We Need Your Support The Thomas Jefferson Center relies entirely on the generosity of departments to provide faculty to teach our courses and on the generosity of donors to support our lecture series, junior fellows program, and graduate and postdoctoral fellowships. Most of our staffing and other operating expenses are covered by donations as well. We welcome gifts both to cover current year expenses and to begin building an endowment, including several proposed endowed postdoctoral teaching fellowships.
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For the Study of Core Texts and Ideas
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An education for liberty
out of its twin roots in Jerusalem and Athens, produced grand syntheses and wrenching revolutions, and influenced every aspect of the modern world. Students will discover that works from many cultures, epochs, and fields of study are engaged in an ongoing, mutually enlightening conversation about fundamental questions, including the sources and limits of human wisdom, the nature of happiness, and the principles of ethics and good government.
Our Mission The aim of the Thomas Jefferson Center is to realize Jefferson’s vision of educating citizens and leaders to understand the meaning of liberty and to exercise it wisely. We share Jefferson’s conviction that one of the best ways to attain a liberal education—an education suited for a free individual in a free society—is through a serious study of the great books.
Program in Core Texts and Ideas Our central project is the new Program in Core Texts and Ideas, open to freshmen and sophomores in every college of the University. This program guides students through selected great books in an integrated sequence of six courses, four required and two elective, all of which may also satisfy university-wide core requirements. The four required courses cover the classics of ancient Greece, the Bible and other basic religious texts, the history of political philosophy from Socrates to the present, and the principles of the American Founding. Together, these courses provide an introduction to many of the most powerful ideas of western civilization as it emerged
Undergraduate Major in the Great Books Beginning in the spring of 2009, students interested in constructing an interdisciplinary major in the great books are able to do so through our partnership with the Humanities Major, an interdisciplinary program for honors students in the College of Liberal Arts.
The Jefferson Society of Postdoctoral Fellows Jefferson Fellowships are awarded annually to scholars in all areas of the liberal arts who have completed doctoral dissertations on the great books. Fellows teach one course each semester in our interdisciplinary undergraduate program and have time to revise their dissertations for publication.
University and Community Outreach In addition to these programs, The Jefferson Center sponsors a lecture series, an executive seminar series on the great books for business and community leaders, a junior fellows program for undergraduates, and teaching assistantships and travel grants for graduate students.
