{"id":329046,"date":"2017-03-31T02:10:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T00:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/new-masters-degree-courses-at-sophia-university-institute-sui\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:06:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:06:50","slug":"new-masters-degree-courses-at-sophia-university-institute-sui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/new-masters-degree-courses-at-sophia-university-institute-sui\/","title":{"rendered":"New Master\u2019s Degree Courses at Sophia University Institute (SUI)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IUS\"<\/a>Ten years from its founding, <\/strong>Sophia University Institute<\/a> expands from one course on Fundamentals and Prospectives of a Culture of Unity, <\/em>to three distinct Master\u2019s Degrees: Economic & Political Sciences<\/em>, and Trinitarian Ontology & Culture of Unity<\/em>. A programme <\/strong>that offers young people from around the world, an inter-discplinary and trans-disciplinary education focused on innovative sectors of social and civil economy, communion, participatory policies and their relationship to theology and philosophy. \u201cWith the addition of the new academic titles, Economic and Political Sciences<\/em> and Trinitarian Ontology,\u201d <\/em>president of Sophia University Institute, Piero Coda, says that \u201cSophia offers students an academic degree which joins together the unitarian sense of the human adventure with a scientific degree that contributes to the total development of the individual and society.\u201d \u00a0<\/em> Benedetto Gui, Coordinator of the Economy and Management Department, adds: <\/strong>\u201cAmong the novelties is the addition of the English language for several of the courses in the Economic and Political Sciences Degree programme.\u201d He continues: \u201cIn an age when young people don\u2019t have the courage to propose ideals to live by, Sophia seeks to found its vision of the world on a deep-rooted respect for the human person, including his or her culture, religion and views \u2013 and to look towards a world without hatred, war, oppression exlusion, or superiority over others. In the field of economics this doesn\u2019t mean having a recipe ready to be imposed, but looking beyond today\u2019s dominant reductive vision of economics and economic realtions, even though scientific reasearch is demonstrating the inadequacy of such a vision.\u201d The students at Sophia come from 30 countries and belong to different religions. <\/strong>The Institute offers them a course of study that joins learning \u2013 through listening, discussing, reading, attending lectures \u2013 to real life. Applying the logic of openness to others as the very method for approaching learning which creates community life in the classroom, corriders and residences where students have an extraordinary intercultural experience. Gui continues: <\/strong>\u201cWhat we strive to bring about together with the students is, on the one hand, the acquisition of those skills that one would expect to find in any graduate in the field of economics and, on the other hand, a deeper understanding of that economic vision which I mentioned before, through the examination of new lines of research and contact with economic projects that put that vision into practice . . . topics that are often neglected in university settings.\u201d Once they\u2019ve completed their studies, how do the students approach the work world? \u201cRecruiters are well aware that knowledge of the subject is not enough to make a young person a valid member of an organisation. The ability to dialogue with the bearers of other types of knowledge is also necessary, knowing how to collaborate and to assume responsibilities. Our experience thus far has shown us that our students are appreciated not only for their academic preparation, but also for other skills that the experience at Sophia is particularly adept at developing in people. Be careful though: Education shouldn\u2019t be be geared towards finding a job. It should also promote the growth of the human person and develop a capacity for personal and group intitiative which is also a precious contribution towards society.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Economic and Political Sciences and Trinitarian Ontology are added to Culture of Unity courses. Interdisciplinary and specialization courses, intercultural dialogue and innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}