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ARTS AND SCIENCES The Boston College Catalog 2003-2004 237 UN 505 Capstone: Life and Career Planning (Fall/Spring: 3) This course provides an overview of life and career planning in the context of (1) career, (2) personal relationships, (3) spirituality, and (4) ethical decision making. Students are asked to develop autobiographical responses to a series of questions about their lives to find themes related to possible careers and relationship issues. The integration of spirituality and ethical decision making into ones life will be addressed by readings on ethical perspectives and the students written reflections on a variety of issues. Students completing the course ought to do so with a better and fuller understanding of what it means to live a balanced life. Robert F. Capalbo UN 510 Capstone: Conflict and Decision (Fall: 3) Cross listed with CO 470 This course underscores communication as a dynamic reflection of our most cherished values and hopes. It invites students to review their education in order to reflect on the lifelong task of integrating their commitments to work, relationships, citizenship, and spiritual development. This Capstone course features the shared viewing of several contemporary films relevant to course topics. Ann M. Barry UN 513 Capstone: Ways of Knowing (Spring: 3) Cross listed with EN 627 This course considers the workings of memory and the transmutation of memory into narratives that express values and explore identity, on the level of nation and culture and on a personal level, in literary and historical texts, films and photographs, and public memorials. We reflect on and create memory texts of various kinds, explore the influence of personal, social, and historical experiences on the construction of memory, observe the languages available for the expression of memory, and seek through writing and discussion to discern ways in which the process of remembering can unfold toward the future. Carol Hurd Green UN 514 Capstone: Personal Growth and Cosmic Design (Fall: 3) Prerequisite: A Core course in a science and in theology/philosophy This is an opportunity to reflect on your personal development in the context of Boston Colleges history and spirituality as a Jesuit University in Boston; the evolution of the geology of Boston and the role of the natural environment in the citys history and culture. James Skehan, S.J. UN 521 Capstone: Science and Religion: Contemporary Issues (Fall: 3) Cross listed with BI 214 Some knowledge of science, particularly familiarity with some basic concepts of physics, will be assumed. See course description in the Biology Department. Donald J. Plocke, S.J. UN 523 Capstone: Telling Our Stories, Living Our Lives (Fall: 3) Cross listed with TH 523 Our lives take shape and meaning from the stories that we tell ourselves about what it means to be a man or a woman, what is worth doing in a life, and who or what is ultimately valuable and trustworthy. In this course, we shall investigate our own life narratives by looking at the significant myths that derive from religion, culture, and our families. We shall read in developmental psychology, cultural anthropology, and narrative theology. We shall also use selected fiction and film. John McDargh UN 524 Capstone: Discoveries of Self and the World (Spring: 3) Cross listed with RL 200 See course description in the Romance Languages and Literatures Department. Marian B. St. Onge UN 526 Capstone: Integration of Spiritual and Scientific Beliefs (Spring: 3) Students will be encouraged to enter into self exploration and reflection, creating the potential for a fuller and more integrated life experience. Books, articles, and videos will provide the context for our discussions. Personal sharing, assignments, journal writing, and meditation will help us explore our inner landscapes and bring us closer to our authentic self. Carol Chaia Halpern UN 528 Capstone: Holistic Living (Fall: 3) This seminar will examine spirituality, community, personal and family relationships, and education through the lenses of crosscultural holistic health and healing practices. Selected readings, films, and field visits will assist you to visualize the relationships of health to the holistic aspects of your life and that of the multicultural communities in which you will live and work. Rachel E. Spector UN 531 Capstone: Five Heroic Americans (Spring: 3) Cross listed with EN 628 This course will examine the writings of two American women and three American men whose intellectual and spiritual gifts have enriched our heritage. Participants will read and reflect upon Thoreaus Journals, poems by Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost, essays by Emerson and selections from Mary Rowlandsons account of her capture by the Quabog Indians. Students will discuss their observations in light of the four concerns of the Capstone program: relationships, work, civic responsibility and spirituality. Robert Farrell, S.J. UN 532 Capstone: Bostons College (Fall/Spring: 3) Cross listed with HS 241 This seminar will focus on the historical development of Boston College and the continually evolving interaction between its traditions and its students. Students will do archival research on some aspect of Boston College in which they have a personal interest and will record oral histories with faculty, administrators, and alumni who can describe the ambiance and personalities of different periods that have shaped the modern university. John J. Burns UN 535 Capstone: Business as a Calling (Spring: 3) Cross listed with EC 435 This seminar explores the question of business as a calling, as an activity that yields great personal satisfaction quite apart from the money it brings. Is business a noble activity or is it a rather crass, but necessary pursuit? Does a view of business as a calling help us to bridge the spiritual and the temporal? For an economy to work, do we need moral and political capital as well as economic capital? If so, how do we sustain our moral and political capital, or rebuild it if it is eroding, or develop it where it is missing? Harold Petersen UN 536 Capstone: Voices of Wisdom (Fall/Spring: 3) This course will examine spirituality, community, personal and family relationships, education, and vocation/career through the lens of wisdom. The seminar will look at how the virtues or qualities of the wise concern the whole person, are a series of choices made throughout life, and affect the entire community. Through the study of wisdom and wise people, the course will provide insight into the

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