Integrated
Humanities
ProJECT
The Integrated Humanities Project is Australia’s largest online Classical Education and Liberal Arts program. It was started in 2013 with the goal of providing educational access to students in regional and remote Australia. Growing rapidly during the pandemic, it is non denominational and not for profit. Numerous studies have demonstrated a marked educational inequity and fewer educational opportunities for students in non-metropolitan areas.
Furthermore, there is some evidence to suggest a role for a specifically classical education to improve literacy and educational engagement in otherwise remote or marginalised communities. Classes are provided every day of the week in STEM, music history, modern history, Australian history, French conversation, French grammar, Latin and Classical Greek to students from NSW, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and overseas. Some attendees are in person in Wagga Wagga, while many are on Zoom.
Lessons
Latin Prose
Students study Latin texts. Previous books have been De Bello Gallico, early Patristic texts and an assortment of simplified texts based on the Hobbit and the Aenead.
Latin POETRY
Students learn classical pronunciation and compete in the Latin Poetry Competition. In 2021 and 2022 this was judged by Mr Josh Gereis, a teacher based in Canberra with extensive experience in classical poetry and music. In 2022, the selected poem was Horace’s O Fons Bandusiae.
Latin GRAMMAR
Students complete vocabulary and grammar through the Memoria Press (Latina Christiana, I-IV Latin and Henle programs).
Classical Philosophy
Students are introduced to early classical ideas from philosophers including Democritus, Heraclitus, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. These are compared with mediaeval and contemporary philosophical concepts.
Classical Texts (English Translations)
Each year, students study classical texts in English including the Iliad, Odyssey, the Orestrian Trilogies, Crito and passages from the Aeneid. Each week students write a short essay (on average 1000-1500 words) on an aspect of these works and presented them to the tutorial. Shakespearean texts include Julius Caesar and Henry V.
Classics Camps
During intensive weeks, students participate in a variety of classics activities, including botany and writing their own latin plays. These are available on request, but not available online due to the need to preserve student privacy.
French
Students are taught introductory French once a week followed by Memoria Press First Form French and then Valette Valette Contacts.
Intermediate LAtin
Students are introduced to intermediate level Latin through Memoria Press Fourth Form Latin and Henle Latin. For interested students there are also preparation classes for the National Latin Exam (USA).
LECTURERS
Assoc Prof Dr Joseph Suttie
MBBSBSc(Med) Hons(I) LLB (UNSW) MBA MBioeth (Mon) DPhil(Oxon) FRACP FCSANZ
Assoc Prof Dr Joseph Suttie has taught medicine, law, philosophy, science, humanities and classics for more than twenty years in NSW secondary schools and universities. He completed specialist physician training at St Vincent’s Hospital, genetics research at Cambridge, doctoral studies at Merton College Oxford, taught as a Nuffield Fellow and held two postdoctoral positions in North America. He is currently the head of the University of Notre Dame Rural Medical School in the Riverina. He works with Doctors for Rural Education and Medicine (DREAM) to engage with rural students with difficulties accessing educational opportunities, particularly those aspiring to careers in science and healthcare.
Dr Mark Schembri
MD BVSc BSc(Vet) HONS (1) (SYD) MPH (HARV) MACVS MRCVS CERTWH
Dr Mark Schembri (MD BVSc BSc(Vet) HONS (1) (SYD) MPH (HARV) MACVS MRCVS CERTWH) is a specialist in public health, medicine and veterinary science. He is the Rector of St John’s College, Sydney University and a former tutor at Kirkland House, Harvard. Mark has taught in secondary schools and universities full time for more than twenty years.
Dr. Kristian Girling
PhD London MA, BA(Hons) SOAS
Dr Kristian Girling has a doctorate in theology and has taught, lectured and researched at several tier-1 institutions including the universities of London, Oxford, Boston College, Notre Dame and Georgetown. He specialises in theology in the Middle East, having completed fieldwork in Iraq and Jordan while pursuing his PhD.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Madeleine Suttie
BCom LLB MBioeth PhD
Associate Professor Dr Madeleine Suttie teaches English, writing techniques and philosophy. She completed her undergraduate studies at Sydney University and her doctoral studies at Oxford. She has taught in liberal arts colleges, universities and schools for more than twenty years.
Isabella Suttie
Diploma of arts
Isabella is a passionate and gifted musician and linguist. Having won several prizes for her Latin and research awards, she teaches students from all over Australia in Latin and French. When she is not inspiring students she can be found coaching netball and singing Puccini!
Contact
Assoc. Prof Joseph Suttie
Program Director
MBBS BSc(Med)Hons(I) LLB MBA MBioeth DPhil(Oxon) FRACP FCSANZ AFRACMA
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