At the heart of the Thomas Aquinas College curriculum are the
great books, the original works of the greatest minds in our
tradition, both ancient and modern. The College’s syllabus  is
composed exclusively of the seminal texts that have, for good or
for ill, animated Western civilization. Each one speaks to the
reality at the core of human experience, a reality that
transcends time or place. Studied carefully and sequentially,
the great books explore the workings of the natural world,
consider the most profound realities about the human person, and
culminate in a contemplation of the greatest mysteries of God
Himself. Members of the faculty guide small groups of students
in Socratic discussions  of these works, but the ultimate
teachers are the authors themselves, especially the Church’s
Universal Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas . Yet the great books are
not the objects of study at the College. Students here do not
read these works — Homer, Shakespeare, Plato, Euclid, St.
Augustine, Descartes, Newton, and so many