Integral Knowing is the foundation for IKON® interdisciplinary courses. Students learn basic concepts such as soul, spirit, will, mind in the works of Classical and Christian authors. They also learn the distinction between reason and revelation, and especially about the grace of faith elevates and integrates their lives.
This IKON® interdisciplinary course introduces students to the broad concept of logos in relation to language. Students will consider the development of language, especially Proto-Indo-European languages, through a brief introduction to semiotics and philology. They will also explore the use of language in world literatures and sacred texts, especially the Bible.
Complementing a standard approach to mathematics, this IKON® interdisciplinary course integrates math, history and music. Students discover the historical achievements of mathematics and its classical relation to music through principles of time, form, interval, and proportion, etc. The Muse and Mathematics will aid students in appropriating the beauty of mathematics.
This IKON® interdisciplinary course considers the impact of Christian culture in the world – beginning with themes from scripture and the Jewish tradition to the Church’s encounters with ancient cultures and societies and civilizations through to our globalized, modern age.
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Along with critical thinking, students appreciate wonder and the ability to practice holistic thinking. An IKON® interdisciplinary course that views the world as a whole in relation to particular experiences of creation, death, time, etc., students read works of philosophy, literature and religion that touch upon first principles in thinking and knowing, being and becoming
Through the IKON® interdisciplinary approach, students explore the history and harmony between human and natural sciences, the humanities, religious traditions and professions in their search for truth. Special emphasis is given to St. John Henry Newman’s thought.
This IKON® interdisciplinary course course examines the philosophy and dignity of work (studying, creating, business practices of leading and following, economy, family life and worship) through a critical study of the relationship between ethics and holiness.
This IKON® interdisciplinary course engages students with perennial questions of truth, learning and education from the ancients to the post-moderns.
An IKON® interdisciplinary course that appreciates the development of psychological and sociological traditions in relation to dimensions of divine and human love.
An IKON® interdisciplinary course that considers classical and modern politics from the perspective of the Catholic moral and social tradition. Students evaluate how this tradition integrates into their political and social views on justice, law, rights, equality, tolerance, etc.
Scholars have observed that religious traditions inspire beautiful art throughout the world. This IKON® interdisciplinary course explores the relationships between divinity, Christian faith, the fine art, and beauty – from cathedrals to cures, St. Ephraim’s hymns to St. Theresa’s Interior Castle, the Pietà to gospel choirs in New Orleans.
This IKON® interdisciplinary seminar which modernity’s claims about the sacred and profane, the origins of atheism, and the contemporary distinction between being spiritual and/or religious.
An important element of the IKON Curriculum is helping students to percieve their world in narrative and image beyond the written page. In our IKON seminars, we want to open our students to great films, and help them interpret film with their faith, develop their imaginations, and their mind's capacity to grow.