Why We Study ...

In 2010 College Dean Brian T. Kelly [1] began a series of presentations to the Board of Governors [2] about why the curriculum includes particular authors and subjects. Those talks are presented below, and new ones will be added as they are delivered.

• Defending Damascene [3]
• Reckoning with Rousseau [4]
  ... and other “Bad Guys”
• Why We Study Mathematics [5]
• The Gods in the Kitchen [6]
  Why We Study Jean Henri Fabre
• The Poet of Catholic Liberal Education [7]
  Why We Study Dante Alighieri
• A Great Apostle for Philosophy [8]
  Why We Study Plato
• The Way of Health and Hope and Love [9]
  Why We Study Dostoevsky
• Our Patron, Mentor, Muse, and Master [10]
  Why We Study St. Thomas Aquinas