Curriculum

Our overall curriculum has seven parts, most of which involve a prescribed sequence of courses that we require all of our students to take, but students must also choose a single major, and our athletic courses and some of our courses in fine arts (namely those in choir and orchestra) are not strictly speaking sequential.

These sequences complement each other not only across all four years of the curriculum but also in individual semesters. For instance, students begin to learn Greek in the Language Sequence while reading Homer in the Humanities Sequence, and they study Logic in the trivium portion of the Liberal Arts Sequence while studying Geometry in the quadrivium portion of the same sequence.

During fall and spring semesters, students take a total of seven courses for a total of 18 credits. In a typical semester, students take one course from each of our sequences–except that students complete the Liberal Arts Sequence before they begin formally pursuing their major.

During summer semesters, students take one course in our Science and Manual Arts Sequence and another in our Visual Arts Sequence–and do a great deal of work on our collegiate farm.

The farm is not merely a great backdrop for our academic curriculum but an essential component of it. The Science and Manual Arts Sequence especially revolves around the work of the farm, but the Visual Arts Sequence also depends upon students encountering the beauty of the farm, and the Humanities Sequence is enlivened by those encounters with beauty as well.

St. Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies permeates our curriculum because it provides us with an early and excellent example of the unity of knowledge and the interdepence of the arts and sciences.

See our complete curriculum in a single PDF.