This program is for undergraduate students who are interested in partaking in the in-person Summer Session and are in the process of discerning graduate studies.
HSP for Undergrads gives undergraduate students the opportunity to discern their next steps as they make decisions about graduate education. They will take an upper-level class in theology, ethics, history, etc. with a Latinx professor currently teaching in an ATS school, and as an added level of support for these students, they will also become part of a cohort that will engage in a vocation discernment process through a workshop created specifically for them.
General Program Highlights and Fees
- Join a cohort of Latinx students from across the country
- Learn about Latinx Studies and Latinx theology in a Latinx majority environment
- Earn three credits toward your degree offered by Dominican University
- Explore questions of vocation and your next steps after graduation
- Meet Latinx graduate students and explore the possibility of graduate education
- Tuition | $400
2025 Program Information
Date:
June 22 – 28, 2025
Location:
Duke Divinity School | Durham, North Carolina
Course
Forthcoming
Course Description
Forthcoming
Eligibility
- Undergraduate Junior or Senior
- Priority is given to students in PASOS Network institutions and/or HSP Sponsoring Schools
- Do not need to be studying religion or theology
Eligible PASOS Network institutions include:
- Albertus Magnus College
- Benedictine University
- Calumet College of Saint Joseph
- Catholic Distance University
- Catholic Theological Union
- College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University
- College of the Holy Cross
- DePaul University
- Dominican University
- Edgewood College
- Elms College
- Gannon University
- Gonzaga University
- Holy Cross College
- Lewis University
- John Carroll University
- Loyola University Chicago
- Loyola University Maryland
- Marian University
- Marquette University
- Molloy University
- Mount Mary University
- Mount Saint Mary’s University
- Northwestern University, Sheil Catholic Center
- Notre Dame of Maryland University
- Regis University
- Saint Elizabeth University
- Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame)
- Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota
- Santa Clara University
- Siena Heights University
- St. Edward’s University
- St. Mary’s University (San Antonio, TX)
- University of Dayton
- University of Notre Dame
- University of St. Francis
- University of St. Thomas – Minnesota
- University of the Incarnate Word
- Ursinus College
- Valparaiso University
- Villanova University
Application Dates
Facilitators
Armando Guerrero Estrada
Director, PASOS Network
Division of Mission and Ministry
Dominican University
Armando Guerrero Estrada is a DACAmented theologian, whose scholarship examines the interlacing of theological education, theologies of migration, and immigrant literature. He is A.B.D at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. He received a Master of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt University’s Divinity School, where he also earned graduate certificates in Latin American Studies and Religion and the Arts in Contemporary Culture, and was awarded the J.D. Owen Prize in Biblical Studies and the Academic Achievement Award. He holds a B.A. in Theology and Philosophical Studies from St. Joseph College and a B.A. in Spanish from Lamar University. His work can be found in Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, Afro-Hispanic Review, Religious Education Journal, Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology, Spanish and Portuguese Review, and the Lamar Journal of the Humanities.
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Dr. Claudia Herrera-Montero
Assistant Professor of Theology
Rosary College of Arts and Sciences
Dominican University
Dr. Herrera-Montero is a Catholic practical theologian and assistant professor of theology at Dominican University. She is a native of Bogotá, Colombia where she pursued her undergraduate studies in International Relations and Political Sciences from Universidad del Rosario (Our Lady of the Rosary University). She holds an M.A. in Pastoral Ministries and a Ph.D. in Practical Theology from St. Thomas University in Miami, FL. Her scholarly work sits at the intersection of U.S. Latina/x theologies and practical theology. Her latest peer-review publications and presentations include Participatory Action Research (PAR) and the exploration of the faith identity, spirituality, and social contexts among first-generation college-age Latinas. Her research has also enabled her to better engage underrepresented communities in both the classroom and ministerial settings.
Dr. Herrera comes to Dominican University with an experience in Catholic Higher education since 2010. Before her faculty appointment, she served as a lay minister, director of campus ministry, and theology faculty in the Archdiocese of Miami. In addition, she has contributed to the formation of Hispanic Ministry leaders from the Dioceses of the Southeast. Dr. Herrera serves as the Secretary of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States (ACHTUS). As a Latina practical theologian, she draws from the spiritual and cultural wells of both the U.S. Latinx Catholic experience and the Latin American experience.
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