The Odyssey Project (OP) is founded on the premise that liberal education is education to make people free, and it proceeds on the conviction that engagement with the humanities can offer individuals a way out of poverty by fostering habits of sustained reflection and skills of communication and critical thinking.

 

The Odyssey Project (OP) is a college-level course in philosophy, literature, art history, and history for men and women living at or below 150% of the poverty level. Its anchor program is the first-year course, which is offered in partnership with the Bard College Clemente® Course in the Humanities and for which students may receive six units of college credit. Faculty members come from top institutions including the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and DePaul University.

The Odyssey Project is offered in partnership with the Bard College Clemente® Course in the Humanities
and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
and is funded in part by the The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. and The Field Foundation of Illinois.

 

For more information about The Odyssey Project, please call Amy Thomas Elder at (312) 422-5585 x223.