Academics
The college offers curricula based on close reading of the "Great Books" of Western civilization. The Great Books Program follows a Socratic pedagogy of questioning and discussion. Courses of study are based upon the classical trivium and quadrivium. Students may also receive an Apostolic Catechetical Diploma. The College of Saint Mary Magdalen offers concentrations in Theology, Philosophy, Literature, and Political Philosophy. Students spend the spring semester of their sophomore year in Rome.
With the exception of two concentration courses per semester in the junior and senior years, all students follow the same Great Books curriculum. The course of studies includes a four-year philosophy and humanities sequence of seminars, studies in Rome, three years of theology leading to an Apostolic Catechetical Diploma, four years of music and art, two years of Greek or Latin, three years of science, and courses in logic, geometry, grammar, rhetoric, and non-Western cultures. Students complete a junior project based in their concentration and as seniors complete comprehensive exams and write a senior thesis.
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