Grammar
logic
rhetoric
Arithmetic
geometry
astronomy
music
(Calculus)
Liberal Arts Sequence
Many colleges and universities claim to be interested in the liberal arts, but we are not aware of any other college that offers a Liberal Arts Sequence with entire courses dedicated to each of the seven classical and medieval liberal arts (to which we also add a course on Calculus, for reasons we explain on our longer page where you can “Read more” about the liberal arts). We think Biology and Chemistry could be considered liberal arts as well, but they have their own special places in the Science and Manual Arts Sequence of our curriculum. Of course, our Liberal Arts Sequence also prepares students well for our sequence of Humanities Seminars.
Trivium
Grammar
Fall of Freshman Year
Taken concurrently with Arithmetic. Readings include book 1 of St. Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies.
Logic
Spring of Freshman Year
Taken concurrently with Geometry.
Readings include book 3 of St. Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies.
Rhetoric
Fall of Sophomore Year
Taken concurrently with Physics.
Readings include book 2 of St. Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies and Aristotle’s Rhetoric.
Quadrivium
Arithmetic
(and Algebra)
Fall of Freshman Year
Taken concurrently with Grammar.
Readings include book 4 of St. Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies.
Geometry
(and Trigonometry)
Spring of Freshman Year
Taken concurrently with Logic.
Readings include book 5 of St. Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies and Euclid’s Elements.
Astronomy (Physics)
Fall of Sophomore Year
Taken concurrently with Rhetoric.
Readings include book 7 of St. Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies and Aristotle’s Physics.
Music (Theory)
Spring of Sophomore Year
Taken concurrently with Calculus.
Readings include book 6 of St. Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies and Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy.
Extending the Liberal Arts
Calculus
Spring of Sophomore Year
Taken concurrently with Music (Theory). Readings include Newton’s Principia.