Degree Highlights
San Elijo College offers a four-year unified course of study with one major leading
to a Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Arts, focusing on the great works of Western civilization.
There are three main components to the degree:
Liberal
arts: English Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Geometry, Arithmetic, Music, Astronomy
Foreign Languages: Classical Latin and Modern Spanish
Great
Books Seminars: Readings in the great works of Western culture
San
Elijo College Curriculum
| Area (units) | Year 1 Fall | Year 1 Spring | Year 2 Fall | Year 2Spring | Year 3
Fall | Year 3 Spring | Year 4 Fall | Year 4 Spring | Total Units |
| Liberal Art (3) | Grammar (English) | Logic | Rhetoric | Mathematics | Geometry | Music | Astronomy | Senior Thesis | 24 |
| Language
(3) | Latin 1 | Latin 2 | Latin
3 | Latin 4 | Spanish 1 | Spanish 2 | Spanish 3 | Spanish 4 | 24 |
| Seminar (9) | Ancient
Great Books | Grecian Great Books | Roman Great Books | Medieval Great Books | Medieval Great books | Modern Great
Books | Modern Great Books | 20th Century & Non-Western Great Books | 72 |
| Total Units | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 120 |
What can I do with a San Elijo College Degree?
Whatever you desire! That’s the point of a liberal
arts degree . . . it’s liberating. It frees you to be well and do well.
A San Elijo College degree will train you to reason, read, write
and speak using the proven tools from the greatest minds in the history of the world.
“Most of today’s higher-paying jobs go
to those who exhibit a combination of adaptable intelligence, numeracy, communications skills and a strong work ethic,
as opposed to evidence of specific knowledge.”
-- Forbes, March 2006
