The University of Dayton Common Academic Program requires all students in all first-year Humanities courses to engage with Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Assessment of the English Curriculum indicates that CIT is an area for ongoing faculty development in the English Department. In this Seminar, Andrew Slade (Collegium 2014) proposes to lead English faculty through a discipline specific CIT seminar as outlined in the proposal.
The purpose of this seminar is two-fold. First, it is an opportunity for English faculty from diverse backgrounds to gather to discuss, to learn about, and to challenge the intellectual frame of the University of Dayton. Second, it offers a context for renewal of the disciplinary and pedagogical demands of teaching and learning in a large, diverse department of English at a Catholic and Marianist University. The first part of the purpose forms and informs the second. The seminar presumes no particular commitment of the participants beyond the commitment to student learning and excellence in scholarship, research, and creative production that are hallmarks of the English Department. All are welcome to participate in the seminar.