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Duration
13 weeks
Study method
100% Online
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Assessments
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Prior study
Not required
Start dates
- 25 Jul 2022
The University of Notre Dame Australia is committed to delivering an excellent student experience, alongside a high standard of teaching, research, and training. As a leader in ethical education, Notre Dame aims to develop students’ critical reasoning and their ability to make ethical decisions—crucial skills to progressing their careers and leading purposeful lives. At Notre Dame, students navigate their future with an ethical education online.
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Subject details
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- Understanding and developing skills to articulate Catholic Church's moral, political and social teachings.
In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- UND-CTH-GCE-2022
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
This course is designed for those who are called upon daily to respond to social and moral issues. It selects and explores the Church’s responses, both prophetic and reflective, to controversial issues that touch upon what it means to be human and to lead a good life. It focuses on why the Church teaches what it teaches, particularly in Catholic Social Thought. Students will develop skills so that they can explain clearly what the Church teaches. It focuses on the perennial need for civil discourse in society.
1. Essay (35%) 2. Paper (35%) 3. Reflection (30%)
- Essay (2000 words) In this essay, students will have the opportunity to identify, articulate, and analyse a key idea about the Good Life, considered from within the tradition of Catholic Thought. (35%%)
- These short tasks, each of which should take no more than 30 minutes, enable students to test their deepening knowledge and understanding of the Human Person in Catholic Thought. (30%%)
- 500 words explaining the part of the curriculum that you will address in this assessment task (which learning outcomes will you seek to meet), as well as which cohort of students you will be teaching (e.g. special education needs, gifted & talented, etc) (35%%)
Current study term: 24 Jul 22 to 28 Oct 22
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