BACHELORS B.A.

The Bachelors

Overview.

The Atlas Bachelor of Arts—known simply as The Bachelors—is the most rigorous undergraduate formation in the world. It is not a casual degree, but a covenant of mastery—an immersion into the canon of truth, beauty, and divine order.

This is a three-year accelerated program structured as a unity of disciplines rather than a menu of electives. Students begin with a Great Books foundation, advance through original scholarship, and conclude with a master-level specialization and published work that enters the official Atlas Canon of Knowledge.

Graduates emerge not only literate, but luminous—capable of original thought, multilingual reasoning, and cultural leadership. Every student leaves fluent in at least two classical or modern languages, published in peer-reviewed journals, and trained in the laws of truth and rhetoric as arts of worship.

This is not an education about the world; it is participation in its renewal.

Degree: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Length: 3 years (accelerated integrated program)
Credit Hours: 120 + 24 Master-Level specialization credits
Format: Full-time remote
Capstone: Publication of thesis within Atlas or Klesia academic journals

Graduation Requirements

  • All 12 modules completed

  • All assignments submitted (approx. 300 pages written)

  • 90-day agricultural self-sufficiency practicum completed and documented

  • Capstone agrarian theology presentation (live or recorded)

Program Highlights

  • Guest faculty and lecturers from leading farms, soil research labs, and regenerative cooperatives.

  • Semester-long intensives in soil science, biodynamics, and climate-adaptive agriculture led by international practitioners.

  • Faith-centered exploration of land ethics, stewardship, and agrarian theology.

  • Integration of modern technologies (biochar, electroculture, keyline design, and atmospheric water systems).

  • Guided mentorship through the 90-Day Stewardship Practicum—growing, preserving, and documenting all personal food.

Program Architecture

Year I — The Great Books & Grammar of Civilization

Students are initiated into the canon of human thought through the Atlas Great Books Curriculum, modeled on the classical trivium and patristic study.
Every reading is done aloud, annotated, defended, and disputed. There are no lectures—only conversation, writing, and response.

Core Sequence:

  1. Scripture as Canon — Genesis to Revelation as the foundation of civilization.

  2. The Ancients — Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Epictetus, and the Hebrew poets.

  3. The Fathers and Philosophers — Athanasius, Aquinas, Boethius, Dante, and Pascal.

  4. The Reformers and the Romantics — Calvin, Milton, Rousseau, Goethe, and Blake.

  5. The Moderns — Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Eliot, Chesterton.

  6. The Scientists and Theologians of Order — Newton, Faraday, Béchamp, and Lewis.

  7. The Poets of Eternity — Herbert, Hopkins, and Eliot’s Four Quartets.

Skill Domains:

  • Logic, Rhetoric, Classical Composition

  • Greek and Hebrew foundations

  • Journal annotation and synthesis writing (minimum 25 published summaries by end of Year I)

Year II — The Synthesis of Disciplines

Students now learn to reconcile truth across sciences, philosophy, and art—entering the Covenantal Quadrivium: mathematics, natural science, psychology, and law.
The goal is synthesis—the capacity to think across fields through divine logic.

Core Modules:

  1. Covenant Mathematics — From Pythagoras to symbolic theology.

  2. Terrain Biology & Divine Physiology — The human body as temple.

  3. Covenant Psychology & Soulcraft — Formation of the mind under truth.

  4. Biblical Economics & Moral Markets — Stewardship, measure, and equity.

  5. Political Theology & the Just State — Kingdom models of governance.

  6. Philosophy of Art and Sacred Aesthetics — The role of beauty in civilization.

  7. Covenant Linguistics — Language as the architecture of revelation.

Publications Requirement:
By the end of Year II, students must have authored or co-authored 50 scholarly essays accepted for publication or public review in one or more of the following:

  • The Atlas Review of Thought and Theology

  • The Klesia Journal of Law and Civilization

  • The Covenant Psychology Quarterly

  • Absurd Health Canon of Science

Year III — The Specialization & Master Year

The final year functions as a Master-Level specialization, in which each student develops one professional field of expertise:

  • Law & Governance (pre–J.Cov.)

  • Psychology & Soulcraft (pre–Psy.D.)

  • Medicine & Terrain Science (pre–R.D. or D.N.N.M.)

  • Theology & Biblical Philology (pre–M.Div.)

  • Education & Cultural Formation (pre–M.Ed. or professorial track)

  • Arts & Letters (pre–M.S.F.A. or creative canon specialization)

Each student must:

  • Produce a 100-paper portfolio of publishable short works, research notes, and disputation essays.

  • Author a Master Treatise (300+ pages) accepted by an Atlas or Klesia Press peer-review council.

  • Defend their work before the Council of Masters in oral disputation.

  • Contribute to the Atlas Canon of Knowledge, where the work becomes part of the permanent university corpus.

Language and Rhetoric Requirement

Every Bachelor graduate must demonstrate:

  • Proficiency in two languages (Greek, Latin, Hebrew, or a modern scholarly language such as French, German, or Mandarin).

  • Full rhetorical defense of a translated text, including exegesis, etymology, and philosophical commentary.

Publication Requirement

Total Published Works for Graduation:

  • 25 essays or summaries by end of Year I

  • 50 essays by end of Year II

  • 100 research papers and 1 Master Treatise by graduation

Each student’s work is compiled into their Covenant Portfolio, and if of exceptional quality included in the Atlas Canon Library.
Graduation is not conferred until a student’s portfolio passes faculty peer review for clarity, orthodoxy, originality, and beauty.

Spiritual and Intellectual Formation

All students must:

  • Participate in daily Scripture recitation and disputation.

  • Complete a 14-day silent retreat each academic year.

  • Attend weekly public disputations before faculty and guests.

  • Submit a Character Defense, signed by mentor and peers, confirming temperance, honesty, and diligence.

Tuition

Standard Tuition: $15,000 per year
Installment Plan: $1,250/month × 12 months

Scholarship Paths:

  • Canon Builder Fellowship — $5,500/year: for students publishing beyond quota or editing journals.

  • Language Scholar Track — $4,000/year: for those achieving triple-language proficiency.

  • Public Defender Fellowship — Tuition-Free: for those entering service tracks in law, education, or medicine upon graduation.

Graduation

Upon completion, students receive the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), bearing the seal “Magisterium in Covenant Studies.”
Graduates are automatically eligible for direct entry into Atlas or Absurd Health graduate faculties, including the Juris Covenant, Doctor of Nutritional and Natural Medicine, Doctor of Covenant Psychology, or any other specialized program.

They are recognized as Atlas Scholars, contributors to the Covenant Canon, and heirs of the intellectual priesthood of the new civilization.

Admissions

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The Bachelors admits only those capable of sustained excellence, humility, and intellectual devotion.

Eligibility

  • Completion of secondary education or equivalent classical preparation.

  • Strong writing and reasoning skills.

  • Demonstrated moral character and spiritual discipline.

Application Requirements

  1. Application Form + $49 Fee

  2. Personal Essay (1,000–1,500 words): “What is truth, and how is it kept alive in a civilization?”

  3. Reading Portfolio: summaries or reflections on three Great Books of choice.

  4. Language Aptitude Evaluation (English plus a second language).

  5. Two Recommendations: one academic, one pastoral.

  6. Interview & Disputation: live or recorded session before Atlas faculty to test reasoning and composure.

  7. Trial Essay (Timed): 1-hour written response to an ethical or literary prompt.

Selection Standards

  • Clarity of thought and originality of language

  • Capacity for disciplined work (daily study 8–10 hours)

  • Evident humility and teachability

  • Passion for Scripture and civilization renewal

Matriculation Conditions

  • Signing of the Covenant of Scholarship (truth, honor, diligence).

  • Completion of a preparatory reading list (150 works) before arrival.

  • Participation in the Orientation Disputation Week and language immersion course.