Catholic Studies

Sample Courses

catholic studies

The Catholic Imagination

SL 221/TH 198/HP 258 The Language of Liturgy

EN 301 Literary Artists and Reform of the Church
EN 370 Catholic Character/s in Fiction and Film
EN 403 Faulkner, O’Connor, Percy and Wright
EN 463 Religious Dimensions/Modern Novel
EN 864 Predecessors, Contemporaries, Heirs: Gerard Manly Hopkins

FA 222 Later Medieval Art: Imagination and Imagery
FA 231 Italian Renaissance Art
FA 296 Italy: Art, History, Literature
FA 347 Age of Baroque: 17th c. Art in Italy

MU 201 Medieval and Renaissance Music

PL 511 Philosophy of Imagination

RL 526 Dante’s Divine Comedy in Translation
RL 678 Gendered Voices: Early Spanish American Women Writers

TH 023/024 Exploring Catholicism: Tradition and Transformation I & II
TH 411 Medieval Theology II
TH 484 Liturgical Theology
TH 517 The Sacramental Principle

Catholicism in Time and Space

EN 238 Medieval Women Writers
EN 844 Medieval Mystics
EN 864 Predecessors, Contemporaries, Heirs: The Case of Gerard Manly Hopkins

HS 103 Celluloid Salvation: Redemption in 20th c. Film and History
HS 292 The Witch, the Church, and the Law
HS 401 The Reformation
HS 435 Ireland Before the Famine
HS 473 Catholicism Confronts Modernity: 1789-present
HS 532 American Catholic History

PL 407 Medieval Philosophy

RL 641 We Were There Too: Minorities in Medieval and Renaissance Spain

SC 005 Planet in Peril
SC 344 Religion at the Crossroads
SC 593 Religion in a Global Context

SL 283 The Christian East: Orientale Lumen

TH 393 Suffering, Politics and Liberation
TH 411 Medieval Theology
TH 439 Transatlantic Catholicism Since 1750
TH 440 Religious History of American Catholicism
TH 450 St. Ignatius of Loyola and Discernment
TH 473 History of the Modern Papacy
TH 495 Hitler, Pius XII and the Vatican II Church
TH 520 Classics of Spirituality
TH 580 Doing Theology in Asian Contexts

Catholic Social Thought

EC 234 Economics and Catholic Social Thought

HS 218 20th c. Catholic Imagination: Beyond Morality into Mystery

PO 351 Religion and Politics
PO 358 Seminar: American Culture War

TH 217 Sex, Gender and the Human Body
TH 262 The Church & Society in El Salvador
TH 283 Prophets and Peacemakers
TH 393 Suffering, Politics and Liberation
TH 405 Christianity and Politics
TH 481 Women and the Church
TH 533 Modern Catholic Social Teaching
TH 535 Ethics of War and Peacemaking
TH 563 Ethics, Religion and International Politics