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The Core Curriculum: The Humanities
Sattler College’s core curriculum in the humanities consists of four components:
- An intensive introduction to expository writing, rhetoric, and the tradition of liberal arts education
- A three-semester sequence of lectures and discussion-based seminars devoted to the key philosophical, literary, and artistic works of the western intellectual tradition, from Antiquity to the modern era
- A three-semester sequence of seminars on the Old and New Testaments, the foundational texts of Christian theology, and apologetics
- A survey of Global Christianity, equipping students with
understanding of the history and life of the Church in non-western societies
Students will grapple with the core texts that generation upon generation has returned to read – in times of war and peace, in times of plague and plenty – in order to gain special insights into our human struggles and to reclaim our highest ideals: