1. To specify definitions of basic notions related to climate and ecology. 

2. To identify the essential elements and principles of integral ecology. 

3. To present Biblical texts and texts from the Encyclical Letter Laudato Si'. 

4. To apply the principles of integral ecology. 

5. To relate the fundamental issues of ecology, economics, and poverty that are mutually connected. 

5. Critically evaluate different ecological approaches.

1. Encyclical letter Laudato Si' of the Holy Father Francis on Care for Our Common Home, Rome, 2015. 
2. Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.
3. Encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI to the Bishops Priests and Deacons Men and Women Religious the Lay Faithful and all People of Good Will on Integral Human Development in Charity and Truth, Rome, 2009.
4. Margaret Barker, The earth is the Lord’s: the biblical view of the environment: In: International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 8 (2008.) 3, 192–202.
5. Zoran Turza – Andreja Sršen – Sebastian Kießig – Marija Sertić – Đurica Pardon (eds.), Laudato si’. Prema klimatskoj i društvenoj pravdi/Laudato Si’. Towards Climate and Social Justice, Zagreb, 2023.
6. Zoran Turza – Miriam Mary Brgles (eds.), Five Years After Laudato Si’. Where Are We Now? Conference Proceedings, 2023.

1. Gaudium et spes Promulgated by His Holiness, Pope Paul VI on December 7, 1965.
2. BURNS – B.S. CANIGLIA, Environmental Sociology: The Ecology of Late Modernity, Norman, 2015.
3. PHILIP A. CUNNINGHAM, A Catholic Theology of the Land: The State of the Question, in: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, 8 (2013.) 1., 1-15. 
4. SEUNGJUNG CHOI, The Biblical Understanding of Laudato Si’, in Catholic Theology and Thought, 78 (2017.) 1, 10-46. 
5. BRENDAN BYRNE, A Pauline Complement to Laudato Si’, in Theological Studies, 77 (2016.) 2, 308–327. 

1. Regular attendance– a minimum of 70% class attendance.
2. Completed five homework – timely delivery of five tasks that consisted of writing five questions related to reading articles.
3. Completed five oral presentations of the selected article
4. Two mid-term exams (written).
5. Acquiring at least 35% in-class activities– on a cumulative basis.
6. Acquisition of a minimum success of 35% during classes within the given teaching activities – cumulatively achieved at the presentations, midterm exams, and oral presentations.

Final exam (oral)