritance, and which courses are merely passing fads? The penetrating essays in this guide explain the value of a traditional core of studies in Western civilization and then surveys eight courses available in most American universities which may be taken as electives to acquire such an education.

A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO LIBERAL LEARNING (Print edition available here)
An inviting conversation with a learned scholar about the content of an authentic liberal arts education. It surveys ideas and books central to the tradition of humanistic education that has fundamentally shaped our country and our civilization. Freshly conveying the excitement of intellectual life, this accessible volume argues for an order and integration of knowledge so that meaning might be restored to the haphazard approach to study currently dominating higher education.