Individual courses

The course seeks to explain the concept, nature and history of International Humanitarian Law (“IHL”) in such a manner that the student will become familiar with its operations in international law. 

This course will cover some fundamentals questions: Why companies should go international? Is it a benefit for them? Whatis an international product strategy? How can a company adapt its product to the new market? Should we create a new product or maintain a similar product?

This course provides an introduction to public international law, its historical development, legal foundations and role in an increasingly globalised international system.

International refugee law and the legal framework governing asylum constitute normative responses to the forced displacement of populations caused by armed conflict, persecution, large-scale human rights violations or environmental crises.

This course gives a survey on the Catholic tradition by examining a series of documents like Lumen Gentium and other documents of Vatican II.

This introductory course studies the foundational doctrines of the Christian. It offers an overview of the interrelated doctrines about God, creation, the Bible as the central text of Christianity, human beings and sin, the person and work of Jesus Christ, the Church as Christ’s Body, and the Christian doctrine of the last things. While there is a stress on the evangelical Christian perspective in this course, there will also be key interactions with the Roman Catholic and mainline Protestant Christian traditions.

This course provides an introduction to critical thinking through the study of epistemology, or the philosophy of knowledge. It examines the nature, validity, and limits of human knowledge by exploring fundamental concepts such as truth, certainty, judgement, evidence, and the relationship between the knowing subject and reality. 

Etymologically, the word "Epistemology", from the Greek, means the science of knowledge. It is an investigation of knowledge and its problems. A synonymous term is Criteriology which again from the Greek means to distinguish or judge. It deals with testin g knowledge to find truth or detect error.

The modern epistemological problem has two aspects:

1. The opposition between science and philosophy or truth and error. We find this basically in Descartes and Kant.

2. The conflict between science and science or that of contemporary and classic physics and not an opposition between science and philosophy or truth and error.

We derive our inspiration from at least two distinct traditions: the Jewish and the Christian. It is important that we should be aware of this! A whole set of questions are implied here. What is the relationship between God and the Jewish traditi on, God and Jesus, God and the church?

This course is divided into 8 chapters, each covering different aspects of Islam.

This course provides some insight about principles of Marketing. 

This course will introduce the students to the historical beginning of bioethics, as well as some of the moral theories employed in bioethics discourse.
 

This course is the second part to Introduction to Moral theories in Bioethics I.
The course will introduce the students to the historical beginning of bioethics, as well as some of the moral theories employed in bioethics discourse.

This course introduces students to the philosophy of law by examining the nature, purpose, and justification of legal systems and their relationship to morality, politics, and society.

This course introduces philosophy as a rigorous academic discipline concerned with fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, and human life.

This course introduces the two great founders of Western philosophy through their complementary approaches. The first part explores Plato’s thought, focusing on the search for truth, virtue, the immortality of the soul, and the Theory of Forms, while highlighting the central role of Socrates, dialogue, and dialectical inquiry.

The course aims at furnishing the student withe the appropriate tools for a meaningful of the Biblical text, with particular reference to its spiritual, liturgical and pastoral context. The course will further aim at providing a basis familiarity with, and a critical assessment of contemporary exegetical methods.

An introduction to the Life, Epistles and Theology of Saint Paul.

The Gospel of Mark is distinctive within the New testament. It may be the oldest Gospel, but it post-dates some of Paul’s letters, from which we already have a good picture of the preaching of Peter and Paul. Mark paints Jesus in down to earth human form, willing to change his mind, vulnerable to the opinions of others, and especially those of the ones who opposed him.

All the Bibles, either Hebrew or Catholic or Protestant or Orthodox, agree on the first part of the Biblical Canon, that is the Pentateuch.

This course helps us to get in touch and explore with the this 16th century religious movement the originated in western Europe over against the prevailing Roman Catholicism.

How are the Gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke interrelated? Did Matthew and Luke both use a written source 'Q' and Mark, when composing their Gospels? Did they each have their own sources as well? 

This course introduces you to the debates about the meaning of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke/Acts. What were the theological interests of the authors of the Synoptic Gospels?

What is the Jesus presented in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke like? How did he understand himself? How did the Evangelists understand him? Is that the same or different to the understanding of the disciples?

This course will provide a general introduction to Theology.

This course offers an advanced introduction to contemporary epistemology and the philosophy of science through a critical examination of scepticism, epistemic justification, and the nature of scientific knowledge. 

A Systematic Review and Hermeneutic Exploration of the Management of Incidental Findings in Genomic Research

In order to have a better understanding of Dupuis’ viewpoints, the study will put side-by-side Dupuis’ ideas and those of pluralism, exclusivism and inclusivism. For this reason, the three approaches to the theology of religions will be briefly discussed. Likewise, the study also briefly presents the understanding of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) concerning the issues raised.

The Unique and Universal Mediation of Jesus Christ in Relation to the Theology of Religions

Students will be introduced to the methods known as Rhetorical Biblical Criticism and Theological Criticism of the Bible.

This course offers a rigorous and engaging exploration of John Locke’s philosophy by closely integrating his political thought and epistemology through the study of his major works, particularly Two Treatises of Government and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

According to Gibelin in his Foreword to Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone, Freedom is the central theme of Kant’s philosophy. This course will introduce to Kant, centering on Freedom as a key concept to understand his philosophy, in the three spheres defined by the critical project: Metaphysics, Moral and Aesthetics.

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, highlighting its revolutionary impact on the history of philosophy.

Declensions, conjugations, ablative, gerundive... an introduction to the Latin language, mother of Romance languages.

This course explores the major philosophical currents that shaped Latin American identity throughout the 20th century. 

Liturgy is primary theology.

The course provides the theological and historical foundations for understanding the evolution of Christian liturgical forms, and pastoral practice. The course will examine the major moments in the historical development of the liturgy in both East and West from the New Testament era with its Jewish foundations to the present.

The course will examine the major moments in the historical development of the liturgy in both East and West from the New Testament era with its Jewish foundations to the present. Attention will be given to the role of ritual and symbol in human life, the relationship of liturgy to society and culture, and critical approaches to liturgical practice.

Organizations are conceived as systems and as such are embedded in an environment. 

The Marketing Management course will take participants through market analysis, marketing strategy development, marketing plans delivery and the need for marketing metrics.

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to Martin Heidegger’s philosophy through a study of his central question: the meaning of Being. 

This course presents mediation as a conflict-resolution process based on dialogue, responsibility, and the parties’ autonomy, while respecting their dignity.

E-seminar in Theology

Metaphysics is the study of things in their ultimate causes. As such, the specialty of metaphysics is that it seeks the final explanation or the ultimate causes of things precisely in so far as they are, in so far as they exist, or in so far as they are real. Aristotle called it “First Philosophy” or “Theology” since it leads to the first principle or the ultimate explanation of all things.

All human knowledge begins with sense experience but can terminate sometimes in the senses, or in the imagination or in the intellect alone . Accordingly we can distinguish between three levels of scientific knowledge corresponding to the three degrees of abstraction from matter which can be made by the intellect in its examination of reality.

This course offers a systematic introduction to Metaphysics, or the Philosophy of Being, the branch of philosophy that studies being as being and investigates the ultimate causes and principles of reality. 

This course offers a systematic introduction to Thomistic metaphysics by examining being in its most universal sense and the fundamental principles that explain reality.

Ecumenical dialogue requires a methodology to move from disagreement to consensus. 

The goal is to understand the differences between halakhic and aggadic midrashim, exegetical and homiletical midrashim, midrashim and targumim.

This course examines the relationship between migration and sustainable development, focusing on the continuing debate over whether migration and diaspora communities promote or hinder development. 

The christian conscience and colonization within the context of the missionary organization in the ‘new world’ “the case of the spanish Latin America”

Common elements of Monasticism in Myanmar Buddhism and in the Latin Catholic Church, in preparation for an Interreligious Dialogue : a Comparative Study

This course is part of the book of Bieke Mahieu, Between Rome and Jerusalem. Herod the Great and His Sons in Their Struggle for Recognition: A Chronological Investigation of the Period 40 BC-39 AD, with a Time Setting of New Testament Events. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 208. Leuven: Peeters, 2012.

This course will provide a general introduction to the language of the New Testament.

Prerequisite: completion of NT Greek 1 with a minimum grade of 12/20 or previous study of New Testament Greek.