Applications for the Theology, Science, and Technology interdisciplinary minor open January 2 and the preliminary cohort will likely be restricted to fifteen college students.
A core factor of the brand new minor is a compulsory three-credit capstone course, Theology, Science, and Technology Senior Seminar. Organizers say the seminar will give college students a synthesizing expertise the place they’ll deliver collectively the assorted components they’ve gathered all through their research in view of their future careers. The goal is to assist college students mirror critically, see connections, and perceive how their research have helped them develop as human beings.
Other necessities for the minor will likely be 5 electives, together with one in a science with a lab, one in expertise/utilized science, two in science and expertise in context, and one in theology and science.
Fr. Vicini credit Theology Associate Professor Jeffrey Cooley with shepherding the minor from inception to ultimate approval.
“Students are looking for insight as to how their faith and religious traditions can co-exist and, indeed, engage with their scientific worldviews and rapidly developing technological culture,” mentioned Cooley, a biblical research scholar with a analysis concentrate on the Hebrew Bible. “The need to ‘find God in all things,’ shouldn’t lead to mental and ethical compartmentalization. Boston College is a perfect setting for this program: the University options not solely one of many world’s preeminent theology colleges, however glorious pure science and nursing packages, comparatively new packages in world public well being and human-centered engineering, in addition to the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society.
“Many students are looking for a pedagogical venue in which they can examine their scientific and technical vocations in light of their theological traditions, and this program seeks to offer them that,” he added.
Also instrumental in establishing the brand new minor have been Theology’s Director of Undergraduate Studies Matthew Kruger and Engineering’s Director of Undergraduate Studies Jenna Tonn, who serves as co-director of the minor.
“The Theology Department’s desire is to be an integrating presence within the University,” mentioned Fr. Vicini. “We want to create opportunities for integration, avoiding the silos that we might experience in the academy. We want to create possibilities where we join other departments, other colleagues, and welcome faculty and students to reflect on what concerns our way of living on the planet and how we can promote it and make it better.”