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Giving Thanks with President Kyle Washut
The great Roman statesman and orator, Marcus Tulius Cicero said:In truth while I wish to be adorned with every virtue, yet there is nothing which I can esteem more highly than being and appearing
Captain Ahab and ”Moby Dick” with Dr. Virginia Arbery
In Herman Melvilles Moby Dick, we meet Captain Ahab for the first time long after the Pequod has left Nantucket. There was, says Melvilles Ishmael, an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate
”The Merchant of Venice” with Dr. Adam Cooper
Thequalityofmercyisnotstrained.ItdroppethasthegentlerainfromheavenUpontheplacebeneath.Itistwiceblest:Itblessethhimthatgivesandhimthattakes.Tismightiestinthemightiest;
”Leisure the Basis of Culture” with Dr. Michael Bolin
Once every semester at Wyoming Catholic College, we hold an All-School Seminar. For the fall seminar, a week ago, all of our students and faculty read and discussed Piepers Leisure: The Basis of Cult
Science and Scientific Knowing with Dr. Scott Olsson
We're regularly told that the only kind of knowing of which we can be certain is "scientific" knowing. What does that mean? How does it apply to the world and our everyday lives.Mathematician Dr. Sco
Teaching the Old Testament with Dr. Jim Tonkowich
The theology curricular track at Wyoming Catholic College begins with "Salvation History in the Old Testament." The course is, for the most part, reading the narrative portions of the Old Testament fr
Learning to Write Well with Dr. Tiffany Schubert
Reading, said Sir Francis Bacon, maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.Student academic life at Wyoming Catholic College mirrors Bacons comment. Our students read t
Homer’s ”Iliad” with Dr. Glenn Arbery
The Iliad, first of Homers great epics, tells the tale of the war between Greece and Troy as it unfolded on the plains outside that ancient city. And the focus of the tale is Achilleus, the greatest
Fall Outdoor Week and Rafting the Canyon of Lodore with Mr. Paul Milligan
To graduate from Wyoming Catholic College, students need to spend at least ten weeks in the wilderness. That includes their three-week freshman expedition, a one-week freshman winter trip just after C
Aristotle’s ”Nicomachean Ethics” with Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos
Every art and every investigation, and similarly every action and pursuit, wrote Aristotle at the beginning of his book on ethics, is considered to aim at some good. Hence the good has rightly been