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Please follow the program structure outlined in the Academic Calendar from your FIRST academic year as a student at St. Thomas University. Find the Academic Calendars HERE. If you have any questions, please contact your academic advisor.
Major in Catholic Studies
The Major in Catholic Studies consists of 36 credit hours, including:
CATH 2003 The Roots of Catholic Diversity
CATH 2203 Global Catholicism
CATH 3013 Catholic Studies Seminar
as well as a minimum 3 credits taken from each of the following four Groups:
Group 1 History and Literature
HIST 3213The Early Church
ENG 2673 Literature and Catholicism I
ENG 2683 Literature and Catholicism II
PHIL 3573 Dante's Divine Comedy and the Medieval Aristotelian Tradition
Group 2 Catholic Theology
RELG 2313 Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
RELG 2333 Introduction to the New Testament
RELG 2613 Basic Issues in Theology
RELG 3653 Women and Christianity
Group 3 Faith and Reason
PHIL 1013 What is Philosophy (Historical Introduction 1)
PHIL 2133 Medieval Philosophy: Augustine, Neoplatonism
and Arabic Philosophy
PHIL 2143 Medieval Philosophy: Pre-Modernity and the Rise and Fall of Scholasticism
PHIL 3413 God in Western Thought
PHIL 3523 The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
PHIL 3553 Augustine’s Confessions
Group 4 Faith and Society
PHIL 3533 Thomas Aquinas: Law, Morality, Society
POLS 2803 Western Tradition of Political Philosophy
RELG 2513 Foundations of Christian Ethics
RELG 3513 Bioethics
RELG 3573 Religion and Social Ethics
Minor in Catholic Studies
The Minor in Catholic Studies consists of 18 credit hours, including:
CATH 1013: The Roots of Catholic Diversity
CATH 2203: Global Catholicism
as well as:
12 credit hours in electives drawn in any combination from at least two of the following four Groups (see Major degree requirements above for course options in each Group):
Group 1 – History and Literatures;
Group 2 – Catholic Theology;
Group 3 – Faith and Reason; or
Group 4 – Faith and Society.