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Category A: Select two courses from Category A. These must be selected from different disciplines.
HIS 3019 -
The Fall of Rome
Description: The end of the ancient world -- ancient sources and modern theories. A multi-faceted analysis of Mediterranean society from AD 200 - 750: politics, economy, religion, urban life, art, social relations, literature.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2003, Fall 2001
PHI 3100 -
Augustine & Antiquity
Description: Life and thought of Saint Augustine; the problem of certitude, the problem of evil, the nature of history, human knowledge and God, the soul-body relations, and political philosophy.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2005, Fall 2001, Spring 1997
PHI 3120 -
Augustine & Modernity
Description: Influences of Augustine's major teachings in shaping medieval and modern thought. Augustine's position on human nature, human freedom, sin and grace, history, and the nature and end of society.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 1999, Fall 1998
THL 2500 -
Ancient Christianity
Description: Early Christian writings, controversies, councils and events growth of Christianity from persecution to official acceptance in the Roman Empire; God, creation, evil, Jesus Christ, Church, Christian living, Holy Spirit, culture.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or HON 1825 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or THL 1051 or HON 1827 or HON 1827
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Spring 2006
THL 2750 -
St. Augustine: Life & Message
Description: Historical context for the life and message of Augustine; significant theological issues, controversies and events, elements of influence.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or HON 1825 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or THL 1051 or HON 1827 or THL 1051
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Fall 2005
Category B: Select three courses from one of the tracks.
Track 1: Theological/Philosophical Themes
HUM 3180 -
PHI: Faith & Reason
Description: Reflects on classical and contemporary texts dealing with relation between faith and reason. Discusses imaginative presentations of the christian worldview attempting to show how it's both reasonable and mysterious. Fulfills an upper level Philosophy in the Core Curriculum.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006
HUM 4350 -
PHI: Problem of Love
Description: Reading a broad survey of philosophical discussions of love, from Plato to Derrida, we will address a variety of questions concerning the nature of love, the relationship between self-interest, self-love, and love of other, whether Christianity makes a difference to the meaning of love, and related issues. Fulfills an upper level Philosophy in the Core Curriculum.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
PHI 2400 -
Social & Political Phil
Description: Social and political philosophers and the influence of their theories on the philosophical foundation of modern culture and society; emphasis on such conceptions as society, the state, justice and equality, and the social and political nature of persons.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
PHI 2410 -
Philosophy of Sex & Love
Description: Embodiment, the nature of sexuality, the types of love, sexual ethics, marriage, sexual differences, and sexual discrimination.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
PHI 3100 -
Augustine & Antiquity
Description: Life and thought of Saint Augustine; the problem of certitude, the problem of evil, the nature of history, human knowledge and God, the soul-body relations, and political philosophy.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2005, Fall 2001, Spring 1997
PHI 3120 -
Augustine & Modernity
Description: Influences of Augustine's major teachings in shaping medieval and modern thought. Augustine's position on human nature, human freedom, sin and grace, history, and the nature and end of society.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 1999, Fall 1998
THL 2500 -
Ancient Christianity
Description: Early Christian writings, controversies, councils and events growth of Christianity from persecution to official acceptance in the Roman Empire; God, creation, evil, Jesus Christ, Church, Christian living, Holy Spirit, culture.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or HON 1825 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or THL 1051 or HON 1827 or HON 1827
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Spring 2006
THL 2525 -
Miracles Mystics Monks
Description: Christianization of Europe during the Middle Ages (500-1500) conversionof the Barbarians, the cult of the saints, Monasticism, the sacraments, popular religion, the crusades Heresy and Church Reform.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or HON 1825 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or THL 1051 or HON 1827
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2005, Summer 2004, Fall 2001, Spring 1999
THL 2550 -
Reformation Christianity
Description: The breakdown of the Medieval Church (1500-1700) inaugurated by Martin Luther; the creation of Protestant Churches; the formation of Tridentine Catholicism; the beginning of the Englightenment.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or HON 1825 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or THL 1051 or HON 1827 or THL 1051
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2000, Fall 1999, Fall 1995
THL 2590 -
Historical Themes
Description: Selected topics in historical theology: Religion in the Age of Romanticism; Roman Catholic Modernism; Vatican II: Evolution or Revolution.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or HON 1825 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or THL 1051 or HON 1827 or HON 1827
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
THL 2725 -
Christian Classics I
Description: Major theological themes in classic texts of Christian History from the early church to Reformation; status and interpretation of biblical literature, grace and freedom, faith and reason, Christ and culture; texts from Augustine, Aquinas, Luther and others. Required for Majors. Restricted to majors or minors or permission of instructor.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or HON 1825 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or THL 1051 or HON 1827 or THL 1051
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2003, Fall 2000, Fall 1996
THL 2750 -
St. Augustine: Life & Message
Description: Historical context for the life and message of Augustine; significant theological issues, controversies and events, elements of influence.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or HON 1825 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or THL 1051 or HON 1827 or THL 1051
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Fall 2005
THL 2790 -
Themes in Patristic Studies
Description: Courses of varying content in patristics offered on occasional basis.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or HON 1825 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or THL 1051 or HON 1827 or HON 1827
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
THL 3100 -
Christian Anthropology
Description: The relationship between God and the human person from a variety of view points: human origins; the purpose of life; the problem of evil and the human condition; salvation as divinization - insights and approaches of recent writers.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or HON 1825 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or THL 1051 or HON 1827 or HON 1827
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
THL 3500 -
God and History's Future
Description: The process of history as a cooperative venture of divine and human activity; creation and incarnation-God's initiatives within a future-oriented process; human suffering, the cross, resurrection; human freedom and redeemed optimism; Christians critical participants in society.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or HON 1825 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or THL 1051 or HON 1827 or THL 1051
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2001, Summer 1999, Spring 1999, Spring 1998
THL 3700 -
Catechism of the Cath Church
Description: Theological analysis of the most recent official statement (Cathechism of the Catholic Church, 1992, ET 1994) of the practices and beliefs of Roman Catholicism.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or HON 1825 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or THL 1051 or HON 1827 or THL 1051
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2004, Fall 2003, Fall 1997, Fall 1996
THL 4310 -
War and Morality
Description: Just war, pacifism, and feminist critique--three Christian traditions of relfection on ethics and warfare; conflice and overlap across these traditions; close examination of historical illustrations of the conduct of war.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or HON 1825 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or THL 1051 or HON 1827 or HON 1827
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
THL 4320 -
Christ. Social Teachings
Description: Historical and systematic examination of major modern Christian movements in social ethics, e.g., the Social Gospel, Christian realism, Catholic social thought; the relevance of these schools to current reflection on war and peace, justice and injustice.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or HON 1825 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or THL 1051 or HON 1827 or THL 1051
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2000
THL 4330 -
Christian Environmental Ethics
Description: Examine foundational theological issues and major christian thinkers on the environment; in-depth study of synthetic chemical, agriculture, and treatment of animals; and weekly class discussions on various practical topics in environmental ethics.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or THL 1051 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or HON 1825 or THL 1827 or HON 1827
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
THL 4500 -
Christian Spirituality
Description: The Christian spiritual experience through the centuries.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or HON 1825 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or THL 1051 or HON 1827 or THL 1051
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Spring 2004, Summer 2003, Fall 1997
Track 2: Historical
HIS 2280 -
Catholic Church in America
Description: Development and shaping of the Roman Catholic Church by diverse cultures of Catholicism from 1500 to the present. The first contact of Europeans and Native Americans; growth through European immigration; challenges facing the modern, multicultural Church of the present day.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2003
HIS 3018 -
Pagans, Jews, and Christians
Description: Society and religion between Alexander the Great and the coming of Islam. The classical pantheon, domestic religion, magic, the imperial cult; the variety of Judaism in Palestine and the Diaspora, Judaism and the state; the rise of Christianity, the persecutions, Constantine and the conversion of the empire.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2006, Summer 2003, Spring 2001
HIS 3019 -
The Fall of Rome
Description: The end of the ancient world -- ancient sources and modern theories. A multi-faceted analysis of Mediterranean society from AD 200 - 750: politics, economy, religion, urban life, art, social relations, literature.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2003, Fall 2001
HIS 3101 -
Early Medieval History
Description: Europe from the fall of Rome to the end of the Viking Age.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2000, Fall 1997, Fall 1996
HIS 3118 -
Religious Poverty in Mid Ages
Description: The emergence of the mendicant orders (Augustinians, Franciscans, Dominicans, and Poor Clares), their mission and influence on medieval Christianity; popular piety, heresy, and the papacy; attempts at converting Jews, Muslims, and pagans.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HIS 3131 -
The Reformation
Description: Catholic, Protestant, and popular reform theories and religious upheaval, and the revolution of the common people in the 16th century, with emphasis on the material "structures of everyday life" and the economic, social, and political background of the "crisis of feudalism" and critique of the church and early modern state.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2002
HIS 3142 -
The Enlightenment
Description: The cultural transition of traditional Western Christendom to modernity in the 18th Century, including its clash with religion; emphasis on scepticism and empiricism; rehabilitation of natural desires and emotion; efforts to re-engineer human society; new perceptions of economics, crime and punishment, and aesthetics; creation of a reading public; role in the American founding; impact upon issues of gender and race.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2003
Track 3: Social/Political
PJ 2600 -
Catholic Social Teaching
Description: One hundred years of Catholic Social Thought. Papal encyclicals, especially Rerum Novarum (1891) and Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (1987). The pastoral letters of the American Bishops, special emphasis on the Challenge of Peace (1983) and Economic Justice for All (1986). Guest lecturers will help to show the interdisciplinary nature of Catholic teaching.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
PJ 3400 -
War and Morality
Description: Three traditions of moral reflection on war: "Just War" theory; Pacifism; and, the historical experience of women. Discussions focus on concrete cases (e.g., the modern world wars, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf War, Bosnia).
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006
PJ 5400 -
Ethics, Justice and the Family
Description: The moral meaning of marriage; justice, gender, and the domestic division of labor; the legal protection of marriage and the parties to it; marriage, reproductive technology, and the commodification of children; the moral meaning of "having children"; the responsibilities of parents to their children; the responsibilities of children to their parents, with special reference to care for the aged; distributive justice and the family; society's responsibilities to serving the needs of its children. Course readings will be taken from a number of disciplines, including Christian ethics, law and legal history, philosophy, and sociology.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Spring 2003, Fall 2001
PHI 2410 -
Philosophy of Sex & Love
Description: Embodiment, the nature of sexuality, the types of love, sexual ethics, marriage, sexual differences, and sexual discrimination.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
PSC 6000 -
Early Political Theories
Description: The relevance of the classics of political thought for understanding modern politics from the Greeks to the modern era.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Spring 2004
SOC 2100 -
Cultural Anthropology
Description: Principles of cultural anthropology; ethnological variations in language, techniques, customs and values; problems of cultural development and change.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
SOC 2600 -
Sociology of Religion
Description: The interaction between society and religion; religion and scientific claims; investigation of human nature as social and the concept of oneness in religion.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
THL 4100 -
Christian Ethics
Description: Christian moral commitment; current moral problems facing the Catholic; the nature of the human person; Jesus as the model and source of moral life; the development of teachings in morality and the role of the authority of the Church.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or HON 1825 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or THL 1051 or HON 1827 or THL 1051
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2002, Fall 2001
THL 4310 -
War and Morality
Description: Just war, pacifism, and feminist critique--three Christian traditions of relfection on ethics and warfare; conflice and overlap across these traditions; close examination of historical illustrations of the conduct of war.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or HON 1825 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or THL 1051 or HON 1827 or HON 1827
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
THL 4330 -
Christian Environmental Ethics
Description: Examine foundational theological issues and major christian thinkers on the environment; in-depth study of synthetic chemical, agriculture, and treatment of animals; and weekly class discussions on various practical topics in environmental ethics.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or THL 1051 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or HON 1825 or THL 1827 or HON 1827
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
THL 4400 -
Christian Marriage
Description: Christian marriage in the 20th century; scriptural, historical, legal, and moral issues; preparations for the wedding liturgy and Christian married life.
Prerequisites: THL 1050 or HON 1825 or HON 1003 or HON 1053 or THL 1051 or THL 1827 or HON 1827
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
Category C: Required Senior Seminar
This is an interdisciplinary capstone course that reflects the ongoing dialogue between faith and culture.
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