In-Person if the course requires attendance at a specific location and time for some or all course activities. These courses will have section codes starting in 0 or 4.
Online – Asynchronous if the course has no requirement for attendance at a specific time or location for any activities or exams. These courses will have the section code starting with 61.
Online – Synchronous if online attendance is expected at a specific time for some or all course activities, and attendance at a specific location is not expected for any activities or exams. These courses will have the section code starting with 62.
Hybrid if the course requires attendance at a specific location and time, however 33-66% of the course is delivered online. If online attendance is expected at a specific time, it will be in place of the in person attendance. These courses will have the section code starting with 31.
Some courses may offer more than one delivery method please ensure that you have the correct section code when registering via ACORN. You will not be permitted to switch delivery method after the last date to add a course for the given semester.
Orthodox Christian thought has always been deeply concerned with ethical-social issues of the daily encounter with life and culture, but grounds solutions to these issues in tradition, not :progress'. This course will follow an opening overview of the dilemma of ethical
decision-making with a set of problems which touch on personal self-recognition. Issues under discussion will include personal rights,
identity; gender, disability, and bioethical and other life concerns.
Orthodox Christian thought has always been deeply concerned with ethical-social issues of the daily encounter with life and culture, but grounds solutions to these issues in tradition, not :progress'. This course will follow an opening overview of the dilemma of ethical
decision-making with a set of problems which touch on personal self-recognition. Issues under discussion will include personal rights,
identity; gender, disability, and bioethical and other life concerns.
Orthodox Christian thought has always been deeply concerned with ethical-social issues of the daily encounter with life and culture, but grounds solutions to these issues in tradition, not :progress'. This course will follow an opening overview of the dilemma of ethical
decision-making with a set of problems which touch on personal self-recognition. Issues under discussion will include personal rights,
identity; gender, disability, and bioethical and other life concerns.
Designer babies. The ethics of sex selection and stem cell research. The effects of poverty on the beginning of life. The care of imperilled newborns. Working through maternal-fetal conflicts. The business of reproduction. This course will examine such complex beginning-of-life topics in light of of Catholic Church teaching and tradition while encouraging a critique made possible by viewing the issues through the lens of social justice.
Case study approach to justice in speech and communication, economic transactions, duties of employers and employees, professional ethics, etc. Case study presentation by students. Prerequisite: fundamental ethics or equivalent.
Classes will be held:
Tuesdays 11:00-13:00
September 16, 23, 30
October 7, 14 (no class during reading week and October 28).
November 11, 18, 25 & (no class on November 4)
December 9 (no class on December 2)
In place of the two missed classes, extra readings will be assigned. The student will write a two-page paper on the readings, to be marked by the instructor.
Case study approach to justice in speech and communication, economic transactions, duties of employers and employees, professional ethics, etc. Case study presentation by students. Prerequisite: fundamental ethics or equivalent.
This course explores Christian Ethics as a discipline reflecting theologically upon the dynamic of moral thought, and uses the theological virtues of faith, love and hope as a prism through which to approach its material. The aim of the course is to enhance students' abilities in situating moral categories and argument within a theological context, drawing discerningly on resources in the tradition in moral enquiry, reflecting theologically upon the place of moral thinking in relation to the being and work of God. Themes with which the class will engage include the self as agent, the nature of moral knowledge, the bearing of time, past, present and future, on the exercise of practical reason.
This course explores the logical structure of moral awareness, moral thought and moral communication, and the role of Ethics as a reflective theological discipline in illuminating it. Themes with which the class with be expected to engage include the relation of practical to theoretical reason, the self as agent, divine command and creation, moral knowledge, time and salvation history, moral law, deliberation and vocation, the operation of the Holy Spirit in the moral life, the foundational place of the virtues of faith, love and hope.
This course explores Christian Ethics as a discipline reflecting theologically upon the dynamic of moral thought, and uses the theological virtues of faith, love and hope as a prism through which to approach its material. The aim of the course is to enhance students' abilities in situating moral categories and argument within a theological context, drawing discerningly on resources in the tradition in moral enquiry, reflecting theologically upon the place of moral thinking in relation to the being and work of God. Themes with which the class will engage include the self as agent, the nature of moral knowledge, the bearing of time, past, present and future, on the exercise of practical reason.