Through these courses, students will explore the literature, theory, and pedagogies unique to classical education. They will be prepared to lead in a classical school, lead others into this educational tradition, and join a national community of classical educators. 

This program of study enables students to work through two classes each of the four primary genres of great literature: Epics, Novels, Drama, Poetry. By the completion of these courses, students will be practiced in Socratic pedagogy, able to ask great questions from the core texts that shape western literature.

This program of study will enable students to learn how to teach the youngest students in the classical tradition. Built around Christopher Perrin and Carrie Eben’s The Good Teacher: Ten Key Pedagogical Practices that will Transform Your Teaching, this program will incorporate the best insights of childhood psychology and elementary practice to help teachers see how the classical tradition operates at the elementary levels. This program is ideal for elementary teachers and future homeschool parents. 

This program is built around Dr. James Hankins’s and Dr. Allen Guelzo’s The Golden Thread and Dr. Wilfrid McClay’s Land of Hope survey textbooks. Each course requires students to read the most significant primary sources in a given era while reading the relevant secondary materials from Hankins, Guelzo, or McClay. By the completion of this Certificate, students will be ready to trace the major themes and ideas of Western history across vast time periods. 

The Certificate in Lewis Studies will be comprised of 8 classes, each of which reads a selection of works written by C.S. Lewis; one class will be made up of seminal scholarly works on Lewis. Graduates of this program will have systematically progressed through large swaths of Lewis’s corpus with the goal of growing as teachers, writers, scholars, and Christians through the careful study of the “British Boethius.”