Dick Young: Learn from Hillsdale College Online

Originally posted on May 16, 2022.

There is a frightening lunacy taking over America’s college campuses. Debbie and I witnessed it firsthand on a tour of college towns in New England only a few years back. For students looking for a different kind of education, there is shelter from the storm. Hillsdale College offers students a chance to enjoy what college is meant to be. For those who want to learn without attending in person or matriculating in college, Hillsdale has a wide array of featured courses for online study. Here’s a sample:

• C.S. Lewis on Christianity
• The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic
• American Citizenship and Its Decline
• The David Story: Shepherd, Father, King
• Dante’s Divine Comedy
• Mathematics and Logic: From Euclid to Modern Geometry
• Civil Rights in American History
• Introduction to Western Philosophy
• Classic Children’s Literature
• The Great American Story: A Land of Hope
• Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution
• The Genesis Story: Reading Biblical Narratives
• Introduction to Aristotle’s Ethics: How to Lead a Good Life
• The Second World Wars
• Congress: How It Worked and Why It Doesn’t
• The Young Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey
• Western Heritage: From the Book of Genesis to John Locke
• Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Selected Short Stories
• Introduction to the Constitution
• Theology 101: The Western Theological Tradition
• American Heritage: From Colonial Settlement to the Current Day
• Shakespeare: Hamlet and The Tempest
• The U.S. Supreme Court
• Athens and Sparta
• Public Policy from a Constitutional Viewpoint
• An Introduction to C.S. Lewis: Writings and Significance
• Winston Churchill and Statesmanship

That is only a sample of what’s on offer from Hillsdale’s online collection. Click here to see everything Hillsdale offers.