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THEOL 300 - Ethics and the Human Good
Credits: (3)
This course situates the moral life and contemporary issues within the Catholic theological tradition. The course requires interdisciplinary work, particularly in relation to each student’s major and/or prospective career. As part of the core curriculum, this course in theology includes seminal works in the philosophical tradition, such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. Prerequisite(s): Junior status required (Spring)
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THEOL 312 - Encountering Christ
Credits: (3)
This course provides an introduction to the sources and methods of Christian theology, considering the nature and activity of God, and the history of human relationships with God, from the perspective of revelation. This course focuses of the New Testament (especially the Gospel of Luke), the person of Jesus Christ, and the ecclesiastical themes of the Sacraments, discipleship, and the moral life. (Fall and Summer) (Frederick campus)
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THEOL 320 - Encountering Christ
Credits: (3)
This course provides an introduction to the sources and methods of Christian theology, considering the nature and activity of God, and the history of human relationships with God, from the perspective of revelation. This course focuses of the New Testament (especially the Gospel of Luke), the person of Jesus Christ, and the ecclesiastical themes of the Sacraments, discipleship, and the moral life. Prerequisite(s): THEOL 220 Foundations of Theology: Faith and Revelation (3) (Fall and Summer)
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THEOL 322 - Christology
Credits: (3)
Christology is the study of the person and work of Christ. The course provides a historical and systematic survey of approaches, themes and questions in classical and contemporary Christology. This study of Christ will lead to an understanding of discipleship, community, the nature of the good and a commitment to its practice. The course pays particular attention to primary texts of scripture and tradition, and to contemporary sources.
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THEOL 323 - The Church
Credits: (3)
This course explores the mystery called “The Church,” in its New Testament origins, its development in history, its theological development at the Second Vatican Council, and in its contemporary challenges in ecclesiology (e.g., authority in the Church, ecumenism, the role of women in the Church, involvement of the Church in politics). This study of the Church will lead to an understanding of discipleship, community, the nature of the good and a commitment to its practice. The course pays particular attention to primary texts of scripture and tradition, and to contemporary sources.
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THEOL 324 - Sacraments
Credits: (3)
This course is a study of the theology of the sacraments, with special attention to the history, development and renewal of liturgical worship. An exploration of the relationship between liturgy and life will illustrate the formative nature of liturgy toward discipleship, community, the good and a commitment to its practice. The course pays particular attention to primary texts of scripture and tradition, and to contemporary sources. (This course is a required course for Theology majors, but the course is open to all students.)
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THEOL 325 - Christian Anthropology
Credits: (3)
Christian Anthropology is the study of humanity from a Christian biblical perspective. This course will focus on key elements such as the inviolable dignity of every person, the essential centrality of community, and the significance of human action. This study of the Christian Anthropology will lead to an understanding of discipleship, community, the nature of the good and a commitment to its practice. The course pays particular attention to primary texts of scripture and tradition, and to contemporary sources.
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THEOL 327 - Synoptic Gospels
Credits: (3)
The commonalities among the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke have led the tradition to refer to these three as Synoptic Gospels (“seeing together”). The course provides a historical, literary and theological study of the Synoptic Gospels, with an emphasis on Mark. Special attention will be given to the Gospel concern for justice, dignity and freedom within human communities of both classical and modern periods. The course pays particular attention to primary texts of scripture and tradition, and to contemporary sources.
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THEOL 328 - Letters of St. Paul
Credits: (3)
The course provides a historical, literary, and theological study of St. Paul’s letters (especially the uncontested letters), focusing on his treatment of the basic themes and issues of primitive Christianity. Such an exploration will include: foundational notions about God, Christology, biblical justice, and biblical ethics, and how such themes and concerns are lived out in the lives of contemporary Christians. The course pays particular attention to primary texts of scripture and tradition, and to contemporary sources.
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THEOL 329 - Johannine Writings
Credits: (3)
This course first considers the Gospel according to John-how this gospel relates to the gospel genre and how John’s portrait of Jesus is conveyed to the reader. The course then examines the Book of Revelation (the Apocalypse) according to their historical, literary and social contexts, so as to offer students sound criteria for assessing the relevance of these texts to the modern Christian community. The course pays particular attention to primary texts of scripture and tradition, and to contemporary sources.
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THEOL 333 - Marriage and Sexuality
Credits: (3)
The theology and ethics of marriage and human sexuality inquiries into the personal, social, and spiritual significance of these aspects of the Catholic vision of the human person and human society. This course develops an understanding of the broad vision of marriage and sexuality as developed within Catholic theology in particular, but also Christian ethics more broadly. Within that context, it engages an analysis of current ethical issues: contraception, same-sex relationships, divorce and remarriage, sexual harassment and violence, and more. Furthermore, it pays particular attention to the increasing role that sexual justice plays in the discussion of the social and ecclesial dimensions of marriage and sexuality. The course draws not only from primary texts of scripture and tradition, but also contemporary sources and reflections on sexual ethics.
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THEOL 334 - Bioethics
Credits: (3)
Bioethics is a field of ethics concerned with medical procedures, bio-technology, health care (including mental health), and heath care institutions. This course attends to methods and issues in bioethics in reference to a Catholic vision of the human person, matters of justice, and the vocations of professions in medicine and scientific research. The course draws on scriptural, traditional, and contemporary sources.
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THEOL 335 - Political Theology
Credits: (3)
Political Theology explores the ways in which theological concepts or ways of theological thinking relate to politics, society, and economics. This course attends to these explorations in reference to a Catholic vision of the human person, matters of justice, community, and the common good. The course draws on scriptural, traditional, and contemporary sources. (Fall, even years)
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THEOL 336 - Catholic Social Teaching
Credits: (3)
Catholic social teaching is a body of doctrines and texts pertaining to social, economic, and political life. The course offers an examination of modern Catholic social thought on questions such as labor and capital, poverty, human rights, war and peace, international development, and other issues. The course considers questions about the right ordering of society and the implications of discipleship in modern social and political life. It draws on sources from scripture, documents of the Catholic Church, and the works of classical and contemporary theologians, as well as on the practice of organizations such as Catholic Relief Services.
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THEOL 337 - Theology and the Environment
Credits: (3)
Theological thought about the environment is rooted in basic Christian theological claims about God’s ordering of the cosmos, and has particular contemporary urgency in an age when disruption of environmental patterns poses large-scale, long-term dangers for life. This course develops the theological understanding of the significance of the created order, placing the Catholic vision of the human person within this order, and applies this understanding through the ethical analysis of contemporary problems, encouraging a life of discipleship. Particular themes include the experience of beauty in developing a mature spirituality, the notion of solidarity in the context of environmental justice, and the injustice of structural sin. The course pays particular attention to primary texts of scripture and tradition, and to contemporary sources.
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THEOL 341 - Theology/The Environment
Credits: (3)
Explores the relationships between Christian theology-with a special emphasis on Catholic social teaching-and concern for the environment. The course will study documents of the Catholic Church, as well as works of Christian theologians, Catholic and Protestant, on the environment. Criticisms of Christian theological approaches to the environment will also be considered. In accordance with Catholic social teaching, there will be a particular focus on the relationship between environmental issues and issues of social justice.
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THEOL 390 - ST: Special Topics in Theology
Credits: (3)
A consideration of pertinent topics in Christian theology. (As needed)
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THEOL 398 - Independent Study
Credits: (1-3)
Permission of the department chair, dean and associate provost. (As needed)
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THEOL 404 - Seminar
Credits: (3)
Topics vary among dogmatic and moral questions. Permission of the department chair required. (As needed)
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THEOL 410 - Interdisciplinary Seminar
Credits: (3)
Topics determined and instruction provided by interdepartmental faculty. (As needed)
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THEOL 420 - Old Testament Survey
Credits: (3)
The course aims to enable students to read any part of the Old Testament with greater understanding. After an introduction to the world of the Old Testament, the reading and interpretation of selected parts of the Old Testament is central. The focus is on Old Testament characters and their significance. (Fall, even years)
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THEOL 421 - New Testament Survey
Credits: (3)
This course aims to enable students to read any part of the New Testament with greater understanding. It will include an investigation into the historical setting, literary forms and theological content of the New Testament writings. (Spring, odd years)
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THEOL 422 - Christian Thought before 1500
Credits: (3)
This course covers major figures in Christian thought up to the eve of the Protestant Reformation. (Fall, odd years)
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THEOL 423 - Christian Thought since 1500
Credits: (3)
Second in a sequence, this course covers major figures in Christian thought since the eve of the Protestant Reformation. (Spring, even years)
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THEOL 430 - Skills for Ministry
Credits: (3)
The course addresses fundamental skills needed for ministry. These include planning and administration, communication skills, group facilitation, conflict management, volunteer management (recruiting, training, supporting and evaluating volunteers), working with the pastor and parish staff, leadership styles and processes, time/stress management and problem solving/decision making. (Fall, every three years)
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THEOL 431 - Lay Ministry: A Call to Service
Credits: (3)
The course focuses on the lay person in the church today and evolution of lay ecclesial ministry. The course will explore the foundations for lay ecclesial ministry, its relationship to ordained ministry and the experience of lay ministers, with an emphasis on their baptismal call to service. (Spring, every three years)
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THEOL 432 - Foundations of Youth Ministry
Credits: (3)
The course begins with the theological foundations for ministry to young people. Aims at understanding the spiritual and religious needs of young people in the context of the experience of growing into adulthood in American society today. Also addresses the practical skills necessary for youth ministry. (Fall, every three years)
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THEOL 433 - Youth Ministry Practice
Credits: (3)
The course focuses on adolescent faith formation and faith development theory of youth as the foundation for setting goals in religious education for youth. Also considers designing retreats, community prayer and worship experiences, models for intentional catechesis and Confirmation programs. (Spring, every three years)
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THEOL 434 - Christian Spirituality
Credits: (3)
The course offers a study of classic and contemporary texts in Christian spirituality. Students employ a personal journal to relate the concerns of the readings to their own experience. (Fall, every three years)
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THEOL 435 - Foundations of Religious Education
Credits: (3)
The course is designed to help students develop a practical theology of religious education. Focuses on the theological foundations of religious education, including an understanding of the spiritual development of children as well as the complex demands of mature faith as lived within a Christian community. Students also study specific strategies for catechesis including resources, planning and teaching methods, catechetical formation, Baptism catechesis, early childhood religious education, sacramental preparation and catechetical programs for youth and adults. (Spring, every three years)
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THEOL 480 - Internship
Credits: (1-3)
The student selects, with the guidance of the advisor, one area of lay ministry to explore through the experience of an internship. Possibilities include parish ministries of education or youth ministry; soup kitchens, shelters and other social justice ministries; prison ministry; and hospital chaplaincy. Aims to help the student integrate theological education in pastoral ministry with the practical world of ministry. Permission of the department chair is required. (As needed)
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THEOL 498 - Senior Seminar
Credits: (3)
This course is designed to help seniors to understand and be able to articulate the themes and significance of the major documents of Vatican II, to understand the significance of Vatican II within its historical and cultural context-including challenges and controversies surrounding interpretation and implementation of the council-and to engage in thoughtful reflection about the task of studying theology and being a teacher of the faith in the Church today. Required of all theology majors. (Spring)
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THGE 450 - Religions of the World
Credits: (3)
This course provides a comparative study of the religious families or traditions of India, China and the Islamic world. These traditions serve both to shape and to reflect their respective non-Western cultures. Thus they will provide an appropriate perspective from which to study these cultures. (As needed)
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THGE 451 - Mysticism East and West
Credits: (3)
This course offers an investigation of major figures or schools in Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic and Christian mysticism, with reference to the Greek philosophical mysticism of Neo- Platonism, and of the philosophical questions concerning the nature of mystical experiences. Students employ a personal journal to relate the concerns of the course to their own experience (Same as PHGE 375 .) (As needed)
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THGE 452 - Christianity in the East
Credits: (3)
This course introduces students to the the encounter between Christianity and Asian culture by examining the history of significant Christian communities in Asia. Current projections hold that Asia will soon become home to the world’s largest population of Christians. In order to prepare for this shift, there is a need to examine and understand the unique challenges and opportunities the Asian context provides for Christian faith and practice. To address this need, the course will focus on concrete studies of Christian communities in the Islamic world of Asia and Catholicism in China. (As needed)
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THGE 453 - U.S. Latino Catholicism
Credits: (3)
Latina and Latino Catholics have lived their faith in what is now the United States for almost twice as long as the nation has existed. Nevertheless, other strands of U.S. Catholicism continue to struggle at understanding the distinctive contribution of Latinos to the North American Church. Latinos and their communities are also themselves a meeting place for rich encounters between U.S. society and a variety of Central and South American cultures. This course explores the development of Latino Catholicism in the United States, the ways Latinos are currently transforming the US Catholic Church, Hispanic faith expressions related to Jesus and Mary, and especially the theological contributions of contemporary Latinas and Latinos. (As needed)
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THMO 300 - Modernity in Theatre
Credits: (3)
Critical study of modernity and the key ideas and forces that have shaped the modern world as reflected through the discipline of theatre. Prerequisite(s): Rising Junior Status or higher (45 earned credits)
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WCIV 102 - Origins of the West
Credits: (3)
In Origins of the West, students explore the origins of the contemporary Western world by examining its Greek, Roman, and Judeo-Christian roots and by studying the art, history and literature of three foundational periods in Western Civilization: Democratic Athens, Imperial Rome, and the Christian Middle Ages, with a special emphasis on the legacies that continue to shape the world in which we live.
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WCIV 201 - The Western Imagination: The Renaissance to the Great War
Credits: (3)
The Western Imagination draws on the literature, art, and history of the West between 1500 and 1918 to help students understand the emergence of the global, urbanized, and technologically-advanced modern Western world in which they live. Students are challenged to think reflectively about Western ideas of progress, especially on questions of authority, knowledge, liberty, and consumption.
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