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The Life Of Faith And The Life Of The Mind: An Ambiguous And Nurturing Space For Students, Michael W. Higgins
The Life Of Faith And The Life Of The Mind: An Ambiguous And Nurturing Space For Students, Michael W. Higgins
Mission Integration & Ministry Publications
Opening address by Michael W. Higgins for the Lilly Fellows Program in the Humanities and the Arts Network Exchange conference titled "Integrating A Faith-based Education for the 21st Century: Challenges and Responses" and hosted by Sacred Heart University April 15-18, 2012
Gilgamesh To Blade Runner: Teaching The Catholic Intellectual Tradition In Rscc104, Christopher J. Kelly
Gilgamesh To Blade Runner: Teaching The Catholic Intellectual Tradition In Rscc104, Christopher J. Kelly
Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications
Professor Kelly describes his teaching of the core curriculum course in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Sacred Heart University. He states "that our careful reading of Genesis, Augustine, Blade Runner, Gilgamesh, etc. provides them [students] with certain tools with which they will be able to reflect upon their own “contexts.” This is exactly what I ask them to do for their capstone project in the course. It is an assignment many are loathe to do because I keep it fairly vague, which requires them to do some self-initiated thinking and work. The payoff, however, has enormous potential. If I …