Degree Programs
The undergraduate programs at New Saint Andrews College provide a classical Christian liberal arts curriculum with orienting lectures, readings from some of the most influential works in Western culture, and personal interaction with the faculty—all in the context of a local Christian community that holds students accountable for personal, cultural, and spiritual maturity.

Undergraduate Degrees
	B.A. in Liberal Arts & Culture
	A.A. in Liberal Arts & Culture
Graduate Degrees
	Trinitarian Theology & Culture, M.A.
	Classical Christian Studies, M.St.
	Classical Christian Studies, Grad. Cert.

The Christian worldview is central in every course at New Saint Andrews. A foundation for this outlook is purposefully set in the first-year Lordship Colloquium, which introduces the worldview of historic, confessional Protestantism. First-year students are introduced to classical liberal studies in the Classical Rhetoric Colloquium. This is a theoretical and practical course in persuasive oratory, written composition, and logic in which students cultivate habits of thought and expression on which they will draw in later coursework. Both Lordship and Rhetoric also introduce students to the discipline of reading the great works of the western tradition, a discipline that develops throughout their studies. First-year students encounter music history and theory in the Music Colloquium. The Music Colloquium holds an important place in our curriculum, where beauty is approached in a disciplined fashion. Christian approaches to aesthetics are presented, which can apply to any of the fine arts, but since every Christian is called to sing, choral music is the focus of this colloquium.

All B.A. students are required to take four years of classical language study, notably Latin and Greek; A.A. students take two years of Latin. Students learn Latin and Greek not as “dead” languages, but as active, oral experiences that bring the ancient world alive. The active study of classical languages is important not just for ciphering ancient texts, discovering English word origins, or thinking in the framework of another culture, but is a time-proven method of intellectual discipline essential for a broad and nuanced handling of all forms of thought and expression.

Second-year students receive a systematic introduction to the western heritage in the Classical Culture and History Colloquium. Here students encounter the west, beginning with near-eastern antecedents and moving forward through modern times, mainly by way of the historian’s apparatus, though literary and artistic approaches are introduced as well. Classical Culture and History lays a broad cultural context for the rigorous work that is to come. In addition, second year students receive exposure to biology in the Natural History Colloquium, inculcating the deductive and empirical disciplines that have always been important to Western cultural vitality. Also in the second year, students will take two courses that move beyond their Rhetoric studies to the mathematical interests of the Quadrivium: namely a class in Logic, which includes symbolic logic and mathematical reasoning skills, and a practical Writing class, which applies the rigorous reasoning skills developed with symbolic logic to written argumentation and persuasive prose.

By their third year, students will be equipped to interact with the seminal texts of Western culture that are the hallmark of the two-year Traditio Occidentis Colloquium. This colloquium is organized chronologically, with third-year students studying Greek, Roman, and Medieval texts, and fourth-year students studying early modern and modern texts. Students in Traditio Occidentis explore themes in literature, philosophy, law and politics, art and architecture. Third-year students also build on their studies in Rhetoric, Logic and History with the quadrivial study of mathematics in Principia Mathematica. This course not only introduces Euclidean and non-Euclidean "math problems" and their relation to sub-disciplines like astronomy, music, physics and engineering, but explores the philosophical and theological issues related to knowledge, reality, and human nature that mathematics raises. This colloquium fosters skill in quantitative reasoning from the vantage point of numbers and figures. Third-year students also study biblical, historic, and systematic theology in the Principia Theologiae Colloquium, for which the Bible is the central text studied.

Students in their fourth and final year continue their classical language study and second year of Traditio Occidentis, but also take additional Electives and complete an Integrated Thesis. Students have several options for focused study in Electives in Culture. These term-length courses approach various topics in a number of disciplines through close interaction with primary texts. Students refine their faculties of inquiry, creative expression, and critical reasoning by looking closely at a particular matter of study. The Integrated Thesis culminates a student’s work at New Saint Andrews. Students prepare a 40-page paper on an assigned question that demands integration across the timeline and across disciplines. The goal is to show how the complex interrelationships of events, disciplines and concepts cohere in Christ and illuminate the Christian worldview. Students defend their Integrated Thesis before a faculty panel and a public audience.

Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Liberal Arts and Culture
Candidates for the Bachelor of Arts degree must complete each of the following requirements:

1. Pass each term in all Cultural Colloquia, or their approved equivalents. This includes four terms of:
• Lordship
• Classical Rhetoric
• Principia Mathematica
• Natural Philosophy
• Principia Theologiae
• Classical Culture and History
• Music History and Performance
• Traditio Occidentis I (third year)
• Traditio Occidentis II (fourth year)

2. Pass 16 terms in language. These 16 terms must include six terms of Latin and six terms of Greek. Testing into intermediate or advanced Greek or Latin courses does not reduce the number of required terms in those languages.

3. Pass 12 terms of Declamation.

4. Pass four term-length cultural electives.

5. Either complete a written Thesis and earn a passing grade, or pass course work required in lieu of a thesis, in accord with the published requirements for Thesis.

Model Four-Year Plan for the Baccalaureate Degree in Liberal Arts and Culture

Source: General Catalog, 2010-2012

Requirements for the Associate of Arts (A.A.) degree in Liberal Arts and Culture
Candidates for the Associate of Arts degree must complete each of the following requirements:

1. Pass all four terms in each of the following
• Lordship
• Classical Rhetoric
• Principia Mathematica
• Principia Theologiae
• Classical Culture and History

2. Pass two terms of each of the following Cultural Colloquia, or their approved equivalents:
• Natural Philosophy
• Music History and Performance

3. Pass seven terms in language. These seven terms must be in Latin, or an approved equivalent. (Testing into intermediate
or advanced Latin courses, or their equivalent, does not reduce the number of required terms in that language.)

4. Pass four terms of Declamation.

Model Two-Year Plan for the Associates Degree in Liberal Arts and Culture

 Source: General Catalog, 2010-2012

List of Required Readings
New Saint Andrews College has adopted the following list of readings as a requirement for the Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts and Culture. The College is committed to assigning each of these works throughout the various colloquia which are required for graduation. These particular works have been selected because, as a set, they adequately introduce to our students the basic cultural output of the West. This is not a comprehensive list of all the readings assigned in our colloquia. Our instructors assign many readings in addition to these for practical and pedagogical reasons. Of course, there are many other great works that are not required reading at New Saint Andrews. These we hope our students will pursue after they graduate, for there is no end to a listing of great books, and learning from books is a lifelong activity.