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Shimer Great Books School (pronounced / ˈʃaɪmər / ⓘ SHY-mər) is a Great Books college that is part of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Prior to 2017, Shimer was an independent, accredited college on the south side of Chicago, originally founded in 1853.
Join our community of self-directed learners at the Shimer Great Books School, and engage the great conversation through a classical liberal arts curriculum.
Choose a Bachelor of Arts in Natural Sciences through the Shimer Great Books School and explore scientific history and practice using primary source texts.
18 de ago. de 2021 · Founded in 1853, and a Great Books school since 1950 (it was affiliated with the University of Chicago from 1896 to 1958), Shimer persisted as a fiercely independent liberal arts college,...
Shimer Great Books School at North Central College, Naperville, Illinois. 1,045 likes · 7 talking about this · 131 were here. The Shimer Great Books...
16 de may. de 2024 · Shimer Great Books School provides and preserves education centered on discussion of enduring questions and issues. Historically influential original sources are studied through Socratic questioning in small seminar classes, following the kind of Great Books curriculum advocated by Robert Maynard Hutchins.
23 de nov. de 2021 · At the Shimer Great Books School, you will explore the work of the world’s first theorists of society, along with that of modern social scientists, as they create and refine the various...
