The Experience of Catholic Culture
(30 points)
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CH203/303
crosslisted as DS217/317
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Students will be introduced to the work of several major authors, artists, architects and composers who have helped shape the cultural ethos of modern Catholicism. This unit will comprise a four week tour of several significant centres with Dublin, Rome, Paris, and Canterbury as pivotal points in the experience.
In each location students will be given an opportunity to become familiar with some special sites of historic interest, to study and appreciate the art, architecture, literature and music associated with the place and also to experience worship there. In addition to providing opportunities of visiting places of cultural interest, there will also be time for study, reflection and prayer. A handbook for the tour will be available to all participants and will include significant texts to be studied, maps and a more complete bibliography.
Preliminary lectures will be organised for participants.
Undergraduate Prerequisites
| second level: |
two units of Church History or Spirituality |
| third level: |
four units of Church History or Spirituality |
Graduate and Postgraduate Prerequisites (CH303)
none
Requirements
one site commentary by tour leaders at each location visited
Undergraduate Assessment
| second level: |
one 9,000 word journal |
100% |
| third level: |
one 10,000 word journal |
100% |
Graduate and Postgraduate Assessment (CH303)
| one 12,000 word journal |
100% |
Bibliography
- Barnes, Arthur S. St Peter in Rome and his Tomb on the Vatican Hill. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, 2006.
- Boyle, Leonard E. A Short Guide to St Clement’s, Rome. Rome: Collegio San Clemente, 1989.
- Claridge, Amanda. Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Collinson, Patrick, Nigel Ramsay and Maureen Sparks, eds. A History of Canterbury Cathedral. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Hibbert, Christopher. Rome: The Biography of a City. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985.
- Losack, Marcus. Glendalough: A Celtic Pilgrimage. Dublin: Columba, 2010.
- Rogers, Patrick. Westminster Cathedral: From Darkness to Light. London: Continuum, 2003.
- Telepneff , Gregory. The Egyptian Desert in the Irish Bogs: The Byzantine Character of Early Celtic Monasticism. Etna, CA: Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, 2002.
