The Memoria College Master’s Courses in the Great Books offer teachers and interested adults a broad yet meaningful encounter with the great books. Students will study the fundamental texts of philosophy, literature, theology, psychology, history, economics, and science. In seminars led by Memoria College tutors, students will engage in thoughtful discussion of the classic works of the Western tradition by great thinkers and writers such as Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Shakespeare, Kant, Melville, and Tolstoy.
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About The Program
The Master of Arts degree (M.A.) requires the completion of a minimum of 30 credit hours consisting of:
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- 24 credit hours from courses held across the fall and spring semesters focused on reading and discussing the great books of the Western tradition.
- 6 credit hours from a variety of lecture and seminar courses focused on the close reading of a single great work or author (for example, Melville’s Moby Dick, Plato’s Republic, or The Federalist Papers) or the exploration of topics in classical education (for example, “The Practice of Classical Pedagogy” or “Introduction to Classical Education”).
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Flexible
Scheduling
Can be completed in 24 months
Tuition:
$250 per credit hour
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Mathematics
Natural Science
Reading List
Mathematics/Natural Science Reading List
Nicomachus
Blaise Pascal
Euclid
Lavoisier
Freud
Galileo
Isaac Newton
William James
Hippocrates
Galen
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Kepler
William Harvey
Charles Darwin
Archimedes
Huygens
Apollonius
William Gilbert
Joseph Fourier
Michael Faraday
Literature
Reading List
Literature Reading List
Charles Darwin
Archimedes
Huygens
Apollonius
William Gilbert
Joseph Fourier
Michael Faraday
Jonathan Swift
Chaucer
Dostoevsky
Euripides
Herman Melville
Virgil
Dante
Cervantes
Leo Tolstoy
Laurence Sterne
Goethe
Henry Fielding
Philosophy
Theology
Reading List
Philosophy/Theology Reading List
Plato
Aristotle
St. Augustine
John Locke
Lucretius
Marcus Aurelius
Blaise Pascal
Immanuel Kant
St. Thomas Aquinas
Francis Bacon
René Descartes
David Hume
Plotinus
Spinoza
George Berkeley
Hegel
Epictetus
History
Economics
Political Philosophy
Reading List
History/ Economics/Political Philosophy Reading List
Plutarch
Machiavelli
Montaigne
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Edward Gibbon
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States
The Federalist Papers
Adam Smith
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Herodotus
Thomas Hobbes
John Stuart Mill
Thucydides
Tacitus
Immanuel Kant
James Boswell
Montesquieu
Mathematics
Natural Science
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Mathematics/Natural Science Reading List
Nicomachus
Blaise Pascal
Euclid
Lavoisier
Freud
Galileo
Isaac Newton
William James
Hippocrates
Galen
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Kepler
William Harvey
Charles Darwin
Archimedes
Huygens
Apollonius
William Gilbert
Joseph Fourier
Michael Faraday
Literature
Hold to View Reading List
Literature Reading List
Charles Darwin
Archimedes
Huygens
Apollonius
William Gilbert
Joseph Fourier
Michael Faraday
Jonathan Swift
Chaucer
Dostoevsky
Euripides
Herman Melville
Virgil
Dante
Cervantes
Leo Tolstoy
Laurence Sterne
Goethe
Henry Fielding
Philosophy
Theology
Hold to View Reading List
Philosophy/Theology Reading List
Plato
Aristotle
St. Augustine
John Locke
Lucretius
Marcus Aurelius
Blaise Pascal
Immanuel Kant
Plotinus
St. Thomas Aquinas
Francis Bacon
René Descartes
David Hume
Spinoza
George Berkeley
Hegel
Epictetus
History
Economics
Political Philosophy
Hold to View Reading List
History/ Economics/Political Philosophy Reading List