| |  | | FACULTY DEVELOPMENT CCTEC has in past years organized a faculty/staff reading group. Participants read and discussed such books as The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos, Saint Augustine by Gary Wills, and Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton. CCTEC is looking for a faculty or staff member to volunteer to organize the reading group in the future; if you are interested, please contact the Director.
CCTEC runs an annual program of course development grants. Successful faculty applicants will be awarded a grant in July to create a new course or to revise an existing course to be offered during the following academic year. The Center offers course creation grants of $1000 and course revision grants of $250. This program encourages Sacred Heart faculty to integrate themes and literature associated with the thought and history of Catholicism into courses across the curriculum.
For 2006–2007, the grant announcement will go out in November 2006 and applications will be due in January 2007.
Grantees for 2005–2006: Bryan Bademan, June-Ann Greeley, Michelle Loris, Robin McAllister, John Roney
Grantees for 2004–2005: Charlotte Gradie, Peter Maresco, Michael Ventimiglia
Grantees for 2003–2004: Thomas Hicks, Pearl Jacobs, Elizabeth Johnston-O'Connor, Michelle Loris, Cima Sedig
Whether or not they apply for a development grant, CCTEC invites all faculty to propose courses for crosslisting with Catholic Studies. The criteria are listed below.Criteria for Catholic Studies Courses Courses that receive the Catholic Studies Program designation must engage authors and texts commonly recognized as “Catholic” by their historical, cultural, or philosophical-theological affiliation with Catholicism as a religious system, social institution, and/or set of cultural and esthetic concerns. The course must provide sufficient knowledge and sufficient training in analytical skills to enable a student to meet at least one of the learning objectives for the Catholic Studies Certificate, and students taking the course for Catholic Studies credit must have the opportunity to major assignments on material relating to the Catholic intellectual tradition.
As a further guideline to what makes a course's content eligible for crosslisting, a course should typically meet at least two of the following criteria:
1. Examine topics, themes, and questions pertinent to Roman Catholic doctrine, theology, and/or ritual in the relevant academic disciple.
2. Illuminate the principles, teachings, and/or culture of Catholicism as expressed in literature, art, philosophy, the natural and social sciences, historical studies, business disciplines, religious studies, or any other discipline.
3. Explore contributions of the Catholic Church, Catholic institutions, and/or particular Catholic thinkers to the relevant academic discipline.
4. Illuminate the distinctive characteristics of the Catholic intellectual tradition within Christianity, for example: a sacramental worldview; the continuity between faith and reason; Catholic ethical and social theory; emphasis on the history of the institutional Church or other Catholic institutions; the tradition of Catholic education and humanism; and so on.
5. Relate the dimensions of Catholic intellectual life to ongoing concerns, discussions, or debates in the relevant academic discipline, particularly ethical, social-political, and professional concerns. | |