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Catholic Studies Graduate Program
Catholic Studies Graduate Program
The University of St. Thomas Catholic Studies Graduate Program is a transformative opportunity to engage with the Catholic faith intellectually while enriching your life, work and sense of purpose.
While most graduate programs focus on a particular academic discipline, our program incorporates multiple academic disciplines – theology, philosophy, history, literature, science and the arts – into every course. In Catholic studies, you will deepen your ability to see the unity of knowledge and develop a coherent vision of your whole life and work.
The program offers a range of course options: on-ground, online and educator-focused. All courses are taught by our nationally and internationally recognized, joyfully Catholic teacher-scholars.
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Vincent Ruiz-Ponce
Degree Options
The Catholic Studies Graduate Program offers a variety of degree and certificate options, each of which includes both online and on-ground course offerings.
Graduate Programs in Catholic Studies Course Offerings
Our courses introduce you to the breath of over two thousand years of Catholic thought and culture through the interdisciplinary way of thinking central to Catholic Studies.
The Catholic Studies Graduate Experience
Faithful Study. Purposeful Reflection. Work Transformed.
“There is a Catholic integration of the whole world. The whole world is sacramental. It’s about the whole person. It’s about engaging the mind and the body and the soul.”
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth…so that by knowing and loving God, men and women can come to the fullness of truth about themselves.
2021 Thought & Culture Lecture: It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Catholics and the Apocalyptic Imagination
Most people hear “apocalyptic” and think only of end-of-the-world disasters—wars, earthquakes, zombies! But apocalypse is simply the Greek word for revelation or unveiling. The Catholic faith holds that Jesus’ announcement of the Kingdom was itself apocalyptic, announcing the end of the world as both goal and final stage.
Join Dr. David Deavel, along with a respected panel, to explore how Catholic apocalyptic novels teach us to view and have peace amid the good, the bad, and the ugly of the end times. (Zombies not included.)
Graduates of Catholic Studies
Stephen Maas, ’03 CSMA
“Faith and reason are wedded in every aspect of our lives, if we but pay attention.”
The Artful Priests
What happens when you put a hillbilly, a poet-comic, a thespian and a jazz musician on a diet of standard Catholic studies fare – Aquinas, Chesterton?
Jenny Kraska, ’05 JD/MA
Politics is not about power. It’s about charity.