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Catholic Studies, B.A.

I. Major Program Requirements

Thirty-three semester credits, including:

Required courses (12 credits):

CATH 175Catholic Thought and Culture

1
CATH 201Faith and Reason

3
CATH 206Catholic Anthropology

3
CATH 301Church and Culture

3
CATH 495Catholicism Engaged

1
CATH 497Senior Paper

1

Plus 9 additional credits of Catholic Studies courses:

CATH 306 and CATH 308 can be repeated for credit if the course topic differs from first course taken.
CATH 189Special Topic

1.00 - 3.00
CATH 289Special Topic

1.00 - 3.00
CATH 306Topics in Lives of the Saints

3
CATH 308Topics in Catholic Tradition

3
CATH 389Special Topics

1.00 - 3.00
CATH 485Independent Study

1.00 - 3.00

Plus 12 credits of courses from approved list:

Additional Catholic Studies courses can substitute.

At least 3 credits must be upper-division (300-level or higher).

HI 204Medieval History

3
MUS 250Development of Sacred Music in the West

3
MUS 252Pract Appl Sac Mus in Mod Church

3
PHIL 121Philosophy of Human Being

3
PHIL 150Philosophy in Love

3
PHIL 202Medieval Philosophy

3
PHIL 205Ethics

3
PHIL 206Environmental Ethics

3
PHIL 208Bioethics

3
PHIL 216Philosophy of God & Religion

3
PHIL 252Philosophy & History of Science

3
PHIL 256Social & Political Philosophy

3
PHIL 310Metaphysics

3
PHIL 313Epistemology

3
PHIL 324Ethical Theory

3
TH 201Church and Worship

3
TH 212Women Mystics

3
TH 215Exploring Christian Spirituality

3
TH 216Violence & Atonement

3
TH 218Spiritual Autobiographies

3
TH 220Moral Theology

3
TH 222Health Care Ethics

3
TH 233Intro to Old Testament

3
TH 237Intro to New Testament

3
TH 251The God Question

3
TH 254Theology and Science

3
TH 263Modern Catholic Social Teaching

3
TH 264Theologies of Liberation

3
TH 342HCT: Middle Ages Through Reformation

3
TH 343HCT: Modernity-Postmodernity

3
TH 352Christology

3
TH 353Trinity in Christian Life and Theology

3

II. Other Program Requirements

Catholic Studies Majors must complete two co-curricular activities per academic semester. Co-curricular activities include academic lectures, special liturgical events, organized trip to an art gallery, participation in liturgical or Campus Ministry activities, etc. See Catalog description or Program director for further information. Participation will be recorded with the registrar in the student’s final semester.