Professor Anthony O'Hear writes: We saw revivals of classical learning in western Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and even the twentieth centuries, each different, each bringing its own distinctive feel and timbre to the process, which was always seen as a vital route to the refreshment of our culture ... It is hardly necessary to underline the extent to which we, in the twenty-first century, in Britain anyway, have turned our backs on any sense of Renaissance. Latin is not entirely dead in school, but less than three hundred pupils take the final exam in Greek from all the schools in the country. In this context, a venture like Chavagnes Studium is wholly to be welcomed. With the handful of other, similar, enterprises in Liberal Arts in Britain and elsewhere, also trying to revive the liberal arts tradition in Europe, it could just be the start of a twenty-first century Renaissance. Professor Anthony O’Hear is the Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, London, He is a member of the International Advisory Board of Chavagnes Studium as well as of our teaching faculty.
BAchelor of arts in the Liberal arts recruiting now for September 2018 at Chavagnes Studium
Study the foundations of the Western tradition at A Catholic study centre in the heart of Europe
Tammy Swenson
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The Chavagnes Liberal Arts BA is offered in a partnership with the Institut Catholique d'Etudes Supérieures (ICES) in La Roche sur Yon, Vendée, France, and the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) in Poland where St John Paul II was for many years professor of philosophy. The Chavagnes BA includes study in France and other European countries. It comprises 8 intensive 10-week study sessions over two years, focusing on themes from five subject areas: English Literature, including translated Greek and Roman classics. French Language and Literature (with a Latin option) Philosophy with Theology History Mathematics and Science Additional opportunities available for study in ancient Greek, Spanish and other languages. Each of the eight study sessions includes a research visit to different centres of learning around Europe, including Rome, London and Oxford.
Chavagnes, Vendee, FRANCE
Chavagnes Studium Going back to the basics
Ferdi McDermott, Ferdi McDermott
Pope Benedict's message: It looks bad, but don't despair. “A foul wind is blowing through Europe. ... The same wind blew through Munich in 1938. ... [it] could turn out to be the death rattle of a continent that no longer understands what principles to believe ... The victory of the post-European techno-secular world and the universalization of its lifestyle and thinking have spread the impression…that Europe’s value system, culture, and faith – in other words, the very foundations of its identity – have reached the end of the road, and have indeed already departed from the scene.” (Marcello Pera and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger: Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam, published in 2005) It's time to reacquaint ourselves with the foundations of our tradition, and begin to rebuild it, book by book, stone by stone .... www.chavagnes.org/studium Join the European adventure At the heart of Europe, supported by local bishops and universities ... A European BA in the Liberal Arts for $60,000 including all tuition and full board accommodation. Financial aid packages of up to 50% available.
Once again, It's where it's all happening ...
At the same time the future Benedict XVI and his friend composed this sobering eulogy for the old Europe, they observed that in the United States the spirituality and values of the old Europe were still vigorous and fruitful. They encouraged Europeans to look up and notice the American example. And now, ten years on, the signs of revival are at last beginning to be visible on this side of the Atlantic too. And not a moment too soon. Chavagnes is one of the places where the green shoots of revival are visible. On the site of a 13th century Benedictine priory, in a small French town in the Vendée, Chavagnes International College is the continuation of a junior seminary founded by the Venerable Louis Marie Baudouin in 1802 and granted a royal charter by King Charles X in 1826. During the French Revolution, the poor peasants took up arms here to defend their Faith and their king. In the 19th century a heroic priest, the Venerable Louis Marie Baudouin made Chavagnes a centre of re-evangelisation, founding religious orders for priests and nuns, building a seminary, and living an exemplary Christian and priestly life. Fifteen years ago a group of Catholic laymen and women established an international college for boys here, radically faithful to the spirituality, culture and magisterium of the Catholic Church. In the jungle of modernity, in the wilderness of destructive change, the genius of this place is survival and propagation. At Chavagnes we are going back to the roots of the civilisation we love: and putting back in a place of honour the study of the good, the beautiful and the true. We hope you will join us. for our exciting BA in the Liberal Arts, combining intense study with your classic 'Grand Tour' of the old world. Apart from anything else, you will have a great time! Ferdi McDermott is Principal of the Chavagnes Studium. Find out more: www.chavagnes.org/studium
Why Chavagnes? Intensive fully accredited BA degree in just 2 years. Costs a fraction of similar degrees in the USA. Great opportunities for pathways to a Masters degree. Discover the European tradition, at the heart of Europe itself. Get a head start in the job market with a great degree and fluent French. Become a more cultured and thoughtful person. Make European friends and connections.