St. Basil College offers a four-year liberal arts program of study leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The degree is conferred on a candidate who completes the following requirements:

1. He shall have been admitted to St. Basil College as a qualified student with all records from previous institutions in order.

2. He shall have satisfactorily completed the required General Education and Philosophy Major courses listed below: (120 credits)

GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS (50)

The following courses are core or general education requirements established to ensure academically well-rounded students who are prepared to serve the Church in the modern world.

I.    Social Sciences [12]

       Hi 101 Survey of Western Civilization
       Hi 201 United States History

       Ps 301 General Psychology
       So 403 Sociology
  

II.  Humanistic Studies (23)

       En 050 Library Orientation
       En 101 English Composition
       En 102 Introduction to Literature

       En 103 Critical Reading & Writing Skills I

       En 104 Critical Reading & Writing Skills II
       En 201 Survey of World Literature
       En 301 Fundamentals of Oral Communication

       Fa 102 Appreciation of Art
    

III. Mathematics, Natural & Computer Science   (9 credits)
       Bi 201 Biology
       Cs 101 Introduction to Computers
       Ma 101 College Mathematics

IV. Electives (6)

       Gr. 101 Elementary German I or Uk 101 Elementary Ukrainian I or

       Uk 302 Modern Ukrainian Literature I

       Gr. 102 Elementary German II or Uk 102 Elementary Ukrainian II or

       Uk 303  Modern Ukrainian Literature II

INSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS (40)

V.  Biblical Languages (12)

      La 101 Latin I
      La 102 Latin II
      Gk 101 Greek I
      Gk 102 Greek II

VI. Religion   (12 credits)
      Re 101 Introduction to the Old Testament
      Re 102 Introduction to the New Testament
      Re 105 Basic Christian Doctrine I

      Re 106 Basic Christian Doctrine II or
      Re 404 Catechetics

VII. Ukrainian Studies (16)

      Hi 403 Ukrainian Catholic Church History
      Re 303 Divine Worship

      Re 403 The Liturgy of the Hours

       Sl 301 Church Slavonic

      Uk 105 American Culture for Foreign Born

      Uk 106 Government & The Problems of Democracy

MAJOR REQUIREMENTS (30)

       Ph 201 Logic
      Ph 202 Ancient Greek Philosophy
      Ph 301 Philosophy of God
      Ph 302 Philosophy of Man
      Ph 303 History of Medieval Philosophy
      Ph 304 Ethics
      Ph 306 History of Modern & Contemporary Philosophy
      Ph 401 Epistemology
      Ph 402 Metaphysics
      Ph 408 Senior Seminar

MISSION STATEMENT OF THE PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM

The goal of the philosophy program is to implement the guidelines of the American Catholic Bishops as expressed in the document The Program of Priestly Formation,   In that document emphasis is placed on scholastic philosophy, especially that of St. Thomas Aquinas, although not exclusively. The bishops wish seminarians to have a well rounded education in philosophy, so that their intellectual formation includes a knowledge of the areas, topics, problems, trends, and history of philosophy that would serve the pastoral needs of educated priests in the Church in the modern world.

The program of philosophy mandates a minimum of 30 credits, distributed among the core scholastic courses: (1) logic, metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, philosophical anthropology, and the philosophy of God; and (2) the history sequence: ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary philosophy, and (3) philosophy electives dealing with relevant issues and movements of the day.

In dealing with the history of philosophy, past and present, the focus is on the tradition called philosophia perennis, that is, the “perennial philosophy,” which is influenced by the questions and methods of classical philosophy.

Such a grounding in scholastic and classical philosophy provides the seminarian with the intellectual resources to sustain a philosophy of life which affirms the intellectual, social, spiritual and religious values consistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church. The seminarians are thus armed with confident convictions and sound arguments (1) to confront the challenges of the ideologies of the modern world: atheism, secular humanism and materialism, and (2) to present reasonable and persuasive alternatives to these contending ideologies.  

Philosophy is the only major sequence offered at Saint Basil Seminary and is required of all seminarians as a prerequisite for the study of theology by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Thirty (30) credits are required for a major; eighteen (18) credits constitute a minor