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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

January 14-17, 2008

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

·   David Brooks

·   Thomas Hibbs

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)

·   Glenn Tinder