About Our Program

Core Courses are based on the Great Ideas Program developed by Mortimer Adler.

* denotes required courses

All core courses are available to enrolled master’s students and offer 3 credit hours. They meet for 2 hours once per week for 16 weeks via Microsoft Teams.

• • * 601 – Introduction to the Liberal Arts

  • 602 – The Development of Political Theory

  • 603 – Natural Philosophy and Modern Science

  • 604 – History of Religion and Theology

  • 605 – Philosophy of Law and Jurisprudence

  • 606a – The Ancient Epic

  • 606b – The Christian Epic

  • 606c – Greek Drama

  • 607a – The English Novel

  • 607b – Goethe and the Literature of Russia

  • 607c – The Plays of Shakespeare

  • 608 – The Study of Ethics and Moral Values

  • 609 – Biology, Psychology, and Medicine

  • 610 – Introduction to Philosophy

  • 611 – Western Art and Music

Electives/seminars supplement the core courses by focusing on a single work, author, or narrow theme. Most of them are offered on a one-time basis, though some are recurring based on high interest. These are offered each summer:

• Introduction to Classical Education
• The Practice of Classical Pedagogy
• Introduction to the Great Books
• The Virtue and Method of Learning

All electives/seminars are open to enrolled master’s students for 1 credit hour and to non-enrolled students for auditing. They meet for 2 hours once per week for 5 weeks via Microsoft Teams.