the autocardiogram
“What else do we all want…except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?"
The final exercise of the Moreau First-Year Seminar invites students to review the central dynamic of the seminar by considering how their lives are animated by love and oriented toward love. We call this exercise the Moreau FYS autocardiogram.
Conducting this analysis is an opportunity for students (auto-) to contemplate their heart (-cardio-) and record (-gram) its dynamics. Such examination aligns with the seminar goal of promoting students' holistic formation and with Bl. Basil Moreau’s injunction that “the mind will not be cultivated at the expense of the heart.” Students will answer one or more session question(s) relative to the dual dynamic of our common belovedness and call to love.
While instructors will review submissions, the primary audience is students' future selves. This exercise should help students clarify their convictions about living well and their designs for doing so in the near future. During the Moreau Senior Capstone course, students will review and update this reflection.
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