Mission Statement

«We should be aware that to carry out our priestly mission we need to know the situation of the Church and the world, detect the primary apostolic challenges, the problems that people suffer and the ideological tendencies that have most influence on society. Only in this way will we be able to engage in an evangelizing dialogue with culture.»

(College Board of Directors on November 4, 2016)

Legion of Christ College of Humanities is a religious affiliated institution for higher education that offers a liberal arts degree. Its mission is to provide academic formation to seminarians of the Legionaries of Christ as they prepare for their mission to guide Christian leaders in living the fullness of their faith and evangelizing culture.

Program Description

The two-year Humanities program, which follows two years of seminary formation in the novitiate, leads to the Associate of Arts degree. The study of the liberal arts, combined with a classical humanistic curriculum, is calculated to achieve several ends: to lay a solid cultural foundation steeped in the wisdom of the Western heritage; to broaden their horizons; to sharpen, deepen, and discipline the students’ mental abilities; and to enlarge their social outlook, preparing them to pursue further degrees in philosophy and theology and ultimately to be ready for their ministry as Roman Catholic priests within the cultural context of our time. 

In the College’s pedagogical approach to achieve the goals set for each subject and to strive for excellence in all areas of formation, it seeks to imbue all students with an integral formation. The College understands this concept to mean that all areas are interconnected and mutually supportive. Faculty and formators in the spiritual, human, and apostolic areas meet regularly to coordinate their efforts and integrate them in view of the particular needs of the students and of the community as a whole. 

Within the academic field, the faculty is committed to streamline syllabi and contents to facilitate an organic presentation of contents across subjects. Furthermore, various courses benefit from team teaching by means of which faculty members enrich with specific contributions according to their expertise.
 

General Objectives

1. To acquire and round out a solid general education, especially in the cultural areas of history, ideas, art, literature, music, and science;
2. To know, understand, and experience from a human and Christian perspective the driving forces in man, society, and culture past and present
   through a panoramic and deep contact with representative ideas, trends, events, authors and works most outstanding in shaping Western culture, especially those of classical antiquity;
3. To learn and acquire proficiency in the classical languages of Latin and Greek at least for ecclesiastical and biblical use, and Spanish as the universal language of the Legion of Christ, while consolidating English as needed for the college level;
4. To prepare and train the capacity to engage culture through mature judgment, dialogue, and direct contribution;
5. To formulate their ideas with logical rigor and express them orally and in writing with clarity and elegance;
6. To consolidate learning habits and train intellectual processes (assimilate, analyze, synthesize, relate, judge, create), along with an eagerness to learn and the commitment to hard work in studies;
   According to other institutional goals, the students;
7. To form a well-rounded personality through the harmonious integration of feelings, passions, imagination, memory, intellect, and will, in agreement with the demands of their personal life, their faith and convictions and of their future mission;
8. To foster the ability of living in community, working together in teams, and the mutual exchange across languages and cultures as a fruit of the internationality of the student body.