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Christianity and the Arts Lecture, April 8, 2008 The Catholic Composer Today", Speaker: James MacMillan | View the Video
The Christianity and Culture program offers students an opportunity to study Christianity from a variety of perspectives, including its self-understanding, its history, and its interaction with various facets of western and world culture.
The program also explores how Christian experience continues to develop in its encounter with contemporary culture and issues. Individual courses focus on art, literature, science, philosophy, theology, ritual, law, and social and institutional history.
The program addresses the broad range of Christian experience, with a particular emphasis on the Catholic tradition.
Christianity and Culture may be taken as a minor, major, or specialist program.
Christianity and Culture is an undergraduate program only. Students in the Faculty of Arts and Science of the University of Toronto may enrol in the program at the end of their first year. All students in the Faculty of Arts and Science are welcome in the program and its individual courses.
Either of the following two courses serves as a gateway to the specialist, major and minor programs:
SMC103Y Catholicism
SMC203Y Christianity Encounters the Secular World
THE RABANUS PROJECT is a social club for students, faculty, staff and alumni associated with the program which sponsors a range of enjoyable events that encourage members to consider the place of Christianity in cultures past and present: lectures, discussion, films, and cultural outings.
SAECULUM is an undergraduate journal for the study of Christianity and Culture edited, produced, and published by the students in the program.
An annual public lecture, usually held in April, by a scholar in the field of Christianity and literature, music, poetry.
A service learning course for students in social justice and international development. Seminars in the winter term and service overseas with Intercordia Canada between May and July.
University of Toronto students have the opportunity of applying for the third year Study Elsewhere program.
Christianity and Culture is a good preparation for a career in education, journalism, arts and entertainment, or communications. Many of our students proceed to graduate work in theology and religious studies.
For students anticipating teaching careers in Ontario Catholic schools, certain of the Christianity and Culture courses have been judged by the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA) as providing equivalent standing in ministry courses required for permanent teachers’ contracts.