Master of Humanities with Classical Education Concentration

Requirements

1. Required Coursework: Fifteen credit hours of graduate-level courses are required. The following courses comprise the “core” of the Master of Humanities with Classical Education Concentration. Each course is three credit hours.
   • Trivium
   • Quadrivium
   • Philosophy of Education
   • Classical Pedagogy, Ancient and Modern
   • One of the Great Works courses (Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance/Baroque, or Modern)
2. Elective Coursework: 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.
   • Additional Great Works Courses (Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance/Baroque, Modern)
   • Courses crafted specifically for our program in classical education, such as Master Teachers in the Western Tradition, History of Liberal Arts Education, Plato and Socratic Conversation, Augustine the Teacher, Aquinas on the Virtues, Teaching Great American Speeches, Teaching Classical Children’s Literature, etc.
   • With the graduate director’s approval, students may complete pertinent graduate-level courses from a variety of disciplines, 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.
3. Comprehensive Exam: Every student must successfully pass a comprehensive, written examination on a series of questions about the liberal arts and liberal education drawn from a reading list of great works in the Western tradition.