Course Structure

Students study classical liberal arts subjects, including the trivium of grammar, logic and rhetoric and the quadrivium, which includes geometry, music and astronomy/science.  These subjects train students to write, think and speak well, and to appreciate various orders of God’s creation. 

Students also study history, literature and philosophy.  History and literature are covered in units called “Narrating Western Civilisation.”  These are grouped into three historical periods—Ancient Greece and Rome, Middle Ages and Renaissance, Enlightenment and Modernity—and coordinated with the three basic philosophy units.  The intentional integration of these units helps students to make associations across fields of knowledge—i.e. relating what they learn in history to what they read in literature and discuss in philosophy—training them to think in innovative ways.  Two additional philosophy units cover ethics and cultural engagement. 

Finally, the theology sequence begins with the introductory unit on faith, learning and calling, includes three units in Christian worldview, and culminates in two units on the Trinity, the ultimate mystery of God’s nature.