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UN 537 Capstone: Decisions For Life (Fall/Spring: 3) This seminar will explore critical spiritual dimensions to the exciting and challenging decisions that accompany transition from college life to independent adult life. It is organized around a series of topics chosen to explore spiritual, relational, vocational, and communal aspects of our being. We will reflect back on the milestones that have brought us to where we are, ask whether our lives have deeper meaning because of our experiences at Boston College, and look ahead to future decisions and ask if there are opportunities for living that represent a greater good. John Boylan UN 538 Capstone: Passages (Fall: 3) Cross Listed with EN 630 In our passages through this enigmatic world we reflect on the truth of St. Theresa of Avila, All things pass; only God remains. Life embraces us in paradox. Through novel, poetry, short story, and essay the many writers considered in this Capstone, including Virginia Woolf, Marcus Aurelius, John Cheever, Alice Walker, C.S. Lewis, Anne Bradstreet, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, will share their insights with us and help us to appreciate the Capstone ideals of wholesome relationships, generous citizenship, spiritual development, and joy in work. Robert Farrell, S.J. UN 539 Capstone: Doing Well and Doing Good (Spring: 3) Cross Listed with SC 305 This Capstone prepares you to balance between doing well in life and promoting the good in work, community, intimacy, and spirituality. To answer lifes challenges, you need good questions. Our questions will focus on the intersection of personal biography and the context of society. We will learn to steer a course between prejudice and clich on one hand, and sound knowledge on the other. Even as we try to do good as informed persons, we will find that most knowledge is incomplete and often contested. A hands-on participatory course project will model a specific plan for fuller living. Eve Spangler UN 541 Capstone: Into the Woods (Spring: 3) Cross Listed with EN 670 All readers, young and old, share the wonder in fairy tales. This serves a deeper purpose: to experiment and learn our boundaries and responsibilities. There are dangers in woods, but Red Riding Hood learns a lot, frees herself, and embarks upon life. The symbolic journey into the woods allows seniors to leaves the woods of BC with optimism and commitment. How will you negotiate transitions into society with the wisdom from your journey here? Bonnie Rudner UN 544 Capstone: Vision Quest: A Multicultural Approach (Spring: 3) Cross Listed with EN 637 Satisfies Cultural Diversity Core Requirement We will use the Vision Quest, a Native American ritual for finding oneself, as a metaphor for four years at Boston College. Relating their own lives to the lives of the characters, who have all gone on some variation of a quest, students will explore ways their education and experiences at college have prepared them to face the great mystery of life ahead. The main texts include: The Grass Dancer, The Life of Pi, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Bonesetters Daughter, and Like Water for Chocolate, and films Thunderheart and The Whale Rider. Dorothy Miller UN 546 Capstone: Journeys Mapping the Interior (Fall/Spring: 3) Cross Listed with EN 646 Coming at a time when you find yourself at a crossroads in your life, a significant juncture where the challenge of choosing your future direction faces you with a steady stare, if not glare, this Capstone course offers a brief pause in the midst of life-shaping choices, a calm, still space where you may sort through the complex and often contradictory aspects of your life. Connie Griffin UN 549 Capstone: History and Memory (Fall: 3) This is a Capstone course and it will help you reflect on your life/work for the past four years, and point toward life after Boston College. The topic of the course is history and memory. Individuals remember but communities and societies also remember. Memory preserves the past whether a personal past or a collective one and makes it available for present or future use. In this course we will read, think about, and discuss memory. Readings will include history, memoirs, and other first-person accounts. Discussion and writing assignments will engage issues of citizenship and community, vocation, spirituality and relationships. Virginia Reinburg UN 590 Faith, Peace, and Justice Senior Project Seminar (Spring: 3) Prerequisites: Open only to senior students in FPJ Program. Permission of director required. This course provides the finishing touch for students in the program for the Study of Faith, Peace, and Justice. Students enrolled in the seminar work closely with a faculty project advisor from the department of their major and present preliminary results of their project study in the seminar. Students and faculty responses to the presentation will help shape the presenters project into a finished form. The seminar provides a unique opportunity for the individual student to integrate several years of study in the Program, while at the same time learning about an interesting range of issues from fellow students. The Department Graduate Course Offerings UN 443 Psychoanalytic Case Conceptualization (Spring: 3) Cross Listed with PY 443 Karen Weisgerber UN 879 Introduction to Psychoanalysis (Fall: 3) Cross Listed with PY 879 Particularly relevant for clinically oriented graduate students in Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Social Work, and Education. For graduate students and upper division undergraduates with departmental permission. An introduction to psychoanalysis as an exciting and controversial theory of mind, method of treatment, and critique of culture. Topics to be explored by actively practicing psychoanalysts will include the unconscious, dreams, development, personality, psychopathology, and treatment. The unique stance of psychoanalysis toward culture, politics, and religion will also be explored. W.W. Meissner, S.J. The Boston College Catalog 2006-2007 277 ARTS AND SCIENCES

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