Individual courses
Based on the firm belief that academic excellence should not be limited to those studying for a degree, the university takes pride in offering further education programmes (leading to Certificates of Advanced Study) and Individual Courses to anyone wishing to be immersed in the intellectual heritage of the Dominicans.
Certificates of Advanced Study and individual courses are validated in the same way as Bachelor level courses. A paper of 12000-16000 characters, including spaces is required for each course. The study duration for a certificate is 12 months, according to the pace and rhythm of each student, under supervision by a tutor.
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A Brief History of Medieval Philosophy I
Can we be both Christians and genuine philosophers? Are faith and philosophy mutually exclusive, or not?
A Brief History of Medieval Philosophy II
Can we be both Christians and genuine philosophers? Are faith and philosophy mutually exclusive, or not?
A Brief Introduction to and Overview of Classical Religious Hinduism
There are many different spiritual pathways that were born in the Indian sub-continent: Buddhist, Jain, Sikh, for example, and others that came to India such as Christian and Muslim. Hindu spirituality which represents the spiritual quest of the vast majority of the people of India is rooted in the relentless and uninterrupted search of the seers from the Indian sub-continent.
Aesthetics
Aesthetics is a wider term which includes all kinds of objects and experiences of art, beauty and life. There are many interconnected terms to the process of understanding and the enjoyment of beauty. Artistic experience, philosophy of art, philosophy of beauty, and philosophy of aesthetics are some of the different branches of aesthetics from a general perspective.
African Myths and Philosophy
This course was born out of an effort to interpret the language of Traditional Africa in terms of Western philosophy, and at the same time to see if the latter did not perhaps have, not only correlations with, but even discernible roots in the former.
Analytic Philosophy
This course seeks to introduce students to analytic philosophy.
Aquinas' Notion of Friendship
and its relevance to eternal happiness.
Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition
This course introduces some of the key elements in Aristotle's thought.
Being and Knowing
Essential Questions of Philosophy in this very complete course about Being and Knowing.
Bioethics I : Foundations of Modern Bioethics
Legal, Philosophical and Moral dimension
Bioethics II : Informed Consent and Risk Analysis
Investigators have a duty to ensure subjects give not only informed, but voluntary consent?
Bioethics III: Clinical Ethics & Legal Implications
Concerned with restoring and strengthening bonds between professionals, patients and families, not simply dealing with principles like bioethics.
Canon Law- Part I
Law is a juridical system that organizes the social aspects of humankind. For that reason the systematic oranization, the content and the governing principle of canon law and its different branches should and do conform to how well the Church’s social dimension and social structures are understood at each moment in time.
Contemporary Issues in Bioethics I
To show the implications of normative theories for specific moral issues or contemporary debates on particular ethical issues.
Contemporary Issues in Bioethics II
To show the implications of normative theories for specific moral issues or contemporary debates on particular ethical issues.
Critical Analysis of the Modern Theory of Human Rights: Lack of A Coherent Theoretical Framework
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (henceforth UDHR) is both a point of arrival and a point of departure regarding our contemporary understanding of human rights. As a point of arrival, the UDHR is the result of an attempt to collate the “wisdom of the ages,” in order to find the best way to ensure the protection of the rights of all—especially after the atrocities committed during the two world wars.
David Hume: The Great Empiricist
This is a comprehensive and systematic course on the philosophy of David Hume – a prominent Scottish Enlightenment philosopher widely known for his influential system of philosophical empiricism, naturalism and scepticism. Based on his influential and extreme Empiricist ideas, Hume can be rightly considered as one of the most important philosophers of all time.
Divine Impassibility
Divine Impassibility: A Thomistic Critique of Jürgen Moltmann’s Staurocentric Trinitarianism
E-seminar : Artificial intelligence and its challenges (SEM119)
E-seminar in philosophy
Didier Peters
From 14 April to 8 June 2025
E-Seminar : Women, justice, recognition and religion. Thinking these concepts together from Martha Nussbaum
This e-seminar in Philosophy will take place from 30 September to 24 November 2024. Dive into contemporary struggles with Maxime Allard. Justice, recognition, religion: three inseparable concepts for understanding the place of women today. Martha Nussbaum serves as our compass, with her insights that shed light and inspire action. This seminar invites you to question the mechanisms that are still blocking the recognition of women in the world.