Manresa Program Course Offerings

Fordham College at Rose Hill Students Manresa Course Offerings

The following Manresa courses are offered to Fordham College at Rose Hill students and will be one of five courses you take in the fall semester.

Each course fulfills the Eloquentia Perfecta 1 Core Requirement and one or more specific FCRH first-year core requirements.

 

  • Professor Brenna Moore

    THEO 1000-R32, Monday & Thursday, 2:30-3:45

    An introductory theology course designed to acquaint students with the analytical study of religion and religious experience, and to give them some critical categories of evaluating the history of theological discourse. The academic study of some of the forms, concepts, experience, and theological formulations found in Christianity and various other traditions will be introduced.

    This course satisfies the Faith and Critical Reason and Eloquentia Perfecta 1 Core requirements.

  • Professor Jude Jones

    PHIL 1000-R32, Monday & Thursday, 11:30-12:45

    This course is a philosophical reflection on the central metaphysical and epistemological questions surrounding human nature, which includes discussion of some or all of the following problems: the body/soul distinction and the mind/body problem; the problem of knowledge (relativism, skepticism, the objectivity of knowledge, faith, and reason); free will and determinism; self and society (subjectivity, personhood, sociality, historicity, and tradition); and the elements of identity (such as race, gender, sexuality, ability, and socioeconomic status). At least 60% of each section of the course is devoted to readings from Plato, Aristotle, Augustine or Aquinas, and Descartes. Each section includes some writings by at least one contemporary figure and one figure coming from a group traditionally underrepresented in philosophy.

    This course satisfies the Philosophy of Human Nature and Eloquentia Perfecta 1 Core requirements.

  • Professor Haruka Minami

    PSYC 1003-R01, Monday & Thursday 10:00-11:15

    This course will provide the student with an overview of psychopathology, including the etiology, symptoms, course, and treatment of various psychological disorders. Complexities in defining psychological disorders will be discussed. Theories of psychopathology will be emphasized, with an emphasis on the scientific investigation of psychopathology. Students will also investigate the accuracy of representations of mental illness, including how these representations inform our understanding of and attitudes towards mental illness.

    This course satisfies the Social Social and Eloquentia Perfecta 1 Core requirements.

  • Professor Christopher Dietrich

    HIST 1100-R01, Monday & Thursday 10:00-11:15

    Introduction to the nature and methods of historical study and examination of specific topics focusing on significant periods in the development of the U.S. and considering them in the light of certain elements shaping that history. Among these elements are the constitutional and political system; and the society's ideals, structure, economic policy, and world outlook.

    This course satisfies the UHC, American Pluralism and Eloquentia Perfecta 1 Core requirements.

Gabelli School of Business Students Manresa Course Offerings

The following are course choices open only to incoming Manresa students in the Gabelli School of Business.

For Gabelli School of Business students, each of these Manresa courses fulfills one of the Gabelli liberal arts or business core requirements.

  • Professor Michael McSherry

    This introduction to business course challenges students to learn about the environment within which business operates and the various disciplines and key concepts involved. Students are encouraged to study and appreciate how such ingredients are integrated to produce an overall effective organization, as well as become aware of political, social, and environmental forces that change business practices, perceptions, and evolving career tracks.

    This course satisfies a Gabelli Business Core requirement.

  • Professor Stephen Grimm

    PHIL 1000-R32, Monday & Thursday 10:00-11:15

    This course is a philosophical reflection on the central metaphysical and epistemological questions surrounding human nature, which includes discussion of some or all of the following problems: the body/soul distinction and the mind/body problem; the problem of knowledge (relativism, skepticism, the objectivity of knowledge, faith, and reason); free will and determinism; self and society (subjectivity, personhood, sociality, historicity, and tradition); and the elements of identity (such as race, gender, sexuality, ability, and socioeconomic status). At least 60% of each section of the course is devoted to readings from Plato, Aristotle, Augustine or Aquinas, and Descartes. Each section includes some writings by at least one contemporary figure and one figure coming from a group traditionally underrepresented in philosophy.

    This course satisfies the Philosophy of Human Nature and Eloquentia Perfecta 1 Core requirements.

  • Professor Thomas J. Scirghi, S.J.

    THEO 1010-R01, Tuesday & Friday 11:30am-12:45pm

    Many writers have described their personal quest for the transcendent. Writers – both classical and popular, believers and atheists, some reverent, some vulgar – describe this quest as a matter of first losing, and then finding themselves. This seminar will explore the search of several of these writers through their autobiographies. Much of our discussion concerns contemporary authors, i.e., from the twentieth century to the present.

    This course satisfies the Faith and Critical Reason and Eloquentia Perfecta 1 Core requirements.