Technology: Be Good Parents

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Parents today face challenges with technology, and social media in particular, that no previous generations have encountered. Parents want to protect their children, but they also want their children to know how to use technology in a virtuous way. This executive execution course, designed specifically for parents, integrates the spiritual tradition of the Catholic Church and the virtue theory of St. Thomas Aquinas with developments in positive psychology and neuroscience to assist parents in developing the habits in their children of self-control needed to virtuously utilize new technologies, including social media. The capacity for delayed self-gratification will be developed within a context of supernatural reliance upon Christian hope, along with a presentation of the new paradigm of will-power, in accord with the Tradition's emphasis upon virtuous right reason and reliance upon grace for personal sanctification.

Course Content - Online, Self-Paced Time Investment Contributors Languages

This course is an online, self-paced course including the following modules:

Module 1 - Introduction
Module 2 - Classical Virtue vs. Contemporary Approaches
Module 3 - Brain Activity and Attenuation
Module 4 - Attention
Module 5 - Future of Work
Module 6 - Social Dilemma
Module 7 - Human Flourishing
Module 8 - Optimal Work
Module 9 - Pleasure, Desire, and the Brain
Module 10 - Purity and Contemplation
Module 11 - Go for Gold

The online, self-paced requires an estimate of 12 hours + 2 hours of optional content.

Rev. Robert Gahl, Ph.D.

Assoc. Professor of Church Management and Director of Church Management Program

Busch School of Business

The Catholic University of America

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English - Others languages available upon request. Please email busch-cmp@cua.edu.

This course is an online, self-paced course. It can be taken and actvities completed on demand.

There are no additional materials required outside what is provided in the course.

Online, asynchronous through Brightspace at The Catholic University of America.

No in-person or specific course days/times required.

This course may be applied toward a Certificate in Church Management or an MCA - Masters in Church Management. Please email busch-cmp@cua.edu for more details.