Year Long Course.

Cost: $75.00 Registration Fee, $647 (Billed through FACTS Management System)

In LTW III, we learn to make decisions about future actions. We assume a perspective, find a necessary question, generate an issue, and attempt to persuade the audience (the decision-maker) to act: either to implement a change (the proposal) or to maintain the status quo. We learn special topics to find advantages: honor and/or utility. In addition, we add three new and powerful tools: the modes of persuasion, the four causes, and analogical reasoning.
The deliberative outline adapts the elements (amplification, narratio, proof, etc.) to the needs of the deliberative address. New schemes and tropes are included, along with paragraph coherence and cohesion.
When we have to make decisions about the future, the problem is obvious: we don’t know the outcome. In real life, that means any decision we make is, to some extent, uncertain. Therefore the bigger purpose of studying Level III is to grow in wisdom and prudence by practicing making difficult decisions from which we can learn principles and habits of decision making for our own lives and communities. We will experience these principle truths, as we see through the eyes of great characters from classic fantasy and adventure novels. Students will also read and discuss Abolition of Man to wrestle further with how the main characters of the stories make decisions and how the special topics of LTW III apply to each characters decision making process.