Catholic Studies and Social Thought Interdisciplinary Minor

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Phone: (415) 422-5200

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Email: lanecenter@usfca.edu

Website: http://www.usfca.edu/lanecenter/undergrad/catholic

Jorge Aquino, Director

The Minor in Catholic Studies and Social Thought is conceived as a Catholic interdisciplinary engagement between/among forms of Catholic social thought as expressed in social theory, the Catholic socio-cultural imaginary, and the Roman Catholic magisterial discourse on society. In disciplinary terms, the curriculum is divided into three areas of study: 1) History and Society; 2) Theology and Philosophy; 3) Culture and Aesthetics.

Catholic Studies and Social Thought Minor Requirements

The Minor in Catholic Studies and Social Thought requires 20 units of coursework, as follows:

Required Core Course:

All minors without exception must take the core course:

• THRS - 220 Catholic Social Thought

Electives

The Minor requires 12 units of electives as listed below. Ordinarily, students will complete one course in each of the three areas of study. This area-coverage requirement may be waived by the student's Capstone adviser, in consultation with the Catholic Studies faculty director, where students show interest and capacity for profitable research on a particular theme with an eye to the Capstone.

The Capstone

All students in the Minor must successfully complete a Capstone course (4 units), including a Capstone thesis project, ordinarily a 25-40 page paper. In preparing for the Capstone, the student selects a course that will be the "wrapper" for her/his Capstone project. The course must come from one of the electives.

Requirements

Catholic Social Thought

• THRS - 220 Catholic Social Thought

History and Society

• HIST - 316 The Reformation
• HIST - 317 The Expansion of Europe, 1450-1715
• HIST - 318 Early Modern European Civilization
• HIST - 324 History of the Early Church
• HIST - 370 Colonial Latin America
• HIST - 372 Indigenous and Colonial Mexico
• POLS - 317 Religion and Politics
• POLS - 341 Nonviolence in Theory and Practice
• POLS - 344 Revolution and Reaction in Latin America
• POLS - 356 The Vatican in Global Politics
• THRS - 345 Religion of U.S. Latinos
• THRS - 363 Religion in Latin America
• THRS - 384 Religion and Nonviolence

Theology and Philosophy

• PHIL - 404 Contemporary Thomism
• SII - 201 Catholic Thought
• SII - 203 Religion and Culture in Late Antiquity
• SII - 405 Catholic Moral Tradition
• THRS - 100 The Christian Village
• THRS - 104 Mystery of God/Mystery of the Human Person
• THRS - 106 Introduction to Sacred Scripture
• THRS - 200 Christian Feminist Theology
• THRS - 202 Portraits of Christ: An Introduction to the Four Gospels.
• THRS - 260 Sexuality and Scripture
• THRS - 262 Homosexuality and the Bible
• THRS - 280 Migrant and Diaspora Religions
• THRS - 308 Who is Jesus? An Introduction to Christology
• THRS - 312 Christian Marriage
• THRS - 322 Liberation Theology
• THRS - 361 Religion and the Environment or
• ENVA - 361 Religion and the Environment
• THRS - 305 Feminist Theology from the Third World(s)
• THRS - 405 Catholic Moral Tradition
• THRS - 470 Contemporary Moral Issues

Culture and Aesthetics

• ENGL - 311 Writing Faith: Exploring Poetics and the Politics of Spirituality in Medieval Literature
• MS - 350 Human Rights and Film
• SII - 204 Medieval and Renaissance Literature
• SII - 302 Music and Art
• SII - 413 Dante's <I>Divine Commedia<I> or
• SPAN - 413 Dante's Divina Commedia
• THRS - 330 Biblical and Spiritual Drama or
• PASJ - 315 Biblical and Spiritual Drama
• THRS - 340 Panamerican Saints: Hagiography and Politics