Off-Site Courses
Engage in courses away from Notre Dame's main campus:
- Online courses
- Courses in Fort Wayne, Ind.
- Courses in Tucson, Ariz.
- Courses in Israel at the Tantur Institute for Ecumenical Studies
Online Courses
Spring 2012
THEO 64602 - Section 01: Catholic Social Teaching (CRN 28930)
Professor Margaret Pfeil
MT
Course Description: The purpose of this on-line course is to familiarize students with the tradition of Catholic social teaching with a view to developing skills for critical reading and appropriation of these documents.
We will examine papal, conciliar, and episcopal texts from Rerum novarum (1891) up to the present time, identifying operative principles, tracing central theological, ethical, and ecclesial concerns, and locating each document in its proper historical context.
Requirements: participation in discussion groups, occasional short case commentaries; 3 papers.
Courses in Fort Wayne, Ind.
Spring 2012
THEO 64107 - Section 01
Introduction to the New Testament (CRN 28793)
Professor Daniel Smith
Course Description: The New Testament tells the story of Christ and the nascent Church, describing the new covenant between God and the people of God.
To read the New Testament fruitfully, we need to explore the historical context of the first-century Mediterranean world, attend to the literary forms of different writings, and seek the theological meaning of these sacred Scriptures.
We will survey the Gospels, Acts, letters of Paul, and Book of Revelation.
While our focus will be on the New Testament writings, we will also benefit from the assistance of other learned readers of the Scriptures, from bishops of the first centuries after Christ up to learned scholars of the 21st century.
Courses in Tucson, Ariz.
Spring 2012
The Sacramental Life: Ecclesial, Biblical, Historical
December 27, 2011– January 7, 2012
Professor David W. Fagerberg
Course Description: This course will be an exploration of how Christians live a sacramental life. We will look at the sacraments from three distinct perspectives.
First, we will place them within the liturgical life of the Church. Second, we will trace the biblical foundation for sacraments. Third, we will do a history of sacramental doctrine, treating the whole and then each sacrament in detail.
Christianity is not primarily a set of doctrines, or a social organization, it is Christ's life lived by his disciples. The sacraments do not stand between us and Jesus like a wall, they extend from Jesus to us like a bridge.
Courses in Israel
THEO 64208: Jerusalem, the Desert and Galilee: A Theological Inquiry
3 credits, Virgilio Elizondo
TBA; MTWRF
May 27-June 10, 2012
Course Description: This two-week course through the land of Jesus will seek to explore the theological themes of the gospel narratives informed by the socio-cultural and historical perspectives.
The journey through the land organizes the theology, which is a reflection on the deeper meaning of the journey.
In keeping with the tradition of the earliest followers of Jesus and of subsequent generations of Christians, by returning to the places of origins, we will seek a better understanding of the foundational words, persons, events and places mentioned in the gospels so as to probe their redemptive value for us today.