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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

RS 231 - American Catholicism


A history of the Roman Catholic community in the United States, from its beginnings in colonial America to the present. Both primary and secondary sources will be read, focusing  on those events and movements which have shaped the Catholic encounter with political and social aspects of American culture.

Credits: 4

Prerequisites/Restrictions: A 100-level Religious Studies course.

Core: History & Society AND Catholic Intellectual Traditions