Ultimate Questions: Theology
Ultimate Questions: Theology
Learning Outcomes and Essential Criteria
Learning Outcomes and Essential Criteria
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Ultimate Questions: Theology Learning Outcomes
Ultimate Questions: Theology Learning Outcomes
Instructors can best assure the accomplishment of the relevant level of achievement in each SLO by designing their syllabi, readings, and assignments in light of the Core-component learning outcomes.
Explain how one or more religious traditions, including the Catholic tradition, respond(s) to questions about the nature of faith; the nature, existence, and personhood of God; the nature and ends of creation and human life; and/or evil (in ourselves and in the world) and salvation
Apply a well-reasoned, contextual reading of a religious tradition’s texts and practices to their own theological inquiry into ultimate questions of meaning and truth
Articulate and reflect on their own worldview and practices in dialogue with different responses to ultimate questions, including responses in the Catholic, Jesuit tradition
University Core Learning Outcomes
University Core Learning Outcomes
Ultimate Questions: Theology courses must be directed toward achievement of their Core component learning outcomes in order to introduce, develop, and achieve the relevant Core SLOs connected to this course in the overall Core design.
SLO 1: All SLU graduates will be able to examine their actions and vocations in dialogue with the Catholic, Jesuit tradition
Ultimate Questions: Theology courses must help students develop and lead students to achieve an examination of their actions and vocations in dialogue with the Catholic, Jesuit tradition.
SLO 2: All SLU graduates will be able to integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines to address complex questions
Ultimate Questions: Theology courses must introduce students to the practice of integrating knowledge from multiple disciplines to address complex questions.
SLO 3: ALL SLU graduates will be able to assess evidence and draw reasoned conclusions
Ultimate Questions: Theology courses should introduce and develop students’ skills in assessing evidence and drawing reasoned conclusions.
SLO 5: All SLU graduates will be able to analyze how diverse identities influence their lives and the lives of others
Ultimate Questions: Theology courses must introduce students to the analysis of how diverse identities, which include religious identities, influence their lives and the lives of others.
Syllabus Requirement
Syllabus Requirement
In keeping with the provost office’s syllabus policies, the syllabus for any Ultimate Questions: Theology course must include the relevant programmatic learning outcomes. All Core Program SLOs and course-level learning outcomes must be listed.
In light of faculty's and department's own aims for their courses, additional learning outcomes may also be included, either as pure additions or as specifications of the expression of the Core component learning outcomes in the instructor's version of the UQ Theology course.
Faculty should incorporate the boilerplate information on their Ultimate Questions: Theology syllabi, which can be found on the Core Component worksheet page.
Essential Criteria
Essential Criteria
Final CORE Proposal 1.31.2020 (dragged) 2.pdfTeach students about – and require students to engage – fundamental theological texts and figures, including Jesus and other important figures in the Catholic, Jesuit tradition
Address the following areas of inquiry: the nature of faith; the nature, existence, and personhoon of God; the nature and ends of creation and human life; evil (in ourselves and in the world) and salvation
Introduce students to the methods of reasoning and inquiry (including a charitable reading of texts) that are employed within the discipline of Theology
Challenge students to examine and reflect on their own worldview and practices in dialogue with theological and religious traditions, including the Catholic, Jesuit tradition; students will produce an artifact of this examination.
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