GETTING IN TOUCH
E-mail is always preferable for me.
Phone - 918.746.2600 x2122
Office - Tack 233
Usual Availability
Before School: in my office beginning at 7:25 am
Break: in my office
After Lunch: in Room 250 for the last 10 minutes of first lunch (on normal days)
After School: in my office until at least 3:00 pm
If you need to speak to me outside of class or for extra help, see me at these times or talk with me and make an appointment.
SECOND SEMESTER COURSE SCHEDULE
FIRST HOUR - Senior Thesis Advisement - Room 233
FOURTH HOUR - Algebra I - Room 250
FIFTH HOUR - Teachings of the Catholic Church - Room 260
SIXTH HOUR - Applied Ethics (TRF) - Room 202
COURSE MATERIALS AND ASSIGNMENTS
ALGEBRA I
Sequence Document (necessary for homework when the problem numbers are indicated by a particular sequence)
Unit 7 Assignment Sheet
OOPS! - The quiz answers I distributed at the end of class on 09 April had an error in them. Here are the revised and corrected quiz solutions.
Assignments
Monday, May 11: Assignment #124
Tuesday, May 12: Assignment #125
Wednesday, May 13: Assignment #126; TEST TOMORROW ON RADICALS AND QUADRATICS
Thursday, May 14: no assignment
TEACHINGS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Assignments
Monday, May 11: read about the Church's liturgical year in section 3 of the textbook
Tuesday, May 12: review all notes
Wednesday, May 13: review
Thursday, May 14: review
APPLIED ETHICS
Barwick, Enjoying the So-Called Iced Cream
Stumpf 0 - Introduction
Stumpf 1 - Aristotle; virtue ethics
Stumpf 2 - Stoics
Stumpf 4 - Kant
Stumpf 5 - Bentham and Mill
Stumpf 6 - Nietzsche
Aristotelian Ethics PowerPoint
Kantian Ethics PowerPoint
Utilitarian Ethics PowerPoint
Introduction to Catholic Ethics PowerPoint
Abortion: Legal History in the US PowerPoint
Tuesday, May 12: write a one-page reaction to Eclipse of Reason
Thursday, May 14: review everything; YOUR FINAL WILL BE COMPOSED OF MULTIPLE CHOICE AND TRUE/FASLE QUESTIONS. REVIEW PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS FROM THE STUMPF READINGS, THE INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIAN ETHICS FROM FATHER TACK'S NOTES AND THE POWERPOINT ABOVE, AND MEDICAL ETHICS IN THE SECOND SECTION OF THE BLUE BINDER.
CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING
Senior Thesis Guidelines (distributed in chapel on 12 February 2009)
SOURCES
The Vatican (contains encyclicals, resources, searchable catechism, and online New American Bible)
Saint Peter's Basilica (information about everything in Vatican City)
New Advent (Catholic Encyclopedia, compendium of Patristic writings, and Douay-Rheims Bible)
Catholic Apologetics (Catholic apologetics)
Peter Kreeft (professor of philosophy at Boston College and prominent Catholic apologist)
National Catholic Bioethics Center (treatment of ethical issues in medicine and medical research. Also links to the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, which contains articles about emerging biomedical ethics.)
Office for Social Justice - Diocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul (contains all seminal CST documents)
Resurgence Greek Project (a lexical tool for studying the New Testament from the eldest extant Greek manuscripts. The great thing about this site: once the user scrolls over a word, that word's English translation and parsing pop up on the screen; other NT usages of the same word (either an exact match or the lemma) can be found as well. A GREAT resource for lexical NT study.)
Augustinians of the Midwest (website for the Augustinian province of which Cascia Hall is a part)
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (links to resources for Teachings, Ethics, and CST)
Codex Sinaiticus (the oldest known copy of the Bible, which has now been photographed and is being slowly put online by the British Museum)
TOOLS
Adobe Acrobat Reader (to access PDFs)
OpenOffice (a fantastic (and free!) alternative to Microsoft Office)
FUN STUFF
Samurai Sudoku (5 connected sukodu puzzles)
Rubik's Cube Solver (resets your 3x3 cube if you get stuck; just enter what the sides of your cube look like and follow the steps.)