The Liberal Arts College (LAC) is a unique great works, multidisciplinary Core Curriculum designed to provide the foundations of an education for life.
The LAC presents an intensive introduction to the humanities—the best that has been thought and said in history, philosophy, literature, religion and the arts. Through the study of key primary source writings and texts in the Western tradition, from antiquity to the present, students develop critical and analytical skills, engaging personally with a profound and dynamic Western tradition.
The LAC is devoted to the life of the mind. Students and faculty in the College’s demanding and unique program form a community of learners, seeking a better understanding of the complex relationships between ideas, reality and the pursuit of truth. Reading great books, we read ourselves, in an education both rigorously academic and deeply personal.
The Great Books faculty is committed to excellent teaching through small seminar discussions and lectures. Our three-year Core Curriculum introduces students to major books and ideas in the humanities and social sciences, the visual arts and music, and science. The study of these texts constitutes both an excellent undergraduate education and an outstanding foundation for a wide variety of academic and professional pursuits.
