I'm looking for LACs that offer a traditional Humanities core curriculum(focused on Western Civilization) Sewanee offers something like this, but I'm looking for other suggestions.
http://www.sewanee.edu/academics/humanities/courses/ I really like this type of program that Sewanee offers. For my core courses, I want to take specialized courses that give me a thorough introduction to the great works and ideas in the Western tradition( Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern) Uchicago and Columbia also offer a traditional core curriculum, but those aren't LACs. Are there any LACs (besides Sewanee and St. John's) that offer the type of core curriculum I'm looking for? (No Catholic schools please) |
Colgate did when I went there 10 years ago |
How is Chicago not a liberal arts college?
--Chicago grad |
Shimer College in Chicago does. |
Chicago is more like an major private research university. Of course it has a liberal arts college within the University, but I understood the prior poster to be distinguishing between small LACs and research universities (a common distinction on DCUM and elsewhere). |
There probably aren't many because so many LACs are now dominated by faculty and/or student bodies that consider the traditional Western Cannon part of the oppressive patriarchy promoted by white, straight, cis-gendered males who obviously are incapable of speaking to universal themes of the human existence because they were blinded by their bias and privilege. |
Thanks for the straightforward, non-condescending explanation - that can be hard to come by here so it's all the more appreciated! |
Check out Wake Forest. They have a very good core curriculum as part of its humanities program. |
PaleoConPrep: you are going to tell us what school you eventually choose, right? After we spend so much thought trying to help you find the perfect match ![]() What about Mercer? https://cla.mercer.edu/general-education/ You also might want to look at: https://www.goacta.org/publications/what_will_they_learn_2016_17 I found it intriguing, but it cost $15 and I wasn't ready to pay that. |
Yes, I'll tell y'all where I end up. As I've said in a previous post, I've applied to Sewanee ED 2, so if everything works out I should end up there. |
Reed has a classic Western Civilization Greece/Rome humanities core, but your views on the world would make it very difficult there socially. |
Do you think you will end up applying to Grove City or Hampden-Sydney if ED doesn't work out? St. John's you mentioned already. |