Videos:

• John Kavanaugh, S.J. Advertising and the Formation of Cultural Values
• The Merchants of Cool. The folow up program is The Persuaders, and it is available for viewing on the internet.
• If there is time: A Crisis of Faith from Four Season Productions

1. Be able to summarize the key ides of Nietzsche, Hobbes, Ignatius, Jesus, and your ideas on the meaning of life, what it means to be human, reason, and morality.
2. What is scientism? And how can it affect your faith/Faith?
3. Give Readings' three stages in the relationship between science and faith. Know and understand the terms: unreflective unity, reflective disunity, reflective unity. (Can this apply to you personally in any other area of your life?)
4. What are three limitations of the scientific method?
5. List and understand Zanzig's major negative societal values from the freshman text.
6. Be able to explain why Fr. Kavanaugh worries that advertising is shaping our cultural values, our images of what it means to a person, of what hapiness is all about.
7. Summarize the message of "The Merchants of Cool" about the meaning of life, about morality, about reason, about what it means to be human. Does it support what Kavanagu said twenty years ago?
8. Explain what is meant by "The Power of Dehumanization." Is this a reality in your life? Explain.

Section web assignment

• An intellectual essay Explain why Fr. Kavanaugh worries that advertising is shaping our cultural values, our images of what it means to a person, of what hapiness is all about. Then summarize the message of "The Merchants of Cool" about the meaning of life, about morality, about reason, about what it means to be human. Does it support what Kavanaugh said twenty years ago?
• A media assignment Listen to a A History of Doubt or Moral Man and Immoral Society: The Public Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr from Speaking of Faith radio program and write a summary of it. Show which key ideas it illustrates, especially note if these ideas were mentioned in our Readings. consider any of the porgrams listed below in the extra credit section, but this must be approved by the teacher.

Journal

• Five parts, rubric grading: 1) One paragraph summary of the key idea summarizing the topic of the section. 2) List and explain three of the most important ideas you want to remember from this section. week. Explain in a clear and complete manner. Explain in a way that someone reading would be able to know and understand the ideas appreciate its worth. Make it clear why you think these are worth remebering. 3) One image of that reminds you of the topic. Attribute, link, your source. 4) Short reflection on the greatest challenges to faith/Faiht in your life here and now OR Suggest to me a fourth thing to do that will help you review section, thing more deeply about issues you choose and prepare for the test.

• Look on to one of these great websites and choose a program that is relevant to the contents of this section.
• View a Frontline program and write a summary of it. Show which key ideas it illustrates. Suggested program: The Persuaders

• Listen to a A History of Doubt from Speaking of Faith radio program and write a summary of it.

• A History of Doubt
• Moral Man and Immoral Society: The Public Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr
• The Heart's Reason: Hinduism and Science.
• Einstein and the Mind of God: Einstein's God
• Quarks and Creation
• Faith Fired by Literature
• Science and Being
• Science and Hope
• Listening Generously: The Medicine of Rachel Naomi Remen
• The Biology of the Spirit