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Thomas Aquinas College
10000 N. Ojai Road
Santa Paula, CA 93060-9621
Official telephone: (800) 634-9797
Toll-free telephone: (800) 634-9797
Fax number: (805) 525-9342
Website: www.thomasaquinas.edu
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| Screen last updated on: September 14, 2006 |
| Year established: |
1971 |
| Type of school: |
college, private (nonprofit) |
| Programs: |
4-year undergraduate |
| Religious affiliation: |
yes |
| Campus enrollment: |
359 students |
| Coeducational information: |
coeducational institution, founded as coeducational institution |
| Location description: |
in or near a rural community (pop. under 5,000) |
| Application fee: |
$0 |
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| Street address: |
Thomas Aquinas College
10000 N. Ojai Road
Santa Paula, CA 93060-9621 |
| Mailing address: |
Thomas Aquinas College
10000 N. Ojai Road
Santa Paula, CA 93060-9621 |
| Main telephone numbers: |
800 634-9797
800 634-9797 (toll free)
805 525-9342 (fax) |
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| Main homepage: |
www.thomasaquinas.edu |
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| SAT number: |
4828 |
| ACT number: |
0425 |
| FAFSA number: |
G23580 |
| FICE number: |
10448 |
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| UNIQUE/SPECIAL PROGRAMS |
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The College's "Great Books" program of Catholic liberal education is unique in American higher education. The arts and sciences which comprise liberal education are organized at Thomas Aquinas College into a comprehensive whole: there are no majors, no minors, no electives, no specializations. The prescribed, four-year interdisciplinary course of studies is based on the original works of the best, most influential authors, philosophers, mathematicians, poets, scientists, and theologians of Western civilization. Homer, Plato, Euclid, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Shakespeare, and Einstein are, among others, the primary teachers. There are no textbooks.
There are no lectures. The course is a sustained conversation in tutorials, seminars, and laboratories guided by tutors who assist students in the work of reading, analyzing, and evaluating these great books. Since classes are "Socratic" in method and do not exceed twenty students, every student has regular practice in the arts of language, grammar, and rhetoric; in reading and critical analysis of texts; in mathematical demonstration; in laboratory investigation.
Thomas Aquinas 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. |
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