Minors offered with
BA Statesmanship
Though not required we invite students to choose one of the following minors to increase their depth and breadth in a particular area of interest. See below for more details on requirements and reading lists for each of the minors listed.
 Education Minor
Entrepreneurial Business Minor
Literature Minor
Political Science Minor
Education Minor
20 Credits
Minors must be combined with a Bachelors of Arts program
Estimated costs: $2,760 ($138 per credit hour)
The great educator —
parent, teacher or leader — is
above all one who is well educated.
Such educator-statesmen instill by example
a love of virtue, learning, scholarship
and excellence. This is the legacy of
Socrates, Confucius, Buddha, Maimonides,
Aquinas, Bacon, John Adams, Charlotte
Mason and C.S. Lewis.
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are not required to minor. Those
who do choose to minor must
complete the minor requirements
in addition to the Statesmanship
major. Once completed, minors
carry 20 academic credits.
Students may complete more than
one minor. The four possible
minors are Education,
Entrepreneurial Business,
Literature and Political
Science.
MINOR REQUIREMENTS
Requirements
for the Education Minor are as
follows: |
LIST
B: CLASSICS
- Adams, The Education of Henry
Adams*
- Alcott, Little Women
- Austen, Emma*
- Austen, Persuasion
- Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
- Card, Ender's Game
- Cervantes, Don Quixote
- Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
- Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
- Cooper, The Deerslayer
- Clark, The Ox-Box Incident
- Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
- Dante, The Divine Comedy
- Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby*
- Dickens, David Copperfield
- Dickens, Oliver Twist
- Dostoevski, Crime and Punishment
- Dostoevski, The Brothers Karamazov*
- Douglas, The Robe
- Eliot, Middlemarch
- Flaubert, Madame Bovary
- Franklin,
Autobiography
- Hamilton, Mythology
- James, Pragmatism
- Juvenal, Satires
- Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- Melville, Moby Dick
- Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
- Potok, My Name is Asher Lev
- Rousseau, Emile
- Shakespeare,
(5 plays required)*
- Shelley, Frankenstein
- Solzhenitsyn,
(any books)
- Sophocles,
(any plays)
- Swift, Gulliver's Travels
- Tolstoy,
(any novels)
- Twain, Huckleberry Finn
- Twain, Tom Sawyer
- Twain, Connecticut Yankee
- Vergil, Aeneid
- Voltaire, Candide
- Wallace, Ben Hur
- Other
pre-approved works
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1.
Read thirty works from the list
below.
2. Submit a written response to
each.
3. In addition to the Senior
Thesis, submit a Minor Thesis on
a topic from the field of
Education (must be accepted by
the Graduation Committee).
A
student's grasp of his or her
minor will also be tested in the
Oral Defense.
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LIST
A: ON EDUCATION
- Barton, What Happened in
Education?
- Barzun, Teacher in America
- Bloom, The Closing of the
American Mind*
- Dewey, The School and Society
- Emerson, The American Scholar*
- Gardner, Multiple Intelligences*
- Gatto, Dumbing us Down*
- Harward, A Market Approach to
Education*
- Holt, How Children Learn
- Hutchins, The Higher Learning in
America
- Nibley, The Ancient State
- Ortega
y Gasset, Mission of the
University
- Perelman, School's Out
- Smith, Killing the Spirit*
- Swanson, The Education of James
Madison
- Taylor, The Healing Power of
Stories
- Other
pre-approved works
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*Required
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Entrepreneurial
Business Minor
20 Credits
Minors must be combined with a Bachelors of Arts program
Estimated costs: $2,760 ($138 per credit hour)
Effective entrepreneurs understand human nature, which allows them to successfully predict behavior and plan accordingly. One of the best and most effective ways of gaining insight into human nature is studying and applying the classics and stellar modern works in the tradition of statesmen-entrepreneurs such as Da Vinci, Gutenberg, Franklin, Carnegie, Edison, Bell, Ford, Farnsworth, Sloan, Disney and Deming.
Students
are not required to minor. Those
who do choose to minor must
complete the minor requirements in
addition to their Statesmanship
major. Once completed, minors
carry 20 academic credits.
Students may complete more than
one minor. The four possible
minors are Education,
Entrepreneurial Business,
Literature and Political Science.
MINOR REQUIREMENTS
Requirements
for the Entrepreneurial Business
Minor are as follows: |
- Dante, The Divine Comedy
- Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
- Dickens, Oliver Twist
- Dickens, David Copperfield
- Dickens, Hard Times
- Dostoevski, The Brothers Karamazov*
- Douglas, The Robe
- Drucker, The Effective Executive
- Eliot, Middlemarch
- Flaubert, Madame Bovary
- Franklin, Autobiography
- Gerber, The E-Myth Revisited
- Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human
Nature
- Jaworski, Synchronicity
- L'Amour, Education of a Wandering
Man
- Lee, The Power Principle
- Melville, Moby Dick
- Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
- Naisbitt, Megatrends*
- Novak, The Fire of Invention
- Peck, The Road Less Traveled
- Peter, The Peter Principle
- Potok, My Name is Asher Lev
- Potok, Davita's Harp
- Ries, The 22 Immutable Laws of
Marketing
- Sanders, Strategic Thinking &
the New Science
- Shakespeare,
(any plays)
- Sinclair, The Jungle
- Solzhenitsyn,
(any books)
- Steinbeck, The Pearl
- Strauss
and Howe, The Fourth
Turning*
- Swift, Gulliver's Travels*
- Taylor, The Healing Power of
Stories*
- Toffler, Future Shock
- Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
- Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- Twain, Huckleberry Finn
- Twain, Tom Sawyer
- Twain, Connecticut Yankee*
- Walton, Deming Management Method*
- Wharton, Ethan Frome
- Wheatley, Leadership & the New
Science
- Other
pre-approved works
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1.
Read thirty works from the list
below.
2. Submit a written response to
each.
3. Do at least two internships in
businesses in their
entrepreneurial phase. Submit a
paper discussing lessons learned
from both.
4. Develop a high-quality business
plan for which a legitimate
investing
organization or bank would lend
money. Take your plan to an
investing firm
or bank and refine it until they
grant "mock" approval
for financing your
entrepreneurial venture. Submit
their mock approval in writing
along with
changes and improvements that they
helped you make and an explanation
of the
experience.
A
student's grasp of his or her
minor will also be tested in the
Oral Defense.
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READING
LIST
- Aristotle, Posterior Analytics
- Aristotle, Prior Analytics
- Augustine, Confessions
- Austen, Emma
- Austen, Persuasion
- Bennis, Why Leaders Can't Lead
- Blanchard/Johnson,
(any books)
- Brown, 13 Fatal Errors Managers
Make
- Campbell, Hero With a Thousand Faces
- Card, Ender's Game
- Cervantes, Don Quixote
- Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
- Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
- Cooper, The Deerslayer
- Covey, Principle-Centered
Leadership
- Covey, First Things First
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Literature Minor
20 Credits
Minors must be combined with a Bachelors of Arts program
Estimated costs: $2,760 ($138 per credit hour)
Perhaps nothing prepares one for leadership as well as coming face-to-face with greatness through the classics. A study of literature combines this with the additional contemplation of art, beauty, and application in the tradition of artist-statesmen such as Sophocles, Dante, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Milton, Beethoven, Mozart, Tolstoy, Stowe, and
Solzhenitsyn.
Students
are not required to minor. Those
who do choose to minor must
complete the minor requirements
in addition to their
Statesmanship major. Once
completed, minors carry 20
academic credits. Students may
complete more than one minor.
The four possible minors are
Education, Entrepreneurial
Business, Literature and
Political Science.
MINOR REQUIREMENTS
Requirements
for the Literature Minor are as
follows: |
- Hawthorne,
any novels
- Hemingway,
any novels
- Juvenal, Satires
- Kafka,
any novels
- Kipling,
any novels
- Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- London,
any novels
- Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
- Moliere,
any plays
- O'Connor,
Flannery, any novels
- Orczy,
any novels
- Ovid, Metamorphoses
- Paternak, Dr. Zhivago
- Potok,
any novels
- Scott,
Walter, any novels
- Shakespeare,
any plays (5 required)*
- Shelley, Frankenstein
- Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight
- Solzhenitsyn,
any books
- The
Song of Roland
- Sophocles,
any plays
- Steinbeck,
any novels
- Stevenson,
any novels
- Swift,
any novels
- Taylor, The Healing Power of
Stories*
- Tolstoy,
any novels
- Tolkein,
and novels
- Twain,
any novels
- Vergil, Aeneid
- Voltaire, Candide
- Wallace, Ben Hur
- Wharton, Ethan Frome
- Other
pre-approved works
POETRY
(one book of poetry counts as
one selection): Auden, Blake,
Browning, Byron, Coleridge,
Dickinson, Donne, Dryden, Eliot,
Emerson, Frost, Joyce, Keats,
Lawrence, Longfellow, Milton,
Pope, Shakespeare, Shelley,
Swift, Tennyson, Whitman,
Wordsworth, Yeats and other
pre-approved works. |
1.
Read thirty works from the list
below.
2. Submit a written response to
each.
3. In addition to the Senior
Thesis, submit a Minor Thesis on
a topic from the field of
Literature (must be accepted by
the Graduation Committee).
A
student's grasp of his or her
minor will also be tested in the
Oral Defense.
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CLASSICS
LIST
- Adams,
Henry, any novels
- Aeschylus,
any plays
- Alcott, Little Women
- Aristophanes,
any plays
- Aristotle, Poetics, Interpretation
- Austen,
any novels
- Beowulf
- Bronte,
any novels
- Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
- Cervantes, Don Quixote
- Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
- Conrad,
any novels
- Cooper,
James Fenimore, any novels
- Clark, The Ox-Bow Incident
- Dante, The Divine Comedy,
any volume
- Defoe,
any novels
- Dickens,
any novels
- Disraeli, Sybil
- Dostoevski,
any novels
- Douglas, The Robe
- Eliot,
George, any novels
- Euripides,
any plays
- Flaubert, Madame Bovary
- Forster, A Passage to India
- Hamilton, Mythology
- Hardy,
Thomas, any novels
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Political Science Minor
20 Credits
Minors must be combined with a Bachelors of Arts program
Estimated costs: $2,760 ($138 per credit hour)
George Washington said, "A primary object...should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important?" The Political Science major emphasizes the science of government in the tradition of Moses, Aristotle, More, Locke, Burke, Madison, Acton, Tocqueville, Mill and
Bastiat.
Students
are not required to minor. Those
who do choose to minor must
complete the minor requirements
in addition to their
Statesmanship major. Once
completed, minors carry 20
academic credits. Students may
complete more than one minor.
The four possible minors are
Education, Entrepreneurial
Business, Literature and
Political Science.
MINOR REQUIREMENTS
Requirements
for the Political Science Minor
are as follows: |
- Jefferson, "A
Summary View of the Rights
of British America,"
"The Good Sense of
the People," Bill
for Establishing Religious
Freedom, "Against
the National Bank,"
"A Simple and
Inexpensive
Government" select
writings and letters
- Kegan, History of
Warfare
- Kennan, The
"X" Article
- Lincoln, Collected
Speeches
- Lindbergh, "America
First"
- Luther, Defense
Before the Diet of Worms
- MacArthur, Farewell
Address to Congress
- Madison, "On the
Balance of National and
Local Authority," Bill
of Rights Proposal, Notes
of the Federal Convention,
"Concerning Public
Opinion,"
"Political
Parties,"
"General Welfare and
the Limits of Governmental
Authority," "For
Congressional Leadership
in Foreign Affairs,"
"On the Commerce
Clause," select
letters, writings
- Madison, Hamilton, Jay, The
Federalist Papers
- Marshall, "The
Marshall Plan"
- Mills, "The
Structure of Power in the
United States"
- Milton, Paradise Lost
- Montesquieu, The
Spirit of the Laws
- Phillips, Lincoln on
Leadership, The Founding
Fathers on Leadership,
Martin Luther King Jr. on
Leadership
- Plutarch, Lives (Lycurgus,
Aristides, Pericles,
Cicero, Caesar, Alexander,
and others)
- Polybius, Histories
- Roosevelt, F.D., First
Inaugural Address, "The Four
Freedoms," "A
New Bill of Rights," Pearl
Harbor Address, "Call
for Federal
Responsibility,"
"A Program for Social
Security," select
speeches
- Roosevelt, T.,
"Corollary to the
Monroe Doctrine,"
"On Carrying a Big
Stick"
- Shakespeare, Julius
Caesar, King Henry IV I,
King Henry VIII, any plays
- Skousen, The Majesty of
God's Law
- Sophocles, Oedipus
Rex, Antigone, any
plays
- Speeches, Clay, Webster,
Lodge, Coolidge,
Eisenhower, Kennedy, King,
Reagan, U.S. Presidents
- Solzhenitsyn, "A
World Split Apart,"
any books
- Stedman, Our Ageless
Constitution
- Sun Tzu, The Art of
War
- Taft, "Opposition
to Roosevelt War
Policies"
- Thucydidies, History
of Peloponnesian Wars
- Washington, Inaugural
and Farewell Addresses,
select letters, writings
- Weaver, Ideas Have
Consequences
- Wilson, James, "The
Legal Right to Form a
Government,"
"The Study of law in
the United States"
- Wilson, W.,
"Congressional
Government,"
"The Study of
Administration"
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1.
Read thirty works from the list
below.
2. Submit a written response to
each.
3. Complete at least two
government internships.
4. In addition to the Senior
Thesis, submit a Minor Thesis on
a topic from the field of
Political Science.
A
students grasp of his or her
minor will also be tested in the
Oral Defense.
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Reading List
- Adams,
Abigail, "On
Presidential
Elections," select
letters
- Adams,
John, "The Rule of Law
and the Rule of Men,"
"The Formulation of New
State Governments,"
"The Foundation of
Government," "The
Meaning of the American
Revolution," select
letters, writings
- Allison,
"Conceptual Models and
the Cuban Missile
Crisis"
- Aquinas, On Kingship
- Aristotle, Rhetoric, select
works
- Augustine, The City of God
- Aurelius, Meditations
- Benson, Crossfire, Freedom to
Farm
- Berry, The Unsettling of America
- Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws
of England
- Bork, The Tempting of America
- Burke,
"On Conciliation with
the American Colonies,"
select writings
- Chang, Wild Swans
- Churchill,
"Blood, Toil, Tears and
Sweat," "Miracle
of Dunkirk,"
"Battle of
Britain," "Iron
Curtain," History of
the Second World War,
all writings
- Cicero, The Republic, The Laws
- Clausewitz, On War
- Dante, De Monarchia
- Ebenstein, Great Political Thinkers
- Franklin,
select letters, writings
- Freud, Civilization and its
Discontents
- Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire
- Goethe, Faust
- Hamilton,
select letters, writings
- Homer, Illiad, Odyssey
- Hoover,
"Against the Proposed
New Deal"
- Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of
a Slave Girl
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