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• Biola University: Torrey Honors Institute offers Great Books options. (La Mirada, CA)
• Boston University: An elective core curriculum is based on the Great Books. (Boston, MA)
• Brock University: The Liberal Studies Program is oriented toward the Great Books. (St. Catharines, Ontario, CAN)
• Central Washington University: A Great Books program is part of the William O. Douglas Honors College. (Ellensburg, WA)
• Christendom College: The core curriculum is based on the Great Books. (Front Royal, VA)
• Clemson University: Great Works of Western Civilization is an undergraduate minor. (Clemson, SC)
• College of St. Thomas More: The college is based on a single Great Books focus. (Fort Worth, TX)
• Columbia University: Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy is a year-long course. (New York, NY)
• Concordia University: The liberal arts college focuses on the Great Books. (Montreal, Quebec, CAN)
• Eastern University: Templeton Honors College has a Great Books core. (St. Davids, PA)
• Gutenberg College: The college features a broad-based Great Books curriculum. (Eugene, OR)
• Hillsdale College: The core curriculum includes Great Books courses. (Hillsdale, MI)
• Lawrence University: The freshman studies program focuses on the Great Books. (Appleton, WI)
• Lynchburg College: The Lynchburg College Symposium Readings Program revolves around the Great Books. (Lynchburg, VA)
• Magdalen College: The curriculum is based on the Great Books. (Warner, NH)
• Malaspina U: The liberal studies program focuses on the Great Books. (CAN)
• Mercer University: The Great Books program is one of two general education tracks in the College of Liberal Arts. (Macon, GA)
• Middle Tennessee State University: A Great Books minor is available. (Murfreesboro, TN)
• New Saint Andrews College: The curriculum is related to the classics and Great Books. (Moscow, ID)
• Northwestern State University of Louisiana: The Louisiana Scholars College combines Great Books-based courses with others. (Natchitoches, LA)
• Pepperdine University: Seaver College offers the Great Books colloquium as a four-course sequence on masterpieces of Western civilization. (Malibu, CA)
• Princeton University: The Great Books are part of the program of freshman seminars in the residential colleges. (Princeton, NJ)
• Quest University: The required first-year core includes many features of a classic Great Books approach. (Squamish, BC)
• Shimer College: One of the more extensive Great Books colleges, Shimer uses original source readings, rather than textbooks. (Chicago, IL)
• Southern Virginia University: The college offers a comprehensive liberal arts education based on the Great Books. (Buena Vista, VA)
• St. Anselm College: A major is offered in liberal studies in the Great Books. (Manchester, NH)
• St. John's College: St. John's is the model of the Great Books colleges. It features a four-year, nonelective curriculum in which students read, discuss, and write about the seminal works that have shaped the world. (Annapolis, MD)
• St. John's College: St. John's is the model of the Great Books colleges. It features a four-year, nonelective curriculum in which students read, discuss, and write about the seminal works that have shaped the world. (Santa Fe, NM)
• St. Mary's College: The Integral Liberal Arts Program includes a Great Books emphasis. (Notre Dame, IN)
• St. Olaf College: The Great Conversation is an integrated sequence of five courses taken over two years. (Northfield, MN)
• Temple University: The Intellectual Heritage Program is a group of foundation courses required for students in the college of arts and sciences. (Philadelphia, PA)
• Thomas Aquinas College: The college has a full Great Books curriculum. There are no majors or minors, no electives, and no specializations. (Santa Paula, CA)
• Thomas More College: All students take a six-hour humanities course through the four years. Much of the learning is based on the Great Books. Students also are required to study Latin or Greek. (Crestview Hills, KY)
• University of Chicago: The curriculum consists of a four-year sequence of Great Books readings. (Chicago, IL)
• University of Dallas: Constantin College of Liberal Arts core curriculum offers a comprehensive Great Books curriculum. (Irving, TX)
• University of North Texas: The Great Books program is an interdisciplinary major in the college of arts and sciences. (Denton, TX)
• University of Notre Dame: The Program of Liberal Studies is a three-year, prescribed sequence of seminars and specialized courses--or tutorials--anchored in the Western and Catholic traditions. (Notre Dame, IN)
• University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee: Through the college of letters and science, the university offers a certificate program that is grounded in the Great Books. (Milwaukee, WI)
• Wesleyan University: The College of Letters is an interdisciplinary major program for the study of Western literature, history, and philosophy. It has the Great Books as its core. (Middletown, CT)
• Whitman College: The General Studies Program is a two-semester exploration of the formation and transformation of some western worldviews using the Great Books. (Walla Walla, WA)