The IKON Curriculum
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An Integrated curriculumTNI’s IKON courses are fully integrated and designed with a unified purpose. The curriculum as a whole, provides a breadth of knowledge and an opportunity to deepen faith.
Each class offers the opportunity to ignite one's faith and find one's mission. We have seen that if a student takes just one class, they love not only what we teach, but how we teach and impact their faith and learning.
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IKON BEGINS (Novice)
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IKON 100
Integral Knowing
Integral Knowing is the foundation for IKON® interdisciplinary courses. Students learn basic concepts such as soul, spirit, will, mind in the works of Classical and Christian authors. They also learn the distinction between reason and revelation, and especially about the grace of faith elevates and integrates their lives.
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IKON 101
Logos, Language, and Literature
This IKON® interdisciplinary course introduces students to the broad concept of logos in relation to language. Students will consider the development of language, especially Proto-Indo-European languages, through a brief introduction to semiotics and philology. They will also explore the use of language in world literatures and sacred texts, especially the Bible.
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IKON 102
Mathematics and
the MuseComplementing a standard approach to mathematics, this IKON® interdisciplinary course integrates math, history and music. Students discover the historical achievements of mathematics and its classical relation to music through principles of time, form, interval, and proportion, etc. The Muse and Mathematics will aid students in appropriating the beauty of mathematics.
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IKON 110
Going Global: Christian Culture in the World
This IKON® interdisciplinary course considers the impact of Christian culture in the world – beginning with themes from scripture and the Jewish tradition to the Church’s encounters with ancient cultures and societies and civilizations through to our globalized, modern age.
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IKON ADVANCED (Apprentice)
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IKON 201
Wonder-Knowing-Being
Along with critical thinking, students appreciate wonder and the ability to practice holistic thinking. An IKON® interdisciplinary course that views the world as a whole in relation to particular experiences of creation, death, time, etc., students read works of philosophy, literature and religion that touch upon first principles in thinking and knowing, being and becoming
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IKON 205
Harmony of the Sciences
Through the IKON® interdisciplinary approach, students explore the history and harmony between human and natural sciences, the humanities, religious traditions and professions in their search for truth. Special emphasis is given to St. John Henry Newman’s thought.
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IKON 210
Work and Holiness
This IKON® interdisciplinary course course examines the philosophy and dignity of work (studying, creating, business practices of leading and following, economy, family life and worship) through a critical study of the relationship between ethics and holiness.
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IKON 220
IKON Symposium
This IKON® interdisciplinary course engages students with perennial questions of truth, learning and education from the ancients to the post-moderns.
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IKON PERFECTION (Master APPRENTICE)
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IKON 301
Personal and Social Dimensions of Love
An IKON® interdisciplinary course that appreciates the development of psychological and sociological traditions in relation to dimensions of divine and human love.
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IKON 310
A Passion for Justice
An IKON® interdisciplinary course that considers classical and modern politics from the perspective of the Catholic moral and social tradition. Students evaluate how this tradition integrates into their political and social views on justice, law, rights, equality, tolerance, etc.
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IKON 350
Transcendent Beautifulness
Scholars have observed that religious traditions inspire beautiful art throughout the world. This IKON® interdisciplinary course explores the relationships between divinity, Christian faith, the fine art, and beauty – from cathedrals to cures, St. Ephraim’s hymns to St. Theresa’s Interior Castle, the Pietà to gospel choirs in New Orleans.
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IKON 400
IKON Seminar:
Being Spiritual and ReligiousThis IKON® interdisciplinary seminar which modernity’s claims about the sacred and profane, the origins of atheism, and the contemporary distinction between being spiritual and/or religious.
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IKON Cinema
An important element of the IKON Curriculum is helping students to percieve their world in narrative and image beyond the written page. In our IKON seminars, we want to open our students to great films, and help them interpret film with their faith, develop their imaginations, and their mind's capacity to grow.
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IKON Program Suggested Readings
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- Qoheleth, Ecclesiastes
- Plato, Meno
- Aristotle, Analytics/Ethics 6
- Cicero, On the Good Life
- Augustine, Against the Academicians
- Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy
- Hugh of St. Victor, Didascalicon
- Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, PP Questions 3-16
- Dante, Inferno
- Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
- James Sire, Habits of the Mind
- John Henry Newman, Implicit and Explicit Reason
- Hans Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method
- Stratford Caldecott, Beauty in the Word
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- Plato, Cratylus
- Psalms, The Book of Wisdom
- Upanishads, Chandogya
- Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
- Aristotle, Poetics/Rhetoric
- The Gospel of John
- Cicero, On the Good Life
- Avicenna, Kitab al-Shifa
- Anselm, De Grammatico
- Dante, Purgatorio
- James Turner, Philology
- John Deely, Introducing Semiotics
- David Anthony, Horse, Wheel, and Language
- John Henry Newman, Idea of the University
- Gadamer, Truth and Method
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- The Book of Genesis
- Jöran Friberg, "Numbers and Counting," Anchor Bible Dictionary
- Euclid, Elements
- Plato, Charmides
- Aristotle, Analytics
- Diophantes/Hypatia, Arithmetic
- Jacob Klein, Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra
- Stratford Caldecott, Beauty for Truth’s Sake
- Victor Katz, A History of Mathematics
- Morris Kline, Mathematics for the Non-Mathematician
- Joscelyn Goodwin, The Harmony of the Spheres
- Jamie James, The Music of the Spheres
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- Jewish and Christian Scriptures
- Al-Koran
- Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and Profane
- Christopher Dawson, Religion and Culture, Religion and the Rise of Western Culture
- Robert Louis Wilken, The First Thousand Years
- Henri Pirenne, Mohammed and Charlemagne
- Cyprian Davis, The History of Black Catholics in the United States
- Alister McGrath, Christian Literature
- Peter Frankopan, Silk Roads
- James Collins, God in Modern Philosophy
- Prudence Allen, The Concept of Woman Vol l.
- Brad Gregory, The Unintended Reformation
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- Plato, Phaedo
- Aristotle, Metaphysics
- Proverbs
- Hildegard of Bingen, Selected Writings
- Augustine, On Faith and Reason
- Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, PP Questions 54-58; 77-83
- Norris Clarke, Person and Being
- J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories, Leaf by Niggle
- C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
- Dennis Quinn, Iris Exiled
- John Henry Newman, Oxford University Sermons
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- Mcgrew et al., Philosophy of Science: An Historical Anthology
- Augustine, On Genesis
- John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University
- Wilhlem Schmidt: The Origin of the Idea of God
- GK Chesterton, Thomas Aquinas
- James Turner, Philology
- Richard Williams, What's Behind the Research?
- Morris Klein, Mathematics and the Loss of Certainty
- Susan Wise Bauer, Story of Western Science
- Michael Hanby, No God, No Science? Theology, Cosmology, Biology
- Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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- Peter Phan: Social Thought
- G.K. Chesterton and Hilarie Belloc: Essays and The Servile State
- John Henry Newman, On Conscience and Sermons on Holiness
- The Social Teachings of the Catholic Church including Luigi Taparelli, Popes Leo XIII, John XXIII, John Paul II, Benedict XIV and Francis.
- Dorothy Day, excerpts
- E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful
- Peter and Hull, The Peter Principle
- Maciariello and Linkletter, Drucker's Lost Art of Management
- Peter Drucker, The Essential Drucker
- Stratford Caldecott, Not as the World Gives
- John Medaille, Toward a Truly Free Market
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- Homer, Illiad/Odyssey
- Rig Veda
- The Four Gospels
- The Pre-Socratics
- Augustine, Confessions or City of God
- Teresa of Avila, Interior Castle
- Dawson, Crisis of Western Education
- Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
- Robert Louis Wilken, The Spirit of Early Christian Thought
- Richard Gamble: The Great Tradition
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- Plato, Phaedrus, Symposium
- Aristotle, De Anima
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- Dante, Paradiso
- Philip Rieff, The Triump of the Therapeutic
- John Henry Newman, "The Love and Relation of Friends"
- Christian Smith, What is a Person?
- Robert Bellah, Habits of the Heart
- Clifford Geertz, Interpretation of Cultures
- Daniel Robinson, Intellectual History of Psychology
- Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est, Caritas in Veritate
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- Plato, Republic
- Aristotle, The Nichomachean Ethics
- The Letter of James
- Augustine, City of God
- Machiavelli, The Prince
- Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- John Henry Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons, Letter to the Duke of Norfolk
- Gustavo Guitierrez, On Job
- Stratford Caldecott, Not as the World Gives
- Pierre Manet, An Intellectual History of Liberalism
- Dorothy Day, selections
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Plato, Hippias Major
Aristotle, Poetics
Book of Revelation
Epharim the Syrian, Hymns of Faith
Dante, Paradiso
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Flannery O'Connor, Complete Stories
Tim Dowley, Christian Music: a Global History
George Ferguson, Signs and Symbols in Christian Art
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Virgil, Aeneids
Macrina the Younger, Philosopher of God
Bonaventure, The Journey of the Mind to God
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Geneology of Morals
Simone Weil, Waiting for God
Michael Buckley, At the Origins of Modern Atheism
Brad Gregory, The Unintended Reformation
Jean Twenge, IGen
Joseph Ratzinger, Truth and Tolerance
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