Major Requirements

Course Requirements

• CTH 180 INTRODUCTION TO CATHOLICISM
  or CTH 201 THE EXPERIENCE OF CATHOLICISM IN CHICAGO
• CTH 205 CATHOLICISM IN WORLD HISTORY I: JESUS TO 1500
• CTH 206 CATHOLICISM IN WORLD HISTORY II:MODERN & POST-MODERN TIMES
• CTH 209 THEORIES OF THE CHURCH: CONCEPTS AND CONTROVERSIES
• 4 courses over four of the areas listed below. One of the courses must be from Scriptures, Councils and Creeds.
• 4 CTH Electives Three of these must be at the 300 level.
• Senior Capstone chosen from this list:
• CTH 396 SENIOR THESIS
• CTH 397 INTERNSHIP
• CTH 398 SENIOR SEMINAR
• CTH 399 ADVANCED STUDY

Areas

Scriptures, Councils and Creeds

• CTH 190 CATHOLICISM AND BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION
• CTH 212 ANCIENT ISRAEL: HISTORY, LITERATURE AND RELIGION
• CTH 213 THE NEW TESTAMENT
• CTH 214 THE HISTORICAL JESUS
• CTH 215 VARIETIES OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY
• CTH 216 PAUL AND HIS INFLUENCE IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY
• CTH 223 THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL
• CTH 224 CHRISTIAN PREACHING AS COMMUNICATION
• CTH 325 SPECIAL TOPICS IN SCRIPTURES, COUNCILS AND CREEDS

Religious Experience, Prayer and Liturgy

• CTH 110 THE CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE
• CTH 226 ROMAN CATHOLIC SPIRITUAL LITERATURE
• CTH 228 MEDIEVAL MYSTICS IN EUROPE: 1000-1600 A.D.
• CTH 229 CATHOLICISM AS A SPIRITUAL PATH
• CTH 231 ROMAN CATHOLIC LITURGY
• CTH 335 SPECIAL TOPICS IN RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, PRAYER AND LITURGY

Catholic Thought: Philosophy and Theology

• CTH 183 THEMES IN CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT
• CTH 238 ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
• CTH 239 MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
• CTH 240 TOPICS IN CATHOLIC THOUGHT
• CTH 241 ROMAN CATHOLIC MORAL TRADITIONS
• CTH 242 PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY
• CTH 243 ROMAN CATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL THINKING
• CTH 244 DEBATES ABOUT GOD
• CTH 246 INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIAN ETHICS
• CTH 247 ROMAN CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT IN CONTEXT
• CTH 248 CONTEMPORARY MORAL ISSUES
• CTH 249 NATURE, COSMOS AND GOD: CATHOLISM AND SCIENCE
• CTH 336 THEORIES OF INTERPRETATION
• CTH 337 GREEK AND MEDIEVAL THOUGHT
• CTH 338 EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY
• CTH 339 PHILOSOPHY SINCE KANT
• CTH 340 ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY
• CTH 341 LIBERATION THEOLOGY: THEORY AND PRACTICE
• CTH 354 SPECIAL TOPICS IN CATHOLIC THOUGHT

The Art, Music and Literature of Catholicism

• CTH 250 ART IN THE SPANISH AMERICAN EMPIRE
• CTH 251 CATHOLIC THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA
• CTH 252 BYZANTINE ART
• CTH 253 EARLY MEDIEVAL ART
• CTH 254 LATE MEDIEVAL ART
• CTH 256 ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART
• CTH 257 BAROQUE ART
• CTH 258 NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART
• CTH 259 THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF CATHOLICISM IN CHICAGO
• CTH 261 CATHOLIC FAITH AND MUSICAL EXPRESSION
• CTH 265 LITERATURE AND THE SACRED
• CTH 355 THEOLOGICAL IDEAS AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSION
• CTH 369 SPECIAL TOPICS IN THE ART, MUSIC AND LITERATURE OF CATHOLICISM

The Social Dimension of Catholicism

• CTH 270 JESUS ACROSS CULTURES
• CTH 271 ROMAN CATHOLICISM'S ENCOUNTER WITH OTHER RELIGIONS
• CTH 273 HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE U.S.
• CTH 274 IRELAND: RELIGION AND THE CONTEMPORARY "TROUBLES"
• CTH 275 MEDIEVAL PEOPLE: 400 TO 1400 A.D.
• CTH 276 CATHOLICISM IN AFRICA
• CTH 279 CATHOLICISM AND THE FAMILY
• CTH 280 RELIGION AND EDUCATION IN WESTERN CULTURE
• CTH 282 GOD, JUSTICE AND REDEMPTIVE ACTION
• CTH 285 THE SOCIAL ECONOMY OF CATHOLICISM
• CTH 288 IRELAND, 1450-1800, CONQUEST, COLONIZATION & REBELLION
• CTH 289 IRELAND, 1800 - 2000
• CTH 370 THE CULTURES OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY
• CTH 376 GOD, SELF, AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL CULTURE
• CTH 377 INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY IN RENAISSANCE ITALY
• CTH 378 THE AGE OF REFORMATIONS
• CTH 384 THE CULTURE OF AMERICAN CATHOLICS
• CTH 386 THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN WORLD POLITICS
• CTH 388 FOREIGN STUDY IN RELIGION
• CTH 389 SPECIAL TOPICS IN THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF CATHOLICISM

Vincentian Studies

• CTH 290 THE LIFE AND TIMES OF VINCENT DE PAUL
• CTH 292 WOMEN AND SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL
• CTH 293 THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY
• CTH 295 THE VINCENTIANS IN AMERICA
• CTH 395 SPECIAL TOPICS IN VINCENTIAN STUDIES