Graduate Certification in Humanities

ABOUT THE CERTIFICATION

The Graduate Certification in Humanities is for all who have an interest in learning about the great books of the Western world. The foundation for the Certification is the selection of works in Mortimer J. Adler's 60-volume The Great Books of the Western World (1994 Edition). 

The first three courses in the program are a survey of this corpus including Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Marcus Aurelius, Virgil, Plutarch, Tacitus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Machiavelli, Erasmus, Shakespeare, Bacon, Descartes, Milton, Pascal, Locke, Hume, Voltaire, Gibbon, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Darwin, Marx, Freud, and many others. The Trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy) have long been essential pillars of classical education. The writings of Plato and Aristotle are the foundation of Western thought upon which the Trivium and Quadrivium pillars stand. The renaissance of thought emerged in Italy, which infused classical thought with the study of humanities (studia humanitatis).

This Certification is an 18-hour "stand-alone" credential but will transfer into Harbinger's Master's Degree, which requires an additional 18-hours of graduate study.

 COURSES

• Take 6-courses from the following list for Certification
• The program can be completed in one calendar year
• Hours earned will transfer into Harbinger's Master's Degree
• Students completing this Certification will be presented an official Certificate at graduation

REQUIRED CORE COURSES (18-HOURS)

• HUM 5901 Great Books of the Western World I 
• HUM 5902 Great Books of the Western World II 
• HUM 5903 Great Books of the Western World III
• HUM 6901 The Writings of Plato and Aristotle
• HUM 6902 The Trivium and Quadrivium 
• HUM 6903 The Renaissance and the Studia Humanitatis