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| CENTERS FOR EXCELLENCE |
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Center for Business Ethics
The Center for Business Ethics at the University of St. Thomas is committed to helping businesspeople and community members make good choices. The Center is business-friendly. We emphasize the ethical duty to protect shareholders and their property rights and stress the importance of business institutions in developing and maintaining a democratic system. The Center also explores the effects of corporate and individual actions and of developing technology upon other stakeholders, including the more marginal members of the community. The Center offers leadership and corporate governance training programs, conferences on business ethics, public lectures and an online journal of ethics.
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Center for Faculty Excellence
The Center for Faculty Excellence is the newest Center at the University of St. Thomas established to provide faculty with services and resources to support their professional development. As a Center “of the faculty and for the faculty,” its strength lies in active participation and contribution of the university’s academic community. An Advisory Group comprised of faculty and staff help identify programs and initiatives that support the CFE mission to develop a community of teachers and scholars to work collaboratively. On-going activities and services of the Center include providing support to the new faculty orientation program, identifying professional development programs and speakers on teaching effectiveness, engaging a dialogue with chairs and deans, providing faculty consultations and working with the Faculty Senate to design a Faculty Center. |
Center for Faith and Culture
The Center for Faith and Culture identifies University’s interest and dialogue with a variety of cultures. It began in 1994 to study how the gospel can be a cultural leaven. Through conferences, symposia and courses, its activities study the relationship between the worldview of Roman Catholic faith and a mixture of cultures. It studies the relationship of the Gospel’s vision, values, ethical and moral norms, symbols, relationships and roles within cultures. It primarily relates the Gospel to American subcultures – Hispanic, African-American and Asian.
In its programmatic offerings it will incorporate both theory and practice, giving special emphasis to the formation of community leadership that will be capable of integrating faith and culture through ongoing reflection and action. Since we believe that holistic spiritual development is at the very core of all cultural development, this too will constitute an essential dimension of the Center's work. |
Center for International Studies
The Center for International Studies fosters education in world affairs for graduates and undergraduates, provides professional development opportunities for students, alumni, faculty and the community and is the University’s agent for consortial and international relations. International Studies prepares students for careers in international business, law, politics and public service. In addition, it promotes understanding of international relations, cultural differences and the benefits that come from cooperation within the human family. It directs the interdisciplinary undergraduate major in international studies and develops international courses uniquely designed for the Master in Liberal Arts program. It houses the geography program, Study Abroad office and the Southwestern International Studies Association. It supports Fulbright and comparable funded overseas graduate study and post-doctoral research program advising. The Center’s director represents the University in the Houston Inter-University Consortium for International Studies.
Students may complete either an academic major or minor in International Studies, or a joint major with Business Administration, Communication, Political Science, Spanish, Romance Languages, Environmental Studies or Economics. |
Center for Irish Studies
One of the newest of the University of St. Thomas’ Centers of Excellence, the Center for Irish Studies is also one of the most active. Leading Irish scholars from Ireland and elsewhere speak to well-attended audiences on a wide range of issues. Irish storytellers, musicians and other performance artists complete the offering of diverse subject areas.
The Center for Irish Studies serves as a focal point for the study of Irish history, literature, politics, art, culture and society. The Center enhances the academic mission of the University by concentrating on a broad and coherent study of Ireland within an integrating framework of many academic departments and community organizations. Building on the international dimension of the University’s educational mission, the Center affirms the historic and contemporary connections among Ireland, the Irish-American community and the University. The Center encourages intellectual examination of the Irish experience in the United States and the Southwest.
Course offerings include undergraduate and graduate courses in history, literature, political and social science, law, theology, language, art history and drama. The University offers a minor and an MLA graduate concentration in Irish Studies as well as a study abroad program in which students can study in Ireland at the National University of Ireland at Maynooth as well as Mary Immaculate College, which is linked with the University of Limerick, and earn credit toward their degree at the University.
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Center for Thomistic Studies
The Center for Thomistic Studies is the only graduate philosophy program in the United States uniquely focused on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. The Center is founded upon the Church’s insistence on the perennial value of the thought of Aquinas as the new millennium opens, with a commitment to meet the challenges and realize the opportunities pointed out by Pope John Paul II as the dawn of a new age in philosophy and intellectual culture. The model of constructive cross-cultural dialogue that Aquinas presents in his writings we take as a model for the pursuit of truth across the ages. In our Center, a living Thomism is studied, both steeped in historical knowledge of tradition and engaged with contemporary culture in shaping the future.
Beyond its graduate programs in philosophy, the Center also provides a venue for distinguished visiting scholars to offer lectures and courses. The Center’s publications program promotes research in Thomistic studies, as well as providing classroom texts which represent a Thomistic viewpoint on a variety of topics. The Center is the home of the Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy programs at St. Thomas.
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