Freshman year
Homer, Aeschylus and Sophocles, Hebrew Bible, Plato, Aristotle 4 credits | Five Nikāyas, Visuddhimagga, Sixth Patriarch Sūtra 4 credits |
Daodejing, Confucius, Zhuangzi, Hanfeizi 8 credits | Cicero, E.B. White, George Orwell, Bizzell and Herzberg 6 credits |
Classical Chinese, using Buddhist and Chinese classics 8 credits |
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Sophomore year
Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Machiavelli, Rousseau 4 credits | Lotus Sūtra, Avataṃsaka Sūtra, Heart Sūtra, Ārya Nāgārjuna’s Letter to a Friend 4 credits |
Upaniṣads, Mahābhārata, Purāṇas, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi 8 credits | Euclid’s Elements, Greek Geometry, Conics by Apollonius 4 credits |
Sanskrit, using Hindu and Buddhist texts 8 credits |
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Junior year
Kant, Leibniz, Nietzsche, Austen, Eliot, Kafka, Thoreau, Twain 4 credits | Śūraṅgama Sūtra, The Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna, Nāgārjuna 4 credits |
Huainanzi, Shiji, Tang Poetry, Zhuxi, Luo Guanzhong 4 credits | Classical Chinese or Sanskrit, using Buddhist, Hindu and Chinese classics 4 credits |
Aristotle, Goethe, Darwin, Archimedes, Pascal, Gay-Lussac, Bacon 8 credits | Descartes, Pascal, Newton, Dedekind 4 credits |
Common musical elements, melody, including intonation, phrasing, and texture 3 credits |
Senior year
Freud, Jung, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Dostoevsky, Faulkner, Tolstoy, Woolf 4 credits | Avataṃsaka Sūtra, Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra 4 credits |
Upaniṣads, Mahābhārata, Purāṇas, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi 4 credits | Cicero, E.B. White, George Orwell, Bizzell and Herzberg 4 credits |
Galileo, Newton, Descartes, Maxwell, Einstein, Bohr, Planck, Schrödinger 4 credits | Musical storytelling, repetition and variation, and functional harmony 3 credits |
In-depth study into one or multiple strands 4 credits |
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Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts Unit Distribution
A student who has successfully completed the four-year undergraduate curriculum is awarded the Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts. The undergraduate program consists of 120 semester units, with courses from ten strands. The following table illustrates the number of semester units required from each strand over four years.
| First | Second | Third | Fourth | Total | ||||
Semester | Fall | Spring | Fall | Spring | Fall | Spring | Fall | Spring |
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Buddhist | 4 |
| 4 |
| 4 |
| 4 |
| 16 |
Western |
| 4 |
| 4 |
| 4 |
| 4 | 16 |
Indian |
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| 4 | 4 |
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| 4 |
| 12 |
Chinese | 4 | 4 |
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| 4 |
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| 12 |
Rhetoric and | 3 | 3 |
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| 1 | 3 | 10 |
Language | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
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| 20 |
Mathematics |
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| 4 | 4 | 4 |
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| 12 |
Natural |
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| 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 12 |
Music |
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| 3 |
| 3 | 6 |
Capstone |
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| 2 | 2 | 4 |
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Hours per | 15 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 120 |