Faculty Learning Commons
Course Materials
The CRS Faculty Learning Commons (FLC) is an online platform of curated, interdisciplinary, curricular resources that highlight root causes, current manifestations, and effective strategies to address global development issues of importance to CRS. Click through the modules below to access case studies, articles, videos, discussion questions, and more, which can be easily integrated into classroom teaching, used for a term paper, or referenced for your own learning and interest.
Current sessions
Permanent Module - Integral Human Development
Module 1: Catholic Social Teaching and Integral Human Development
Module 2: The CRS Integral Human Development Framework: Assets
Module 3: The CRS Integral Human Development Framework: Structures & Systems
Module 4: The CRS Integral Human Development Framework: Shocks, Vulnerability, and Strategies
Upcoming sessions
Permanent Module - Integral Human Development
Module 1: Catholic Social Teaching and Integral Human Development
Module 2: The CRS Integral Human Development Framework: Assets
Module 3: The CRS Integral Human Development Framework: Structures & Systems
Module 4: The CRS Integral Human Development Framework: Shocks, Vulnerability, and Strategies
Archived Course Materials
Explore our past CRS Faculty Learning Commons sessions for valuable resources on a range of topics.
Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
Global Migration Book and E-Book
Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
Migration Module Outline
Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
Module 1: Forced Migration & Catholic Social Teaching
Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
Module 2: Why Forced Migration? Conflict, Economics and Climate Change
Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
Module 3: The Facts and Current Debate about Unauthorized Immigration to the US
Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
Module 4: Assessing the Complex Realities of Migration
Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
Module 5: ACT Individually and Collectively on Behalf of Refugees, Internally Displaced People, and Migrants
Fall 2016-Spring 2017
What is Peacebuilding and what is Catholic about it?
Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Civil society, the Church & peace processes
Fall 2016-Spring 2017
After the Peace Accord: Transitional Justice and Reconciliation
Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Inter-religious Dialogue and Action
Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Special Peacebuilding Interview Series
Spring 2016
Fair Trade Impact: Coffee as a Case Study
Spring 2016
Fair Trade and Ethical Trade: State of the Movement
Fall 2015
Session 2 - Climate Change in the World’s Most Vulnerable Places - Innovations in Adaptation
Fall 2015
Session 1: The Road to Paris and Beyond - A Primer on Climate Change Policy, Action, and Ethics
Spring 2015
Session II: ICT4D – Better Business
Spring 2015
Session I: ICT4D- Healthier Communities
Fall 2014
Session II: Climate Change and Food Security in the World’s Most Vulnerable Regions
Fall 2014
Session I: Unpacking Food Security
Spring 2014
Session II: Sex Trafficking
Spring 2014
Session I: The Case of Forced Labor
Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
Module 1: Human Trafficking - An Overview
Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
Module 2: Root Causes of Human Trafficking
Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
Module 3: Complexities of Labor Trafficking
Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
Module 4: Complexities of Sex Trafficking
Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
Module 5: Other Manifestations of Modern Slavery
Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
Module 6: Effective Responses to Human Trafficking
Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
Module 7: Human Trafficking and Catholic Social Teaching
