Third Semester ·
PHILOSOPHY: METAPHYSICS
Because metaphysics is the philosophy about being itself, this course will examine the fundamental truths, principles, and laws that characterize all things — as existing things. Given the fundamental human desire to know and understand the real, the course will consider the transcendental properties of being, the first principles of metaphysics, and fundamental problems concerning substance and accident, essence and existence, and absolute and contingent being.
THEOLOGY OF CHRIST
This course is a study of the identity and saving work of Jesus Christ: Jesus in the Scriptures, the early developments in the Church’s understanding of Christ.
LITERATURE: TRAGEDY AND COMEDY
This course introduces students to dramatic literature, both tragedy and comedy. The purpose is to understand these two alternate yet constant views of the human condition. Readings include the Greek dramatists, the Elizabethans, and modern European and American playwrights.
HUMANITIES SEMINAR: RENAISSANCE/ENLIGHTENMENT
Through a careful study of the events and elements of the culture of Europe of the Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries, students will acquire a background knowledge of history and culture sufficient to enhance their parallel studies in other courses at Newman College.
INTERMEDIATE LATIN I
This course continues the presentation of Latin grammar including a nearly complete set of verbal and pronominal paradigms. About halfway through the course, the emphasis begins to change from grammar to syntax. Consequently there will be less memorization of paradigms and more analysis of the way the language works, including sentence structure, word order, subordination, and the first principles of the art known in the ancient world as rhetoric.
OR INTERMEDIATE GREEK I
In the third term of this course, students will learn the passive and middle voices of commonly used verbs. They will also begin to acquire a working knowledge of the extensive participial system. At this level, syntactic usage and figures of speech—the beginnings of classical art of rhetoric—become important and will be taught primarily in study of passages assigned for reading, and secondarily by means of composition assignments. More passages from Plato will be studied, as well as the first examples of lyric poetry from the Greek Anthology.
CHORUS, DRAMA, AND MUSIC PRACTICUM
The Music/Drama practicum is a course offered each semester and required of students through the Junior Year. Students will be instructed on how to read and perform music. Working with student life activities, students will participate in various theatrical and stage performances.
