Government
Introduction to American Politics: The Founders’ Design and Its Challengers
An examination of American political institutions through primary texts. The course will examine the American experience of confederation, the original design and intent of the 1787 Constitution, the challenge of slavery, and the Progressive critique of the Constitution, as well as the challenge of the modern administrative state. Readings include colonial and Revolutionary tracts, the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, the public speeches of Lincoln, as well as the writings of the American Progressives.
The Federalist Papers
An inquiry into the political science and art of The Federalist Papers, with special attention to its place in the history and theory of republican government. Readings include the Federalist Papers, selected writings from the anti-Federalists, as well as Progressive and contemporary critics of the Constitution.
The Natural Law
An exanimation of natural law ethics as a theory of politics, with special attention to its relation to natural rights and political justice. Readings include Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Aquinas, Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, the American Founders, critics of the natural law tradition, and the “new Natural Law” school.
Mathematics
Algebra 1
Topics include writing equations of lines; performing operations with polynomials and rational expressions; analysis of quadratic functions and graphs; solving linear, quadratic, and rational equations; graphing and evaluating polynomial functions; solving linear inequalities; and techniques in factoring and solving equations by factoring.
Algebra 2
Topics include rational and exponential expressions, the concept of functions and their inverses, linear functions and equations including equations with radicals and absolute values, quadratic functions and equations, exponential and logarithmic functions and equations, graphs of basic functions, systems of equations, and inequalities.
Pre-Calculus
This course is a precalculus course and provides students with the background necessary for the study of calculus. Includes a review of algebra, trigonometry, exponential and logarithmic functions, coordinates, and graphs. The concept of the limit process and the rate of change of a function will be introduced.
Calculus
Introduces the differential and integral calculus of functions of one variable. Topics include the basic analytic geometry of graphs of functions, and their limits, integrals and derivatives, including the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Also, some applications of the integral, like arc length and volumes of solids with rotational symmetry, are discussed.
Economics
Introduction to Austrian Economics
An introduction to the Austrian School of Economics as a contribution to economic science and approach to political economy. Topics include the historical background of the Austrian school, the subjective theory of value, the market process, the Austrian theory of the business cycle, and the role of economics in public policy and liberal education.
Austrian Business Cycle Theory
An advanced course on the Austrian theory of the business cycle, and its relation to the Austrian approach to monetary theory and other subfields of political economy.
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