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 ICS is pleased to offer a full summer school this year. All the available courses are listed below. Be challenged by top-flight faculty in small classes. Engage with today's challenges to better inform and influence tomorrow's world. ICS graduates shape society in positions of leadership affecting public, social, cultural and educational policy. ICS is located in the heart of the city - close to Toronto's art galleries, festivals, the theatre district, concerts, restaurants and more! (Information on fees and contact information can be found at the bottom of the page.) |
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| Summer School 2008 |
Ethics After Auschwitz: Adorno and Levinas
ICS 1951/2951 S08
Lambert Zuidervaart, Ron Kuipers, Jeff Dudiak and Shannon Hoff
Dates: May 5 - May 16
Location: ICS Campus | Contemporary philosophy aims to be "post metaphysical." This raises questions about an appropriate basis for reflections about personal ethics and public morality. Genocide, terrorism, and state-sponsored violence add urgency to such questions. Theodor W. Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas have posed these issues in unsurpassed ways. This seminar studies their writings on ethics "after Auschwitz."
• Syllabus
• Video: Ron Kuipers discusses this course. |
Romans: God, Israel and Empire
CSTC I and IV; ICS1233/2233SM08
Dr. Sylvia Keesmaat
Dates: May 5 - 16
Location: ICS campus | Beginning with recent studies on the nature of the Roman empire in the first century, we will set the context for a reading of Romans which engages both its imperial setting and the story of Israel appealed to by Paul throughout the letter. How was this community to relate to the story of the Jews? How was this community to relate to the story of Rome? How do these stories relate to the story of Jesus? And what sort of community were the followers of Jesus in Rome called to be?
• Syllabus
• Video: Sylvia Keesmaat discusses this course. |
Feminism, Faith and Rhetoric
CSTC IV; ICS1960/2960SM08
Dr. Helen Sterk
Dates: June 2 - 13
Location: ICS campus | Through the lens of rhetorical theory, this course will explore issues in faith and feminism. The focus will be on how the rhetoric of religious discourses and traditions have constructed “woman” and “man”, and what difference those constructs make in human relationships and theological understandings of God and humans.
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Art, Beauty and God: Recurrent Themes in Theological Aesthetics
ICS 1160/2160 SM08
Dr. Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin and Dr. Wessel Stoker
Dates: June 30 - July 11 Location: ICS campus | Since the early church Christian thinkers have been ambivalent about art and beauty. Some reviled art and beauty for their supposed seductive or idolatrous nature. Others revered them for their apparent capacity to serve as steppingstones to a higher spiritual reality. Since modern times art, beauty and religion have made dramatic comebacks in philosophical and theological debates. Co-taught by a theologian and a philosopher, the course will explore the relationships between:art and beauty; icons and idols; art, religion and worldview; theological and philosophical aesthetics. The course will examine recent developments in theological aesthetics with a view to identifying which theories hold most promise for a holistic contemporary Christian aesthetics.
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The Weakness of God: John D. Caputo
ICS 1530/2530 SM08
Dr. James Olthuis
and Dr. J.D. Caputo
Dates: July 7 - 18
Location: ICS campus | This seminar will examine the emerging deconstructive theologizing of John D. Caputo, a leading American Catholic postmodern philosopher. Beginning with his effort to construct a radical hermeneutics, moving through his treatment of the prayers and tears of Jacques Derrida, the seminar will conclude by focusing on Caputo's radical theology of the weakness of God, forgiveness and faith.
• Syllabus
• Video: Dr. Olthuis discusses this course. |
Advanced Educational Psychology
CSTC III; ICS1360/2360SM08
Dr. Gloria Goris Stronks
Dates: July 21 - 25
Location: Redeemer University
College, Ancaster, ON
| This course presents a biblical model of the learner. It includes an examination of psycho-educational theories of development from the perspective of selected theorists. Consideration is given to the application of these theories to the educational environment and the implications of these theories with regard to intellectual development. Aspects of faith and moral development will also be considered.
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| Fees: | - Master of Worldview Studies credit or Christian school teacher certification
$990 plus a $25.00 registration fee.
- MA or PhD credit:
$990 plus a $25.00 registration fee.
- Audit Fee:
$600 plus a $25.00 registration fee. |
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