Collegium Study
Classical Christian Core Studies
(CCC)
The Classical Christian Core Studies offer, to grammar and dialectic
level students, the best features of both institutional schooling and home
schooling. The goal is to thoroughly and generally prepare
students for later rigorous studies at the rhetoric level, and to help
the student meet the prerequisites for this level. To ensure this
preparation, the program is offered as a complete curriculum, and
students at this level are required to take all the classes in the core
program.
Collegium Elective Courses for High School
Students (ELE)
The elective
courses offered at Collegium Study Center are offered at the rhetoric level only
and allow the older student to customize his studies to suit his particular
interests or needs. At this age students begin to work more independently, but
success still depends on appropriate parental involvement. Parents are
encouraged to communicate frequently with the instructor and to discuss course
content with their students to keep connected.
Because the courses are taught for advanced students,
all prerequisites must be met prior to enrollment or instructor permission is
required.
Grammar Levels 1 through 5
A strong foundation begins early, and this core
study is designed to foster your student's natural love of learning from the
start. Students will learn to use the
tools of excellent communication while they are fed with stories of great heroes
and adventures from the Bible and Western Civilization. The focus is
on memorization of facts and foundations: history
facts, Latin vocabulary, basic grammar and composition, and the primary
elements of literature. Students receive classroom
instruction two days per week, and then parents, equipped with study tools and
specific instructions for each subject, guide the student's home
study.
Dialectic Levels 1 through
3
Dialectic level students should be
ready to question and examine the world they've inherited. This program will
channel that energy productively as "we destroy arguments and every lofty
opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to
obey Christ." (2 Cor 10:5). Students will examine the ideas that have shaped
Western Civilization, measure those ideas against a Christian world view, and
then express their findings as they learn to handle the tools of
communication. Students continue to build on the factual knowledge
acquired at the Grammar level, but go further adding skills
in analysis using logic, and writing skill using imitation
of great writers of the Western tradition.
Rhetoric Levels 1 through
3
Rhetoric level students are
thoroughly equipped with facts and the tools of analysis and imitation, and now
are prepared to use those tools with dexterity as they develop their
style. The classical elements at this level include studies in Western
Civilization and rhetoric for both written and verbal communication.
For the convenience of our students we offer a range of other classes in
language, science and math as well. All courses at this level are offered
as electives to allow the older student to customize his studies for his
specific interests and needs.
