LH 405 - Lasallian Capstone

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Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

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Description:

4 credits This senior-year colloquium provides a capstone experience in which students explore the four spheres of adult life: citizenship, work, marriage and the family, and faith. Students are challenged to engage these themes through close reading and discussion of texts, reflection on their education in the Lasallian Honors Program, and service learning. The purpose of this course is to prepare students to live out the Lasallian charism in the contemporary world. Texts used in the course may include Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, essays by DorothyDay, and short stories and essays by a variety of American authors. The course involves a service- learning component, in which students work with poor and homeless people at the Catholic Worker houses in Winona. One of the central questions of the course is whether Dorothy Day's response to the needs of homeless people, which is gathered from the gospel imperative to bear witness to Christ by doing the works of mercy, provides a leadership model for the role that service can play in students' own lives as citizens, workers, and people of faith.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.smumn.edu

Phone Number:

(507) 457-1600

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Trimester

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