Goals and Outcomes

1. Moral Traditions encompasses those disciplines and learning experiences which employ a philosophical method to examine aspects of a moral understanding of human life. Disciplines that contribute to this learning experience will be those which engage the student in deductive, critical and dialectical inquiry into human commitments and choices with the goal of understanding how we live well in our world. Such inquiry will be in dialogue with the Catholic intellectual and cultural traditions made contemporary for the times in which we live.
   Students will demonstrate an understanding of philosophical questions that arise in various disciplines. These questions emerge from a deductive, critical, and dialectical examination of our world, both past and present.
2. Students will demonstrate a knowledge of what constitutes a moral commitment, as well as the various views of human nature that inform moral decision making.
3. Students will demonstrate a knowledge of how the philosophical commitments that are examined in the course are in dialogue with Catholic intellectual and cultural traditions.
4. Students will demonstrate the ability to pose reflective alternatives to the ethical positions studied.
   For example, students will be able to write or present orally a thoughtful analysis of the pros and cons of capital punishment.

Evidence / Annual Reports