Graduate Studies
Theology, the arts, and education are the high ground in today’s culture wars. Whoever holds these strategic areas controls the shape and direction of both the City of God and the City of Man for generations to come. These areas have always been fierce battlegrounds, but the stakes have never been higher for the future of our children, communities, and churches.

To equip the next generation of theologically informed creative writers and students of literature and culturally informed theologians, New Saint Andrews offers a Master of Arts in Theology & Letters.

To advance and sustain the remarkable revival of classical Christian learning witnessed over the past 30 years, the College offers two Classical Christian Studies graduate degrees designed for working educators, home schooling parents, and aspiring classical Christian teacher-scholars.

Truth, Goodness and Beauty
As with our classical Christian undergraduate program, the College’s graduate programs build on the foundation of the classical Christian tradition. The classical Christian paradigm for higher learning emphasizes truth, goodness and beauty, instead of the unholy modern trinity of pragmatism, specialization, and power. The integrative nature of classical Christian higher learning highlights the coherence of all things in Christ and reflects the unity-and-diversity of our Triune Creator. From their first introductory Master’s course to the capstone writing project, the College’s graduate students grow to understand and appreciate the Trinitarian glories of truth, goodness and beauty in all their academic pursuits and in the personal bonds forged between the students, their professor-mentors, and the wider College community.

Classical Christian Studies
The New Saint Andrews Classical Christian Studies graduate program offers both a two-year Masters of Studies degree and a one-year Graduate Certificate. The program’s low-residency plan allows working educators, home schooling parents, and aspiring scholar-teachers scheduling flexibility while broadening their grasp of the classical Christian paradigm, the classical and medieval worlds, and the Latin language. The program’s modular design also allows working graduate students flexibility in course selection to fit their particular career interests and schedules. Students admitted to the program have the unique privilege of pursuing a Master’s degree under some of the Master teachers who launched the revival classical Christian learning in America.

Two-page Profile on the Classical Christian Studies program

Trinitarian Theology and Culture
Students enrolling in the College’s two-year Masters of Arts in Theology & Letters program devote themselves to the integration of theology, creative writing, literary studies, cultural criticism, and research. This innovative graduate program does not confine the study of theology to the boundaries of ministerial work, but broadens its vision and role to frame the creative and literary worlds with Trinitarian insights. Likewise, the M.A. program rejects the idea that creativity in the arts can occur only in a moral and theological vacuum. Rather, it seeks to uncork a culture of creativity that reflects the wild exuberance of the Triune Creator of heaven and earth. The more writers, artists, and scholars of the arts understand theology, the more they will be able to understand and imitate the unbounded imagination of the Author of the universe.

One-page Profile on the Theology & Letters program

Theology & Letters, M.A.

A Trinitarian Vision for Incarnational Living and Wordsmithing
The M.A. in Theology & Letters is a limited enrollment, academically rigorous, two-year course of post-graduate studies for those aspiring to be theologically informed creative writers and students of literature and/or culturally informed theologians. Students receive the close, personal attention of the graduate faculty, who serve as their teachers, mentors, guides, role models, and friends from the first day of class to graduation, and beyond. The M.A. affords students a unique opportunity to explore both literature and theology and to give their creative writing skills a theological foundation. Students interested in writing careers have the opportunity to work closely with the College's professionals in residence who are experienced writers, editors, screenwriters, publicists, and literary agents.

The program requires 32 credit hours of course work in theology, creative writing, literature, and cultural seminars, plus scholarly research or creative writing projects, and a final oral examination.

Limited Enrollment
Enrollment in the program is limited. Full-time applicants are given priority, but a limited number of exceptionally qualified part-time applicants may be admitted as space allows.

General M.A. Requirements (32 credits)
The M.A. degree requirements include:

8 cr. (4-2cr. courses) Master's Foundations courses
20 cr. (10-2cr. courses) Seminars or Writing Workshops, selected from

Theology Seminars
Cultural Seminars
Literature Seminars, and
Writing Workshops

4 cr. (2-2 cr. courses) Two Research Projects or Two Creative Writing Projects

Pass Final Oral Exam
Attend the Graduate Forum
Participate in co-curricular activities

Research and Creative Writing Projects, and Capstone Projects
At the end of the first year, M.A. students must submit a 25-35-page research paper or creative writing project (of an approved length appropriate to the nature of the creative work). These papers and projects must demonstrate the student’s academic progress to date and his or her potential to successfully complete the degree. Students who do not successfully complete the first year research or creative writing project may be dropped from the program.

In the second year, M.A. students must submit a 25-35 page capstone research paper or creative writing project (of an approved length) which embodies the culmination of their studies and demonstrates the mastery of the academic issues and/or creative achievement expected of a Master’s degree recipient. Part-time matriculating students must submit their required research papers or creative writing projects at least once every other academic year.

Graduate Forum
All resident graduate students are expected to attend and participate in the weekly Graduate Forum. The hour-long forum is designed to showcase faculty and student scholarly and creative work and to provide a venue for constructive feedback.

Faculty Mentors
Each M.A. student is assigned a “Faculty Mentor” who will be responsible for the general advising and oversight of the student’s progress and personal development while enrolled in the program. Faculty mentors oversee and evaluate their student’s research or creative writing projects.

Worship & Service
Because theology is not an impersonal academic discipline, the College encourages the M.A. students and faculty to nurture the Christian virtues through close interactions and accountability, and to participate actively in one or more of the local community ministries and outreach programs sponsored by churches in Moscow. A few of the approved ministries and service opportunities available to students may be found on the websites of Christ Church (www.christkirk.com) and Trinity Reformed Church (www.trinitykirk.com).

Master's Foundational Theology Courses
Biblical Structure & Hermeneutics
Protology & Eschatology
Task & Context of Christian Scholarship
The Trinity

Theology Courses
Anthropology, Biblical
Apocrypha
Christology
Gospels-Acts
Liturgical Theology
New Testament Systematics
Old Testament Systematics
Pauline Epistles
Pentateuch
Revelation
Soteriology
Early Medieval Theology*
Later Medieval Theology*
Reformation Theology/Renaissance Philosophy*
Other Selected Topics in Theology

Cultural Seminars
Christian Worldview
Empire
Epistemology
Philosophy
Beauty
Philosophy of Science
Politics & the Christian Commonwealth
Sacred Architecture
Greek Philosophy*
Roman Philosophy*
Other Selected Topics in Culture

Literature Seminars and Writing Workshops
Age of Sidney
Austen
Dostoevsky
Hamlet
Shakespeare & Desire
Shakespearean Comedies
Shakespeare’s Classical World
J.R.R. Tolkien
Theological Poetics
Greek Literature*
Roman Literature*
Early Medieval Literature*
Later Medieval Literature*
Renaissance Literature*
Workshop: The Literary Agency
Workshop: Novel Disciplines
Workshop: Poetry Mechanics
Workshop: Polemics-Satire
Other Selected Topics in Literature and Writing

(*Indicates CCS courses which are only offered during the low-residence CCS terms, but may be applied to the MA degree)

For more information about the Theology & Letters program, contact John Sawyer at (208) 882-1566.

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Classical Christian Studies, M.St.

A Master's Degree Program Designed for Educators
New Saint Andrews College invites applications from qualified prospective students for admission to its innovative 32-credit Master of Studies (M.St.) program in Classical Christian Studies. The program’s course schedule meets the needs of working educators and other interested students who can’t take time off work, but wish to . . .

• Gain a broader understanding of the classical world from a Christian perspective
• Enhance their knowledge of classical and medieval culture, especially in rhetoric, literature, philosophy, and the arts
• Become more effective in the delivery of classical Christian instruction
• Develop stronger skills in the classical languages, especially Latin and Greek
• Deepen their biblical knowledge and refine their ability to apply the Christian worldview to classical pedagogy, and
• Strengthen their understanding of the classical Christian paradigm of education at the primary and secondary levels.

The 32-credit Master of Studies in Classical Christian Studies offers practicing educators, who hold a bachelor’s degree, an opportunity to enhance their knowledge of classical culture, the biblical tradition, and Trinitarian worldview. The program will strengthen students’s academic abilities and biblical insights. The Master of Studies Program allows students to learn from some of the most important leaders of the classical Christian education revival. It will broaden their understanding and appreciation of classical antiquity and the medieval tradition from a distinctive Trinitarian perspective. Courses taken in the Graduate Certificate program can apply to the Master of Studies in Classical Christian Studies program.

Convenient In-residence Summer Session
Working educators who can’t get away during the regular academic year will appreciate the program’s convenient intensive two-week summer course modules. The Master’s program can be completed in two and a half years.

General M.St. Requirements (32 credits)

1. Twelve 2-credit (24 cr) Course Modules

a. Eight 2-cr. Course Modules selected from:

The Task and Context of Christian Scholarship
Christian Worldview Seminar
Christian Education Seminar
History of Classical Christian Education
Classical Rhetoric Seminar
Principia Mathematica Seminar
Natural Philosophy Seminar
Hebrew Traditio
Greek Traditio
Roman Traditio
Medieval Traditio
Other approved courses

b. Four 2-cr. Course Modules selected from:

Active Latin Pedagogy
Latin Literature
Active Greek Pedagogy
Greek Literature
Hebrew Morphology
Hebrew Literature
Other Classical Language Electives

2. Three 2-credit (6 cr) Directed Graduate Readings

3. One 2-credit (2 cr) Integrative Essay

Two-Year M.St. Program Plan/Schedule
August I (One week): Residence, 4 cr.
Sept.-Dec.I : Non-Residence: Directed Readings, 2 cr
January I (One week): Residence, 4 cr.
Jan.-May I: Non-Residence: Directed Readings, 2 cr
June I (One week): Residence, 4 cr.
August II (One week): Residence, 4 cr.
Sept.-Dec.II: Non-Residence: Directed Readings, 2 cr
January II (One week): Residence, 4 cr.
Jan.-May II: Non-Residence: Integrative Essay, 2 cr
June II (One week): Residence, 4 cr.(2 courses plus presentation / defense of Integrative Essay)

Courses
The Task and Context of Christian Scholarship
Christian Worldview Seminar
Christian Education Seminar
History of Classical Christian Education
Classical Rhetoric Seminar
Principia Mathematica Seminar
Natural Philosophy Seminar
Hebrew Traditio
Greek Traditio
Roman Traditio
Medieval Traditio
Greek Literature
Roman Literature
Early Medieval Literature
Later Medieval Literature
Renaissance Literature
Greek Philosophy
Roman Philosophy

Other approved courses

Intensive Latin
Spoken Latin
Intensive Greek
Spoken Greek
Classical Literature
Medieval Literature
Classical Language Electives

Directed Graduate Readings

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Graduate Certificate in Classical Christian Studies

A Graduate Certificate Program Designed for Educators
New Saint Andrews College invites applications from qualified prospective students for admission to its innovative 16-credit Graduate Certicate (Grad.Cert.) in Classical Christian Studies program. The program’s course schedule meets the needs of working educators and other interested students who can’t take time off work, but wish to . . .

• Gain a broader understanding of the classical world from a Christian perspective
• Enhance their knowledge of classical and medieval culture, especially in rhetoric, literature, philosophy, and the arts
• Become more effective in the delivery of classical Christian instruction
• Develop stronger skills in the classical languages, especially Latin and Greek
• Deepen their biblical knowledge and refine their ability to apply the Christian worldview to classical pedagogy, and
• Strengthen their understanding of the classical Christian paradigm of education at the primary and secondary levels.

The 16-credit certificate program in Classical Christian Studies offers practicing educators, who hold a bachelor’s degree, an opportunity to enhance their knowledge of classical culture, the biblical tradition, and Trinitarian worldview. The program will strengthen students’s academic abilities and biblical insights. The Graduate Certificate Program allows students to learn from some of the most important leaders of the classical Christian education revival. It will broaden their understanding and appreciation of classical antiquity and the medieval tradition from a distinctive Trinitarian perspective. Courses taken in the Graduate Certificate program can apply to the Master of Studies in Classical Christian Studies program.

Convenient Summer & Winter Course Schedule for Educators
Working educators who can’t get away during the regular academic year will appreciate the program’s convenient intensive two-week long summer course modules. The Graduate Certificate program can be completed in one and a half years.

General Grad. Cert. Requirements (16 credits)

1. Six 2-credit (12 cr) Course Modules

a. Four 2-cr. Course Modules from:

The Task and Context of Christian Scholarship
Christian Worldview Seminar
Christian Education Seminar
History of Classical Christian Education
Classical Rhetoric Seminar
Principia Mathematica Seminar
Natural Philosophy Seminar
Hebrew Traditio
Greek Traditio
Roman Traditio
Medieval Traditio
Other approved courses

b. Two 2-cr. Course Modules from:

Active Latin Pedagogy
Latin Literature
Active Greek Pedagogy
Greek Literature
Hebrew Morphology
Hebrew Literature
Other Classical Language Electives

2. Two 2-credit (6 cr) Directed Graduate Readings

One-Year Grad.Cert. Program Plan/Schedule
August (One week): Residence, 4 cr.
Sept.-Dec.: Non-Residence: Directed Readings, 2 cr
January (One week): Residence, 4 cr.
Jan.-May: Non-Residence: Directed Readings, 2 cr
June (One week): Residence, 4 cr.

Courses
The Task and Context of Christian Scholarship
Christian Worldview Seminar
Christian Education Seminar
History of Classical Christian Education
Classical Rhetoric Seminar
Principia Mathematica Seminar
Natural Philosophy Seminar
Hebrew Traditio
Greek Traditio
Roman Traditio
Medieval Traditio
Other approved courses

Intensive Latin
Intensive Greek
Classical Literature
Medieval Literature
Classical Language Electives

Directed Graduate Readings

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Graduate Admissions
The College invites qualified men and women who hold Bachelor degrees to submit applications for admission to pursue graduate study at New Saint Andrews. The graduate degree programs are limited enrollment, academically rigorous post-graduate courses of study.

Full-time applicants for the M.A. degree are given priority, but a limited number of exceptionally qualified part-time applicants may be admitted as space allows. The M.St. and Graduate Certificate courses in Classical Christian Studies are modular, allowing matriculating students to take the courses at their own pace during the summer and winter months. Because of the limited enrollment nature of the graduate programs, all applicants are encouraged to apply before December 1. Only completed applications can be considered. The College accepts late applicants, but admission is determined on a space available basis only.

Applicant Qualifications
Applicants must hold at least a bachelor's degree (or anticipate receipt of the degree prior to enrollment) in any field from an accredited institution. Applicants should not only possess a strong academic record (high grade point average, academic honors, etc.), but also a mature, balanced ,and faithful Christian life that demonstrates the integration of their faith in community service, vocation, and everyday life.

Application Deadlines

*Prospective graduate students should contact the Graduate Admissions Director for information on space availability prior to submitting a late application.

Graduate Application Checklist

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Graduate School Tuition and Fees
The cost of attending New Saint Andrews’s graduate programs is based a single cost per credit rate of $450. Additional applicable fees may apply.

Tuition Agreements and Payments
New Saint Andrews depends on the student tuition payments made in a timely and orderly manner. The College provides a tuition payment agreement to each student prior to the beginning of the school year so that both the College and its students can plan their budgets accordingly. Tuition agreements distributed by the College's Bursar's Office each spring must be returned by the posted deadline, accompanied by a $500 non-refundable confirmation deposit. Because the College limits enrollment, students who fail to submit their tuition agreements and deposits by the posted deadline may lose their privilege to enroll the following year and the College may give their place to another eligible applicant.

Special M.A. Tuition Rates and Fees
Special tuition rates and fees are assessed for M.A. course work done during the summer (such as the Intensive Summer Hebrew and Greek courses) or by special arrangement outside the regular academic terms and are not included in or based on the student's regular tuition rate.

Drop/Add Fee:
$5 for dropping or adding after the second week of each term.

Late Fee:
$50 is charged to all payments that are more than three business days late. A service charge of 1.5 percent per month will be charged on all past due accounts.

Diploma Fee:
$50 is charged to cover the costs associated with graduation application processing and diploma printing.

Graduate Hood Orders:
Graduate students who wish to participate in the Commencement ceremonies and be hooded by their mentor-professor must purchase the appropriate academic hood for their degree through the College. Students should order their hoods at the time they apply for graduation. Students who do not wish to participate in the Commencement ceremonies may also purchase a hood through the College. For current prices on graduate hoods, please contact the College at 208-882-1566 or info@nsa.edu.

Library Overdue Book Fines:
25 cents per day per book.

Vehicle Registration Fee:
$55 per year per automobile used to attend New Saint Andrews classes and events downtown.

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