Loyola University Maryland

Elective Courses

The following courses fulfill the criteria for elective courses in the Catholic studies minor (students must take four elective courses in addition to the other curriculum requirements).

(Faculty: see information for qualifying a course for the minor)

AH205      Colonial Art of Latin America
AH311      Medieval Art: Early Christian through Gothic
AH312      The Renaissance in Italy
AH313      Renaissance Art in Northern Europe
AH314      Art of Baroque Europe
CH113      Living Dangerously?
CL301      The Church and the Roman Empire
CL313      History of Christmas
CL324      Seminar: The Persecution of the Christians in the Roman 
                 World
CW317     Writers in the Catholic Tradition: Selected Authors
ED464      Geology and Geoarchaeology of Baltimore Area Cathedrals
ED503      Evil: Its Nature and Manifestation
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)
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
LT350      Readings in Medieval Latin I
LT351      Readings in Medieval Latin II
MG319     Special Topics in Catholic Studies
ML260      Dante'sDivine Comedy (in translation)
ML320      Liberation Theology from Its Origins
PL329      Philosophical Foundations of Catholic Social Thought
PL331      Natural Law and Natural Right
PL336      Faith and Reason
PL350      Sexual Ethics
PL352      Catholic Political Philosophy
PL353      Modern Moral Philosophy
PL355      Philosophy of History
PL364      Renaissance Philosophy
PL369      Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas
PL370      Medieval Philosophy
PL407      Marriage and Family though the Lens of Catholic Social 
                 Thought and Developmental Psychology
PL450      Renaissance Philosophy of Religion
TH202      Theology and Catholic Autobiography
TH205      Christian Rome: Understanding Jesus Christ in Rome
TH206      The Gospels and the Earliest Churches
TH211      Women in the Christian Tradition
TH214      Friends and Foes: Jews and Christians through the Ages
TH216      Ignatius and the Jesuits: An Analysis of a Tradition, 1491-
                 1995
TH218      Sacred Journeys: The History and Theology of Christian 
                 Pilgrimage
TH220      The Catholic Church in the United States
TH221      Catholic Church: Life and Thought
TH240      Rethinking Catholicism
TH242      A History and Theology of Saints
TH243      Heaven and Hell
TH244      Forgiveness and Reconciliation
TH245      Eucharist (The Mass) in Ordinary Time
TH246      Who is Jesus?
TH247      The Presence of God: Christian Mysticism, East and West
TH249      Christian Sacraments
TH266      Christian Theology and World Religions
TH269      Theology and Literature
TH270      Creation and Evolution
TH301      Ethics: Theology and Ethics of Hospitality
TH303      Ethics: Virtues and Holiness
TH304      Ethics: Introduction to Christian Ethics
TH306      The Moral Theology of Pope John Paul II
TH307      Ethics: Marriage and Sexuality
TH308      Ethics: Catholic Social Teaching
TH313      Ethics: Being Moral in America
TH316      Ethics: Catholic Spiritual Life in the United States
TH320      Foundations of Catholic Moral Theology
TH321      The Theology of John Paul II
TH322      Christianity and Its Critics
TH323      Religion in Children's Literature
TH324      Faith and Film: The Apostle's Creed in the American Cinema
TH325      Christian Faith and Economic Justice
TH326      Hope, Death, and the End of the World
TH327      The Virgin Mary in Scripture and Tradition
TH329      Jews and Christians After Christendom
TH334      The 'Theological' and the 'Religious' in International Cinema
TH335      An Introduction to the Theology of Saint Augustine
TH336      Catholic Intellectual Life in the United States: Two Hundred 
                 Years of American Catholic Opinion
TH338      Catholic Literature and American Culture in the Twentieth-
                 Century
TH341      Medieval Women Authors
TH343      International Catholic Literature in the Twentieth-
                 Century
TH344      The Tradition of Catholic Radicalism
TH345      Euthanasia and the Problem of Suffering
TH346      Disputing the Bible
TH353      Catholic Theology in Modernity
TH354      Male and Female in the Kingdom of God: Contemporary 
                 Gender Perspectives on the Bible
TH365      Theology and Art
TH369      Faith and Reason
TH370      Theology of Thomas Aquinas
TH399      Contemporary Catholic Intellectual Life