ClassicalU Pathway Planner

Are you looking for a place to start within ClassicalU’s course offerings?

This course pathway planner suggests course sequences in line with your areas of strength and weakness on the ClassicalU Course Selection Assessment. We recommend that you take your lowest category scores on your assessment and start there in selecting your first pathway. With higher scores, you may consider starting further along within each pathway. [Please note that this tool is new and still in its beta phase. We will soon have a fully developed rubric with specific pathway recommendations based on your own category score ranges. We would be grateful to receive your feedback as we continue to develop this tool.]

Six Categories from Our Course Selection Assessment

1. PHILOSOPHY & HISTORY:

LEVEL 1

• Introduction to Classical Education (Perrin)
• The Liberal Arts Tradition (Clark & Jain)
• Plato: The Great Philosopher Educator (Diener)

LEVEL 2

• A Brief History of Classical Education (Post)
• A Brief History of Progressive Education (Edwards)
• The Abolition of Man Book Study (Turley)
• Awakening Wonder: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty (Turley)

LEVEL 3

• The Catholic Tradition of Education (Seeley)
• The Monastic Tradition of Education (Perrin)

2. LIBERAL ARTS:

LEVEL 1

• The Liberal Arts Tradition (Clark & Jain)
• Essential Latin (Moore)
• Essential Logic (Larsen, Perrin, Hodge)
• Essential Music (Reynolds)
• Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing (Pudewa)

LEVEL 2

• Essential Logic: Formal Logic (Hodge)
• The Seven Liberal Arts (Kern)
• The Art of Poetry (Christine Perrin)
• Essential Philosophy (Schenk)

3. PEDAGOGY:

LEVEL 1

• Principles of Classical Pedagogy I (Perrin)
• Scholé (Restful) Learning (Perrin)
• Assessing Students Classically (Various)
• Teaching the Great Books (Gibbs)
• Reading and Teaching The Odyssey (Hintze and Brann)
• Teaching Modern Political Philosophy (Gibbs)
• Teaching Math Classically (Elizalde)
• Teaching Science Classically (Mays)
• How to Teach History (Callihan)
• Scholé Muses Course 3: The Practice of Scholé (Various)

LEVEL 2

• Socratic Teaching (Various)
• Effective Upper School Teaching and Leadership (Schlect)
• Principles of Classical Pedagogy II (Kern)
• Effective Grammar School Teaching and Leadership (Keeler)
• Teaching Singapore Math (Swatrz)

4. GREAT BOOKS:

• Join a Great Books Live Discussion Group (Various Leaders) 

LEVEL 1

• Reading and Teaching the Odyssey (Hintze and Brann)
• Teaching Modern Political Philosophy (Gibbs)

LEVEL 2

• Teaching Boethius–The Consolation of Philosophy (Gibbs)

LEVEL 3

• Teaching Three Great Books (Armetta)

5. ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP

LEVEL L

• Effective School Leadership (Nix)
• Classical Education in America: Progress and Trends (Goodwin)
• Urban Classical Education (Gregg)
• Scholé Group Leadership (Course 4)
• Grammar School Teaching and Leadership (Keeler)
• Effective Upper School Teaching and Leadership (Schlect)
• The Abolition of Man Book Study (Turley)
• A Brief History of Classical Education (Post)
• A Brief History of Progressive Education (Edwards)

LEVEL 1

• Introduction to Classical Education (Perrin)

LEVEL 3

• Classical Education in Africa (Elliott)

6. ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP

LEVEL 1

• Introduction to Classical Education (Perrin)
• The Liberal Arts Tradition (Clark & Jain)
• Principles of Classical Pedagogy I (Perrin)
• Scholé (Restful) Learning (Perrin)
• Assessing Students Classically (Various)
• Conversation: Ecclesiastes and Classical Education (Gibbs)

LEVEL 2

• Grammar School Teaching and Leadership (Keeler)
• Effective Upper School Teaching and Leadership (Schlect)