Program Description
The Liberal Studies major is an interdisciplinary program that ensures
the flexibility needed in today’s market. It offers both breadth and depth.
Together with your advisor and other appropriate members of the faculty, you
will craft your curriculum to fit your individual needs and interests.
Doctoral graduates will demonstrate the capacities to:
1. Formulate viable research questions; manage
information, including conventional bibliographic and electronic information
retrieval methods; and design, conduct, and report original research,
contextualized within an international sphere of professional activity.
2. Show a profound respect for truth and
intellectual integrity, and for the ethics of research and scholarship
3. Explore key disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
norms and perspectives relevant to the relationship between the area of
specialization and international development.
4. Apply research to refine the international
development efforts of voluntary organizations, utilizing alternative
approaches while acting as a “change-agent” in seeking to address and solve
problems and issues in his or her organization.
5. Articulate and communicate effectively with
skills in listening, speaking, and writing, in order to disseminate the
results of research and scholarship by oral and written communication to a
variety of audiences.
6. Exhibit the knowledge of an informed
professional about the liberal arts in relation to the chosen field of
specialization, being able to evaluate the relevance and value of their
research to national and international communities of scholars and
co-laborers.
Achievement of these learning outcomes is measured by means of course
assignments, evaluation of field experience, coursework examination, and
completing the doctoral dissertation process.
Course Descriptions
Level 4
HUM 401
Humanities (20 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Tolstoy:
Anna Karenina;
Goethe:
Faust;
Hegel:
Phenomenology of Mind, Philosophy of History;
Flaubert:
Madame Bovary;
J. S. Mill: Utilitarianism;
Marx: Communist Manifesto;
Melville:
Billy Budd;
Willa Cather:
My Antonia;
Engels: The
Origin of The Family, Private Property, and the State;
Darwin: Origin of Species;
Nietzsche:
Beyond Good and Evil, Use and Abuse of History; Twain:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn;
Austen:
Emma;
Freud:
Psychopathology of Everyday Life;
Jung: (Review of
Psychology contribution); Newman:
Development of Christian Doctrine;
Ibsen:
A Doll's House;
Plato:
Phaedrus;
Vico:
The New Science (Selected readings); Tocqueville: Democracy in
America, The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of
1789; Lincoln and Douglas: Debates;
and O'Connor: Elizabeth: My Beloved South.
MAT 401
Mathematics (5 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Taylor:
(Review of Integral Calculus contribution); Dedekind: (Review of Theory of
Numbers contribution); and Lobachevski: (Review of Geometrical Researches on
the Theory of Parallels).
SCI 401
Science (5 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Einstein:
Relativity: The Special and General Theory;
Huygens:
Treatise on Light;
Maxwell: (Review of
Electricity and Magnetism contribution); Gilbert: (Review of De Magnete);
and Ampere: (Review of Magnetism contribution); Mills: The Grand Unified
Theory of Classical Quantum Mechanics; Moser: Introduction to the
Theory of Numbers; Meyers: (Review of Contributions to C++
Programming); American Institute of Physics: (Review of Heisenberg
Theory, Electrons, and Cosmology).
PHI 401
Philosophy (10 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Aristotle:
Metaphysics and
Aquinas:
On Being and
Essence.
THE 401 Theology (10 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae: On the Trinity, On the
Passion of Christ and
Luther: Large
Catechism.
Level 5
SCI 506
Science
(Required
for students that did not complete their BA degree at Trinity On-Line)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Newton: Principia (Selected readings); Heisenberg: (Review of
Uncertainty Principle; Feynman: (Review of Quantum Electrodynamics);
Einstein: (Review of Relativity: The Special and General Theory.)
HUM 502 Clashes of Cultures
(20 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Clifford Geertz: Deep Play:
Notes on the Balinese Cockfight; Carlos Fuente:
Two Shores; W. E. B. Du Bois:
Souls of Black Folk; Doris Lessing:
Antheap; Jonathan Swift:
A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms; Derek Walcott:
Poetry; E. M. Forster:
Questions for A Passage to India; and Jean Rhys: Questions for
Wide Sargasso Sea.
HUM 503 Happiness and Discontent
(10 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Aristotle: Highest Good; Gita Mehta:
A River Sutra (Selected readings); John Berger:
Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol; Mary Lavin:
Happiness; Reynolds Price: Endless Mountains;
Shakespeare: As You Like It;
Dickinson: (Selected poetry); Eliot:
Questions for Middlemarch; and David Malouf :
Questions for an Imaginary Life.
HUM 504 Order and Chaos
(20 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Nikolai Gogol: Overcoat;
Bhagavad-Gita (Selected readings); Gregor von Rezzori:
Troth; Euripides: Bacchae; Flannery O'Connor:
Everything That Rises Must Converge; Yeats:
Lapis Lazuli; Wallace Stevens:
Sunday Morning; Frost:
Design; Elizabeth Bishop:
Armadillo; Mikhail Bulgakov:
Questions for The Master and Margarita; and Chinua
Achebe: Questions for Things Fall
Apart.
Level 6
SCI 699 or
HUM 699 Dissertation - Research Emphasis (20 Credit Hours)
Committee Formation
Thesis Approval
Dissertation Submission
Defense of Dissertation
Publication of Dissertation
