Faith Reason and Sustainable Creation

This course is a capstone course of the General Education Program. It will be an interdisciplinary dialogue that engages your understanding of the vision and values found in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT), in particular the Catholic Social Tradition (CST), with the values found in the Characteristics of Marianist Universities, and the perspectives you have learned within your own major discipline. To accomplish this, we will explore the CIT and CST as areas of study in their own right in the first third of the course, followed by dialogue on the CIT's vision of a sustainable creation as found in the work of Pope Francis and disciplinary reflections on the various issues that arise in consideration of this theme in the second third of the course. The final portion of our course will be crafting projects from the students' perspectives that will foster the interdisciplinary dialogue we are working toward and allow you construct a final project that can contribute to our understanding the various dimensions of sustainability and the creation of a sustainable world.