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© 2012 Adler Aquinas Institute
Doctoral Degree Programs offered through Harrison Middleton University in collaboration with the Adler-Aquinas Institute:
Doctor of Arts
Doctor of Education
Both of these Doctoral degree programs require completion of 60 credit hours. The course titles are listed below. All courses are distance learning courses and do not require the physical presence of the student. A detailed listing of the required texts and course descriptions will be posted on or before April 15, 2012.
Upon successful completion of the degree requirements, the foregoing doctoral degrees will be awarded by Harrison Middleton University, a great books, great ideas, great conversations, distance learning university.
The following is summary information prepared by AAI. Exact HMU course titles, subjects, course descriptions and their proper order may be viewed at CATALOG.
Doctor of Arts
(All prescribed courses listed below are required for this degree program and must be completed in the order listed.)
**Student designed course credits will be reduced by the amount of prerequisite courses required. If no prerequisite courses are required, the student will be able to design thirteen credit hours for each concentration.
First Concentration
Great Idea: Being
| HUM 701 – The Great Conversation: The Cornerstone Course | 4 credit hours |
| PHLR 707-4 – Being and truth | 3 credit hours |
| PHLR 707-6 – The cause of existence | 1 credit hour |
| PHLR 707-7 – The divisions or modes of being | 2 credit hours |
| PHLR 707-7b – The divisions or modes of being: substance and its divisions | 5 credit hours |
| Student Designed Course | 2 credit hours |
| Student Designed Course | 4 credit hours |
| Student Designed Course | 4 credit hours |
| Student Designed Course | 3 credit hours |
| Comprehensive Examinations – Part One | |
| Second Concentration | |
| Great Idea: Being | |
| PHLR 707-7c – The divisions or modes of being: potency, and actuality | 3 credit hours |
| PHLR 707-7d – The distinction between real and ideal being, or between natural | 4 credit hours |
| being and being in mind | |
| PHLR 707-7d(4) – The being of relations | 4 credit hours |
| Student Designed Course | 2 credit hours |
| Student Designed Course | 4 credit hours |
| Student Designed Course | 4 credit hours |
| Student Designed Course | 3 credit hours |
| Comprehensive Examinations – Part Two | |
| HUM 702 – Doctoral Capstone Course | 8 credit hours |
| Total Credit Hours: | 60 credit hours |
Doctor of Education
(All prescribed courses listed below are required for this degree program and must be completed in the order listed.)
First Concentration
Great Idea: Education
| EDU 701 – The Great Conversation: The Cornerstone Course | 4 credit hours | |
| EDU 720-1 – The means and ends of education | 5 credit hours | |
| EDU 720-2 – The kinds of education: physical, moral, liberal, professional, religious | 1 credit hour | |
| EDU 720-3 – The training of the body & the cultivation of bodily skills: gymnastics, manual work | 1 credit hour | |
| EDU 720-4 – The formation of a good character, virtue, a right will: the cultivation of aesthetic taste | 5 credit hours | |
| EDU 720-5 – The improvement of the mind by teaching and learning | 5 credit hours | |
| EDU 720-6 – The acquisition of techniques: preparation for the vocations, arts & professions | 2 credit hours | |
| Comprehensive Examination – Part One | ||
| Second Concentration | ||
| Great Idea: Education | ||
| EDU 720-7 – Religious education | 4 credit hours | |
| EDU 720-8 – Education and the state | 5 credit hours | |
| EDU 798 – Special Topics Readings in Religious Education | 4 credit hours | |
| EDU 798 – Special Topics Adler and Education | 4 credit hours | |
| EDU 798 – Special Topics Catholic Education | 4 credit hours | |
| EDU 720-9 – Historical and biographical observations concerning the institutions | 4 credit hours | |
| and practices of education | ||
| Comprehensive Examinations – Part Two | ||
| EDU 702 – Legal Research and Scholarly Legal Opinion | 4 credit hours | |
| Doctoral Capstone – Applied Project | 8 credit hours | |
| Total Credit Hours: | 60 credit hours | |
