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BAHT Curriculum

In order to earn the Bachelor of Arts in Humanities for Teaching through Matteo Ricci College, students must complete 180 quarter credits, including the following:

Courses pursuant to endorsement(s)	45-70 credits
Courses to develop skills for future teachers	10-35 credits
Humanities (BAHT) courses	85 credits
Laboratory Science	5 credits
Mathematics	5 credits
Poverty in America	5 credits

Desciptions of the Humanities (BAHT) courses are given below.

Course Listing

HUMT 150

Composition: Language and Thought

Study and practice in the arts of rhetoric: structuring arguments, controlling word-choice, sentences, paragraphs, and essays, to produce clear, convincing writing.

HUMT 151

Composition: Language and the Arts

Interdisciplinary study of artistic composition in a variety of art forms, with emphasis upon, and practice in, literary composition.

HUMT 152

Logic, Ethics, and Discernment

An introduction to the methods, analytical powers, and limitations of (1) formal and informal logic, (2) ethics as a largely secular discourse, and (3) discernment as a more personal ethical guide.

HUMT 171

Humanistic Foundations of Education

The writings of great thinkers on educational ideas, e.g., Plato, Quintillian, St. Augustine, the Renaissance Humanists, St. Ignatius, Locke, Rousseau, Piaget, Montessori, et. al. Lectures, discussion, presentations, writing.

HUMT 180	Socio-Cultural Transformations I	5
HUMT 181	Socio-Cultural Transformations II	5
HUMT 182	Socio-Cultural Transformations III	5

A three-quarter, interdisciplinary study of the evolution of major systems of meaning and value in Western civilization and the social expressions of these systems; emphasis on analysis of social and cultural phenomena and on interpretation of the personal and communal significance of cultural change in the past.

HUMT 271	Seminar on Elementary Education	5
HUMT 272	Supervised Internship in Elementary Education	5

Humt 271 and 272 are linked courses and must be taken concurrently. Internship as a teacher's aide in an elementary school, coordinated with readings in related educational practice and problems; discussion, presentations, writing.

HUMT 273	Seminar on Secondary Education	5
HUMT 274	Supervised Internship in Secondary Education	5

Equivalent to HUMT 271-272 for secondary education.

HUMT 301	Perspectives on the Person I	5
HUMT 302	Perspectives on the Person II	5

Reflective and critical examination of the structures of experience which define and shape human reality from philosophical, theological, psychological, and literary perspectives; emphasis on understanding of self and on appropriation of a religiously grounded sense of care and responsibility at both individual and social levels.

HUMT 371

Education and the Polity

The changing roles of schools within society; the public debates surrounding those roles: ethical, political, and practical issues. Discussion, writing, and presentations.

HUMT 372

Leadership and Teaching

Diverse ways of leadership, including particularly from positions apart from office and title. Local leaders meet with students to share their own experiences. Examination of the teacher's multiple roles as a leader. Reflective writing and practical exercises; presentations.

HUMT 380

Cultural Interface

Interdisciplinary study of a contemporary “foreign” nation or culture in Asia, Africa, Latin America, or the Middle East. Emphasis on the intellectual, religious, historical, and economic roots of the culture. An attempt to move beyond the study of aggregates
to know how individuals live and feel.

HUMT 400

Matteo Ricci College Seminars on Contemporary Problems

Seminars that engage students in social and cultural issues of the contemporary world, with special attention to local expressions of these issues. Emphasis on relationships among empirical data and the search for the normative and the ideal; attention to acquiring the additional knowledge, skills, and sensibilities required for successful completion of a comprehensive project in the Matteo Ricci College Capstone Course, HUMT 401-402.

HUMT 401-402

Matteo Ricci College Capstone Course

A two-quarter sequence, a project-based seminar that integrates and culminates the Bachelor of Arts in Humanities. Content features: empirical research on a social problem of choice; linking of empirical findings to public policy contexts; ethical critique and/or defense of decisions or positions taken. Pedagogical format: student teams instructed and guided by a team of faculty mentors.

HUMT 471

Jesuit Education

The origins and principles of Jesuit education, St. Ignatius to the present. Purposes and perspectives of specific techniques, extra-curricular activities, public service, concern for the poor and the marginalized.

HUMT 472

Jesuit Education Practicum

Students develop lessons and presentations grounded in Jesuit pedagogy and the Ignatian paradigm, working in their own prospective area of endorsement.