Welcome to The College of Saint Thomas More

Learning changes us. Learning begins with information or mastery and takes root in the life of the intellect through a process of interpretation and integration. Finally and properly, learning is a kind of love, the gift of the intellect to truths that inform and give meaning to our lives.

The source of these truths is, first, the revelation of God that comes to us in its intellectual form through Scripture and Tradition, and second, a body of literature called classic because its texts provide common and universal insight into things human and foundational methodological insight into nature.

The form of learning in the College is the disciplines, each having its own method and its characteristic texts, a canon that always changes, although conservatively. The formation of the canon is the responsibility of the Fellows and represents their collective judgment.

The characteristic activities of the Academic Fellowship are twofold. First, the Fellows represent a kind and style of learning the antecedents for which include the classical schools and late medieval colleges, the Christian classicism of the Renaissance, the English tradition represented by John Cardinal Newmanís The Idea of a University, the Catholic revival of learning promoted by Louvain and Leo XIII., the great books experiments of Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins, and contemporary great books and liberal arts programs. Second, the Fellows as Tutors through their lives and their writing, as senior and imitable learners, teach the distinctive form of this tradition represented by the curriculum of the College in fulfillment of its published mission.

The Academic Fellowship seeks to engage in its teaching mission both students who pursue its curriculum (as matriculated or occasional students) and those whose interests direct them to the College for informal learning.

The curriculum of the College is focused so as to provide a single, unified collegiate experience.

Goals of the Curriculum

The College offers a single curriculum in the liberal arts leading to the Bachelor of Arts Degree. The curriculum invites students to undertake a systematic consideration of questions of truth and to reflect critically on human nature and human history, using as their sources the great texts of our civilization. The curriculum nourishes memory and illuminates the present, and it is the Fellowsí intention that it will always be undertaken in the spirit of generosity.

The curriculum is organized by the disciplines and by the texts read in the courses. In the courses the great authorities become voices in the scholarly conversation that it is the responsibility of the Tutors to guide and encourage.

The goals of the liberal arts curriculum of the College are to foster in each student:
The ability to write clearly and grammatically.
Mastery of the information and ideas specified in the goals and objectives of the basic courses.
The ability to think philosophically.
Elementary knowledge of Latin or Greek.
The ability to speak well, both formally and informally, and to pursue ideas in conversation and debate with conviction and courtesy.
The ability to locate oneself in history.
Mastery of elementary mathematical reasoning.
The ability to apprehend and practice the distinctive intellectual habits of the disciplines.
Successful integration of other goals of the curriculum.

The College of Saint Thomas More is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097, telephone 404.679.4501 to award the Bachelor of Arts degree.