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Nine credit hours of graduate-level courses are required. The following courses comprise the 鈥渃ore鈥� of the Master of Arts in Humanities with Classical Education Concentration. Each course is three credit hours. 

• Trivium
• Quadrivium
• Philosophy of Education

Nine credit hours of graduate-level elective courses from across the disciplines may be chosen. These include, but are not limited to, the following courses.  Most courses are three credit hours, but sometimes one- and two-credit courses are offered.  In addition, the program regularly offers one-credit pass/fail seminars on targeted practical questions in education. Students may take this seminar up to three times.

• Courses crafted specifically for our program in classical education, such as Master Teachers in the Western Tradition, History of Liberal Arts Education, Ancient Epics, Plato and Socratic Conversation, Augustine the Teacher, Aquinas on the Virtues, Tolkien as Teacher, The Inklings, Teaching Great American Speeches, Writing as Imitation, Teaching Classical Children鈥檚 Literature, Argumentation, Writing as Imitation, Roman Empire and Western Culture, etc. 
• With the graduate director鈥檚 approval, students may complete pertinent graduate-level courses from a variety of fields, including art, classics, drama, economics, education, English and other European literary traditions (French, German, Italian, or Spanish), history, politics, psychology, philosophy, and theology.
• Practicum (apprenticeship) courses: Among their elective credit hours, students may complete one such one-to-three-credit practicum course per semester at a local classical school for a combined total of at most nine credit hours.