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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.
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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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