Abstract
CPS 400 (What Really Matters: Discernment, Consciousness, Compassion) is the Magis Core Intersections course for students enrolled through the College of Professional Studies. Using the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm, students reflect on multiple Jesuit charisms and what they mean for their own lives, with a special focus on discerning what they love as related to vocation, service, justice and cura personalis. Students articulate beliefs on our culture and (in)justice at societal and personal levels.|For Assessment Day, we will be assessing the Magis objective: Apply critically the fundamental paradigms, and different ways of knowing and thinking from different disciplines using the artifacts of students' Week 4 reflection papers. Here are the instructions for that assignment:|After considering this week's reading and activities, please take no more than 2 pages and address the following topic in a response paper. One of the Magis core outcomes is that you will be able to apply critically the fundamental paradigms, and different ways of knowing and thinking from different disciplines. After reading psychological, theological, and philosophical approaches to vocation, please explain the differences you see between these disciplinary approaches. How does each help us know and think differently about vocation? Once you have laid out these differences, articulate which you relate the most to and why. In other words, you have learned very Ignatian ways of thinking about discerning for vocation and very practical ways rooted in the psychological perspective of person-environment fit. Which approach do you favor? [And if you think both can co-exist, please elaborate.]