Academic Life
Sequence of Readings
Freshmen Year
Freshman Year prepares the students to participate in the Program of Studies in a gradual yet disciplined manner. Although the unmasking of opinions predominates in the freshman tutorials, it is, of course, necessary for students to begin to apprehend first principles and fundamental relationships. Otherwise, opinion battles with opinion in futility, and the cultivation and practice of basic intellectual skills serve no rational purpose.
At the same time, students are prepared to cultivate and practice the skills of listening, reading, thinking, and writing.
One of the goals of Freshman year is for students to experience that learning is natural and directly related to living life well.
Freshman Tutorials and Representative Readings
Nature of Man I
| Aquinas | Treatise on Law |
| Aristotle | Nicomeachean Ethics |
| Augustine | Confessions of St. Augustine |
| Camus | The Stranger |
| de Tocqueville | Democracy in America |
| Dostoevski | Grand Inquisitor |
| Frankl | Man’s Search for Meaning |
| Freud | Future of an Illusion |
| Golding | Lord of the Flies |
| Nietzsche | Beyond Good and Evil |
| Pieper | Leisure the Basis of Culture |
| Plato | Collected Dialogues |
| St. Exupery | Wind, Sand, and Stars |
Geometry and Reasoning
| Euclid | The Elements |
Fundamentals of Music and Singing
| Belmont | Understanding the Mass |
Fundamentals of Latin I
Simpson Latin and English Dictionary |
Fundamentals of English I
| Twain | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Shakespeare | Collected Works |
Catechesis I
| Gelineau | The Psalms: Singing Version |
| Hahn | A Father Who Keep His Promises |
| John Paul II | Manual for Confession Catechism of the Catholic Church Compendium of the Catechism The Ignatius Bible |
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