Graduate Studies
Theology and education are the high ground in today's culture wars. Whoever holds those two strategic areas controls the shape and direction of culture in both the City of God and the City of Man. Theology and education have always been battlegrounds, but the stakes have never been higher.

To equip the next generation of theologians and theologically informed leaders in other fields, New Saint Andrews offers a Master of Arts degree in Trinitarian Theology and Culture. To advance and sustain the educational reforms of home schooling and classical Christian education gained over the past 25 years, the College has two Classical Christian Studies graduate programs designed for working educators, home schooling parents, and aspiring Christian scholars.

Truth, Goodness and Beauty
As with our undergraduate program, the College structured its graduate studies program firmly on the foundation of the classical liberal arts. This classical Christian paradigm for higher learning emphasizes wisdom and truth more than pragmatism, integration and beauty more than specialization, and character and goodness more than power. As a result, the College’s integrative approach to classical Christian higher education stresses the interrelationships between disciplines and their unity and diversity rooted in Christ and the Holy Trinity. From the graduate program’s introductory Master’s Foundation courses to the last graduate seminar, New Saint Andrew’s graduate students are taught to understand and appreciate how diverse disciplines and subjects are interrelated and integrated in Christ himself and within the Trinitarian worldview.

Classical Christian Studies
The New Saint Andrews Classical Christian Studies program is offered as both a two-year Masters of Studies degree and a one-year graduate certificate. The program’s limited enrollment, low-residency option allows working educators, home schooling parents, and aspiring scholars to broaden their understanding of the classical Christian education paradigm from a distinctively Trinitarian perspective. Its modular design allows working students flexibility in course selection and scheduling.

Trinitarian Theology and Culture
Students pursuing New Saint Andrews’s two-year Masters of Arts degree in Trinitarian Theology and Culture devote themselves to full-time study in Moscow. Unlike most modern seminaries, the degree program does not confine theology to the boundaries of full-time ministerial work. The New Saint Andrews program includes courses on aesthetics, politics, poetry, and philosophy of science. The theological and biblical courses are taught with an eye to their implications for culture.

Trinitarian Theology and Culture, M.A.

A Trinitarian Vision for Incarnational Living
As you'd expect from New Saint Andrews, this is not your typical graduate theology degree. The College's Master of Arts in Trinitarian Theology & Culture is designed to bring Scripture and biblical theology alive from a radically Trinitarian perspective and to show (not just tell) students how the foundational perspective of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit transforms everyday life and culture. This program is designed for those who want the Trinitarian vision to reshape every fiber of their being and to remake every institution and culture into the cruciform image of our sovereign God. This graduate degree program is a regimen of rigorous academic study. But more importantly, it is a regimen of intellectual and spiritual discipline led by faithful scholars and godly men for making the glorious image of our sovereign Lord incarnate in each student's personal life, the community, and the public sphere.

A Two-Year, Non-Thesis Program
The M.A. in Trinitarian Theology & Culture is a limited enrollment, academically rigorous, two-year, non-thesis course of post-graduate studies. Students receive the close, personal attention of the graduate faculty, who serve as their teachers, mentors, role models, and friends from the first day of class, to graduation, and beyond. The program requires 44 credit hours of course work in Biblical Studies, Theology, and Cultural Seminars, plus seven integrative essays, eight clusters of directed readings, proficiency in the biblical languages, and a final oral examination.

Limited Enrollment
Enrollment in the program is limited. Full-time applicants are given priority, but a limited number of exceptionally qualified part-time applicants may be admitted as space allows.

General M.A. Requirements (44 credits)
4 cr (4-1cr courses) Master's Foundation courses
16 cr (8-2cr courses) Pesher Group (biblical & systematic theology)
16 cr (8-2cr courses) Cultural Seminars
4 cr (4-1 cr courses) Directed Readings
4 cr (4-1 cr courses) Research Papers

Pass Final Oral Exam
Attend the Graduate Forum
Participate in co-curricular activities

Faculty Mentors
Each graduate student is assigned a "Faculty Mentor" who will be responsible for the general advising and oversight of the student’s progress and personal development while enrolled in the program. The faculty mentor will oversee and evaluate the student’s directed readings program.

Research Papers
Every two terms, M.A. students are required to submit a 25-35-page research paper. The four papers required for the degree must include one each on issues in biblical studies, systematic theology and culture. The fourth paper may be in any of those three areas. The papers will normally be read by more than one graduate faculty member. Part-time matriculating students must write their required research papers at least once every academic year.

Worship & Service
While the program is not a pastoral training program, it recognizes the inherently pastoral character of theology, incorporating this emphasis with its worship and service requirements. And because theology is not an impersonal academic discipline, the College encourages its students and faculty to nurture the Christian virtues through close interactions and accountability.

Master's Foundational Theology Courses
Task & Context of Christian Scholarship
The Trinity
Ecclesiology & Community
Protology & Eschatology

Theology Courses
Anthropology
Christology
Soteriology
Liturgics

Biblical Studies Courses
Biblical Structure & Hermeneutics
Priest/Pentateuch
King/History-Wisdom
Prophets
Apocrypha/Gospels
Gospels/Acts
Epistles
Revelation

Cultural Seminars
The Body
Philosophy
Poetry
Beauty
Philosophy of Science
Story
Politics
Sacred Architecture

Required Directed Readings
Biographies (Augustine, Luther, Calvin, et al.)
Ancient Philosophy
Literary Theory/ Philosophy of Language
Aesthetics
Cultural Anthropology
Shakespeare
Social-Political Theory
Music

For a complete listing of all required directed readings, see the Graduate Bulletin (pdf; p. 50ff)

Articles related to the NSA M.A. in Trinitarian Theology and Culture by Dr. Peter Leithart, Graduate Studies Dean:
A Degree of Difference
The Danger of Theology

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Classical Christian Studies, M.St.

A Master's Degree Program Designed for Educators
New Saint Andrews College invites applications from qualified prospective students for admission to its innovative 32-credit Master of Studies (M.St.) program in Classical Christian Studies. The program’s course schedule meets the needs of working educators and other interested students who can’t take time off work, but wish to . . .

• Gain a broader understanding of the classical world from a Christian perspective
• Enhance their knowledge of classical and medieval culture, especially in rhetoric, literature, philosophy, and the arts
• Become more effective in the delivery of classical Christian instruction
• Develop stronger skills in the classical languages, especially Latin and Greek
• Deepen their biblical knowledge and refine their ability to apply the Christian worldview to classical pedagogy, and
• Strengthen their understanding of the classical Christian paradigm of education at the primary and secondary levels.

The 32-credit Master of Studies in Classical Christian Studies offers practicing educators, who hold a bachelor’s degree, an opportunity to enhance their knowledge of classical culture, the biblical tradition, and Trinitarian worldview. The program will strengthen students’s academic abilities and biblical insights. The Master of Studies Program allows students to learn from some of the most important leaders of the classical Christian education revival. It will broaden their understanding and appreciation of classical antiquity and the medieval tradition from a distinctive Trinitarian perspective. Courses taken in the Graduate Certificate program can apply to the Master of Studies in Classical Christian Studies program.

Convenient Summer & Winter Course Schedule for Educators
Working educators who can’t get away during the regular academic year will appreciate the program’s convenient intensive week-long summer and January course modules. The Master’s program can be completed in two years or spread out over several summers and winter breaks at the student’s own pace.

General M.St. Requirements (32 credits)

1. Twelve 2-credit (24 cr) Course Modules

a. Eight 2-cr. Course Modules selected from:

The Task and Context of Christian Scholarship
Christian Worldview Seminar
Christian Education Seminar
History of Classical Christian Education
Classical Rhetoric Seminar
Principia Mathematica Seminar
Natural Philosophy Seminar
Hebrew Traditio
Greek Traditio
Roman Traditio
Medieval Traditio
Other approved courses

b. Four 2-cr. Course Modules selected from:

Active Latin Pedagogy
Latin Literature
Active Greek Pedagogy
Greek Literature
Hebrew Morphology
Hebrew Literature
Other Classical Language Electives

2. Three 2-credit (6 cr) Directed Graduate Readings

3. One 2-credit (2 cr) Integrative Essay

Two-Year M.St. Program Plan/Schedule
August I (One week): Residence, 4 cr.
Sept.-Dec.I : Non-Residence: Directed Readings, 2 cr
January I (One week): Residence, 4 cr.
Jan.-May I: Non-Residence: Directed Readings, 2 cr
June I (One week): Residence, 4 cr.
August II (One week): Residence, 4 cr.
Sept.-Dec.II: Non-Residence: Directed Readings, 2 cr
January II (One week): Residence, 4 cr.
Jan.-May II: Non-Residence: Integrative Essay, 2 cr
June II (One week): Residence, 4 cr.(2 courses plus presentation / defense of Integrative Essay)

Courses
The Task and Context of Christian Scholarship
Christian Worldview Seminar
Christian Education Seminar
History of Classical Christian Education
Classical Rhetoric Seminar
Principia Mathematica Seminar
Natural Philosophy Seminar
Hebrew Traditio
Greek Traditio
Roman Traditio
Medieval Traditio

Other approved courses

Intensive Latin
Spoken Latin
Intensive Greek
Spoken Greek
Classical Literature
Medieval Literature
Classical Language Electives

Directed Graduate Readings

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Graduate Certificate in Classical Christian Studies

A Graduate Certificate Program Designed for Educators
New Saint Andrews College invites applications from qualified prospective students for admission to its innovative 16-credit Graduate Certicate (Grad.Cert.) in Classical Christian Studies program. The program’s course schedule meets the needs of working educators and other interested students who can’t take time off work, but wish to . . .

• Gain a broader understanding of the classical world from a Christian perspective
• Enhance their knowledge of classical and medieval culture, especially in rhetoric, literature, philosophy, and the arts
• Become more effective in the delivery of classical Christian instruction
• Develop stronger skills in the classical languages, especially Latin and Greek
• Deepen their biblical knowledge and refine their ability to apply the Christian worldview to classical pedagogy, and
• Strengthen their understanding of the classical Christian paradigm of education at the primary and secondary levels.

The 16-credit certificate program in Classical Christian Studies offers practicing educators, who hold a bachelor’s degree, an opportunity to enhance their knowledge of classical culture, the biblical tradition, and Trinitarian worldview. The program will strengthen students’s academic abilities and biblical insights. The Graduate Certificate Program allows students to learn from some of the most important leaders of the classical Christian education revival. It will broaden their understanding and appreciation of classical antiquity and the medieval tradition from a distinctive Trinitarian perspective. Courses taken in the Graduate Certificate program can apply to the Master of Studies in Classical Christian Studies program.

Convenient Summer & Winter Course Schedule for Educators
Working educators who can’t get away during the regular academic year will appreciate the program’s convenient intensive week-long summer and January course modules. The Graduate Certificate program can be completed in one year or spread out over several summers and winter breaks at the student’s own pace.

General Grad. Cert. Requirements (16 credits)

1. Six 2-credit (12 cr) Course Modules

a. Four 2-cr. Course Modules from:

The Task and Context of Christian Scholarship
Christian Worldview Seminar
Christian Education Seminar
History of Classical Christian Education
Classical Rhetoric Seminar
Principia Mathematica Seminar
Natural Philosophy Seminar
Hebrew Traditio
Greek Traditio
Roman Traditio
Medieval Traditio
Other approved courses

b. Two 2-cr. Course Modules from:

Active Latin Pedagogy
Latin Literature
Active Greek Pedagogy
Greek Literature
Hebrew Morphology
Hebrew Literature
Other Classical Language Electives

2. Two 2-credit (6 cr) Directed Graduate Readings

One-Year Grad.Cert. Program Plan/Schedule
August (One week): Residence, 4 cr.
Sept.-Dec.: Non-Residence: Directed Readings, 2 cr
January (One week): Residence, 4 cr.
Jan.-May: Non-Residence: Directed Readings, 2 cr
June (One week): Residence, 4 cr.

Courses
The Task and Context of Christian Scholarship
Christian Worldview Seminar
Christian Education Seminar
History of Classical Christian Education
Classical Rhetoric Seminar
Principia Mathematica Seminar
Natural Philosophy Seminar
Hebrew Traditio
Greek Traditio
Roman Traditio
Medieval Traditio
Other approved courses

Intensive Latin
Intensive Greek
Classical Literature
Medieval Literature
Classical Language Electives

Directed Graduate Readings

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Graduate Admissions
The College invites qualified men and women who hold Bachelor degrees to submit applications for admission to pursue graduate study at New Saint Andrews. The graduate degree programs are limited enrollment, academically rigorous post-graduate courses of study.

Full-time applicants for the M.A. degree are given priority, but a limited number of exceptionally qualified part-time applicants may be admitted as space allows. The M.St. and Graduate Certificate courses in Classical Christian Studies are modular, allowing matriculating students to take the courses at their own pace during the summer and winter months. Because of the limited enrollment nature of the graduate programs, all applicants are encouraged to apply before December 1. Only completed applications can be considered. The College accepts late applicants, but admission is determined on a space available basis only.

Applicant Qualifications
Applicants must hold at least a bachelor's degree (or anticipate receipt of the degree prior to enrollment) in any field from an accredited institution. Applicants should not only possess a strong academic record (high grade point average, academic honors, etc.), but also a mature, balanced ,and faithful Christian life that demonstrates the integration of their faith in community service, vocation, and everyday life.

Application Deadlines

*Prospective graduate students should contact the Graduate Admissions Director for information on space availability prior to submitting a late application.

Graduate Application Checklist

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Graduate School Tuition and Fees
The cost of attending New Saint Andrews’s graduate programs vary by program and the pace at which students pursue their degrees. The Trinitarian Theology and Culture M.A. program starts at $13,250 per year. The annual tuition rate for the low-residency Classical Christian Studies program is under $6,000. For part-time, pay-as-you-go and current tuition rates, please contact the Graduate Admissions Office.

Tuition Payment Plan Option
The payment plan (which includes a financing charge of 10 percent) allows tuition to be paid in five equal installments, payable at the beginning of July, September, November, January and March.

Tuition Agreements and Payments
New Saint Andrews depends on the student tuition payments made in a timely and orderly manner. The College provides a tuition payment agreement to each student prior to the beginning of the school year so that both the College and its students can plan their budgets accordingly. Tuition agreements distributed by the College's Business Office each spring must be returned by the posted deadline, accompanied by a $600 non-refundable confirmation deposit. Because the College limits enrollment, students who fail to submit their tuition agreements and deposits by the posted deadline may lose their privilege to enroll the following year and the College may give their place to another eligible applicant.

Special M.A. Tuition Rates and Fees
Special tuition rates and fees are assessed for M.A. course work done during the summer (such as the Intensive Summer Hebrew and Greek courses) or by special arrangement outside the regular academic terms and are not included in or based on the student's regular academic year tuition rate.

Drop/Add Fee:
$5 for dropping or adding after the second week of each term.

Late Fee:
$50 is charged to all payments that are more than three business days late. A service charge of 1.5 percent per month will be charged on all past due accounts.

Commencement Fee:
$50 is charged to cover the costs associated with the graduation ceremony.

Library Overdue Book Fines:
25 cents per day per book.

Vehicle Registration Fee:
$55 per year per automobile used to attend New Saint Andrews classes and events downtown.

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