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Course Listings for 2024-2025 Academic Year

Please note:聽Course cost DOES NOT include student registration fee or family technology fee. Course offerings are subject to change based on student enrollment.

All courses listed meet on the campus of 麻豆视频.
Meeting days are Tuesday/Thursday unless otherwise noted.

View the full Academy Book Lists (coming soon).

  • Introduction To Great Books & Composition A (non-credit)*
    Recommended for 7th-8th聽grade students.

    Introduction to Great Books & Composition A is a college preparatory literature and writing course centered on the Chronicles of Narnia with other readings by authors such as Plato and G.K. Chesterton. This class also focuses on college-level composition with a particular emphasis on the argumentative essay.

    *This course is middle school/junior high school level and cannot be taken for high school or college credit.

    HCU Campus
    Tuesday/Thursday |聽 12:30-1:45 pm
    $800 per year, no college credit.

    Intro to Great Books A Reading List 2024-25 (coming soon)

  • English 1313: Composition and Literature I
    Recommended for 9th-12th grade students. This course is a pre-requisite for ENGL 1323.

    A student-driven, Socratic-style literature class that integrates training in composition and rhetoric. Students will complete a research paper in MLA format.

    Reading list includes Homer’s Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid, Sophocles’ Antigone, Aristotle’s Poetics, Dante’s The Divine Comedy, Shakespeare’s Hamlet and more.

    We recommend that the course be counted as high school English credit. Students will earn three undergraduate credit hours in English 1313 from 麻豆视频.

    Tuesday/Thursday听触 11:00 am-12:15 pm
    $1000 per course, 3 units of transferable college credit.

    ENGL 1313 Book List 2024-25 (coming soon)

  • ENGL 1323: Composition and Literature II
    Recommended for 11th-12th聽grade students.

    Prerequisite: ENGL 1313.聽 Please note, this course can only be taken after successful completion of ENGL 1313 or upon submission of a college transcript showing successful completion of Freshman Composition I.

    This course continues the study of composition and rhetoric introduced in English 1313: Composition and Literature I. Students will gain an understanding of why reading literature is deeply important for Christians; learn the conventions of such literary genres as poems, stories, novels, and plays; study methods of literary analysis; and interpret literature from a Biblical perspective through the exploration of Biblical archetypes, typology, language constructions, and metaphor in classic works of Western literature. Students will learn to write well-constructed arguments about literature and life in standard English, culminating in a fully developed research paper in MLA format.

    Reading list includes Shakespeare’s聽Winter’s Tale, Wordsworth and Coleridge’s聽Lyrical Ballads, Austen’s聽Sense and Sensibility, Dostoevsky’s聽Crime and Punishment, selected poems and short stories, and more.

    We recommend that the class be counted as high school English credit. Students will earn three undergraduate credit hours in English 1323 from 麻豆视频.

    HCU Campus
    Tuesday/Thursday | 12:30-1:45 pm
    $1000 per year, 3 units of transferable college credit.

    ENGL 1323 Book List 2024-25 (coming soon)

  • History 2311: Western Civilization I
    Professor Joseph Christopherson
    Recommended for 9th-12th聽grade students.

    A student-driven, Socratic-style classroom environment, integrating training in university-level essay writing and a comprehensive understanding of the major shifts of Western Culture, with a special emphasis in the literature from the Ancient World to the end of the Middle Ages in Europe.

    Reading list includes Homer, Herodotus, Cicero, Augustine, Anselm, Shakespeare, Aquinas, Erasmus, and much more.

    We recommend that this course be counted as both high school history and English credit. Students will earn three undergraduate credit hours in History 2311 from 麻豆视频.

    Tuesday/Thursday听触 2:00-3:15 pm
    $1000 per year, 3 units of transferable college credit.

    HIST 2311 Reading List 2024-25 (coming soon)

  • High school juniors and seniors are also eligible to enroll in traditional one-semester undergraduate courses alongside college students. Interested students should check the聽 course catalog, then email TheAcademy@hc.edu for class availability and dean’s approval.

    NOTE: these courses may meet on different days/times than the two-semester Academy courses.

    $1000 per 3-credit course, transferable college credit.