Religious Studies 15 (3 or 5 credits)
Religious Studies (Roman Catholic) 15 – Christ and Culture
The principal aim of Christ and Culture is to assist students, with the help of the Gospel,
to participate as Christians in the shaping of our culture. The program explores major
cultural issues from a Christological perspective. Beginning with their own life experiences,
students acquire a deeper and more systematic knowledge of themselves, Christ's
message, and the Church. Connections between the Church and contemporary culture are
explored in term of what it means to be a responsible adolescent developing as a member
of a Catholic, Christian community while living within the context of a broader culture.
Twenty percent of the course will also be spent studying how the stories, signs, symbols,
and rituals from other World Religions and Canada’s indigenous communities have
influenced cultures both in Canada and throughout the world.
Religious Studies 25 (3 credits)
Religious Studies (Roman Catholic) 25– Jesus Christ: God’s Gift of Salvation
Jesus Christ: God's Gift of Salvation invites students to deepen their relationship with
Jesus through a study of Scripture. Students will explore the Jewish historical, religious,
and cultural world into which the Messiah was born and the Old Testament covenant
fulfilled. Using the Gospels as primary sources, the course explores Jesus' birth, early life,
and ministry; his preaching of the Kingdom of God; his special teachings, particularly the
parables; and his miracles. It then focuses on the scriptural accounts of his death and
Resurrection, and the Ascension, and their central significance for the church’s
understanding of Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God. In addition to the study of the
history of the Jewish faith, students will study salvation doctrines of other World Religions,
as well as the way that contemporary Christians (both Catholic and from other Christian
traditions) cooperate to total twenty percent of the course.
Religious Studies 35 (3 or 5 credits)
Religious Studies (Roman Catholic) 35– In Search of the Good
In Search of the Good challenges students to understand themselves as moral persons
called to discipleship by living the way of Christ. Through an examination of ethical
theories, the revelation of Sacred Scripture, and the lived experience and teaching of the
Catholic Church, the course invites students to mature as active participants in their faith.
At the heart of catechesis is the human search for happiness as the completion of the
superabundant love of God. The same tension which exists between the revelation of
God's love and the explorations of human reason are worked out in the areas of freedom,
justice, human relations, ecology, reconciliation, life in community and political life. For
twenty percent of the course, students will learn how other World Religions understand
their own sacred texts as guides to moral living, plus how they approach current moral
issues.