Research & Inquiry
This type of question does not have a definitive 'right' or 'wrong' answer but requires justification.
What is a Critical Thinking question?
This term describes agreements between God and His people in the Bible, aimed at benefiting both parties.
What are Covenants?
This concept refers to the equitable distribution of opportunities and resources to achieve fairness, contrasting with equality.
What is Equity?
This term refers to the Catholic Church's teachings aimed at guiding social action, emphasizing principles like human dignity and solidarity.
What are Catholic Social Teachings (CSTs)?
This unit focuses on small-scale solutions for suffering through relationships with family, friends, and dating partners.
What is the Family Life Unit?
In AP Capstone, students learn to do this to academic and real-world topics in a cross-disciplinary way.
What is investigate?
This event, occurring 50 days after Jesus' resurrection, is considered the 'Birthday of the Church.'
What is Pentecost?
These are two types of sin discussed in the context of oppression and suffering, one individual and the other collective.
What are Personal Sin and Social Sin?
These are considered the foundational principles for solving oppression according to the course, including justice, freedom, and the avoidance of sin.
What are the Foundations for Solutions?
This concept from Aquinas suggests that to love means to consistently will and choose the good of the other.
What is 'Willing the Good of the Other'?
When setting a research goal, this acronym helps to ensure the goal is well-defined and practical.
What is SMART?
In the Gospels, this teaching of Jesus is often summarized as "Do unto others as you would have them do to you."
What is the Golden Rule?
This term describes the special gifts or talents given by the Holy Spirit for the benefit of others and the Church.
What are Charisms?
This model involves four steps: See, Judge, Act, and Evaluate, used to guide moral decision-making in complex social situations.
What is the Moral Decision Making Model?
This form of prayer emphasizes meditation on the life of Jesus through a series of beads and prayers.
What is Praying the Rosary?
These are the three categories of questions one might ask or encounter during research according to the course material.
What are Fact, Opinion, and Critical Thinking?
This person, originally named Saul, persecuted Christians until a miraculous conversion experience turned him into a key figure in the early Church.
Who is Paul?
These two categories of religious orders focus on different aspects of spiritual life, one emphasizing prayer and the other community service.
What are Contemplative Orders and Active Orders?
According to Bryan Stevenson, one must do this to effectively combat oppression, which involves getting close to the issues and people affected.
What is Being Proximate?
This type of prayer involves focusing on a specific word, thought, or scripture passage to deepen one's faith.
What is Meditative Prayer?
These are the four steps in the Research and Inquiry Process in Social Sciences as outlined in the course.
What are Exploring, Investigating, Processing Information, and Communicating and Reflecting?
These two Gospels particularly focus on themes of suffering and compassion, offering insights into Jesus' response to oppression.
What are Mark and Luke?
In the context of this unit, this concept explains why God allows suffering despite being omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent.
What is Free Will?
This concept from sociology examines society on a grand scale, looking at large structures like religion or the economy, unlike its counterpart which focuses on individuals or small groups.
What is Macrosociology?
These are three ways to pray according to the course, involving vocal prayer, contemplation, and meditation.
What are Vocal, Contemplation, and Meditation?