On August 29 and 30 took place the course "El challenge de leer en el classroom. La metodología de los seminarios de grandes libros", in the framework of the Cursos de Verano de las Universidades Navarras, financed by the Government of Navarra. Directed by Álvaro Sánchez-Ostiz and José María Torralba, professors of the School of Philosophy y Letras, it was attended by more than 80 people, most of them secondary school teachers from several cities in Spain.

The 16 seminars offered at framework were taught by professors from the Great Books Program of the high school Core Curriculum. The readings ranged from classics such as Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, to more contemporary works such as The South by Jorge Luis Borges, to Frankenstein or Mary Shelley's Modern Prometheus.

Carlos Javier González Serrano, professor of Philosophy and Psychology in Secondary Education, writer and partner in the media, was in charge of delivering the closing address lecture . Under the degree scroll "The business of attention: reading as a necessary subversion", in his speech he addressed the attention difficulties of adolescents and argued that "encouraging reading at classroom will improve these problems".

Àngel Pascual, professor of Theory and History of the Education at the University of Barcelona, also gave the lecture "The Great Books Reading Seminars: historical origins and current applications in the teaching average and above".

The course aimed to offer solutions to the growing concern in the world educational about the low reading level of young people and, above all, to provide an answer to the obstacles to their discovery of the pleasure of reading. The Great Books Seminars have a long tradition of more than a century and are present in some of the best educational centers in the world, both teaching average and higher. It is a simple methodology based on the reading of classic works (ancient and modern). Its main teaching activities are the dialogical commentary and the essay of argumentative essays on existential questions, that is, about the relevance of texts for the understanding of human beings and life in society.