Augustine College

The Augustine College Curriculum offers a Classical, eight-month fall-through-spring program of enough depth and breadth to rival many first-year university programs. Ancient and medieval art, literature, and philosophy - the Great Tradition - provide the intellectual fuel for a curriculum which has as its primary goal the recapturing of meaning, virtue, and the very idea of objective truth. This Great Books curriculum prepares students for academic and spiritual success in subsequent post-secondary studies in many fields, including the liberal arts, the humanities, theology, law, business, medicine, and biology. College graduates can also look forward to decades of reading, viewing, thinking, and discussing these works and the ideas they contain. The Augustine College curriculum is designed for students in their gap year between high school and university but is also suitable for mature students at any stage of their academic and professional career or the rest of their life. Augustine College's goal is not merely education, but wisdom and virtue. Augustine College wants Christian students to find a way to live a life of love, of practical faithfulness to God and neighbour. Honest living, regular prayer and worship, and the pursuit of intellectual, moral, and emotional virtues are the primary practices which shape life in community. A true education in Western history and art will help us live a Christian life. This intellectual training is not for solitary scholars. Learning and living are two sides of the one joyful coin. Students at Augustine College live, study, worship, eat, and pray together in a Christian community that includes alumni and friends and is overseen by a mentor. Students have a chance to encounter Christ, the Divine Word, in a way that mere readings and videos cannot. Personal interaction with the world's leading ideas and ideals motivates in-depth study and passionate, lifelong, learning. Students learn together at Augustine College. Meetings in wich the class acts are in that sense, participatory. Augustine College's Community is the direct answer to a de-socialized, digitalized, inhuman world. Even the most intense intellectual study must be held within the parameters of a life of love, hope, and joy. Augustine College students go to art exhibitions and performances, play sports, walk in parks and woods, and keep in touch with their families. Augustine College's community also involves the broader community of the college and the university; alumni are encouraged to remain active and engaged. In this way, students are given a foretaste of Greater Education, the lifelong quest for knowledge, understanding, and wisdom that goes beyond books and classrooms.