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Academics

The Curriculum at The College of Saint Mary Magdalen

Semester Sacred Scripture, Theology & Catechesis

VIA Pulchritudinis:
Music & Art
 

 Philosophy & Humanities Seminar Logic Mathematics & Science Grammar, Rhetoric & Thesis Latin & Comparative Cultures
Freshman Year
Fall Sacred Scripture & the Economy of Salvation I Quadrivium: Music & Singing I Ancient Greece & Philosophical Inquiry I Trivium: Logic Writing Across Curriculum Latin Fundamentals I
Spring Sacred Scripture & The Economy of Salvation II Quadrivium: Music & Singing II Ancient Greece & Philosophical Inquiry II Quadrivium: Geometry Writing Across Curriculum Latin Fundamentals II
Sophomore Year 
Fall Christian Anthropology & The Moral Life Masterpieces of the Musical Canon I Greece, Rome, and the Birth of Christianity Quadrivium: Astronomy Ptolemy Trivium: English I Intermediate Latin I
Spring The Profession of the Faith: The Creed Masterpieces of the Musical Canon II The Medieval Flowering of Christendom Quadrivium: Astronomy: Copernicus, Kepler, & Galileo Trivium: English II Intermediate Latin II
Rome & Norcia (Summer)
Junior Year
Fall Divine Revelation & Christology Principles of Seeing & Drawing I Renaissance, Reformation, & Catholic Renewal Quadrivium: Newtonian Physics Thesis Proposals and Development Independent Language Study
Spring Ecclesiology & Liturgical Theology Principles of Seeing & Drawing II The Dialectics of the Enlightenment Applied Physics; Relativity & Quantum Mechanics Thesis Proposals and Development Independent Language Study
Senior Year
Fall Domestica Ecclesia: Theology of Marriage and Family

Masterpieces of the Visual Arts I

 Late Modernity & Postmodernity I Biology I: The Origins of Life (I) Thesis Roundtable Comparative Non-Western Cultures I
Spring Catholic Social Teaching & Canon Law Masterpieces of the Visual Arts II Late Modernity & Postmodernity  II Biology II: Ethology, Perception, & Neurology Thesis Presentations Comparative Non-Western Cultures II

The integrated liberal-arts curriculum at the College of Saint Mary Magdalen may be properly apprehended from four interrelated perspectives:

  1. As a study of the great books and artistic works that have shaped the mind of the West, understood within the unfolding of salvation history,
  2. As a contemporary recovery of the seven liberal arts (i.e., the traditional trivium and quadrivium), ordered as a means to the highest disciplines: philosophy and theology
  3. As an exploration and extension of the Catholic humanistic tradition, and
  4. As a program of study infused by the example of St. Thomas Aquinas, whose example we follow in taking up and considering a variety of views--in dialogue--as we pursue the True, the Good, and the Beautiful.