Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
LMU Extension
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Bachelor of Arts
APAZ 9000 Immigration and Los Angeles
4 semester hours
An interdisciplinary and comparative examination of the historical role of immigration and migration in shaping the Los Angeles region as well as the social, political, economic, and cultural impact of immigration in contemporary Los Angeles.
ECOZ 9000 Economics and Ethics
4 semester hours
Economics and Ethics examines the roles and effects of ethics on economic analysis, behavior, and institutions. These issues arise, for example, in matters of charity, labor market, and taxation. This course treats both descriptive and prescriptive theories as well as evidence on ethics from behavioral and experimental economics. It covers standard philosophical theories and connects them to empirical evidence and real world decision-making.
EDUZ 9000 Introduction to Degree Completion
2 semester hours
An intensive seminar experience that examines the major principles and techniques of writing a college-level research paper. Students will explore and practice developing a comprehensive paper that avoids plagiarism by including appropriate citations. This course will also include essential themes for academic success that include study skills, emotional self-regulation, reading, writing, math, and technology.
EDUZ 9099 Independent Studies
1 TO 4 semester hours
ENGZ 9000 The Literature of the New Land: American Expatriate Writers
4 semester hours
The literary output of the so-called Lost Generation of expatriate writers has produced a particularly rich vein of study for critics. This class will expand the scope of that study to offer a broad examination of American literature through a focus on expatriate writing, from colonial times (those coming to the New World), through the modern era and into the globalized world of the twenty-first century. We will look at the unique perspectives expatriate writers have gained in terms of the new lands they encountered and those they left behind. We will in particular look at the self-cultivation at the heart of the expatriate literary experience and how it leads to a fierce individualism. Writers will include Anne Bradstreet, Lafcadio Hearn, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, and Aleksander Hemon.
HISZ 9000 Chicana/o History
4 semester hours
An analytical survey of Native America, Mexican America, and the recent past with a focus on race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and class.
THSZ 9000 Introduction to Biblical Theology and Interpretation
4 semester hours
This course introduces students to the Old and New Testament writings in their historical, literary, social/political, and religious contexts. Students will learn various methodological approaches to the study of the Bible, as well as consider the history of interpretation and the role of modern social-location in the interpretive process.
THSZ 9001 World Religions of Los Angeles
4 semester hours
This course is an introduction to the academic study of religion and of world religions, and to the religious traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and other current religious trends. Special emphasis is placed upon how these religious traditions have emerged within the context of Los Angeles, how they have changed, grown, and adapted to their new surroundings.
THSZ 9002 Missionary Disciples: Exploring the Catholic Pastoral-Theological Tradition
4 semester hours
The term “missionary disciples” was first widely used in the document of Aparecida from the Fifth Conference of the Bishops of Latin America, for which Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio (later Pope Francis) served as principal editor. The term has been proposed as a more fitting way to describe the identity of all the baptized faithful and as one which is more helpful than other categories like “clergy” or “laity.” The emergence of this term represents a significant shift in how the Church in the spirit of Lumen Gentium and other reform documents of the Second Vatican Council seeks to re-think Christian identity and ministry in terms that more closely conform to the Church’s identity and mission which is to evangelize. This course explores the question of how is this development linked to Vatican II, to the teachings of the past three popes, and to the reform which Pope Francis is carrying out today.
THSZ 9003 Ministry and Pastoral Leadership
4 semester hours
In this course, we will critically examine and practice using the different disciplinary knowledge bases and different types of skills required for service and leadership in the Roman Catholic faith tradition. The course will include some comparison to traditions of ministry and leadership in other religious traditions, especially Judaism and Islam. Throughout this course, we will study and discuss in depth the issues and questions raised by the practice of ministry/service, including 1) the relationship between religious commitment and personal transformation, 2) the relationship between faith community and justice, and 3) the meaning of the experience of suffering. We begin the course with an examination of the context of service and faith today, making use of theories and methodologies from the sociology of religion. Next, students learn pastoral theological tools to assist them in understanding this data from a Christian perspective. Finally, students study and design different approaches to ministry that build upon what they have studied and practiced thus far.
THSZ 9004 Contemplatives in Action: Psychology, Spirituality, and Liberation
4 semester hours
An exploration of how contemplative practice can deepen and give meaning to ordinary human existence.
THSZ 9005 Topics in Theological Ethics
4 semester hours
An exploration of the history and methods of theological ethics with analysis of contemporary moral issues.
THSZ 9006 Major Theological and Religious Thinker
4 semester hours
An examination of the theological work of one major thinker, studying the work both as an integrated theological statement and as a part of continuing theological dialogue.
THSZ 9007 U.S. Latino/a Theology
4 semester hours
Latino theology develops in the tension between displacement and deep roots of communities in the territories that today constitute the U.S. This course surveys central theological questions as these are explored by these communities through a variety of primary texts, demographics, and engagement with current issues of concern to Hispanic Christians.
THSZ 9008 Major Theological and Religious Theme
4 semester hours
The course stresses the integration of the various dimensions and methods of Theological Studies.
THSZ 9009 History of Christian Theology
4 semester hours
This course provides an introduction to the development of Christian theology from the first centuries through 1965. Particular attention will be given to understanding the impact of different geographical and historical contexts on how typical Christians of the past experienced their world.
THSZ 9010 Pastoral Intergration
2 semester hours
Using the student’s own experience of faith and/or ministry as a starting point, this course uses a case study methodology to apply what has been learned in class during the student’s entire program of study to the circumstances of a concrete situation.
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