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Academic Program

The undergraduate program at St. John's College is an all-required course of study based on the great books of the Western tradition. The curriculum is interdisciplinary and includes:

Four years of seminar
Four years of language
Four years of math
Three years of laboratory science
Two years of music

Seminar readings include works of literature, philosophy, theology, political science, and history. The course of study is roughly chronological, beginning with the Greeks in freshman year and continuing to the 20th century in senior year.

Seminars
Laboratory
Preceptorials
Tutorials
The Program Reading Lists

Click below to see a sample of seminar:

On Euclid
On Plato
On Newton
On Tocqueville
On Austen