Fourth Semester ·
ETHICS
Ethics is the philosophic study of good and evil, right and wrong seeking to clarify these issues through the use of reason. Students will examine the fundamental themes and problems about ethics, the phenomenological given data, and related issues such as moral responsibility, moral consciousness, ethical imperatives, virtue and vice. Special ethical problems will also be explored and discussed.
THEOLOGY OF THE CHURCH
This course is a general theological introduction to the Church: her history, culture, customs, piety and concrete life.
LITERATURE: THE NOVEL
This course traces the development of the novel from the nineteenth century through the early twentieth. Class discussions center on the impact of modernity on society as seen in literature. Conceptions of human consciousness and of the role of each person in the larger community are closely traced.
HUMANITIES SEMINAR: THE MODERN AGE
Through a careful study of the events and elements of history from Napoleon to the present, students will acquire a background knowledge of history and culture sufficient to enhance their parallel studies in other courses at Newman College, and perhaps to understand the turbulent world in which they live a little better.
INTERMEDIATE LATIN II
By the fourth semester, students will complete the chapters and a selection of the readings included in Wheelock’s Latin by midterm. The second part of the course will be devoted to reading excerpts of Latin poetry and prose, with emphasis on epic poetry. The principles of metrical poetry—particularly the epic meter, dactylic hexameter—will be introduced. In addition, there will be more practice in Latin prose composition. Writing assignments will cover more complex syntax, for example the subjunctive within indirect discourse as used by Caesar and Cicero.
OR INTERMEDIATE GREEK II
The fourth semester course ends the sequence of introductory language courses. Accordingly, the students need above all to acquire greater ease in reading original Greek, which entails familiarity with the full range of verb forms along with many finer points of hypotaxis. In this course, the subjunctive mood and the participles not yet introduced will be the focal point of study. By the end of the term, students will have completed chapter 42 of the textbook.
PHYSICS SEMINAR: BASIC MATHEMATICAL THINKING
Focusing upon the fundamental nature of mathematics as the science of magnitudes, this class will retrace the theoretical development of mathematics from the ancients to the moderns. Beginning with Euclid’s proofs, students will study the nature of mathematical demonstration, the techniques of measuring, and the meanings of numbers and symbols.
PHYSICS SEMINAR: BASIC PROBLEMS IN SCIENCE
This course introduces students to the goals and methods of science as they attempt to understand the empirical world. Beginning with the Pre-Socratics an attempt is made to enter into the mind-set of the scientist as a philosopher of nature and to understand the importance of observation and experimentation for expanding the limits of knowledge.
