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CIT New Faculty Seminar

CIT New Faculty Seminar

      


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"The Minneapolis Institute of Arts".

New Faculty Seminar 

The Catholic
Intellectual Tradition:
Exploring the Mission of UST

August 23-26, 2010

Gainey Conference Center
Owatonna, Minnesota

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Morning Session

9:00 a.m to
     12:15 p.m     

Afternoon Session
 
3:00 p.m. to
5:30 p.m.

Evening Session


7:00 p.m. to
9:00 p.m.

Monday

Introduction

Facilitators

Comments from Participants
Schedule

 Session 1

Welcome, Overview & Introductions

 

Session 2

What is the Catholic Intellectual Tradition?

 ·   Selected Voices/ Lawrence  Cunningham

 

Tuesday

 Session 3

Autobiography and the Call

 ·   Sermon on the Mount

 ·   Dorothy Day

 ·   Saint Augustine

 ·   Frederick Nietzche

Session 4

Institutional Obstacles to Good Work

 ·   Dorothy Sayers

 ·   E.F. Schumacher

 ·   Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

Session 5

One Woman's Account of her Vocation
 

·   An Interview with Sister Wendy by Bill Moyers

Wednesday

Session 6

UST's Mission and the State of Catholic Universities

 ·   John Paul II

 ·   James Burtchaell 

Session 7

Education of the Student


 ·   Servais Pinckaers 

Session 8

Through the Lens of Great Drama


 ·   Robert Bolt, "A Man for All Seasons

Thursday

Session 9

Conscience and Doing the Good

  ·   Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI)