The Great Ideas Club

The Great Ideas Club is for students interested in honing their critical thinking skills, while gaining a deeper understanding of themselves and their environment. By exploring seminal works from different cultures–novels, short stories, films, plays, and essays–club members will examine the conceptual building blocks of the world in which they live. This club is rooted in the Great Books movement with the aim of cultivating philosophical thinking through the study of influential texts. But while the Great Books movement traditionally focuses on the classical texts of the western world, The Great Ideas Club expands this scope by embracing diversity and inclusion. In meetings, members will discuss a particular idea (from justice to ren, from friendship to Ubuntu) through the lens of a great work (from a play by Shakespeare to a treatise by Confucius, from a poem by Emily Dickinson to a short story by Chinua Achebe).