GREY EYED OWL
Timeless Learning for a Digital Age
ENRICHMENT COURSES
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel." - Socrates
INTRO TO FINANCE
Ages: 13+
Based on contemporary articles and current events, this course introduces students to the dynamic world of finance. In addition to covering investing and the stock market, this course dives into the details of Equity, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Economics, Corporate Finance, Financial Statements, Central Banks, and the role of Government in managing the economy. As March 2020 saw the fastest market correction and the best day on Wall Street since 1933, it's never been a better time to start learning about the market.
ECONOMIC HISTORY & THOUGHT
Age: 13+
This course introduces students to Economics by exploring the historic evolution of the discipline. By understanding the worlds of Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and Ronald Reagan, students will learn how economics fundamentally shapes and determines the society in which we live. Topics covered include: the free Market and the Invisible Hand; the benefits and shortcomings of industrialization; Capitalism, Communism, and Socialism; Income Inequality; the Stock Market; Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Technology, Growth, and the current Global Market.
PSYCHOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE
Age: 16+
Sensations, behaviors, memories, motives, emotions, thoughts, personality— ever wonder how the brain connects, and controls, all these varied and vibrant foundations of the human experience?
This course offers students an introduction to the rich worlds of Psychology and Neuroscience. With an eye towards the AP Psychology curriculum, tutorials will cover: the brain (neuroanatomy, communication, neurotransmitters); consciousness; sensation and perception; learning (classical and operant conditioning); cognition (memory, language, problem solving); development (physical and mental child development); motivation, desire, emotion; disorders and treatment; social psychology (identity, group dynamics, social institutions, cultural influence, attitude, and personality).
CLASSIC LITERATURE
Age: 16+
"That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil - widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower." - George Eliot, Middlemarch.
This course leads students through the aesthetic, historical, and philosophical contours of great English literature from the past 200 years: nineteenth-century Realism; World War I and Modernism; World World II and Postwar Cultural Revolutions; Cold War-Era Postmodernism; and 21st century Globalization.
Authors Include: Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Fydor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Marcel Proust, William Faulkner, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Vladimir Nabokov, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Tennessee Williams, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Wolfe, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Roberto Bolano, Arundhati Roy, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and many more.
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”