Master of Arts in Classical and Liberal Education (MACLE)
Faculty
Director: Dr. Christine Boor
Associate Professors: Dr. Christine Boor, Dr. Joseph Wysocki, Dr. Thomas Varacalli, Dr. Christopher Tomaszewski, Dr. Ashley White, and Dr. David Williams
Program Mission
The Master of Arts in Classical and Liberal Education program’s mission is to impact our culture for good by preparing our students to pass on to the next generation a profound and life-giving love of what is true, good, and beautiful through both first-hand study of the great works of classical and liberal education and classical pedagogy.
Program Goals
The Master of Arts in Classical and Liberal Education program’s goal is to offer our students not just an experience of how to teach but a vision of what is worth teaching through our study of the greatest works of the Western tradition.
Curriculum Requirements
The Master of Arts in Classical and Liberal Education (MACLE) curriculum consists of 30 credit hours of courses.
Program Requirements
Choose any seven of the following (21 credit hrs):
| MCE601 | Grammar and Logic | 3 |
| MCE602 | Classical & Christian Rhetoric | 3 |
| MCE603 | Quadrivium | 3 |
| MCE604 | The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy | 3 |
| MCE605 | Faith and Reason | 3 |
| MCE606 | Great Books on Education | 3 |
| MCE607 | Democracy in America | 3 |
| MCE608 | Rome and Romans | 3 |
| MCE613 | On Liberal Education & the Medieval Mind | 3 |
Required Pedagogy Sequence
Choose any three of the following (9 credit hrs):
| MCE609 | Adv Spc Tpc in Classical Pedagogy and Thought I | 3 |
| MCE610 | Adv Spc Tpc in Classical Pedagogy II | 3 |
| MCE611 | Adv Spc Tpc Classical Pedagogy III | 3 |
| MCE612 | Classical Pedagogy IV | 3 |