Fifteen credit hours of graduate-level courses are required. The following courses comprise the “core” of the Master of Arts in Humanities with Classical Education Concentration. Each course is three credit hours. 

• Trivium
• Quadrivium
• Philosophy of Education
• Classical Pedagogy, Ancient and Modern
• One course from the “Great Works” series (Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance/Baroque, Modern)

Fifteen credit hours of graduate-level elective courses from across the disciplines may be chosen. These include, but are not limited to, the following courses. Each course is three credit hours. 

• Courses crafted specifically for our program in classical education, such as Master Teachers in the Western Tradition, History of Liberal Arts Education, Ancient Epics, Plato and Socratic Conversation, Augustine the Teacher, Aquinas on the Virtues, Dante and Education, Existential Fiction, The Inklings, Teaching Great American Speeches, Writing as Imitation, Teaching Classical Children’s Literature, Classical Pedagogy in the Science Classroom, etc.
• With the graduate director’s approval, students may complete pertinent graduate-level courses from a variety of fields, including art, classics, drama, economics, education, English and other European literary traditions (French, German, Italian, or Spanish), history, politics, psychology, philosophy, and theology.
• Practicum (apprenticeship) courses: Among their elective credit hours, students may choose to complete up to three practicum courses; students may complete one such three-credit practicum course per semester at a local classical school for a combined total of at most nine credit hours.

While completing the thesis, students register for a six-credit thesis course. Well before registering for the course (at least one semester, but preferably two or more), the student must consult with an academic advisor to determine a suitable thesis topic and appropriate criteria, and then begin the research process in earnest. While the six-credit thesis course is completed in one semester, it is expected that the student will do a significant amount of preparatory work on the thesis long before taking this course. For more information, contact your academic advisor.

Before beginning the M.A. thesis, the candidate must demonstrate reading competency in either ancient Greek or Latin or modern Italian, French, or German. For any of these languages, the requirement may be met by completing an upper level language course (approved by the graduate director) with a grade of B or above, or by passing an examination in translation. For modern languages, students may fulfill this requirement by passing the two-course, graduate-level “Reading Knowledge” sequence for the language (e.g., Italian for Reading Knowledge I, Italian for Reading Knowledge II).

Every student must successfully pass a comprehensive exam.

Fifteen credit hours of graduate-level courses are required. The following courses comprise the “core” of the Master of Arts in Humanities with Classical Education Concentration. Each course is three credit hours. 

• Trivium
• Quadrivium
• Philosophy of Education
• Classical Pedagogy, Ancient and Modern
• One course from the “Great Works” series (Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance/Baroque, Modern) 

Twenty-one credit hours of graduate-level elective courses from across the disciplines may be chosen. These include, but are not limited to, the following courses. Each course is three credit hours. 

• Courses crafted specifically for our program in classical education, such as Master Teachers in the Western Tradition, History of Liberal Arts Education, Ancient Epics, Plato and Socratic Conversation, Augustine the Teacher, Aquinas on the Virtues, Dante and Education, Existential Fiction, The Inklings, Teaching Great American Speeches, Writing as Imitation, Teaching Classical Children’s Literature, Classical Pedagogy in the Science Classroom, etc.
• With the graduate director’s approval, students may complete pertinent graduate-level courses from a variety of fields, including art, classics, drama, economics, education, English and other European literary traditions (French, German, Italian, or Spanish), history, politics, psychology, philosophy, and theology.
• Practicum (apprenticeship) courses: Among their elective credit hours, students may choose to complete up to three practicum courses; students may complete one such three-credit practicum course per semester at a local classical school for a combined total of at most nine credit hours.

Every student must successfully pass a comprehensive exam.

Nine credit hours of graduate-level courses are required. The following courses comprise the “core” of the Master of Arts in Humanities with Classical Education Concentration. Each course is three credit hours. 

• Trivium
• Quadrivium
• Philosophy of Education

Nine credit hours of graduate-level elective courses from across the disciplines may be chosen. These include, but are not limited to, the following courses. Each course is three credit hours. 

• Courses crafted specifically for our program in classical education, such as Master Teachers in the Western Tradition, History of Liberal Arts Education, Ancient Epics, Plato and Socratic Conversation, Augustine the Teacher, Aquinas on the Virtues, Dante and Education, Existential Fiction, The Inklings, Teaching Great American Speeches, Writing as Imitation, Teaching Classical Children’s Literature, Classical Pedagogy in the Science Classroom, etc.
• With the graduate director’s approval, students may complete pertinent graduate-level courses from a variety of fields, including art, classics, drama, economics, education, English and other European literary traditions (French, German, Italian, or Spanish), history, politics, psychology, philosophy, and theology.
• Practicum (apprenticeship) courses: Among their elective credit hours, students may choose to complete up to two practicum courses; students may complete one such three-credit practicum course per semester at a local classical school for a combined total of at most six credit hours.