This eight-week course is an iniatory survey of the importance of literature and some of the great works of Imaginative Literature. The course will examine texts that provide examples of different literary forms and genres from various time periods. This will be done to engage the Great Conversation of Western Civilization through such literature but also within the Catholic Tradition. Students will work to engage these masterpieces through both critical and reflective reading to develop and analyze key ideas. Students who complete this course will not only become familiar with some of the most magnificent works of the great authors of the past but will also become comfortable conversing about them to explore the ideas of today.