ONLINE
Taught by Father Joseph Koopman
ONLINE
Taught by Father Joseph Koopman
The videos are from a previously recorded in-person Catholic Sexual Ethics course. You can watch them on your own schedule, but we suggest committing 1-3 hours per week in order to get through all of the material. You will not have access to the videos beyond the end date of the course.
Full participation in this course counts towards Certification and the Master’s Degree Programs. Students who wish to receive full credit for this course must watch all of the videos and complete a multiple-choice exam at the end of the course. A passing grade of 80% is required for the exam.
Each video session is complete with the resources used in the course, as well as directions for helping to make this online course, not only intellectually stimulating, but also spiritually fruitful.
Refund requests made within 24 hours of purchase and before accessing online course content will be eligible for a full refund, less a $30 processing fee. If you cancel within 7 calendar days of purchase, you will be given a 50% refund. After 7 days, no refunds will be given.
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This online course introduces students to the Catholic Church’s teaching on sexual ethics in light of St. John Paul II’s theology of the body. Beginning with a very brief overview of the foundations of Catholic Morality, drawn from the Catechism and John Paul II’s encyclical Veritatis Splendor, (discussing issues such as freedom, virtue, conscience, and moral action), the course will turn to the Church’s vision of sexuality, rooted in the proper theological understanding of the human person. Consideration will be given to the importance of the body within Christian anthropology, along with an examination of the virtue of chastity, the vocation of marriage, and John Paul’s understanding of the ‘nuptial meaning of the body.’ We will study the Church’s teaching on contraception, procreative technologies, sterilization, abortion, homosexuality, fornication and cohabitation, masturbation, pornography and more.
Registrants for this online course, will receive access to a filmed version of our in-person 5-day Catholic Sexual Ethics course and a digital course workbook. You will receive access as soon as you purchase it, and have an entire semester (120 days) to complete the graduate level course. Registrants should plan to watch approximately 2 hours of materials per week to complete the course in the given timeframe.
Students are to complete the assigned readings before or during the course. The reading list for this course can be found in the course syllabus. For those enrolled in the Certification or the MSA Programs, completion of these readings is required. For all others, pre-reading is recommended.
Rev. Joseph Koopman, M.Div., M.A., S.T.D., graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville in 1996, after which he entered St. Mary Seminary in Cleveland, Ohio. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Cleveland in 2001, and served as a newly ordained priest at St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Parma. From 2005 to 2009, Fr. Koopman attended the Accademia Alfonsiana in Rome, Italy, where he received a license and doctorate in theology. Since 2009, he has been a professor of moral theology at St. Mary Seminary, along with serving as an advisor in moral theology and ethics for the Diocese of Cleveland and the Ohio Catholic Conference of Bishops.