Created by Dr. Maura Ryan, a Notre Dame
Theology Professor, for STEP, this course explores the meaning
of conscience in the Catholic Tradition and provides participants
with tools for drawing on faith in responding to moral decisions.
Unit 1: Foundations of the Catholic Moral
Tradition
- The Human Person
- Freedom and Knowledge
- Economic Justice For All
- Catechism: The Natural Moral
Law
Unit 2: Faith and Morality
- A Sense of Sin
- Catechism: Freedom and Virtue
- Freedom and Happiness
Unit 3: Conscience and Moral Decision-Making
- The Formation of Conscience
- The Holy Spirit and the New Law
- Catechism: Moral Conscience,
Sin
Unit 4: Christian Conscience and Choices
in Interpersonal Ethics
- Catechism: Truth and Falsehood
- Evangelium Vitae
- Catechism: The Person and
Social Life
- Euthanasia
Unit 5: Christian Conscience and Choices
in Social Ethics
- Catholics in the Political Realm
- Evangelium Vitae
- The Death Penalty
- Created and instructed by Notre
Dame Theology Professor.
- Six weeks in duration, with one week
for orientation.
- Typically 20-30 students in each course.
- All lecture text and all required reading
available online in course.
- Supplemental readings are provided
to encourage further exploration of topic, internet links
provided for all readings.
- Weekly written assignments (150-200
words) required.
- Weekly facilitator moderated chat sessions
with students in course.
All course materials are available in
the course.
Requirements for course include:
- Weekly reading of assigned texts.
- Participation in class discussion using
discussion area (minimum 2 comments, questions or responses
weekly.)
- Weekly written assignment (150-200
words.)
- Weekly chat session with other students
in course (3 required throughout course.)
- Course evaluation.
- 5 to 7 hours a week (time varies from
student to student depending on your learning style and
schedule.)
A Certificate of Completion awarding 35
Contact Hours will be sent upon completion of all course
requirements.
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Dr. Ryan's primary
interests are in the areas of bioethics and health
policy, feminist ethics, and fundamental moral theology.
She co-edited a book on global stewardship with Todd
David Whitmore and recently completed a book on reproductive
technologies to be published by Georgetown Press.
Her articles have appeared in the Hastings Center
Report, The Journal of Philosophy and Medicine
and Ethics and Behavior. She is on the Board
of Directors for the Society of Christian Ethics and
the editorial board of the Religious Studies Review
and Ethics and Behavior. She serves on the St. Joseph
County Healthcare Advisory Consortium and the ethics
committee for Hospice of St. Joseph County. Currently
she is working on the challenge of assisted
suicide for feminist ethics.
B.A., St. Bonaventure University,
1979; M.A., Boston College, 1987; M.Phil., Yale University,
1991; Ph.D., Yale University, 1993
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