Master of Arts in Philosophy and Society

Primary Learning Goals

• understand and appreciate the complexities of the human condition;
• acquire a methodology for continually reflecting on the changing contexts of mission.
• grow in one’s ability to collaborate effectively and to undertake communal discernment.

1. Ethics in Pastoral Ministry (3 units)
2. Pastoral Counseling Skills (3 units)
3. Introduction to Contextual Learning and the Bronx (3 units)
4. Introduction to Latin American Culture, History, and Politics (3 units)
5. Ignatian Reflection on Contextual Ministry (1 unit) – taken each semester in Year
6. Ignatian Reflection on Contextual Ministry (1 unit) – taken each semester in Year
7. Ignatian Reflection on Contextual Ministry (1 unit) – taken each semester in Year

Primary Learning Goals

• acquiring a methodology for continually reflecting on the changing contexts of mission.
• deepening one’s understanding of Jesuit history as it relates to ministerial contexts;

1. 1. History and Culture of the Jesuits I (1 unit) – delivered modularly in the learning community
   2. History and Culture of the Jesuits II (1 unit) – delivered modularly in the learning community
   3. History and Culture of the Jesuits III (1 unit) – delivered modularly in the learning community
   4. Navigating the Contexts of Mission (3 units) – chosen from a menu that will include courses in Psychology, Philosophy, Spirituality, etc. like:
      Psychology and Religion
      Trauma: Counseling and Ministry Issues
      Topics in the Philosophy of Education
      Hermeneutics
      Ignatian Spirituality for Ministry
      Tutorials

Primary Learning Goals

• understanding, through an encounter with important texts, how thinkers and cultures have sought to respond to fundamental questions and dimensions of human and social existence;
• acquiring a methodology for continually reflecting on the changing contexts of mission.

1. Introduction to Philosophical Inquiry (3 units)
2. Ancient Philosophy (3 units) – chosen from a menu that will include courses like:
   Introduction to Plato
   Introduction to Aristotle
   Philosophy’s Origins
3. Augustine (3 units)
4. Aquinas (3 units)
5. Early Modern Philosophy (3 units) – chosen from a menu that will include courses like:
   Classical Modern Philosophy
   Kant
   Descartes and Spinoza
6. Contemporary Philosophy (3 units) – chosen from a menu that will include courses like:
   American Pragmatism
   Kant and German Idealism
   Hegel’s Phenomenology
   Kierkegaard
   Nietzsche
7. Ethics, Normative Ethics, or Natural Law (3 units) – chosen from a menu that will include courses like:
   Natural Law Ethics
   Normative Ethical Theory

After taking these 21 required units (in addition to the three-unit Capstone experience), students will need to take at least 6 additional units in philosophy (either in the Interdisciplinary Core or as Electives)

Primary Learning Goals

• understanding and appreciating the complexities of the human condition;
• understanding, through an encounter with important texts, how thinkers and cultures have sought to respond to fundamental questions and dimensions of human and social existence;

1. Contours of the Ancient and Late Antique World (1) – taken in the same semester as ancient philosophy
2. Contours of the Late Medieval and Early Modern World (1) – taken in the same semester as Aquinas or Early Modern course
3. Contours of Modernity and Postmodernity (1) – taken in the same semester as contemporary philosophy course

Primary Learning Goals

• analyzing structures and developments in society and culture, especially those that are relevant to faith, justice, religious pluralism, and ecological issues;
• understanding, through an encounter with important texts, how thinkers and cultures have sought to respond to fundamental questions and dimensions of human and social existence;

1. The Church in Controversy (3 units)
2. Theologies of Gender and Sexuality (3 units) – chosen from a menu that will include courses like:
   Theological Anthropology and human Diversity
   Sexual Ethics

After taking these 6 required units (in addition to 15 units in Contextual Analysis and Jesuit Studies) students will need to take 3 additional units in theology (either in the Interdisciplinary Core or Electives)

Primary Learning Goals

• analyzing structures and developments in society and culture, especially those that are relevant to faith, justice, religious pluralism, and ecological issues;
• acquiring a methodology for continually reflecting on the changing contexts of mission.

3 units in each of the following three areas

1. Justice and Human Rights (3 units) – chosen from a menu that will include courses in History, Humanitarian Studies, Philosophy, Theology, English, Political Science, etc. like:
   Ethics and Society: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
   Race and Gender in Modern America
   Social Movements in Global Perspective
   Atlantic World: Empires, Diasporas, and Migrations
   US Immigration and Ethnicity
   Contemporary Issues in Humanitarian Action
   Humanitarian Aspects of Migration
   Dimensions of Political Justice
   Conflict Resolution
   Histories of Colonialism, Empire, Theology
   Political Theology
   Catholic Social Thought
   Tutorial
2. Race and Racism (3 units) – chosen from a menu that will include courses in Theology, Philosophy, etc. like:
   Philosophy of Race
   Black Theologies and the Decolonial Option
   Latinx Theology
   African-American Theological Ethics
   Tutorial
3. Environmental Studies and Sciences (3 units) – chosen from a menu that will include courses in the Social and Natural Sciences, Theology, Urban Studies, etc. like:
   Christian Ecological Ethics
   Ecological Theology
   Environmental Ethics/Environmental Policy/Bioethics
   Urban Health and Environment
   Environmental History of the American City
   Tutorial

• As the student considers his own education, which learning goals might need more attention?
• Does he have particular intellectual interests that have not yet been adequately explored?

1. Philosophical Electives – any courses not completed for Philosophical or Interdisciplinary Core
2. Theological Electives – any courses not completed for Theological or Interdisciplinary Core
3. Additional Electives – any courses not completed for the Interdisciplinary Core in any discipline (e.g., English, History, Medieval Studies, etc.), for example:
   Staging Blackness: Black Drama in the African American Literary Tradition
   Poetry of Witness
   Slavery in American Fiction
   Race, Religion and Monstrosity in Medieval Literature

Primary Learning Goals

• understanding and appreciating the complexities of the human condition;
• analyzing structures and developments in society and culture, especially those that are relevant to faith, justice, religious pluralism, and ecological issues;

1. Language Proficiency in Spanish certified by the Director. In rare cases, in consultation with Provincials and Assistants for Formation who determine that a different language would be more useful for a Jesuit’s future ministerial contexts, another language may be substituted for Spanish (e.g., French for Canadian Jesuits or English for African Jesuits) with proficiency certified by the Director.

Primary Learning Goals:

• understanding and appreciating the complexities of the human condition;
• analyzing structures and developments in society and culture, especially those that are relevant to faith, justice, religious pluralism, and ecological issues;
• understanding, through an encounter with important texts, how thinkers and cultures have sought to respond to fundamental questions and dimensions of human and social existence;
• acquiring a methodology for continually reflecting on the changing contexts of mission.

1. Concluding Integration Capstone Seminar (3)