Faculty:
Matthew Pietropaoli, Ph.D.
Sarah Spangler, Ph.D.
In keeping with UP’s mission and the heritage of the Sisters of Providence, The Service Leadership and Catholic Social Teaching (CST) minor provides opportunities for students to learn, reflect, and serve with faculty and students from a wide variety of disciplines. The minor is anchored in the principles and framework of CST, integrating course-work and service experiences to better understand CST principles like human dignity, solidarity, participation in community, rights and responsibilities, care for the Earth, and concern for the poor and vulnerable. The minor offers opportunities to:
•Serve and reflect together in local and regional communities and immersion trips
•Organize and lead service initiatives for other students in collaboration with Campus Ministry, faculty, and other members of the UP community.
•Build on service experiences begun in COD, ILCs, and other courses in Core and majors.
•Learn the key principles of CST and participate in interdisciplinary dialogue with other students and faculty
•Reflect and connect service experiences and CST to disciplines, majors, and future professions.
Students completing this minor will:
- Develop Awareness of needs of others, community and society: A) Demonstrate awareness of personal strengths, gifts, and vulnerabilities through reflection on service experiences and studies, B) Demonstrate awareness of the emotions, vulnerabilities, and needs of others, C) Explain how social and communal factors can support or undermine respect for human dignity and flourishing.
- Understand Catholic Social Teaching as a dialogue amongst various disciplines: A) Explain the theological and philosophical foundations and basic principles of CST and apply them to real-world economic, social, and ecological problems, B) Explain and apply concepts of the human person inherent CST including human dignity, solidarity, and the call to participation, C) Explain how real-world social, economic, and ecological issues affect humans and communities.
- Integrate: Synthesize, Discern, Respond: A) Explain the ramifications and applications of CST principles through the lens of particular disciplinary expertise [will vary depending on student’s major], B) Drawing on CST, and disciplinary expertise, identify and assess needs of a particular community encountered through service, C) Discern and respond to the needs of particular individuals or communities through community engagement, presence, reflection, and action.
Service Leadership & Catholic Social Teaching Minor
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CST & SL Foundations | 3 | |
| ETHICS | ||
| Poor & Vulnerable Populations: 1 of the Following | 3 | |
| SOCIOCLTRL & INTERNTL AWRENESS | ||
or SOC 366 | POVERTY AND INEQUALITY | |
| Economics & Social Systems | 3 | |
| MACROECONOMICS | ||
| Sustainability, Conservation, & Ecology: 1 of the Following | 4 | |
| THE LIVING ENVIRONMENT | ||
| ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY | ||
| ENVIRONMENTAL ECOLOGY | ||
| Approved Electives: 1 of the Following | 3-4 | |
| CONSERVATION ECOLOGY | ||
| ETHICS & ENTERPRISE | ||
| RESTORATIVE JUSTICE | ||
| HELPING SKILLS | ||
| CHRISTIAN VOCATION TO JUSTICE | ||
| DISCERNMENT | ||
| CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT | ||
| Service & CST Integration | ||
| TRL 399 | SERVICE & CST SENIOR SEMINAR | 3 |
| or PHL 499 | SERVICE & CST SENIOR SEMINAR | |
| SVL 495 | SERVICE LEARNING INTERNSHIP | 1 |
| Two Service Learning (SL Designated Courses) | 6 | |
| Total Credits Required: | 26-27 | |