Thomas Aquinas College

For other schools named after St. Thomas Aquinas, see Institutions named after Thomas Aquinas.

Thomas Aquinas College


Motto:	Verum • Bonum • Pulchrum (The True • The Good • The Beautiful)
Established:	1971
President:	Dr. Thomas Dillon
Dean:	Dr. Michael McLean
Students:	359
Location:	Santa Paula, California, USA
Affiliations:	Roman Catholic
Website:	www.thomasaquinas.edu

Thomas Aquinas College is a Roman Catholic liberal arts college offering a single integrated academic program. It is located in Santa Paula, California north of Los Angeles. It offers a unique education with courses based on the Great Books and seminar method. It has school accreditation from Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

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“	The College's curriculum is an integrated liberal arts program based primarily on a study of the Great Books. Guided by College faculty, students analyze and discuss in tutorials, seminars, and laboratories these works of the greatest minds of our tradition. By daily practice in reading, translation, demonstration, and argument, students form habits of thought and discourse which will stay with them throughout their lives. And by means of these habits, they can better lay hold of the knowledge and wisdom recorded in the Great Books.	”
—from the Official Website.

William Howard, former Senior Litigation Counsel, U.S. Dept. of Justice ('77)
Father John Berg, Superior General for the Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Petri
Pia di Solleni, Theologian and Catholic commentator, Washington DC. ('93)
Sean Kelsey, Professor of Philosophy, UCLA ('92)
Michael Waldstein, President, International Theological Institute ('77)