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20 Credits
Minors must be combined with a Bachelors of Arts program
Estimated costs: $2,760 ($138 per credit hour)
The great educator — parent, teacher or leader — is above all one who is well educated. Such educator-statesmen instill by example a love of virtue, learning, scholarship and excellence. This is the legacy of Socrates, Confucius, Buddha, Maimonides, Aquinas, Bacon, John Adams, Charlotte Mason and C.S. Lewis.
| Students are not required to minor. Those who do choose to minor must complete the minor requirements in addition to the Statesmanship major. Once completed, minors carry 20 academic credits. Students may complete more than one minor. The four possible minors are Education, Entrepreneurial Business, Literature and Political Science. |
LIST B: CLASSICS
- Adams, The Education of Henry Adams*
- Alcott, Little Women
- Austen, Emma*
- Austen, Persuasion
- Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
- Card, Ender's Game
- Cervantes, Don Quixote
- Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
- Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
- Cooper, The Deerslayer
- Clark, The Ox-Box Incident
- Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
- Dante, The Divine Comedy
- Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby*
- Dickens, David Copperfield
- Dickens, Oliver Twist
- Dostoevski, Crime and Punishment
- Dostoevski, The Brothers Karamazov*
- Douglas, The Robe
- Eliot, Middlemarch
- Flaubert, Madame Bovary
- Franklin, Autobiography
- Hamilton, Mythology
- James, Pragmatism
- Juvenal, Satires
- Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- Melville, Moby Dick
- Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
- Potok, My Name is Asher Lev
- Rousseau, Emile
- Shakespeare, (5 plays required)*
- Shelley, Frankenstein
- Solzhenitsyn, (any books)
- Sophocles, (any plays)
- Swift, Gulliver's Travels
- Tolstoy, (any novels)
- Twain, Huckleberry Finn
- Twain, Tom Sawyer
- Twain, Connecticut Yankee
- Vergil, Aeneid
- Voltaire, Candide
- Wallace, Ben Hur
- Other pre-approved works
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MINOR REQUIREMENTS
Requirements for the Education Minor are as follows:
- Read thirty works from the list below.
- Submit a written response to each.
- In addition to the Senior Thesis, submit a Minor Thesis on a topic from the field of Education (must be accepted by the Graduation Committee).
A student's grasp of his or her minor will also be tested in the Oral Defense.
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LIST A: ON EDUCATION
- Barton, What Happened in Education?
- Barzun, Teacher in America
- Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind*
- Dewey, The School and Society
- Emerson, The American Scholar*
- Gardner, Multiple Intelligences*
- Gatto, Dumbing us Down*
- Harward, A Market Approach to Education*
- Holt, How Children Learn
- Hutchins, The Higher Learning in America
- Nibley, The Ancient State
- Ortega y Gasset, Mission of the University
- Perelman, School's Out
- Smith, Killing the Spirit*
- Swanson, The Education of James Madison
- Taylor, The Healing Power of Stories
- Other pre-approved works
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*Required
Entrepreneurial Business Minor | Literature Minor | Political Science Minor
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