We're Building a New Kind of Department at Clemson
The Lyceum will give students a chance to read the Great Books and ask fundamental questions.
City Journal • C. Bradley Thompson
What if higher education returned to its deeper purpose: forming young people in wisdom, virtue, and the pursuit of truth? Clemson University's new Lyceum department aims to do just that through Great Books, Socratic dialogue, and personal mentorship, offering a hopeful glimpse of how classical learning might renew the university itself.



