13 courses with the subject MCE, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
MCE 601Grammar and Logic3
This course investigates, both substantively and pedagogically, the foundational components of the classical trivium: grammar and logic. Both of these disciplines stand as the foundation of all other truth-seeking we do as human persons, since without them human beings can neither form propositions to express the truths we think we know nor reason from those things we already know to those we do not yet know.
Students in this course will engage in an exploration of the third part of the classical trivium, rhetoric. Aristotle’s Rhetoric, Cicero, De Oratore, St. Augustine’s De Doctrina Christiana (Book IV). This course provides students with an understanding of the classical approach to "critical thinking" and writing.
This course explores how students come to understand the world through numbers. In particular, it seeks to help students understand the development of classical and modern geometry and algebra through and exposure through the foundational texts in these areas. This course provides students with an understanding of a classical approach to mathematics.
This course, which takes its title from a famous line in Plato’s Republic, will expose students to two major ways that humans come to know the world, the poetic and the philosophic. Examined texts are likely to include the following texts: Plato’s Ion, Plato, Republic, Aristotle’s Poetics, James Taylor Poetic Knowledge. Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, St. John Henry Newman’s "The Mission of St. Benedict."
This course will expose students to both faith and reason’s relationship to the pursuit of truth. It will also examine the limits of both and the ways in which they interact with one another. Texts might include: Sophocles’ Antigone, Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, Plato Euthyphro, John Paul II’s Fides et Ratio, St. Thomas Aquinas’ Question I of Summa Theologiae, St. Augustine’s De Doctrina Christiana (Books I-III), St. Basil’s "Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature", Pope Benedict XVI, "Regensburg Address",Josef Pieper’s "The Philosophic Act'' from Leisure: The Basis of Culture.
This course exposes students to a series of writings on the philosophy of education by some of the greatest minds in the Western Tradition. Texts will likely include Plato’s Republic (selections), Aristotle’s Politics (Book VIII), Augustine On the Teacher, Aquinas On the Teacher, Locke’s Some Thoughts Concerning Education, Rousseau’s Emile (selections), John Dewey (select writings), St. John Henry Newman’s The Idea of the University.
This course will expose students to texts suitable for teaching the American political tradition to K-12 students through the great books. The course will focus on Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and texts by the American Founders. This course provides students with a deep understanding of our American and democratic souls and a classical approach to civics education.
This course will examine the great ancient city of Rome and Romans through the eyes of three great authors: Plutarch, St. Augustine, and William Shakespeare.
MCE 609Adv Spc Tpc in Classical Pedagogy and Thought I3
This course is fulfilled through the student’s engagement in a rigorous teaching apprenticeship program focused on classical pedagogy offered by one of our partner institutions or through classical pedagogy courses offered at Belmont Abbey College.
This course is fulfilled through the student’s engagement in a rigorous teaching apprenticeship program focused on classical pedagogy offered by one of our partner institutions or through classical pedagogy courses offered at Belmont Abbey College.
This course is fulfilled through the student's engagment in a rigorous teaching apprenticeship program focused on classical pedagogy offered by one of our partner institutions or through classical pedagogy courses offered at Belmont Abbey College.
This course is fulfilled through the student’s engagement in a rigorous teaching apprenticeship program focused on classical pedagogy offered by one of our partner institutions or through classical pedagogy courses offered at Belmont Abbey College.
This course examines how medieval thinkers address the nature of education, especially with attention to the young. Authors vary per section but may include Augustine, Boethius, Cassiodorus, Benedict, Gregory the Great, John of Salisbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Thomas Aquinas, among others.
