FIDES

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FIDES

• Learning Community, 2009-2010
• MacAnulty CollegeDuquesne University

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Community Focus

• What do we believe, and why?
• How do religious and philosophical beliefs emerge
  from and create the communities we live in?

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Courses

• Fall Semester
• Thinking and Writing (Instructors)
• Basic Philosophical Questions (Dr. James Swindal)
• Global and Cultural PerspectivesReligions East
  West (Dr. Aimée Light)
• Spring Semester
• History of Christianity (Dr. Jotham Parsons)

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Learning Objectives

• Students Will be Able to
• Analyze and produce formal and informal arguments
  for beliefs (theirs and others), distinguishing
  among beliefs based on reason, authority,
  revelation, or other foundations.
• Identify the main beliefs of the world religions,
  and especially Christianity.
• Describe the development of key religious and
  philosophical beliefs in the West.
• Describe in concrete and sophisticated ways how
  personal and community experience leads to or
  shapes belief, and how belief in turn shapes
  communities.

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Service Learning
Faith, Belief, and Service in Practice Our
service-learning component will offer students a
variety of opportunities to participate in the
work of faith-based social service groups, and to
learn about and reflect on the beliefs, religious
and non-religious, that motivate the projects in
which they are participating, and on their own
(developing) beliefs as they relate to those
projects. Students will partner with faith-based
community organizations throughout the Fall
semester, and will reflect in their learning
community classes on the different belief systems
that motivate their partners, their clients, and
themselves.
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Co-Curricular Activities

• Visits to Worship Centers
• Jewish
• Muslim
• Hindu
• Greek Orthodox
• Campus Speakers and Events
• Human Rights Film Festival

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How it Fits Together