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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 43408
Online: Synchronous
Online
This interdisciplinary course continues the exploration of the relations between faith and culture begun in Catholic Thought and Culture I, beginning with the medieval period up until the present day. Students will engage areas of artistic expression (literature, music, visual art) in the light of philosophical and theological currents affecting Catholic life in a given era. Upon completion of both Catholic Thought and Culture I and II, students will have some grasp on the fascinating interaction of Gospel and culture marking Catholicism's development, demonstrated skills in the interpretation of literature, music, and visual art, and an appreciation for how the arts can embody Catholic truth and goodness in beauty. Students will also have a broad sense of the contexts of the Catholic tradition, parts of which will then be filled in by other, more specific, courses in the program. NOTE: It is not required (though it is recommended) that students take CSMA 500 prior to taking CSMA 501.
3 Credits
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6:00 pm |
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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 43114
Topics Lecture 1
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall 207
John Henry Newman has been called, somewhat misleadingly, the father of the Second Vatican Council. His influence on the Council was largely indirect but it can be traced fairly clearly on the two conciliar documents on Revelation and the Church. The Church historian Jaroslav Pelikan insisted that Newman was the most important theologian of the modern era. T. S. Eliot argued that he is one of the two most eloquent English sermon writers. James Joyce added that he was the best prose stylist in English. Pope Benedict XVI stressed his importance as the theologian of conscience, presided at his beatification in England in September 2010 and has called for his canonization and declaration as doctor of the Church. In this course we will examine not only Cardinal Newman’s most important theological works focusing on the development of doctrine and the role of conscience in relation to Church authority, but also his philosophical works addressing the relations of faith and reason, his work on university education and selected poetry, meditations and devotions, novels, and sermons.
3 Credits
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6:00 pm |
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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 43113
Topics Lecture 1
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall 207
St. Augustine’s Confessions is one of the most enduring and influential works of Christian literature. It is a dramatic spiritual autobiography. But its enduring character arises not simply from the story. It is also a penetrating exploration of the reality of the human person. Here we find Augustine’s reflections on, among other things, God and man, sin and grace, memory and time, and the first chapter of Genesis. This course will consider the particulars of Augustine’s story, as well as the philosophical, theological, and literary dimensions of this remarkable work, specifically with an eye to the integrated and unified vision of reality articulated in it.
3 Credits
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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 43115
Topics Lecture 1
Online
The rise and dramatic development of the modern natural sciences have shaped our world in varied and prominent ways. How do these natural sciences fit into Catholic intellectual, spiritual, and cultural life? Just what are the natural sciences, really? How are they related to philosophy and theology? How are they integrated into the Christian “social imaginary”? In this course, we seek to understand and answer these important questions through an exploration of important episodes, topics, and texts from the two-thousand-year history of Christianity and science.
3 Credits
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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 42273
Face-to-Face 1-25% of time
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall 207
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall B10
Online
The heart of any culture, as well as its continuity, can be found in its educational tradition, the distillation for the next generation of its highest ideals and most important truths. For the West this began with the Greeks, who set in place, some five centuries before Christ, the main aspects of a tradition that lasted, with significant developments, up until very recent times. This course will trace that tradition, using both primary and secondary source material from its origins in ancient Greece to recent Catholic teachings on education. It will examine the great challenge to that tradition and the change that has taken place since the eighteenth century, and some of the implications of that change for educational practice and for the state of the culture at large.
3 Credits
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Subject: Historical Studies (Div.) (DVHS)
CRN: 43743
Online: Synchronous
Online
This course introduces students to the origins and philosophical principles that have defined the mission and purpose of Western and Catholic education, both in approach and content, over the course of history from Classical Greece to present day United States. Reading the key texts that have shaped the course of educational history, students will investigate when and why Catholic education has diverged from modern philosophies of education. Additionally, the course examines the historic and current role of the Catholic school in society and within the Church through a careful reading and discussion of Church documents on education. Prerequisite: DVPT 575
3 Credits