Arts
and Letters Nondepartmental
Associate
Dean:
Stuart Greene, Ph.D.
Dept. Tel.:
(574) 631-8636
AL
27001. Visiting Scholar Studies
0 credits, Akai (0-V-0)
CRN 3797
ID # AL
27001
A zero-credit course for students engaged in
independent research or working with a faculty member or a member of
the
University staff
on a special project. Registration requires a brief description
of the research or project to be pursued and the permission of the
director
of
the summer session.
CSEM 23101. Perfect God, Imperfect World: The Problem
of Evil
3 credits, Major (3-0-3)
10:30-11:45 MT RF 6/17-7/31
CRN 3530; ID #
CSEM 23101 01
Last "add" date: 6/22
"Drop" dates: refund, 6/26;
last, 7/10
The College Seminar is a unique one-semester course experience shared
by all
sophomores majoring in the College of Arts and Letters.
The course offers students an introduction to
the diversity and distinctive focus of Arts and Letters at the
University of
Notre Dame.
Specific sections of the
College Seminar vary in their topics and texts but all feature an
interdisciplinary approach, commitment to engaging
important questions,
employment of major works, and emphasis on the development of oral
skills. Every College Seminar syllabus
includes
works
that approach the topic from the perspective of each of the three
divisions of
the College: the Arts, Humanities, and
Social Sciences.
This particular
section, entitled, Perfect God, Perfect World:
The Problem of Evil will address the following:
If you could ask God only one
question what
would it be? According to a recent survey most people would ask, "why
is
there so much pain and suffering in the world?" If
God is all-good, all-knowing, and all
powerful, how does one explain the existence of moral and natural evil
in the
world? This course will
explore the
"Problem of Evil" as treated in theology, philosophy, psychology,
literature, and the arts. The course
will include readings from
Scripture, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas,
C.G. Jung, C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, Elie Wiesel and others.
Participants will be encouraged not only to
examine how this question has been treated, but also to derive a
personal
position on the nature
of evil, its presence in every day life, and how best to
respond to it.