In Language, students begin studying Greek as an introduction to the arts of grammar, rhetoric and logic, and to gain skill in distinguishing good translation from bad. The Laboratory permits students to re-examine familiar phenomena such as trees and stars, floating objects and toppling bodies, and ask anew and more seriously how to identify and classify things, define and measure properties, make and test theories. A second year student studying Ptolemy's earth-centered astronomy will find that astronomy in Dante's Divine Comedy. That same student will use Euclid's geometry to understand Ptolemy and will better understand Dante from having read the Aristotle that Dante knew. The faculty think the pursuit of wisdom so important and time so precious that they risk naming a few authors who propose ideas we all ought to think about, who address issues every educated person must face.
Some students choose to add a major or a minor to their Integral courses.
This can only be done with certain majors and usually requires taking more than a four-course load. Integral students usually begin pre-professional studies after graduation. Graduates are slow to settle down but eventually prosper in a wide variety of occupations, wherever good, hard, creative, and careful thinking aids success. Tracie Hajdukovich got into the Program because she didn't want to specialize and feel limited. She now works as Director of Marketing in the family business.