Master of Arts in Humanities with Classical Education Concentration, Non-Thesis Track

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.

 

Courses in Classical Education

 

Courses

HUM 6191Classical Education Seminar

HUM 6325Great Works of the Ancient World

3

HUM 6326Great Works of the Middle Ages

3

HUM 6331Great Works of the Renaissance and Baroque

3

HUM 6333Great Works of the Modern World

3

HUM 6340Trivium

3

HUM 6344Quadrivium

3

HUM 6348Classical Pedagogy, Ancient and Modern

3

HUM 6351Directed Readings

3

HUM 6353Teaching Great American Speeches

3

HUM 6355History of Liberal Arts Education

3

HUM 6358Master Teachers in the Western Tradition

3

HUM 6359Teaching Classical Children's Literature

3

HUM 6360Augustine the Teacher

3

HUM 6362Plato & Socratic Conversation

3

HUM 6364Aquinas on the Virtues

3

HUM 6V57Teaching Practicum

HUM 6V77Special Studies

3

HUM 6V78Special Studies

1-6

HUM 6V79Special Studies

1-6

HUM 6V99Graduate Reading - Full-Time Enrollment

1-9

HUM 7678Thesis Research

6

PHI 5326Philosophy of Education

3