Augustine Honors Minor/Emphasis (CUS)

The Augustine Honors Minor and Augustine Honors Emphasis are designed to work within the framework of CCU's existing General Education curriculum, enabling students to satisfy general education requirements through Great Books courses while earning the minor or emphasis in the Augustine Honors program.

The Augustine Honors Minor and Emphasis are academically rigorous programs that foster interdisciplinary learning and research scholarship. The heart of the Augustine Honors program is the experience of intense communal learning centered on the reading and discussion of Great Books. The liberal arts curriculum explores the disciplines of History, Literature, Politics, and Rhetoric, with a view to developing students' liberal arts skills and integrating their observations and insights into their character and personal beliefs. The core courses fulfill some requirements for the General Education curriculum and provide a minor or emphasis.

Because of the distinctive curriculum that comprises the Augustine Honors program, students are limited in the coursework that can be transferred in to satisfy program requirements. To earn the Augustine Honors Minor, students must complete at least two of these three required courses at CCU: Rhetoric and Power (COM 455); Tragedy, Comedy, and Human Imagination (ENG 460); and Liberty, Justice, and American Politics (POL 460). They must also complete three of the one-credit HUM 297 Special Topics courses. Students may transfer in up to one three-credit course to satisfy the minor’s remaining requirements. To earn an Augustine Honors Emphasis, students must complete all three of these required courses at CCU, along with three additional honors credits listed in the minor.