The authors decided to use Bob Dylan's 2004 memoir "Chronicles" as a text in their freshman humanities seminars at Villanova University, partly to illustrate to increasingly career-oriented students--prospective engineers, business majors, and the like--how a liberal education and exposure to classic literature are relevant to everyone, and partly to circumvent students' tendency to challenge the choice of literature for the course. In this article, they describe how they used Dylan's writing in their lessons and how their students reacted to the text, and evaluate the extent to which the desired lesson--that he is the logical and legitimate inheritor of the history of literature and philosophy--was conveyed.