CST at Yale

This spring, I'll be teaching a course on CST at Yale, where I'm visiting for the year.  Having taught the course only once before at Fordham (where I was covering for Amy), I certaintly don't hold myself out as an expert on the subject (particularly because I don't write in the field).  Nevertheless, the interest in the course has been remarkable.  I capped enrollement at 15, because I run the class as a seminar that is heavy on class discussion, but I had almost 40 people pre-enroll.  Someone in the office of graduate admissions even mentioned to me that she had seen some applications to the law school in which the applicant had listed Yale's offer of CST as a reason for their interest in the school.  (There is some irony in this, since the course has, as far as I can tell, never been offered before and will not be offered again any time soon.)  In contrast to Fordham, where my class consisted of a fairly even mixture of active Catholics, disaffected Catholics, secular and religious Jews, and protestants of various persuasions, the class at Yale appears to be dominated by active Catholics.  As the term goes on, I plan to blog my observations about how it's going, as well as the similarities and differences I encounter between teaching the course at Fordham and at Yale.