Degree Requirements:
Master of Arts in Humanities: 42 credit hours. Includes coursework, thesis, comprehensive exam and apprenticeship (practicum) at a local classical school. Master of Humanities: 36 credit hours. Includes coursework, comprehensive exam and apprenticeship at a local classical school. Certificate of Classical Learning: 18 credit
hours. Includes coursework and apprenticeship at a local classical school.
Now we are standing at a time of great change. Education is the only heritage that we can give a generation that will have to make the transition and thus for a time bear the world on its shoulders, like Herakles relieving Atlas. Now responding to that change, we reply with some seriousness that the burden of this education falls on teacher who must prepare these young heroes destined to carry on our tradition of freedom and dignity.
Classical Education
– Louise Cowan, Former Braniff Graduate School Dean & Co-founder of the Institute for Philosophic Studies
Graduate Program
Join the Educators Cohort Recognizing that teachers are a vital force in maintaining the strength of our nation, the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts welcomes full-time teachers and administrators to enroll in our Educators Cohort. As members of this cohort, educators will receive a special tuition rate, making participation in University of Dallas degree programs more affordable.
online or onsite.
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Foster inquiry. Cultivate virtue. Instill wisdom.
For hundreds of years,
classical education forged virtuous, wise and strong leaders who sought after truth, goodness and beauty. Today, a new renaissance in classical learning is taking root. Gain the wisdom to pass on its insights, whether you are a teacher, seek to become a headmaster or desire to pursue advanced graduate studies while expanding your teaching skills.
Foster Inquiry. Immerse yourself in the classical education ethos afforded by the core curriculum tradition at the University of Dallas, and become conversant with the great works in the canon of the Western tradition. Courses cover such topics as the history of liberal education, principles of childhood classical education, the Trivium and the philosophy of education, among others. Students can also select courses from a variety of programs, including but not limited to: American studies, art, classics, drama, economics, education, English, history, humanities, politics, psychology and theology.
For those who aspire to prepare the next generation of young heroes, destined to carry on a tradition of freedom and dignity, the Classical Education Graduate Program offers three distinct pathways: • • •
Master of Arts in Humanities with Classical Education Concentration Master of Humanities with Classical Education Concentration Certificate of Classical Learning
Cultivate Virtue. Classical Education students are afforded the unique opportunity to cultivate virtue in the hearts and minds of elementary and secondary students by apprenticing at a local classical school. The apprenticeship enables students to put their knowledge into action, honing their pedagogical skills as they teach alongside a mentor committed to the revitalization of education.
Classical education graduate students conveniently integrate onsite summer courses with online courses during the school year while earning up to 12 credit hours for their teaching apprenticeship. All three degree options offer a level of flexibility in curriculum design so that you can customize a program of study appropriate to your personal, professional and intellectual goals.
Instill Wisdom. Learn how to instill wisdom in the hearts and minds of your students from the most accomplished and experienced classical educators in the nation. For over sixty years, the University of Dallas faculty have inspired generations of teachers through their passion and profound knowledge of the classical tradition.