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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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TH 302 - Theology and the Environment (SR)

Credits: 4

This course is designed to help students acquire a moral vocabulary that can give shape to, strengthen, and possibly challenge their awareness of the most pressing ecological and related social challenges facing us today. It aims to augment and unsettle typical approaches to “environmental ethics” through a constant focus on the interrelation between ecological degradation and the degradation of human persons. In other words, the course approaches “Theology and the Environment” through an Environmental Justice lens.

This is a Sustainability-Related (SR)  course.

Prerequisite/Corequisite
None.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

  • Examine cutting edge Catholic theological reflection on human obligations to each other, animals and the environment.  
  • Consider possible forms of action moving forward, both in terms of public policy and personal activism. 
  • Engage and apply the Critical Concerns of the Sisters of Mercy. In particular, the critical concerns of sustainability, racial justice, and nonviolence.



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