Step 1: Review – Find Payment Plan, Waitlist, and Refund policies on our Tuition page.
Step 2: Research – View course descriptions, syllabi, and textbooks below. Search for specific classes using filters.
Step 3: Register – Click the button below to view instructors, class times, and available seats!
Please note: Fall classes start August 19. Fall Grace Period ends September 15th.
ALL COURSES
History of the Ancient World
Full-year course. A survey of ancient cultures from the earliest written records through the removal of the last Roman “emperor” in 476 AD, with special attention to the interaction between humans and their environment and the relationship of philosophy to the development of states. Highlights include the fall of Ur; the conquest of Troy; the Republic of Rome; the Han Dynasty; and the fall of Rome. When taken in combination with our Ancient Literature course, this provides the integrated Great Books and History coverage recommended in The Well-Trained Mind.
History of the Medieval World
Full-year course. A survey of medieval nations from 476 through 1453, covering the disintegration of the Roman empire, the rise of the Holy Roman empire, the struggle between papacy and nations, the origins of the modern nation-state, and the rediscovery of Aristotle that led to the Renaissance. When taken in combination with our Medieval and Renaissance Literature course, this provides the integrated Great Books and History coverage recommended in The Well-Trained Mind.
History of the Renaissance and Early Modern World
Full-year course. A survey of world history from the capture of Constantinople until 1800, covering the European Renaissance, the Reformation, European explorations in the New World, the rise of slavery and African resistance, the Elizabethan Age, unification and isolation in Japan and China, the Moghul empire of India, Ottoman threats to the West, the Enlightenment, the American Revolution and establishment of the United States, the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, the foundations of the British empire, and the increasing influence of industrialization. When taken in combination with our Literature of the Early Modern World course, students will receive the integrated Great Books and History coverage recommended in The Well-Trained Mind.
U.S. History
Full-year course. U.S. History explores the dynamic encounters between the competing cultural ideals, economic drives, political affiliations, and ethical dilemmas which form the foundation of American life, from the colonial era through the Cold War. When taken in combination with our Literature of the New World course, students will receive the integrated Great Books and History coverage recommended in The Well-Trained Mind.
Advanced U.S. History
Full-year course. This course will prepare students to take the College Board’s Advanced Placement U.S. History Exam. When taken in combination with our Literature of the New World course, students will receive the integrated Great Books and History coverage recommended in The Well-Trained Mind.
Introduction to Philosophy and Ethics
Single-semester course (Spring only). Introduction to Ethics and Moral Philosophy challenges the high school student to learn and to acquire the skills necessary to think about, analyze, and discuss ethical dilemmas. This course will center around a three-fold theme of questions regarding the meaning of the word “Good.”—“What is the Good?”, “How can we know what is the Good?”, and “Can we live the Good in our lives?” The course will examine seminal texts from Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Immanuel Kant, among others, and will continue to examine contemporary ethical issues through the lens provided by these classic authors. Because this will be the first introduction for many students to these key thinkers, the passages selected will be abbreviated and the student’s work will focus on learning how to read these key thinkers and consider the questions they ask.
Reading for the Logic Stage
Full-year course. Reading for the Logic Stage is designed to engage middle grade students in reading and literary discussion. Students will come together with their instructor once a week to talk about that week’s reading. The instructor will provide prompts for class discussion; these questions will guide that week’s discussion. Students will also be given the opportunity to serve as discussion facilitators throughout the semester.
Summer Reading Club 1
Summer course. The WTMA Summer Reading Club is designed to keep logic-stage students engaged in reading and discussion over the summer break. Students will come together with their instructor once a week to talk about that week’s reading. Course Theme: “Unlikely Heroes and Epic Adventures”
Summer Reading Club 2
Summer course. The WTMA Summer Reading Club is designed to keep logic-stage students engaged in reading and discussion over the summer break. Students will come together with their instructor once a week to talk about that week’s reading. Course Theme: “Magical Worlds and Talking Beasts”
Literature of the Ancient World
Full-year course. A survey of writing from the earliest written stories (with attention to their origins as oral tales) through the late classical/early medieval masterworks. When taken in combination with our Ancient History course, this provides the integrated Great Books and History coverage recommended in The Well-Trained Mind.
Literature of the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds
Full-year course. A survey of the most important works from the later Church Fathers through the sixteenth century/Elizabethan era. When taken in combination with our Medieval History course, this provides the integrated Great Books and History coverage recommended in The Well-Trained Mind.
Literature of the New World
Full-year course. A survey of the most important works of literature from the early settling of America to the modern day. When taken in combination with our U.S. History or Advanced U.S. History courses, this provides the integrated Great Books and History coverage recommended in The Well-Trained Mind.
Literature of the Early Modern World
Full-year course. A survey of literature, from the “first novel” through 1800. When taken in combination with History of the Renaissance and Early Modern World, students will receive the integrated Great Books and History coverage recommended in The Well-Trained Mind.
Shakespeare
One-semester course (Fall). In this course, students will go through a representative collection of some of Shakespeare’s most enduring plays, with a focus on enjoyment and appreciation of the Bard’s work. They will examine Shakespeare within his own context, how his works derive and relate to earlier literature and history, and Shakespeare’s prolific legacy in our world today.
The Graphic Novel: Between the Panels
One-semester course (Fall). This class aims to instill an understanding of graphic literature and how to read it. From the most basic elements of page and panel construction, to the psychological foundations of pictorial representation and image architecture, the student will emerge from the course equipped to analyze and assess all manner of graphic literature. Given its inherent ability to blur the boundaries separating text from image, silence from speech, sequential art—comics and graphic novels—is uniquely poised to pursue subjects that are equally resistant to categorization. In fact, it is this ability to distort and reconfigure expectations that makes thinking of the comic as simply a hybrid work of prose and graphics a wild underestimation. Because, when all is said and done, what happens between the panels, in the formal emptiness where both image and text end, is what allows the graphic novel to reveal so much about how and why we do what we do.
Kinesiology & Nutrition II: Nutrition and Healthy Choices for the Active Student
Single-semester course (Spring only). In Kinesiology & Nutrition II: Nutrition and Healthy Choices for the Active Student, students will examine the basic of nutrition, including the recommended dietary guidelines; selection, preparation, and serving of nutritious foods; building a strong foundation of lifelong nutrition; and the pitfalls of fad diets and other shortcuts that appear under the guise of nutrition.
Showing all 23 results