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Location
Loyola Campus
7302 Sherbrooke Street West
(514) 848-2280
Objectives
The members of Lonergan University College seek to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue
about fundamental questions of value in culture, art, science, and religion. The College
is dedicated both to studying Bernard Lonergan's interdisciplinary approach and to
fostering students' capacities for interdisciplinary dialogue.
As teachers and students of traditional disciplines in the University, members participate
in a Fellows seminar, student seminars, and lectures at the College.
Dedication
Lonergan University College is named in honour of Dr. Bernard F. Lonergan, a former
student, and later a professor at Loyola College, Montréal. Dr. Lonergan's work has been
recognized throughout the world and is the subject of several hundred books and
dissertations. Recently, an international Journal of Lonergan Studies has been
initiated in the United States.
General Philosophy
Lonergan University College exists for those students and professors who believe in an
education beyond the current tradition of depersonalized and compartmentalized knowledge.
Lonergan students maintain a regular department-based program of studies. At the same
time, however, they share with others the dynamics of human enquiry that transcends the
narrowness of disciplinary methodologies.
Inquiry into "Value"
The Fellows of Lonergan University College are convinced that the deepest issues of
life are implicitly involved in all the academic disciplines, and that both honesty and
sanity demand that we attend to this fact and reflect upon it.
The scholarship of the College is clearly concerned with values: they may be values
centred on the question "should it be done"? as opposed to "can it be
done"?; they may be values so entrenched in fundamental assumptions as to appear
self-evident and beyond argument; or they may be values considered by some to be ultimate
and beyond rational understanding. In each case, the value systems are exposed and
critically analysed, allowing the individual to come to his or her own conclusions.
Method
The College has adopted an educational strategy which is interdisciplinary and
empirical.
This strategy is interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary because central and ultimate
issues of human life are involved in all disciplines; yet many of these issues overlap the
traditional boundaries of knowledge and must be analysed without the dominance of any one
perspective.
This strategy is empirical in the sense that all knowing begins with enquiry about
experience of the world and of ourselves as subjects. Resulting judgement of truth and
value must be verified through a methodologically precise appeal to this experience.
Following this strategy, Lonergan students use their departmental study as a resource to
be shared and extended by working with students and Fellows from other Departments on a
common intellectual project as determined by one of the Lonergan courses.
The work and method of Bernard Lonergan are studied by many of our students. His influence
is reflected in the concept of education at the College whether or not students choose to
study his work explicitly.
The Style of the College
Lonergan University College offers its students all the resources of Concordia
University. Lonergan students take a regular degree program in the Department of their
choice on either of the two campuses of Concordia University. Moreover, the College aims
to contribute to a style of life which will heighten intellectual experience and enrich
personal growth during the student's university years. It does this, not by claiming to
"raise standards", but rather by demanding that its students relate what they
learn to their personal lives and deeper values.
A university is the place where the universe should be discussed and intellectually
appropriated. Conversation, as much as courses or research, is at the heart of university
life. It is precisely this
aspect of university life that has been undermined in this century by the incredible
growth in knowledge itself, and by the proliferation of specialities. What universal
knowledge is now possible? What do students have in common to discuss?
Lonergan University College believes that there is something in common to be discussed,
and dedicates its resources to assure the depth and vitality of that discussion. It
involves all its members, both students and Fellows, in structured conversation that will
grow in breadth and meaning through the three years of a student's university career.
Membership
Students may join the College with an intention to register for a LUCC course, and
after an interview with the College principal. Students are entitled to use the College
lounges and resource centre, to participate in the social and intellectual activities of
the College, and to be a member of the Lonergan University College Student Association.
Students must fulfil the degree requirements of their own Faculty, and must be enrolled in
either a departmental or interdisciplinary Major, Specialization or Honours program.
Once students have completed 12 credits of LUCC courses, they meet the requirements for
membership
in Lonergan University College. They will be graduated officially as Lonergan students and
will have this fact noted on their transcripts.
Program
24 Minor in Lonergan Interdisciplinary Studies
Those students who are members of Lonergan University College, and who want to
strengthen the academic component of their work in the College, may take the following
academic minor:
3 LUCC 2023 The Creative Self
12 LUCC 3996 Lonergan College Seminar: the theme of the
Lonergan College Seminar changes yearly. The seminar must be taken twice at six credits
each time for a total of 12 credits
9 credits at the 300 or 400 level
College Facilities and Activities
The College is governed by a set of by-laws, and by a College Council composed of
students and Fellows.
The central activity of the College is its weekly seminar. The seminar focuses each year
on the work of a major thinker, one who has decisively influenced our culture for good or
for evil. The topic will change each year, but the depth of human integration and social
awareness of the authors we choose ensures continuity in our discussion. As participants
in the seminar are competent in diverse academic disciplines, an understanding of the
topic develops which on the one hand does justice to the diversity of contemporary
awareness, and on the other demands levels of understanding which transcend technical
jargon. An internationally recognized scholar will be invited to come to Lonergan
University College as the "Distinguished Visiting Scholar", to lead the College
seminar. The Visiting Scholar will also give university lectures and public addresses, as
deemed appropriate.
Each student of Lonergan University College joins with a small number of others to form a
seminar group. College Fellows will direct the group and be available for academic
advising to students. These groups will meet for two hours every week.
Students and Fellows will be encouraged to share in College government, to participate in
College events, and, in various ways, to make the College the centre of their lives at the
University.
The College offers a comfortable lounge, a specialized library, and several quiet rooms
for study. It also has a research centre for Lonergan studies with a complete set of
manuscripts, and of published works.
Admissions and Applications
Students seeking admission to the College should fill in the appropriate section (Box
D) of the University Admissions Application form. Interested students may also contact the
College directly by telephoning, or by coming to the College, or else by writing to the
College at the following address: 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal, Québec, H4B
1R6. Each candidate for admission will be invited to an interview with the principal.
Courses
Because of the renumbering of courses in the Department, students should see §200.1 for a list of equivalent courses.
LUCC 202 The Creative Self (3 credits)
This course is cross-listed with INTE 202. This course explores the relationship
between experience, understanding and coming to knowledge as a contemporary person in
search of identity. It is structured around the exploration of these questions: How can
life experience become a source of creative understanding? How can the learning process
become one's own? What methods are available to help us learn how to learn? How can we
learn to live what we know?
NOTE: Students who have received credit for LUCC 200 or INTE 202 may not take this
course for credit.
LUCC 298 Introduction to Selected Interdisciplinary Problems
(3 credits)
LUCC 299 Introduction to Selected Interdisciplinary Topics (6 credits)
Specific topics for these courses will be stated in the Undergraduate Class Schedule.
LUCC 333 Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Peace (6 credits)
This course is cross-listed with INTE 333. This course aims to introduce students
to the study of peace and enable them to think critically about contemporary circumstances
that condition the search for peace. Using specific case studies and appropriate
methodologies, the course examines the role of values, cultures, and ideologies in the
attainment of peace. This course is presented in cooperation with the Loyola Peace
Institute.
NOTE: Students who have received credit for LUCC 499A or INTE 333 or 499A may not take
this course for credit.
LUCC 398 Special College Seminar (3 credits)
Students who for good reason cannot follow the regular College Seminar (LUCC 399) meet
every second week for two semesters or every week for one semester, under the direction of
a College Fellow. The same text is read as in the regular seminar, and the discussion has
the same aim.
LUCC 399 Lonergan College Seminar (6 credits)
Every year, faculty and students at the College engage in the study of a major thinker who
has decisively influenced Western culture (e.g. Gandhi, Arendt, Dostoevsky, Galileo,
Nietzsche, Freud, Darwin), or from time to time, a theme which the College Council feels
to be particularly appropriate (e.g. Literary Criticism, Contexts of Canadian Cinema). The
course is directed by a Visiting Scholar with particular expertise in the person or theme
under discussion. The Visiting Scholar meets with the faculty and students bi-weekly and
on the following week the students meet in small groups with individual Fellows.
LUCC 410 The Works of Bernard Lonergan (3 credits)
This course is cross-listed with INTE 410. This course engages students in the
task of integrating their specific fields of studies into the more general enterprise of
human knowing and deciding. It reflects upon this experience with the aid of Bernard
Lonergan's methodology. The texts are selected from the work of Lonergan.
NOTE: Students who have received credit for INTE 410 may not take this course for
credit.
LUCC 441 Issues in Contemporary Values (3 credits)
This course is cross-listed with INTE 441. This course addresses central questions
concerning what we love or detest, embrace or reject, prescribe or proscribe; what
resources of human being, e.g. philosophical, psychological, or artistic, are implicitly
or explicitly drawn upon in these choices; whether the choices we make are mere
"preferences", or have objective status as values; and how these questions
relate to the problems of our culture and our time. Through alternating emphases and
faculty, the focus is changed from time to time.
NOTE: Students who have received credit for LUCC 440 or INTE 440 or 441 may not take
this course for credit.
LUCC 498 Lonergan University College Selected Problems (3 credits)
LUCC 499 Lonergan University College Selected Topics (6 credits)
Specific topics for these courses, and prerequisites relevant in each case, will be stated
in the Undergraduate Class Schedule.
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