ETS Tutorial Credit Breakdown

Tutorial

Content Breakdown

Credits awarded

GBT I

Course Description

Great Books Tutorial I comprehensively surveys classical Greek and early patristic literature. The course integrates readings from History, Philosophy, Theology, Literature and Government in order to examine the development of Western cultural trends and ideas from a Biblical worldview. Also provided are expositional and argumentative writing exercises based on analytical reading and critical thinking. This is an honors level course.

History
The Histories
Plutarch’s Lives
* Six weeks study *
Philosophy
The Poetics
Euthyphro, Apology, Phaedo
* Six weeks study *
Theology
Exhortation to the Greeks
* Two weeks study *
Literature
Iliad
Odyssey
The Three Theban Plays
The Oresteia
* Eighteen weeks study *
Government (Civics)
Gorgias
* Three weeks study *
Writing (Composition)
Seven papers totaling 18 to 28 pages.

English

6+2+18=26

1.12 year

World History

.26 year

Civics
Amer. Govr.

.13 year

GBT II

Course Description

Great Books Tutorial II comprehensively surveys classical Greek, Roman and early patristic literature. The course integrates readings from History, Philosophy, Theology, Literature and Government in order to examine the development of Western cultural trends and ideas from a Biblical worldview. Also provided are expositional and argumentative writing exercises based on analytical reading and critical thinking. This is an honors level course.

History
The Peloponnesian War
The Annals of Imperial Rome
The Lives of Caesar and Cato the Younger
* Seven weeks study *
Philosophy
De Anima
Theaetetus
Physics
Metaphysics
Phaedrus
The Nature of Things
Nichomachean Ethics
* Eighteen weeks study *
Theology
On the Incarnation
* One week study *
Literature
Aeneid
* Three weeks study *
Government (Civics)
The Republic
* Six weeks study *
Writing (Composition)
Six papers totaling 21 to 27 pages.

English

18+1+3=22

.95 year

World History

7+6=13

.56 year

Civics
Amer. Govr.

GBT III

Course Description

Great Books Tutorial III comprehensively surveys classical patristic and Medieval literature. The course integrates readings from Theology, Literature and Government in order to examine the development of Western cultural trends and ideas from a Biblical worldview. Also provided are expositional and argumentative writing exercises based on analytical reading and critical thinking. This is an honors level course.

Literature
Canterbury Tales
As You Like It
*5 weeks study*
Theology
Confessions
City of God
Prologium, Monologium, Cur Deus Homo
Summa Theologiae
*21 weeks study*
Government (Civics)
The Prince
*1 week study*
History
Divine Comedy
Henry IV, part I
Richard II
*8 weeks study*

Writing (Composition)
Four papers totaling 24 to 28 pages.

English

5+21=26

1.12 year

World History

.34 year

Civics
Amer. Govr.

.043 year

GBT IV

Course Description

Great Books Tutorial IV comprehensively surveys Reformation and Enlightenment literature. The course integrates readings from Theology, Literature and Government in order to examine the development of Western cultural trends and ideas from a Biblical worldview. Also provided are expositional and argumentative writing exercises based on analytical reading and critical thinking. This is an honors level course.

Philosophy
Essays of Montainge
Novum Organum
Discourse on Method
Meditations
Discourse on Metaphysics
Principles of Nature and Grace
Monadologys
Ethics
* 10 weeks study *
Theology
Institute of the Christian Religion
Commentary on Galatians
St. Matthew Passion
Pensees
* 8 weeks study *
Literature
Don Quixote
Paradise Lost
Pride and Prejudice
* 8 weeks study *
Government (Civics)
Treatise on Human Nature
Leviathan
Gulliver's Travels
* 8 weeks study *
Art
Woman Holding a Balance
A Lady Writing
* 1 week study *

Writing (Composition)
Four papers totaling 24 to 28 pages.

English

10+8+8+1=25

1.08 year

World History

Civics
Amer. Govr.

.34 year

GBT V

Course Description

Great Books Tutorial V comprehensively surveys Modern literature. The course integrates readings from Theology, Literature and Government in order to examine the development of Western cultural trends and ideas from a Biblical worldview. Also provided are expositional and argumentative writing exercises based on analytical reading and critical thinking. This is an honors level course.

Philosophy
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
Phenomenology of Spirit
Beyond Good and Evil
Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy
* 10 weeks study *
Theology
Fear and Trembling
God in the Dock
* 2 weeks study *
Literature
Huckleberry Finn
War and Peace
The Brothers Karamazov
* 5 weeks study *
Government (Civics)
Discourse on the Origins of Inequality
The Social Contract
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
The Federalist
Democracy in America
* 10 weeks study *
Psychology
The Ego and the ID
* 1 week study *
Economics
Wealth of Nations
Capital
* 6 weeks study *
Art
Tristan and Isolde
* 1 week study *

Writing (Composition)
Two papers totaling 24 to 28 pages.

English

10+2+5+1+1=19

.82 year

World History

Civics
Amer. Govr.

10+6=16
.69 year

GBT TOTALS

English

5 years

World History
1 year

Civics/ American
Government
1 year

Other Tutorials

Geometry Course Description Geometry covers an extensive number of proofs from the first nine books of Euclid's Elements. Some of the topics covered are; basic plane geometry, geometric algebra, circles, angles, construction of regular polygons, Eudoxus abstract theory of ratio and proportion, abstract algebra, similar figures and geometric proportions, basic number theory. This course does not address trigonometry or Cartesian geometry. This is an honors level course.	Propositions Covered in Euclid I all: II all: III all: IV 1-5, 11, 15, 16: V all: VI 1-20, 23, 25,31,33: VII 1-4: VIII 5,11,18: IX 18,20,35,36: X 1,2:	Geometry 1 year
Greek I Course Description The aim of the Classical Greek Tutorial is to provide students with the vocabulary and grammatical skills necessary to read ancient Greek authors as quickly as possible. The translation exercises are chosen from the texts read in GBT I and II and also from writings prior to the GBT authors that provide historical and philosophical context to our GBT readings. The course will cover the paradigms and vocabulary for a reading knowledge of Greek, but each tutorial will go at a pace suited to the majority of the students in the class.	Mollin Williams- Introduction to Ancient Greek Pages 1-150	Language other than English 1 year
Greek II Course Description The aim of the Classical Greek Tutorial is to provide students with the vocabulary and grammatical skills necessary to read ancient Greek authors as quickly as possible. The translation exercises are chosen from the texts read in GBT I and II and also from writings prior to the GBT authors that provide historical and philosophical context to our GBT readings. The course will cover the paradigms and vocabulary for a reading knowledge of Greek, but each tutorial will go at a pace suited to the majority of the students in the class.	Mollin Williams- Introduction to Ancient Greek Pages 151-300	Language other than English 1 year
Shakespeare Course Description This tutorial guides the student through an extensive analysis of Shakespeare's plays through in class reading and discussion. The class focuses on Shakespeare's plays' immense cultural importance as well as their inherent delight and humor both for his own day and our own. The course also gives the student a better understanding and appreciation of Shakespearean language and literary forms.	Much Ado About Nothing Hamlet Twelfth Night Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice Macbeth Sonnets of Shakespeare	Visual and Performing Arts 1 year