Liberal Arts Program in Ventura County, CA

Thomas Aquinas College:
Thomas Aquinas College, located in Santa Paula (65 miles northwest of Los Angeles), California, is a four-year, Catholic liberal arts college offering a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts degree program. Thomas Aquinas College is accredited by the American Academy for Liberal Education, a national accrediting agency, and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, a regional accrediting board for California and Guam.

- Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts

There are no majors, no minors, no electives, no specializations.
The arts and sciences which comprise the curriculum are organized into a comprehensive whole. The College aims at providing its students with a thorough grounding in the arts of thinking and a broad and integrated vision of the whole of life and learning.

There are no lectures.
Teaching and learning demand a meeting of the minds. The course is, therefore, essentially a sustained conversation in tutorials, seminars, and laboratories guided by tutors who assist students in the work of reading, analyzing, and evaluating the great works which are central in the collected wisdom of Civilization. Classes are Socratic in method and do not exceed twenty students. Every student has daily practice in the arts of language, grammar, and rhetoric; in reading and critical analysis of texts; in mathematical demonstration; in laboratory investigation.

There are no textbooks.
The prescribed, four-year interdisciplinary course of studies is based on the original works of the best, most influential authors, poets, scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, and theologians of Western civilization. In every classroom, the primary teachers are the authors of the "Great Books" from Aristotle, Homer and Euclid to St. Thomas Aquinas, T. S. Eliot and Albert Einstein.