Students take their Tier II courses after completing Tier I or upon attaining junior status. Tier II courses, known as the Heritage Series, offer students an integrated approach to addressing the problems and challenges of our time.
Students will use the opportunity provided by the Heritage Series:
1) to explore significant contemporary problems
2) to locate those problems historically within western cultural, intellectual, and religious traditions
3) to examine the challenges to the main currents in western thought provided by the historically marginalized groups within that tradition, and/or by non-western cultures and
4) to grapple creatively with potential courses of action in solving the identified problems for future generations.
All Heritage courses apply the foundational principles of the document Gaudium et Spes. H1 courses introduce students to Gaudium et Spes. H2a, H2b and H3 courses build upon the principles introduced in H1, continually engaging students in an understanding and application of Gaudium et Spes through designated sequential courses.
For more information on the classes within the Heritage Series, please check with the Office of the Registrar or your advisor.