Program of Study
Requirements: 21 hours (seven courses) selected from among the designated Catholic Studies course offerings. The core courses include: “Catholicism”[Rels-V152] and “New Testament as Literature” [Rel-U147]. The remaining 15 hours must include at least one additional Catholic Studies course in the Department of Religious Studies and at least two courses in departments other than religious studies.
Learn about the New Testament writings, the catacombs, monks, medieval cathedrals and universities, the Crusaders, the lives of the saints, Catholic devotions, St. Ignatius of Loyola and Jesuit spirituality; the theological writings of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and Julian of Norwich; Gregorian Chant, Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes; the Inquisition, the Counter-Reformation, the institution of the papacy, and the Second Vatican Council; Dante’s Divine Comedy, the fiction of Flannery O’Connor, the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the dancing Church in Africa; and much more.