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Programs of
Study
Special Jesuit Liberal
Arts
Program (SJLA)
Course Descriptions
— SJLA
- PHIL 120J — Introduction to Philosophy
— 3 credits
- The aim of this course is to awaken in the student
an appreciation of the nature and method of philosophical inquiry through an
examination of key texts, which grapple with the central questions that have
arisen in the history of philosophy.
- PHIL 210J — Ethics — 3 credits
- Through the presentation of a select history of
moral philosophy, students are introduced to the philosophical discipline of
ethics. Original texts of such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus,
Epictetus, St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, Mill, and Nietzsche are enlisted to
explore the most fundamental question in ethics, “What is the good
life?”
- PHIL 217J — The Trivium — 3 credits
- Via numerous writing projects and speeches and the
analysis of select philosophical texts, this practicum in grammar, logic, and
rhetoric will encourage the student to connect the basic elements of reason,
discourse, and persuasion.
- PHIL 311J — Metaphysics — 3 credits
- A textual inquiry into the adequacy of
philosophical responses to the fundamental question, “What Is?”
Special attention will be given to Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and Nietzsche.
- PHIL 322J — Philosophy of Conscience —
3 credits
- Studies the role of conscience in moral judgment
and considers its metaphorical and narrative elements. Explores the difference
between clarity and community, truth and wisdom, principle and prudence as we
study possible links between conscience, reason, eros, imagination and
education in some of the works of Plato, Kant and Marx.
- PHIL 412J — (P,D) Art and Metaphysics
— 3 credits
- The course utilizes the work of Martin Heidegger as
well as several contemporary American novels to explore the philosophical
problem of nihilism as it manifests itself today in the relationship between
modern technology and art. Special attention is given to modern architecture.
- PHIL 413J — The End of Philosophy — 3
credits
- The title of this SJLA capstone course refers to
its three objectives. These are: (1) to complete and unify SJLA coursework in
philosophy, (2) to clarify philosophy's purpose or goal, and (3) to interpret
contemporary anxiety about the end of the philosophical tradition.
- PHIL 419J — (D) Philosophy East and West
— 3 credits
- This course brings non-Western philosophy and
philosophers into a dialogue with Western philosophy and philosophers on major
philosophical topics.
- T/RS 121J — (P) Theology I: Introduction to
the Bible — 3 credits
- A survey of central texts and themes of the Bible.
Its purpose is to develop biblical literacy as well as skills in interpreting
various literary forms and key theological concepts.
- T/RS 122J — (P) Theology II: Introduction
to Christian Theology — 3 credits
- (Prerequisite: T/RS 121) A survey of key Christian
themes: creation, Christ's incarnation and redemption, the Church and
sacraments, Christian personhood, and the practice of prayer, virtue, and hope
for the future.
- INTD 110J — The Jesuit Magis — 3
credits
- The purpose of this course is to teach students how
to coordinate several themes into an integral whole: Jesuit commitment to faith
and justice, in terms of the Magis; service to others as a concrete response to
social analysis, complemented by guided reflection upon the experience of
service.
- HUM 311J-312J — Masterworks I-II — 6
credits
- In this team-taught, year-long seminar, students
will read some of the great classics of world literature, learn how to
facilitate their own discussions, write a comparative analytic paper, and be
orally examined by a host of volunteer professors.
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