Well, we aren't exactly measuring our time in terms of semesters, but it's a roughly accurate way of keeping to some kind of schedule.
We begin this new year with Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Shakespeare is simply unavoidable, but in today's academy, the Bard is usually taught through the lens of some fashionable critical theory, such as Marxism or feminism. The joy and the darkness one finds in the plays are explained away as one "interrogates" the "text" instead of discovering the pleasure of the human in it.
A well known web site called I-Monk has a nice essay on this dimension of Shakespeare titled "Why I Love the Bard" . This is a fairly bland title, but the content is anything but--the author tells us how Shakespeare saved him from a white trash existence and expanded his Christian vision of human beings in all their strange, wonderful, fallen diversity. Hopefully, we too can expand on this humanizing aspect of Shakespeare's plays, widening our own vision of humanity and our relationship to God as we go.