MPC’s three-year curriculum is organized across six interrelated inquiries covering a wide range of topics in the Sciences, Arts and Humanities. The three-year inquiry spans six terms, building and developing higher levels of conceptual refinement with each term. Rather than classes, the processes represent themes students will engage in through reading, writing, group and independent projects and activities that keep in play an array of relevant questions throughout the program.
First Semester What is mind?
In Thinking Processes students engage in a fundamental inquiry into the nature of mind. Students investigate the history, structure and function of language, semiotics, ancient Greek, logic, dialogue, oratory, debate, writing, literature, and poetry.
Second Semester What is substance?
In Physical Processes students engage in a fundamental inquiry into the nature of matter and motion. Students investigate the history of physical science and the contemporary disciplines that deal with the cosmological and infinitesimal. Students are introduced to, Astronomy, Physics, Biology, and other contemporary scientific disciplines.
Third Semester What is art?
What is Art?
Fourth Semester What is complexity?
Complex Processes is an exploration of praxeology. Here students engage in a fundamental inquiry into the nature of human action and complex emergent phenomena. Students investigate the history of social science and such contemporary disciplines as economics, political theory, history, philosophy of science and how these contribute to our understanding of the evolution of human institutions.
Fifth Semester What is my legacy?
Productive Processes is an exploration of entrepreneurship. Here students engage in a fundamental inquiry into vocation. Students investigate accounting, marketing, management, networking, team building, advertising, innovation, and leadership. Students produce a “great work” by the end of term 6, which they will design and elaborate from term 4 onward. Completion of the great work represents the student’s creative passion and demonstrates a broad range of cross-disciplinary knowledge from the liberal arts.
Sixth Semester Who am I?
Inquiry Processes is an exploration of philosophy and theology. Here students engage in a fundamental inquiry into the nature of knowing and being. Students investigate the history of philosophy and theology with particular emphasis on ethics, autobiography, and the epistemology of science.