Christians have fought in many wars over the last two thousand years, but the teachings of Christ seem to favor pacifism. This class examines some of the historical arguments used by Christian thinkers to justify warfighting and to lay out the rules for war, many of which form the basis of modern international law.

Read the Lord of the Rings and loved it? Into world-building on the heroic scale? This class takes students through a rapid breakdown of events in JRR Tolkien's Silmarillion, starting from the awakening of the Elves and finishing with the end of the First Age.

The Lord of the Rings is one of the best-selling novels of the twentieth century, but it takes place in the dwindling evening of Middle-Earth. Join us for a sprint through the morning of Tolkien's world and discover what he considered the great tales of Middle-Earth. If absolutely nothing else, discover a lot of fun names!

The late Roman Republic was a hot mess of characters and outrageous stunts. Come see who was around then and why the Republic became the Empire. Can we get from Marius to Augustus in an hour? Who knows, but we'll try!