Elective Courses

For specific information about Catholic Studies courses including schedule, professor and capacity go to the Loyola course catalogue and select the Term (Fall, Spring or Summer) and IC-Catholic Studies under Course Type.

A quick list of elective courses in the Catholic Studies Minor is provided below.

Art History

AH310 Church and Empire: Early Medieval Art, 250-1150
AH312 The Renaissance in Italy
AH313 Renaissance Art in Northern Europe
AH314 Art of Baroque Europe
AH325 Gothic Art and Architecture
AH326D The Crusades in Medieval Visual Culture

Chemistry

CH113 Living Dangerously?
CH340 The Science and Philosophy of Human Nature: Teilhard and Polanyi

Classics

CL225 Biographical Tales of the Bible
CL226 Women in the Christian Tradition
CL301 The Church and the Roman Empire
CL313 History of Christmas
CL324 Seminar: The Persecution of the Christians in the Roman World
CL349 Latin Jesuit Drama and the Philosophy of Peace and War

English

EN328 Seminar in Literature and Catholicism (Pre-1800)
EN332 Literature and the Catholic Imagination (Pre-1800)
EN364 Literature and the Catholic Imagination (Post-1800)
EN365 Seminar in Literature and Catholicism (Post-1800)

History

HS301 The Church and the Roman Empire
HS303 The Early Middle Ages
HS305 The Later Middle Ages
HS313 History of Christmas
HS317 The Making of Modern Italy
HS370 The Jesuits in Asia Since 1542
HS381 Search for the Divine: Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist Ways in India
HS382 Jesuits and Empire from the Society's Beginning to Its Suppression
HS383 The Cross and the Sword: Christianity and the Making of Colonial Latin America
HS391 History of the Jesuits
HS475 Seminar: The Persecution of the Christians in the Roman World
HS486 Seminar: The Great Age of the European Reconnaissance: Travel and Discovery

Italian

IT352 Dante's Divine Comedy

Latin

LT335 Resistance to Rome: Perpetua's Passion
LT350 Readings in Medieval Latin I
LT351 Readings in Medieval Latin II

Law and Social Responsibility

LW319 Special Topics in Law, Social Responsibility, and Catholic Studies

Management

MG319 Special Topics in Catholic Studies

Modern Languages

ML320 Liberation Theology from Its Origins
ML332 Dante's Divine Comedy (in translation)

Philosophy

PL313 Business Ethics and the Church
PL329 Philosophical Foundations of Catholic Social Thought
PL331 Natural Law and Natural Right
PL340 The Science and Philosophy of Human Nature: Teilhard and Polanyi
PL349 Latin Jesuit Drama and the Philosophy of Peace and War
PL350 Sexual Ethics
PL351 Virtue Ethics
PL352 Catholic Political Philosophy
PL353 Modern Morality and Human Nature
PL355 Philosophy of History
PL364 Renaissance Philosophy
PL369 Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas
PL370 Medieval Philosophy
PL401 Morals and Politics of the Lord of the Rings
PL404 Reason, Science, and Faith in the Modern Age
PL407 Marriage and Family though the Lens of Catholic Social Thought and Developmental Psychology
PL450 Seminar: Renaissance Philosophy of Religion

Psychology

PY417 Special Topics in Psychology and Catholic Studies

Theology

TH202 Theology and Catholic Autobiography
TH203 Catholic Church: Life and Thought
TH211 Women in the Christian Tradition
TH214 Friends and Foes: Jews and Christians through the Ages
TH216 Ignatius and the Jesuits: History and Spirituality
TH225 Biographical Tales of the Bible
TH244 Forgiveness and Reconciliation
TH246 Who is Jesus?
TH249 Christian Sacraments
TH264 Theology & Children's Literature
TH265D World Christianity
TH266 Christian Theology and World Religions
TH269 Theology and Literature
TH301 Ethics: Theology and Ethics of Hospitality
TH303 Ethics: Ancient, Modern, and Christian Approaches to Ethics
TH304 Ethics: Introduction to Christian Ethics
TH306 The Moral Theology of Pope John Paul II
TH307 Ethics: Marriage and Sexuality
TH308 Ethics: Justice and the Church in the World
TH309 Ethics: Theology and Politics in America
TH310 Ethics: Peace Ethics
TH311 Ethics: Spirituality and Social Ethics - Biblical and Theological Perspectives
TH313 Ethics: Being Moral in America
TH316 Ethics: Catholic Spiritual Life in the United States
TH319 Ethics: The Church and the Human Body
TH322 Christianity and Its Critics
TH326 Ignatius Loyola and the Spiritual Exercises
TH327 The Virgin Mary in Scripture and Tradition
TH329 Medieval Women Authors
TH331 Finding God in All Things: Spirituality and Prayer in the Christian Tradition
TH333 The Tradition of Catholic Radicalism
TH335 An Introduction to the Theology of Saint Augustine
TH338 Theology of Thomas Aquinas
TH347 Jesus and the Gospels
TH350 Prophets and Peacemakers
TH355 Saint Paul and His Writings
TH362 Hope, Death, and the End of the World
TH363 Sacraments and the Christian Life
TH365 Theology and Art
TH366 Catholic Theology in Modernity
TH369 Faith and Reason
TH381 Faith and Film: The Apostle's Creed in the American Cinema
TH382 The Mysteries of the Life of Christ in Theology and Music
TH383 Christian Faith and Economic Justice
TH385 The 'Theological' and the 'Religious' in International Cinema
TH387 International Catholic Literature in the Twentieth-Century

Writing

WR356 Writers in the Catholic Tradition: Selected Authors