Great Books & Big Ideas at Amherst Session 1 – Great Books Summer Program

Great Books & Big Ideas at Amherst Session 1

Scholarships available College Prep Arts Academic

Great Books Summer Program

Date/Time: Jun 28, 2026 - Jul 4, 2026    
Ages: 11-18
Cost: $2,765.00

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Great Books & Big Ideas Programs at Amherst will revel in the rich literary heritage of New England and look back to the classics and broadly to world literature too. Discussions at Amherst often spring from writings of Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, Ursula Le Guin, Langston Hughes, Borges, and Greek philosophers.

Location

Amherst College
Amherst, MA 01002