Catholic Studies
ERIC E. HALL, PH.D.
FR. CHRISTOPHER LEBSOCK, M.D., S.T.L.
FR. MARC LENNEMAN, S.T.L.
WILLIAM MARK SMILLIE, PH.D., DEPT CHAIR
Mission
Catholic Studies studies the interplay between the Catholic faith, the culture it engenders, and the lives of real people living out that faith in the concrete circumstances of their lives. Armed with this understanding, students learn how to incorporate the Catholic faith into their own lives, especially their lives as intellectuals and as professionals. The program will provide students with a working understanding of the Catholic faith, understood in the sense of the contents of Catholic beliefs. The Catholic Studies major should be a second major; it will pair with any major at Carroll.
Program Objectives
- To offer an organized study of Catholic Christian culture, which examines the relationship between faith and reason, faith and culture, and faith and life, and to initiate students into this study
- To seek ways that the specialized disciplines contribute to a unified and integrated vision of reality, and to foster this search in faculty and students of Carroll College
- To “incarnate” in Carroll College, its faculty and students, a Catholic way of understanding and being, that is, to bring Catholic intellectual, moral, spiritual, and cultural tradition into living form
- To provide a curricular space where Carroll College’s dual goals of vocation and enlightenment can meet, mutually serve and inform each other
Student Learning Outcomes
Students majoring in Catholic Studies will:
1. Recognize Catholic Heritage (history, culture, and intellectual traditions of Catholicism.
2. Articulate Catholic contributions to culture, society, and human civilization.
3. Integrate diverse disciplines through a Catholic lens.
4. Incarnate the Catholic intellectual, moral and spiritual traditions into the whole of their lives.