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The Great Works Symposium is Drexel University’s only dedicated interdisciplinary course series. The program began in 2000 under the directorship of Professor Charles Morscheck. Under Morscheck's leadership the Great Works offered courses on topics ranging from the "The Atomic Bomb" to "Globalization" to "The Portrait."

In 2007 Scott Gabriel Knowles took over as director; and in 2007-2008 the program brought in the first of its Visiting Fellows. Today the Great Works offers four courses per year gathered around a central annual theme, bringing Drexel faculty into collaboration in course design and delivery. Annual themes have included "Health and Society," Democracy," and "Energy."

The Great Works brings 25+ speakers to campus every year, fosters interdisciplinary reading, writing, and research among its students, and occasionally sponsors one-credit special courses and class trips. Recent trips include Brussels, New Orleans, a trip to Washington, D.C. to witness Barack Obama's inauguration, and a recent trip to Bulgaria to study emerging democracy.