For those of us who finished our formal education a long time ago, but now wish that we would have taken more social science and humanities rather than almost all science, what courses would you recommend from sources such as the Teaching Company or the Barnes and Noble Portable Professor Series to make up a core curriculum?

Read this from Mark Henrie:

http://www.isi.org/books/bookdetail.aspx?id=f7237e64-ca...41-986d-1c076a1d799f

Is this the same as Henrie's chapter in All-American Colleges? I enjoy listening to a good lecturer and reading the original sources more than reading texts on the sources.

I was thinking of something like the curriculum listed below, which usess courses available from the Teaching Company, which are also available via many public libraries. Barnes and Noble may offer similar courses but I don't have much experience with them.

I am not sure that my choices would be the best of the available lecture series, though, and wanted to see if anyone else had taken this approach.

Overview: Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition

I. Classical Literature in Translation: Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid (optional for further study: Greek Tragedy, Mythology)
II. Introduction to Ancient Philosophy: Introduction to Greek Philosophy (optional: Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues; Plato's Republic; Aristotle's Ethics)
III. Bible: Old Testament, New Testament
IV. Christian Thought before 1500: From Jesus to Constantine: A History of Early Christianity; Reason & Faith: Philosophy in the Middle Ages;
V. Modern Political Theory: Machiavelli in Context; Natural Law and Human Nature
VI. Shakespeare: Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, Tragedies (or other course on Shakespeare)
VII. US History before 1865. Part of History of the United States, 2nd Edition
VIII. 19th Century European Intellectual Tradition: European Thought and Culture in the 19th Century

Yes, it's the same M. Henrie and the same piece. Don't miss the free lectures in the lecture library right here on the ISI site, especially the Olin historical lectures.