Students will demonstrate an understanding of the Roman Catholic theological tradition that can include, for example, the nature of God, the essential events of Christian salvation history, and the role of the Church as a community of faith.
Exemplar 1: Students will be able to compare and contrast Christian, specifically Catholic, doctrines vis-à-vis contemporary ideologies and worldviews in class discussion and written essays.
Exemplar 2: Students will be able to interpret with sophistication how doctrine is developed within the context of the organic Catholic Christian worldview through a written essay.
Students will analyze intellectual, cultural, spiritual, and personal perspectives in terms of Judeo-Christian, especially Roman Catholic, traditions.
Exemplar 1: Students will be able to compare and contrast the differences between the foundational assumptions of post-modern Western cultures and a classical Roman Catholic perspective in an essay test.
Exemplar 2: Students will be able to critically interpret a biblical passage and write a 2-page reflection paper on the application of the passage to situations in their own lives.
Students will be able to evaluate the historical and theoretical connections between the Catholic Christian faith’s statements of belief and human engagement with the world.
Exemplar: Students will complete a group project requiring discernment on a particular moral problem, evaluating options for action within the range of possibilities presented by an analysis of doctrine.
For more information, contact:
Ken Stenstrup, Ph.D.
kstenstr@smumn.edu
Faith Traditions Two (FT2) - One course from:
H333 The Reformation
TH250 Christian View/Human Person
TH260 Catholic Doctrine and Interpretation
TH300 Christianity in Global Context
TH350 Intro to Catholic Moral Theology |
