RELG 243 - Catholic Social Teaching and Ethics

Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT

The Catholic Social Teaching tradition represents the church’s efforts to address and provide guidance on major social issues such as economic justice, uses of technology, warfare and nuclear weapons, and structural oppression. In the process of studying this tradition of thought spanning over one hundred years since the late nineteenth century to the present, we will see the range of the church’s social concerns and values as well as its development in response to social change. The course also provides an engagement with foundational components of catholic ethics such as views of the human person, social agency, and human limitations.

Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: J. Babyak