Liberal Arts
Writing, rhetoric, history, philosophy, and civic imagination. Students learn to build an argument that can stand up — and to stand up with it.
Inquiry. Discovery. Impact.
Academic pathways
Our programs pair intellectual rigor with embodied confidence. Knowledge is practiced, carried, tested, and lived; the academy expects students to think clearly and move with intention.
Shared foundation
Every pathway combines seminar work, studio practice, field observation, and a visible standard for presentation. Nothing here is purely theoretical: if it cannot be presented, worn, defended, or climbed, it is not yet finished.
Signature courses
FEM 101, RHT 118, APP 204, BIO 230, MOV 260, and THI 401 form the public spine of the catalog. Each is taught as if the subject were obvious and the standard were not.
Faculty model
Small advisory groups pair students with instructors for critique, research development, and exhibition feedback. Advisors are chosen for rigor, patience, and the rare ability to end a critique on time.
Meet the facultyPathways
Students move toward studio portfolios, field reports, public presentations, and a capstone thesis. By the fourth year, every student can explain their work to a scholar, a stranger, and a grandmother — ideally in the same afternoon.
Sciences
Research practice, lab fluency, and environmental fieldwork. Hypotheses are tested in the lab; endurance is tested on the hill behind it.
Business
Ethical entrepreneurship, strategy, finance, and communication. Negotiation is taught seated; leadership is assessed mid-stride.
Arts & Design
Studio criticism, media production, visual systems, and culture. Critique is a posture exercise: stand behind the work, then stand behind it in public.
Strength & Movement
Lower-body power, conditioning, mobility, dance, teamwork, and performance psychology. The department motto is brief: form first, then force.
Presence Lab
Training literacy, recovery, style, wellness, and a durable culture of confidence. The only lab on campus where the final deliverable is how you enter a room.
2026 course catalog
Classes With Form.
Formal catalog structure, distinctive subject matter. Courses combine biomechanics, rhetoric, design, culture, wellness, and performance.
Fall Core
FEM 101: Foundations of Form
Posture, gait, lower-body mechanics, and the academy philosophy of presence.
Fall CoreRHT 118: Curves in Public Rhetoric
How bodies, uniforms, and confidence communicate in culture and institutions.
Winter StudioAPP 204: Winter Silhouette Lab
Layering, tailoring, warmth, and movement-friendly academy dress.
Spring LabBIO 230: Lower-Body Mechanics & Mobility
Strength, hip stability, recovery, and applied biomechanics.
Summer FieldMOV 260: Campus Conditioning
Track intervals, hill walks, hydration, and heat-aware training design.
CapstoneTHI 401: Femora Crassa Seminar
A research and design capstone on strength, style, wellness, and campus culture.