Anonymous
01/04/2017 12:35
Subject: LACs with Humanities core curriculums
PaleoConPrep wrote:Anonymous wrote:PaleoConPrep wrote: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)
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.
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.
Anonymous
01/04/2017 12:29
Subject: Re:LACs with Humanities core curriculums
Reed has a classic Western Civilization Greece/Rome humanities core, but your views on the world would make it very difficult there socially.
PaleoConPrep
12/31/2016 17:51
Subject: LACs with Humanities core curriculums
Anonymous wrote:PaleoConPrep wrote: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)
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.
Anonymous
12/31/2016 17:20
Subject: LACs with Humanities core curriculums
PaleoConPrep wrote: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)
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.
Anonymous
12/28/2016 18:22
Subject: Re:LACs with Humanities core curriculums
Check out Wake Forest. They have a very good core curriculum as part of its humanities program.
Anonymous
12/28/2016 18:14
Subject: LACs with Humanities core curriculums
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How is Chicago not a liberal arts college?
--Chicago grad
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).
Thanks for the straightforward, non-condescending explanation - that can be hard to come by here so it's all the more appreciated!
Anonymous
12/27/2016 16:08
Subject: LACs with Humanities core curriculums
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.
Anonymous
12/27/2016 16:03
Subject: LACs with Humanities core curriculums
Anonymous wrote:How is Chicago not a liberal arts college?
--Chicago grad
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).
Anonymous
12/27/2016 15:42
Subject: LACs with Humanities core curriculums
Shimer College in Chicago does.
Anonymous
12/27/2016 15:40
Subject: LACs with Humanities core curriculums
How is Chicago not a liberal arts college?
--Chicago grad
--Chicago grad
Anonymous
12/27/2016 15:29
Subject: LACs with Humanities core curriculums
Colgate did when I went there 10 years ago
PaleoConPrep
12/27/2016 15:27
Subject: LACs with Humanities core curriculums
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)
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)