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Women in the Liberal Arts Tradition
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Current Graduate Courses

The Art of Poetry

Enroll by January 13, 2025 for The Art of Poetry and complete this full graduate course (3 credits) in 7 weeks.

How to Teach the Bible Classically

Enroll by January 13, 2025 for Teaching the Bible Classically and complete this full graduate course (3 credits) in 7 weeks.

Women in the Liberal Arts Tradition

Enroll by January 13, 2025 for The Art of Poetry and complete this full graduate course (3 credits) in 7 weeks.

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Exceptional Courses for Graduate Credit

Our collaboration with the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University currently offers three stand-alone courses with graduate credit (3 credits each). These credits are on an Eastern University transcript and can transfer into the Master of Arts in Classical Teaching at the Templeton Honors College or any other graduate program accepting these course credits. All graduate course enrollments include a full subscription to all of our 100+ standard ClassicalU.com courses. To learn more about the MAT at the Templeton Honors College or to apply follow the link below.

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Exceptional Courses for Graduate Credit include: The Art of Poetry How to Teach the Bible Classically and Women in the Liberal Arts Tradition

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Apply for stand-alone graduate credits or to the full MAT at Templeton in order to take the course as a non-degree-earning student (requiring a bachelor's degree as a prerequisite) and receive transferable graduate credit from the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University.

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Dean, Templeton Honors college

Dr. Brian
Williams

Dr. Brian A. Williams is Dean of the Templeton Honors College and Associate Professor of Ethics & Liberal Studies. Before coming to Eastern, he was Lecturer in Theology and Christian Ethics at the University of Oxford and Director of Oxford Conversations, a collection of curated video interviews with leading Christian academics and scholars at Oxford.

He holds an MPhil and DPhil in Christian ethics from the University of Oxford (UK), where he was a Clarendon Scholar; an MA and ThM in systematic and historical theology from Regent College (Vancouver, Canada); and a BA in biblical studies from Ozark Christian College (Joplin, Missouri).

He is married to Kim Williams and has three children: Ilia, Brecon, and Maeve.

Professor of Philosophy

Dr. Phillip Cary

Phillip Cary (PhD, Yale University, 1994) is Professor of Philosophy at Eastern University and Scholar-in-Residence at the Templeton Honors College.

His specialty is the history of Christian thought, with particular focus on Augustine and Luther. He is perhaps best known for his book Good News for Anxious Christians, along with his lecture series published by The Great Courses, including courses on Augustine, Luther, the History of Christian Theology, and Philosophy and Religion in the West. In addition to numerous articles and reviews, he has published three books on Augustine with Oxford University Press (Augustine’s Invention of the Inner Self, 2000; Inner Grace, 2008; and Outward Signs, 2008) and one with Rowman & Littlefield (Augustine and Philosophy, 2010), co-edited with John Doody and Kim Paffenroth. Another area of interest is theological exegesis, for which he has contributed a commentary on the book of Jonah (Brazos Press, 2008).

professor of philosophy

Dr. Amy
Richards

Amy Gilbert Richards, PhD is Affiliate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Eastern University. She also teaches in Eastern’s Templeton Honors College (THC), dedicated to great books and great questions. She is also a Faculty Fellow of the THC’s Master of Arts in Classical Teaching program. Building on her previous work in philosophical and theological anthropology, she teaches a course in this program called ‘Difference and Human Dignity in the Great Tradition’, which is dedicated both to developing an understanding of what it is to be human through the lens of disability and difference, and to offering practical techniques for classical classroom approaches for students with special needs. Also of note, Dr. Richards and Classical Academic Press have published Disability and Classical Education in collaboration with her ClassicalU course by the same name. She lives in Havertown, PA with her husband and their three small girls.

Graduate Course Credits via the Templeton Honors College

All credits are issued by the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University and are transferable to other accredited colleges across the US. The tuition rate for these courses is $450 per credit hour.

Courses for graduate credit will have access to a Templeton professor or teaching assistant for additional assignments and guidance through each course. To receive graduate credit, subscribers must be accepted by the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University and successfully complete all course requirements. In addition to these stand-alone courses, you may also wish to apply to enroll in the Master of Arts in Classical Teaching degree program at Templeton Honors College.

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