Greetings, Corelings. We hope you can take some time out of your busy schedule to watch this short video. It encapsulates all of our hopes that you will do the best you possibly can on your final exams and papers. You can do it! Hang in there! Good luck! Etc.
April 27, 2017 at 2:15 pm
If you could not attend the Core Banquet this past Tuesday, then you missed this enlightening four-minute creation brought to us by our very own Word & Way Society. “Core on the Street,” hosted by Chloe Hite and edited by Priest Gooding, features many of our beloved Corelings. Impersonations, Q&A, synced audio, AND MORE await.
February 15, 2017 at 8:08 pm
In his first vlog on his Youtube channel The Classiest Beard (and yes, before you ask, it is indeed classy), Philosophy major and Core-ier Juan Andres Cabrera Saturno condenses Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics into eight pieces of advice on leading a great life. Needless to say, we had to share this on the Core Blog! CC102 […]
February 5, 2017 at 11:30 am
What is the unheard story of the Sistine Chapel? Art historian Elizabeth Lev intends to tell us, taking us on a tour through Michelangelo’s series of frescos and what she considers “the great theater of life.” Against the backdrop of Columbus’s voyage to the Americas, an age of exploration, Michelangelo took on the Sistine Chapel […]
December 12, 2016 at 11:30 am
In a lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, curator of the Department of European Paintings Walter Liedtke takes a look at the life and works of the 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt. Over the course of the lecture, we can see the influence of the Old Masters in the artist’s work […]
November 8, 2016 at 6:54 pm
The 2016 performance of scenes from Euripides’ Hecuba from today’s CC101 lecture has been uploaded to the Core Youtube channel for your viewing pleasure. Many thanks go out to Prof. Kyna Hamill and the 2016-17 Hecuba Players. The 2016-17 Players are: Giselle Boustani-Fontenele, co-director with Kyna Hamill Flannery Gallagher Priest Gooding Seyedeh Hosseini Hannah Jew […]
November 7, 2016 at 10:47 am
“The core of what is valuable about those epics is that they are intensely human. … It is an absolutely down-the-barrel look at the realities of who we are.” In his lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, author Adam Nicholson argues the importance of Homer thousands of years after he wrote the Iliad and […]
October 20, 2016 at 8:39 am
In case you need any help resonating with the gravitas of these texts….. 1. Bob Marley’s “Exodus” Marley’s lyrics like “We’re the generation…trod through great tribulation” in this classic reggae hit lend millennial readers of the Hebrew Bible some additional encouragement in a time of much political upheaval in the United States. 2. Berliner […]
October 19, 2016 at 12:26 pm
We know what you’re thinking. Gilgamesh… sung? No, it’s not the newest historical musical, hoping to capitalize on the hysteria for history-themed performances catalyzed by Hamilton. We’re talked here aboutthe opening lines of the Epic of Gilgamesh performed by musician Peter Pringle. The piece is not only played on a Sumerian lute called a “gish-gu-di” […]
December 2, 2015 at 10:25 am
In the latest video created by Core Learning Assistant Gregory Kerr, find a lighthearted and comedic look at recent topics covered in CAS CC 111: Origins. How lighthearted? Well, this will probably be the only time you find Cake Boss, Kevin Spacey, cat memes, involuntary defenestration, and Jar-Jar Binks brought in to help explain rough […]
