Religion (HRE1O)

By the end of this course, students will:

• understand what it means to be called to journey by examining the past
• understand what it means to be themselves and what relationship means
• understand religious experience and engage in breaking open God’s Word to deepen their relationship with God and others through prayer
• understand the nature of moral decision making

By the end of this course, students will:

• analyse creation accounts of Genesis through an understanding of Hebrew cosmology
• explore questions of how science informs faith and faith informs science to further understand the sacredness of life in the creation account and to act as
  faithful stewards of creation
• acknowledge that all life is sacred and that they are created by God, value their self-worth, femaleness
  maleness, and sexuality as gifts
• images of God and Jesus will lead to an appreciation of God’s love for them in the Incarnation

By the end of this course, students will:

• apply the Ten Commandments and Beatitudes to their own lives
• use the theme of relationships to provide the focus for a discussion of covenant in their own lives
• use 1 Corinthians 13 as the framework for examining healthy and broken personal relationships
• the importance of healing and reconciling broken relationships