We teach classes for curious minds. Our approach to academics helps learners view traditional disciplines in unconventional ways. With immersive classes that cross disciplines, learners stretch themselves both within and beyond conventional academic pathways. Our instructors teach using inquiry-guided learning tailored to develop critical and creative thinking, while small classes encourage close collaboration between learners and instructors.

Semester-Long Classes

US Empire History
This course explores the U.S.’ dramatic leap to preeminence and the nature of its global order. It introduces students to primary sources and competing interpretations of momentous events in US foreign relations from the nineteenth century through the present.
11am MountainAges 13-18Government & PoliticsInternational RelationsModern HistoryPolitical ScienceSemester-Long ClassesStarts Jan 9US History
Chronicles of the Barbarians
This class will explore a compilation of primary sources that presents dozens of striking accounts of the exotic customs and fierce deeds of those considered barbarians by eyewitness writers from throughout history. In this class, we will give voices – and due credits – to the “other,” the “conquered,” the “barbarians,” and the “enemies” who launched epic struggles that would help to shape the future.
Ages 13-18Ancient HistoryCeltic TribesClassical GreeceDiplomacyGermanic TribesInternational RelationsIslamic EmpireMedieval CrusadesResistanceRoman RepublicScythiansSemester-Long ClassesSteppe Nomads
Modern Global History
This class explores cross-cultural encounters in the early modern & modern world. Global interactions have shaped the dynamics of our modern world. The arrival of Spanish conquistadors to the Americas, Christian missionaries to Asia, and merchant sailors, geographers, soldiers, and settlers forever altered the societies that they encountered.
Ages 13-18ColonizationCross-Cultural EncountersHistory of Non-Western SocietiesInternational RelationsMigrationModern HistoryResource ConsumptionSemester-Long ClassesTrade & Global EconomyWorld History
Anthropology On The Front Lines
Anthropology is typically associated with the study of faraway places and of “exotic,” “traditional” cultures, but, in fact, anthropologists have long studied “modern” life both in the West and elsewhere around the world. This gives anthropology a great deal to say about problems and predicaments facing people in the world today.
Semester-Long ClassesAges 13-18AnthropologyAnthropology of The WestCross-Cultural EncountersCultural StudiesHumanitarian AidInternational DevelopmentModern Global ChallengesSociology
Medieval World History
Turmoil, crisis & the creation of states. From the sophisticated society of Central Asia to the horrors of the Black Death, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, climate change, rebellion, resistance & renaissance.
Ages 12-17DiplomacyHistory of Non-Western SocietiesHuman & Political World GeographyIslamic EmpireMedieval CrusadesMigrationNavigation & ExplorationPolitical EconomicsSemester-Long ClassesTrade & Global EconomyVikingsWorld History

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US Empire History

Chronicles of the Barbarians

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Anthropology On The Front Lines

Medieval World History

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