Course Schedule

Course Term
Course Attributes
Spring 2024
RELI

RELI 160D4 – Introduction to World Religions

This course explores the diversity of religions and religious experiences across the globe. Religions to be examined include, but are not limited to, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, as well as indigenous traditions.

Section
001
Days
MoWeFr
Time
01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
83 / 100
  • Days: MoWeFr
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 83 / 100
Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
60 / 100
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 60 / 100
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
60 / 100
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 60 / 100

RELI 160D6 – Gender and Religion

This course introduces students to the study of gender and religion. Students will consider foundational questions about the categories of religion and gender- what is religion and how do we study it? What is the relationship between gender and religion? How does gender shape religious roles and experiences, and how has gender in turn been shaped by religious expectations? We will examine some of the most central contemporary political conflicts from the perspective of gender studies and religious studies.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
03:30 PM - 04:45 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
19 / 22
  • Days: TuTh
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 04:45 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 19 / 22

RELI 160D7 – Introduction to Global Christianities

This course is an introduction to the academic study of Christianity in its global context. We will examine the origins of Christianity and its growth into the largest religion in the world. The course gives particular attention to the diversity of local contexts and local traditions, examining expressions of Christianity throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Students will explore Christianity through a series of case studies, by examining historical sources, material culture, first-hand accounts, and artistic representations.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
09:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
7 / 28
  • Days: TuTh
  • Time: 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 7 / 28

RELI 200 – Introduction to the Study of Religion

The objective of this course is to introduce you to the study of the phenomenon called 'religion'. What makes people religious? How is religion defined? What are the different approaches to understanding religion in all of its diversity? Through a reading of texts from diverse backgrounds and approaches, this course will illuminate the complex and multi-dimensional elements of religion, and how the study of religion can open up new ways of seeing the world.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
03:30 PM - 04:45 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
14 / 40
  • Days: TuTh
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 04:45 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 14 / 40

RELI 203 – Religion and Medicine in the Western Healing Traditions

An examination of the intersection between medicine and healing in western healing traditions, from ancient times to the modern era. Key scientific and humanistic questions will be addressed.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
37 / 75
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 37 / 75

RELI 211 – Life After Death in World Religions and Philosophies

This course focuses on one Big Question: "How do afterlife beliefs affect the way we live?" It builds connections among the humanities [Religious Studies and Philosophy], the social sciences [Anthropology, Psychology, and Law], and the natural sciences [Medicine] to explore the ways in which religious afterlife beliefs are approached from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Students will analyze a variety of religious afterlife beliefs through case studies, problem-based assignments, and reading/writing genres from the six disciplinary perspectives in order to tackle the Big Question as it relates to their personal, academic, and/or career aspirations.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Status
Closed
Enrollment
200 / 200
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 200 / 200
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Status
Closed
Enrollment
200 / 200
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 200 / 200

RELI 212 – American Indian Religious Traditions

This course offers a broad introduction to the diversity and complexity of American Indian religious traditions historically and in the contemporary. Students will explore general themes in the study of American Indian religions and spirituality along with analyzing specific examples. Of particular importance are the history and effects of colonialism and missionization on Native people, continuing struggles for religious freedom and cultural survival, and historical and contemporary religious responses to social, cultural, political, and geographical changes.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
55 / 75
  • Days: TuTh
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 55 / 75

RELI 220 – Nature, Gods, and Zen: Religion in Japanese Society

This course analyzes the history of religions in Japan and the ways in which "Japanese religion" is portrayed in the contemporary world. In particular, the course examines how issues of race, ethnicity, and equity manifest in Western representations of Japanese religion, which is often essentialized, exoticized, and interpreted through a series of cultural stereotypes as the perpetual "Other" in relation to the West. In order to approach this central theme, the course adopts the disciplinary perspectives of Religious Studies, History, and Asian Studies, all of which will be synthesized through a number of writing exercises to allow for a robust analysis of Japanese religious history and practices in the original context of Japan as well as their portrayals in the West, as evident in such outlets as newspaper articles, travel guides, blogs, and YouTube clips, among others. By taking this course, students will be able to integrate multiple disciplinary perspectives to write analytically on the historical significance of Japanese religion as well as questions of race, ethnicity, and equity in representations of Japanese religion in various contexts.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - Mar 1
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
74 / 75
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - Mar 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 74 / 75

RELI 220B – Literature of the Bible

New Testament: The Gospels, the Epistles of Paul, and Revelation.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
19 / 25
  • Days: TuTh
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 19 / 25

RELI 222 – Introduction to Zen Buddhism

This course is designed to introduce students to the history,teachings,and practice of Zen Buddhism in China,Japan, Korea and the United States. The course will discuss Zen from a variety of perspectives but will center around the question of the meaning of history. Zen is a tradition of Buddhism that claims to have inherited and to pass on, in an unbroken historical transmission from patriarch to patriarch, the living experience of the Buddha's enlightenment. The course will discuss how Zen's conception of its history is related to its identity as a special tradition within Buddhism, as well as its basic teachings on the primacy of enlightenment, the role of practice, the nature of the mind, and the limitations of language.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - Mar 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
44 / 70
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - Mar 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 44 / 70
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - Mar 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
44 / 70
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - Mar 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 44 / 70

RELI 227 – Religion and Film

This course explores religion and its relationship with visual storytelling culture. We will analyze, explore, and challenge various religious, pop-cultural, ideological, and moral messages as presented in various types of film, from art house cinema to blockbuster movies, and genres ranging from horror to comedy.

Section
001
Days
Tu
Time
03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
33 / 120
  • Days: Tu
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 33 / 120

RELI 235 – Religion, Violence, and Terrorism

This course will study critical theories about the role of religion in acts of terrorism and violence. Through the examination of a range of case studies, this course will explore ways in which religion has been the motivation and justification behind violent conflict, aggression, and persecution.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - Mar 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
104 / 150
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - Mar 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 104 / 150
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - Mar 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
104 / 150
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - Mar 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 104 / 150

RELI 277A – History of the Middle East: 600-1453

In this course, students take a humanistic disciplinary perspective to explore the cultural products of the pre-modern Middle East and answer questions about its historical development. Using primary sources in translation and secondary scholarship, students will explore the context of the rise of Islam; the process of conversion and expansion across the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia; the crystallization of Shi'ism and changing notions of religious authority; and the impact of Turkish migrations and Mongol conquests. They will become familiar with major genres of pre-modern Middle Eastern literary, religious, and scientific writings, and use techniques of close reading to answer questions about those texts' ideological positions and contexts.

Section
001
Days
MoWeFr
Time
02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
31 / 48
  • Days: MoWeFr
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 31 / 48
Section
001
Days
MoWeFr
Time
02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
31 / 48
  • +
  • Section: 001
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days: MoWeFr
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 31 / 48
Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
39 / 45
  • +
  • Section: 101
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 39 / 45

RELI 277A – History of the Middle East: 600-1453
Honors Course

In this course, students take a humanistic disciplinary perspective to explore the cultural products of the pre-modern Middle East and answer questions about its historical development. Using primary sources in translation and secondary scholarship, students will explore the context of the rise of Islam; the process of conversion and expansion across the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia; the crystallization of Shi'ism and changing notions of religious authority; and the impact of Turkish migrations and Mongol conquests. They will become familiar with major genres of pre-modern Middle Eastern literary, religious, and scientific writings, and use techniques of close reading to answer questions about those texts' ideological positions and contexts.

Section
002
Days
MoWeFr
Time
02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
31 / 48
  • Days: MoWeFr
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 31 / 48
Section
002
Days
MoWeFr
Time
02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
31 / 48
  • +
  • Section: 002
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days: MoWeFr
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 31 / 48

RELI 280 – Introduction to the Bible: New Testament

This course introduces students to the New Testament in light of the contexts in which it was written and compiled, and as a window into reconstructing the world of early Christianity. The course will also examine how various Christian communities have understood the meaning and authority of the New Testament.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
09:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
52 / 59
  • Days: TuTh
  • Time: 09:30 AM - 10:45 AM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 52 / 59
Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
221 / 300
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 221 / 300
Section
102
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
221 / 300
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 221 / 300
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
221 / 300
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 221 / 300

RELI 302 – Ellis Island, 9/11, and Border Walls: Religion and Immigration in the U.S.

This course will explore the central role of religion in shaping constructions of race and ethnicity in U.S. history, especially in light of immigration debates. Since the country's founding, immigrants have expanded ethnic and religious diversity in the United States in the face of powerful anti-immigrant movements. Students will engage with in-depth studies of immigrant communities who shaped the American religious and ethnic landscape, including diverse American expressions of religions such as Roman Catholicism, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Evangelical Protestantism, and Vodou.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
26 / 50
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 26 / 50
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
26 / 50
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 26 / 50

RELI 305 – Greek and Roman Religion

Religious beliefs and cult practices in ancient Greece and Rome. All readings in English.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
81 / 85
  • Days: TuTh
  • Time: 12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 81 / 85
Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - Mar 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
460 / 500
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - Mar 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 460 / 500
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - Mar 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
460 / 500
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - Mar 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 460 / 500

RELI 313 – Health and Medicine in Classical Antiquity

The course examines the mythology and practice of medicine in Greek and Roman times from Asclepius to Hippocrates and Galen, medical instruments and procedures, the religious manifestation of healing in Greek and Roman sanctuaries, the votive dedications by patients and cured, midwifery and child care, public hygiene and diseases. The topics cover a large spectrum of the medical practice and public health in the ancient societies of Classical antiquity, as well as how ancient worldviews, including religion and religious practice, shaped health and medicine in Greek and Roman civilization.

Section
001
Days
MoWe
Time
02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
43 / 75
  • +
  • Section: 001
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days: MoWe
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 43 / 75

RELI 313 – Health and Medicine in Classical Antiquity
Honors Course

The course examines the mythology and practice of medicine in Greek and Roman times from Asclepius to Hippocrates and Galen, medical instruments and procedures, the religious manifestation of healing in Greek and Roman sanctuaries, the votive dedications by patients and cured, midwifery and child care, public hygiene and diseases. The topics cover a large spectrum of the medical practice and public health in the ancient societies of Classical antiquity, as well as how ancient worldviews, including religion and religious practice, shaped health and medicine in Greek and Roman civilization.

Section
002
Days
MoWe
Time
02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
43 / 75
  • +
  • Section: 002
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days: MoWe
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 43 / 75

RELI 315 – Saints and Superheroes

This course is a study of religion, mythology, and popular culture in North American culture, with a focus on the role of saints in the Catholic tradition, on the one hand, and the role of the hero in ancient Greco-Roman traditions, as well as contemporary Marvel and DC universes. Admired and revered in their respective cultures, the saint and the superhero are otherworldly figures for their devotees, capable of miraculous, amazing, and superhuman feats. Neither the laws of nature nor the conventions and norms of society circumscribe the actions and powers of such figures; they overturn common standards of reason and science, and operate in a region of reality that is filled with wonder and marvel, a deeper and more expansive universe than meets the eye. Both figures, too, are capable of extraordinary acts of selflessness and compassion, acts that exceed everyday ethical norms. In addition to exploring the points of contact between the two, this class will consider the phenomena and traits that are distinctive to each one, with the saint belonging to a Christian universe and the hero to Greco-Roman and non-Christian worlds. Ultimately, the class is interested in what the saint and superhero can tell us about fundamental existential questions: What does it mean to be human? What can we know about the universe? What ethical principles should we live by, and why should we embrace ethics in the first place? How does the figure of saint or superhero articulate, address, and respond to perceived injustices and wrongs in the world? How does the representation of the superheroes' gender, class, and race influence the identity and purpose of the superhero? Can the examples of saints and superheroes inspire or thwart human development? How is God, and the Gods, understood in these traditions?

Section
001
Days
Tu
Time
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
13 / 40
  • Days: Tu
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 13 / 40

RELI 319 – Korean Religions and Philosophies

Korean culture, despite its important position in East Asian history, tends to be neglected in academia because it is located between China and Japan in both geographical and intellectual perspectives. This course not only introduces general historical information about Korean culture, but also considers its influence on Japanese religious and philosophical traditions, and even on Chinese culture. Such analyses will proceed from the following main topics: Shamanism, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucian philosophy, religious discourse during war time, "new" religions in both North and South Korea in the modern era, and Korean religions beyond Korea.

Section
001
Days
We
Time
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
9 / 30
  • Days: We
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 9 / 30

RELI 321 – Women in Judaism

This course examines religion and gender through the study of women in Judaism. How do scholars construct a history of women in ancient Judaism when Jewish sacred texts are written by and for men? How have modern Jewish women accommodated feminist ideals without undermining the authority of the established tradition? What impact has the feminist movement had on Jewish communal institutions in the United States and Israel? In this course, we explore these questions and others by examining the influence Jewish religious beliefs and practices have played in the formation of Jewish women's identities, image and their understanding of power and authority. Students study the role of women in the formation of Judaism and Jewish society as a culturally constructed and historically changing category through archaeology, biblical studies, rabbinics, theology, folklore, social and political movements.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - Mar 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Closed
Enrollment
47 / 40
  • +
  • Section: 101
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - Mar 1
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 47 / 40
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - Mar 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Closed
Enrollment
47 / 40
  • +
  • Section: 201
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - Mar 1
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 47 / 40
Section
401
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - Mar 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Closed
Enrollment
47 / 40
  • +
  • Section: 401
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - Mar 1
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 47 / 40

RELI 325 – Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age

This course focuses on the history and doctrine of Eastern Christianity from its origins in the early Church through today, emphasizing the cultural manifestations of Orthodox doctrine: liturgy, iconography, pious practice. We will compare Eastern Orthodoxy to Western Christianity (Catholicism and Protestantism), and will examine various different national Churches within Eastern Orthodoxy (i.e., Byzantine, Bulgarian, Serbian, Modern Greek, the older "Oriental" Churches, etc.), with a primary focus on Russia. Eastern Orthodox Christianity is often perceived as being one of the more 'mystical' of Christian traditions, and we will explore the Orthodox vision of 'the mystical life', examining its basis in history and contemporary experience. We will also ask about the significance of Church doctrine and practice for the development of culture as a whole in the areas of the world in which Eastern Christianity predominates, and the ways in which that culture both differs from and relates to what we (perhaps inaccurately) call "Western" civilization. In general, Orthodox practice relies heavily on the senses, and the course is designed to be experiential. To that end, we will make at least one field trip to a local Orthodox Church during the course of the semester.

Section
001
Days
MoWeFr
Time
02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
21 / 40
  • Days: MoWeFr
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 21 / 40

RELI 331 – Taoist Traditions of China

Intellectual foundations of Taoism in its two classical sources, the Lao Tzu and the Chuang Tzu, and a sampling of the varieties of religious practice which developed later.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - Mar 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
35 / 50
  • +
  • Section: 101
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - Mar 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 35 / 50
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - Mar 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
35 / 50
  • +
  • Section: 201
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - Mar 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 35 / 50

RELI 332 – The Holocaust: Witnesses and Representations

This course explores Holocaust memory and representation in Europe, Israel and the United States through various media and genres from diaries, memoirs and oral testimonies to Yiddish and Hebrew poetry, second generation graphic novels and film to memorial gardens and resistance monuments, archives and museums. We engage with some of the most fundamental questions of memory and Holocaust trauma from multiple perspectives and contexts. Is it possible to communicate the horrors of the concentration camp? Who has the right to speak about the Holocaust? How does "Jewish" memory of the Holocaust shape our understanding of the history of Nazism, genocide, World War II and its aftermath? In what ways, has Holocaust memory become associated with movements for historical justice and human rights, in particular, in the United States?

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Closed
Enrollment
40 / 40
  • +
  • Section: 101
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 40 / 40
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Closed
Enrollment
40 / 40
  • +
  • Section: 201
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 40 / 40
Section
401
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Closed
Enrollment
40 / 40
  • +
  • Section: 401
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 40 / 40

RELI 334 – Islamic Thought

This course provides an overview of Islamic intellectual history from the origins of Islam to the present day. The course is divided into three units: 1) Classical Islam and religious sciences; 2) Classical Islamic thought more broadly; 3) Modern Islamic thought. Students will be introduced to Islamic scriptures as well as original writings in translation by preeminent figures of the Islamic tradition and will learn how Muslim thinkers engaged issues concerning scriptural authority, theology, mysticism, human happiness and flourishing, politics, colonialism and gender. The course approaches these writings with particular attention to analysis of the concepts central to Islamic thought and their interconnections, and to the forms of expression through which these concepts are presented to envisioned audiences. Throughout the course, emphasis will be placed on the implications of the ideas we study for values pertaining to justice, social hierarchy and inequality, freedom and domination. Ideas regarding the nature of human existence and its place within the universe always have relation to social life and order. Examining this relation in Islamic thought will involve probing our own notions on these matters and their implications in our own social life.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
27 / 30
  • +
  • Section: 101
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 27 / 30

RELI 335 – Rap, Culture and God

This course is a study of popular culture and religion in African-American and Latin@ communities, with a focus on the place of rap music in the cultural identity of these traditions. The class will begin with a study of some major themes in cultural studies concerning identity, class, race, and gender in addition to a study of the role of religion in Black and Latin@ communities. We will consider the approaches and self-understandings of identity and culture in rap music with special attention to the voices of protest, resistance, and spirituality among rap artists.

Section
001
Days
Th
Time
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Closed
Enrollment
214 / 210
  • Days: Th
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 214 / 210

RELI 336 – Spirituality, Psychology, and the Mind

This course is a survey of psychological theory and research investigating religious beliefs, experiences, and practices.

Section
001
Days
We
Time
03:30 PM - 04:45 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
121 / 200
  • Days: We
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 04:45 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 121 / 200

RELI 350 – Hindu Mythology

Overview of the traditional Hindu narratives found in the Vedic, epic, and puranic literature. We will also examine Hindu myth in their many regional literary and artistic forms, and how these narratives influence culture, philosophy, literature, and folklore.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
41 / 57
  • Days: TuTh
  • Time: 12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 41 / 57

RELI 351 – Zen, Tea, and Poetry: A Blending of Genres

This course will examine how the three genres of Zen Buddhism, the tea ceremony/tea culture, and poetry, have been presented over time as not only compatible, but as representative expressions of each other. We will consider the contemporaneous cultural, historical, and political factors that contributed to the formation of this discourse. We will also hold up to critical scrutiny the very concept of "genre" in pre-modern East Asia, as well as the distinction between "Zen Buddhism" and what may be termed "Zen culture." We will also investigate in depth how modern commentators such as Okakura Tenshin, Suzuki Daisetsu, and Hisamatsu Shin'ichi's dialogue with the West and Western models informed the now ingrained idea that the tea ceremony represents an artistic, aesthetic, and spiritual nexus of the other two genres, and indeed of East Asian Culture as a whole.

Section
001
Days
Mo
Time
03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
9 / 30
  • +
  • Section: 001
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days: Mo
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 9 / 30

RELI 363 – Religion and Sex

In this course, students will analyze attitudes towards sexuality in major world religions, both globally and in the context of the United States.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
93 / 143
  • Days: TuTh
  • Time: 12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 93 / 143

RELI 367 – Yoga

In this course we examine the philosophy, practice, historical roots, and development of yoga. Students are asked to use and reflect on the disciplinary perspectives of the historian to examine premodern primary texts (in English translation) that provide a window into the origins of yoga, as well as the perspectives of the anthropologist and cultural critic to examine contemporary yoga practices. Students will compare and contrast perspectives of Indian yogis and contemporary international yoga influencers in order to understand how the experience of yoga differs across time and culture and how social systems of power and inequality are both subverted and reinforced by yoga and its practitioners.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
679 / 700
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 679 / 700
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
679 / 700
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 679 / 700

RELI 370A – History of the Jews: Modern Jewish History

Survey of major political, socioeconomic, and cultural developments in the history of Diaspora Jewry: Modern Jewish history.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
36 / 40
  • +
  • Section: 101
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 36 / 40
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
36 / 40
  • +
  • Section: 201
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 36 / 40
Section
401
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
36 / 40
  • +
  • Section: 401
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 36 / 40

RELI 374 – The Holocaust

Socio-economic and intellectual roots of modern anti-Semitism, evolution of Nazi policy, the world of death camps, responses of Axis and Allied governments, and responses of the Jews.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Closed
Enrollment
41 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 41 / 40
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Closed
Enrollment
41 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 41 / 40

RELI 379 – Religion in German Culture

Introduction to major cultural figures of German speaking countries who have seen, imagined, or experienced what role religion may or can play in human life. An introduction to the religious discourse from the German Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century, with an emphasis on the emergence of tolerance.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
20 / 50
  • Days: TuTh
  • Time: 12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 20 / 50

RELI 389 – Middle Eastern Ethnic and Religious Minorities

Overview of ethnic and religious minorities in the contemporary Middle East, study of ethnic and religious diversity and its origin and manifestations in the modern Middle East. Examination of how the concept of religious and ethnic minority has emerged as a key factor in state policies towards minorities as well as the cultural, economic, political, religious, and educational lives of its people.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
26 / 32
  • +
  • Section: 101
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 26 / 32
Section
102
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
27 / 32
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 27 / 32

RELI 402 – East Asian Buddhism in Regional Perspective

Buddhism in China, Korea and Japan with emphasis on the relationship between East Asian Buddhist thought and practice and the various historical contexts in which they emerged.

Section
001
Days
Mo
Time
03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
13 / 16
  • Days: Mo
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 13 / 16

RELI 405 – Traditional Indian Medicine: Health, Healing and Well Being

Traditional Indian Medicine, or TIM, is a concept that refers to Indigenous knowledges expressed through the varied healing systems in Indigenous communities. This course will pay particular attention to American Indian nations and healing knowledges that are intersecting and intertwined relationships with the natural world, the Indigenous body and the sacred. We will examine both how Indigenous healing systems have persisted as well as responded to social conditions, such as genocide, colonization and historical, as well as contemporary, forms of oppression. Topics include intergenerational trauma as well as how resilience is expressed in practices of wellbeing, healing and self-determination. We will also explore TIM as containing systems of healing that may/may not operate in conjunction with allopathic medicine. This course takes a transdisciplinary approach, incorporating readings from American Indian/Indigenous studies and health to explore a complex portfolio of American Indian/Indigenous wellbeing.

Section
001
Days
Th
Time
04:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
13 / 25
  • Days: Th
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 06:30 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 13 / 25

RELI 406 – Religious Diversity in Healthcare: Intercultural Training

This course is designed to offer tools for engaging religious and cultural diversity within healthcare settings, which includes consideration of religious patients, religious healthcare workers, faith-based healthcare institutions, and the impact of religious communities on healthcare laws and services. To develop skills for navigating intercultural differences, students will practice applying academic approaches to religion to health-related case studies.

Section
001
Days
Tu
Time
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
15 / 20
  • Days: Tu
  • Time: 12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 15 / 20

RELI 475 – Religion and the Law

The evolving relationship between law and religion has had a profound influence on American political life and discourse since the country's founding. This course is designed to develop familiarity with that history and the resulting major tenets of the First Amendment's religion clauses. Taking as our starting point the concept of the separation of church and state, we examine what this idea has meant in U.S. Constitutional law. Class time will be structured around in-depth study of the Constitution and of Supreme Court precedents, and will integrate these formative Supreme Court decisions and decisions from state and lower federal courts into the social and historical contexts from which they derive meaning. In addition, the course will survey the scholarly treatment of such threshold questions as the meaning of "religion" in society, and will evaluate the evolving notion of religious liberty in a pluralistic society. We conclude with an examination of current legal debates and cases and of the prominent role of religious discourse about law, social change, politics and culture in today's society.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - Mar 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
27 / 30
  • +
  • Section: 101
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - Mar 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 27 / 30
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - Mar 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
27 / 30
  • +
  • Section: 201
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - Mar 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 27 / 30

RELI 486 – History of Japanese Religions: Medieval

Selective survey of the history of religions in Japan from the 11th century through the 16th. Topics covered may include the medieval worldview; apocalyptic thought and related practices; Pure Land Buddhism; Zen; and proselytization and religious competition in medieval Japan.

Section
001
Days
We
Time
03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Instructor
Status
Closed
Enrollment
15 / 15
  • Days: We
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 15 / 15

RELI 491 – Preceptorship

Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of instruction and practice in actual service in a department, program, or discipline. Requires faculty member approval, preceptor application on file with department.

Section
001
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - Mar 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
1 / 3
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - Mar 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 1 / 3
Section
001
Days
Time
Date
Mar 11 - May 1
Status
Closed
Enrollment
0 / 0
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Mar 11 - May 1
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 0 / 0
Section
013
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Closed
Enrollment
0 / 0
  • +
  • Section: 013
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 0 / 0
Section
014
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Closed
Enrollment
1 / 1
  • +
  • Section: 014
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 1 / 1
Section
015
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
1 / 30
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 1 / 30

RELI 493 – Internship

As part of the Religious Studies for Health Professionals curriculum, the internship provides first-hand experience working within a community organization or employment area that engages issues of health and religion. The internship involves 120 contact hours with a selected internship site as well as 15 academic hours to enhance the learning experience. Before enrolling, students must work with the Religious Studies for Health Professionals internship coordinator to find an appropriate internship site that fulfills the goals of the program and the students interests.

Section
001
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 12
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 12

RELI 498H – Honors Thesis
Honors Course

An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis.

Section
001
Days
Time
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
1 / 3
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 1 / 3

RELI 506 – Religious Diversity in Healthcare: Intercultural Training

This course is designed to offer tools for engaging religious and cultural diversity within healthcare settings, which includes consideration of religious patients, religious healthcare workers, faith-based healthcare institutions, and the impact of religious communities on healthcare laws and services. To develop skills for navigating intercultural differences, students will practice applying academic approaches to religion to health-related case studies.

Section
001
Days
Tu
Time
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
15 / 20
  • Days: Tu
  • Time: 12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 15 / 20

RELI 586 – History of Japanese Religions: Medieval

Selective survey of the history of religions in Japan from the 11th century through the 16th. Topics covered may include the medieval worldview; apocalyptic thought and related practices; Pure Land Buddhism; Zen; and proselytization and religious competition in medieval Japan. Graduate-level requirements include oral presentations and longer, more in-depth papers.

Section
001
Days
We
Time
03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Date
Jan 10 - May 1
Instructor
Status
Closed
Enrollment
15 / 15
  • Days: We
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Dates: Jan 10 - May 1
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 15 / 15
Fall 2024
RELI

RELI 160A1 – Gods, Goddesses, and Demons: Divinity in South Asia

This course is an introduction to multiple concepts of the divine in South Asia. We will explore the different ways that the religious traditions of South Asia understand supernatural beings and forces. In order to do this we will read portions of primary texts in translation, examine iconography, and watch rituals as they unfold. In addition to learning about the South Asia traditions, we will put those conceptions of the divine in conversation with those rooted in a European context, forcing you to learn to think critically about the ways people from different cultures view the world around them.

Section
001
Days
MoWeFr
Time
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 150
  • Days: MoWeFr
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 150

RELI 160D4 – Introduction to World Religions

This course explores the diversity of religions and religious experiences across the globe. Religions to be examined include, but are not limited to, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, as well as indigenous traditions.

Section
001
Days
MoWeFr
Time
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 72
  • Days: MoWeFr
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 72
Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 100
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 100
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Oct 16
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 100
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 100
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 100
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 100

RELI 203 – Religion and Medicine in the Western Healing Traditions

An examination of the intersection between medicine and healing in western healing traditions, from ancient times to the modern era. Key scientific and humanistic questions will be addressed.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 60
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 60

RELI 211 – Life After Death in World Religions and Philosophies

This course focuses on one Big Question: "How do afterlife beliefs affect the way we live?" It builds connections among the humanities [Religious Studies and Philosophy], the social sciences [Anthropology, Psychology, and Law], and the natural sciences [Medicine] to explore the ways in which religious afterlife beliefs are approached from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Students will analyze a variety of religious afterlife beliefs through case studies, problem-based assignments, and reading/writing genres from the six disciplinary perspectives in order to tackle the Big Question as it relates to their personal, academic, and/or career aspirations.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 300
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 300
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 300
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 300

RELI 222 – Introduction to Zen Buddhism

This course is designed to introduce students to the history,teachings,and practice of Zen Buddhism in China,Japan, Korea and the United States. The course will discuss Zen from a variety of perspectives but will center around the question of the meaning of history. Zen is a tradition of Buddhism that claims to have inherited and to pass on, in an unbroken historical transmission from patriarch to patriarch, the living experience of the Buddha's enlightenment. The course will discuss how Zen's conception of its history is related to its identity as a special tradition within Buddhism, as well as its basic teachings on the primacy of enlightenment, the role of practice, the nature of the mind, and the limitations of language.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Oct 16
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 60
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 60
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Oct 16
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 60
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 60

RELI 227 – Religion and Film

This course explores religion and its relationship with visual storytelling culture. We will analyze, explore, and challenge various religious, pop-cultural, ideological, and moral messages as presented in various types of film, from art house cinema to blockbuster movies, and genres ranging from horror to comedy.

Section
001
Days
Tu
Time
03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 120
  • Days: Tu
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 120
Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Closed
Enrollment
0 / 0
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 0 / 0
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 100
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 100

RELI 233 – Philosophy of Religion

This course uses philosophical methods to study religion and religious beliefs in the western tradition. The course provides an introductory survey to questions that have been central to the western philosophical tradition: What is religion? Can reasoning or experience give good grounds for religious belief? Does faith require philosophically sound reasoning? Is it philosophically justified to believe in miracles? What tools does philosophy provide for examining the concept of "God"? How can a good God exist if there's so much suffering in the world? How should humans react to suffering? Is there a conflict between religion and science? How can the diversity of religions be explained? Is religion a good thing for humanity?

Section
001
Days
MoWeFr
Time
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • +
  • Section: 001
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days: MoWeFr
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40

RELI 235 – Religion, Violence, and Terrorism

This course will study critical theories about the role of religion in acts of terrorism and violence. Through the examination of a range of case studies, this course will explore ways in which religion has been the motivation and justification behind violent conflict, aggression, and persecution.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Oct 16
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 75
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 75
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Oct 16
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 75
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 75

RELI 240 – Imagining the Buddha: Images of Buddhism in Asia and the West

What does it mean to imagine the Buddha? This course guides students in narrating the lives of Buddhist images by tracing their creation and movement in Asia as well as in cultural encounters within Europe and the U.S. Today art critics continue to discuss "Buddhist" elements in the work of iconic artists like Georgia O'Keefe and Mark Rothko, Tibetan mandala coloring books are being used for stress relief, and "Zen" aesthetics inform a broad range of fashion and design platforms. This course provides tools for critically reexamining the categories of "East" and "West" within this cultural moment. Through creative processes such as drawing, writing, and conversation, students interact with diverse imagery such as Chinese painted caves, Himalayan esoteric portraits of enlightened reality, and Japanese temple complexes. They interpret Buddhist texts describing the construction of buddha bodies in art, ritual, and in the mind. Students also engage with the work of contemporary performance artists inspired by Buddhist ideals of discipline and impermanence. Reflecting upon these experiences, students uncover how the categories of "East' and "West" have obscured the understanding of Buddhist art, artists, and communities. They document the ways in which power dynamics of colonialism and Orientalism have been integral to making these categories. In response to their findings, students work together to generate a virtual exhibition reimagining images of Buddhism and telling their stories.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 60
  • Days: TuTh
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 60

RELI 277A – History of the Middle East: 600-1453

In this course, students take a humanistic disciplinary perspective to explore the cultural products of the pre-modern Middle East and answer questions about its historical development. Using primary sources in translation and secondary scholarship, students will explore the context of the rise of Islam; the process of conversion and expansion across the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia; the crystallization of Shi'ism and changing notions of religious authority; and the impact of Turkish migrations and Mongol conquests. They will become familiar with major genres of pre-modern Middle Eastern literary, religious, and scientific writings, and use techniques of close reading to answer questions about those texts' ideological positions and contexts.

Section
001
Days
Time
Date
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 70
  • +
  • Section: 001
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates:
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 70

RELI 280 – Introduction to the Bible: New Testament

This course introduces students to the New Testament in light of the contexts in which it was written and compiled, and as a window into reconstructing the world of early Christianity. The course will also examine how various Christian communities have understood the meaning and authority of the New Testament.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 300
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 300
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 300
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 300

RELI 302 – Ellis Island, 9/11, and Border Walls: Religion and Immigration in the U.S.

This course will explore the central role of religion in shaping constructions of race and ethnicity in U.S. history, especially in light of immigration debates. Since the country's founding, immigrants have expanded ethnic and religious diversity in the United States in the face of powerful anti-immigrant movements. Students will engage with in-depth studies of immigrant communities who shaped the American religious and ethnic landscape, including diverse American expressions of religions such as Roman Catholicism, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Evangelical Protestantism, and Vodou.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 50
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 50
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 50
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 50

RELI 304 – The Question of God

Study of the question of God from a theological, philosophical, and literary perspective.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 50
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 50

RELI 305 – Greek and Roman Religion

Religious beliefs and cult practices in ancient Greece and Rome. All readings in English.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Oct 16
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 400
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 400
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Oct 16
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 400
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 400

RELI 306 – Christianity in the Greco-Roman World

This course investigates the emergence of Christianity in the first four centuries of the Greco-Roman milieu. Topics may include: the interaction of early Christians with Jews, Romans, and Greeks; as well as differences and debates within the various forms of early Christianity itself.

Section
001
Days
MoWe
Time
02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 60
  • Days: MoWe
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 60

RELI 316 – Sex and Salvation in Latin America

What do witches in colonial Guatemala, nuns in a Mexican convent, born-again gang members in El Salvador, Catholics seeking in-vitro fertilization in Ecuador, and lesbian practitioners of Candomblé in Brazil have in common? Their experiences tell us something about the complex intersection of sex, gender, and religion in Latin America. This course draws on anthropological methods and scholarship to consider two central questions: (1) How do religious ideologies and institutions shape sexuality and gender in Latin America? (2) How do Latin Americans contest gender norms, patriarchy, and heteronormativity through their religious practices, thus contributing to larger processes of social change? To address these questions, this class focuses on the social scientific study of diverse religious communities in Latin America from the pre-Columbian past to the present.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 30
  • Days: TuTh
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 30

RELI 321 – Women in Judaism

This course examines religion and gender through the study of women in Judaism. How do scholars construct a history of women in ancient Judaism when Jewish sacred texts are written by and for men? How have modern Jewish women accommodated feminist ideals without undermining the authority of the established tradition? What impact has the feminist movement had on Jewish communal institutions in the United States and Israel? In this course, we explore these questions and others by examining the influence Jewish religious beliefs and practices have played in the formation of Jewish women's identities, image and their understanding of power and authority. Students study the role of women in the formation of Judaism and Jewish society as a culturally constructed and historically changing category through archaeology, biblical studies, rabbinics, theology, folklore, social and political movements.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Oct 16
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 45
  • +
  • Section: 101
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 45
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Oct 16
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 45
  • +
  • Section: 201
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 45
Section
401
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Oct 16
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 45
  • +
  • Section: 401
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 45

RELI 332 – The Holocaust: Witnesses and Representations

This course explores Holocaust memory and representation in Europe, Israel and the United States through various media and genres from diaries, memoirs and oral testimonies to Yiddish and Hebrew poetry, second generation graphic novels and film to memorial gardens and resistance monuments, archives and museums. We engage with some of the most fundamental questions of memory and Holocaust trauma from multiple perspectives and contexts. Is it possible to communicate the horrors of the concentration camp? Who has the right to speak about the Holocaust? How does "Jewish" memory of the Holocaust shape our understanding of the history of Nazism, genocide, World War II and its aftermath? In what ways, has Holocaust memory become associated with movements for historical justice and human rights, in particular, in the United States?

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • +
  • Section: 101
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • +
  • Section: 201
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
401
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • +
  • Section: 401
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40

RELI 333 – Buddhist Meditation Traditions

Major forms of Buddhist meditation from both the South Asian and East Asian traditions, with emphasis on the nature of meditation as a variety of religious experience.

Section
001
Days
Mo
Time
03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 30
  • +
  • Section: 001
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days: Mo
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 30

RELI 334 – Islamic Thought

This course provides an overview of Islamic intellectual history from the origins of Islam to the present day. The course is divided into three units: 1) Classical Islam and religious sciences; 2) Classical Islamic thought more broadly; 3) Modern Islamic thought. Students will be introduced to Islamic scriptures as well as original writings in translation by preeminent figures of the Islamic tradition and will learn how Muslim thinkers engaged issues concerning scriptural authority, theology, mysticism, human happiness and flourishing, politics, colonialism and gender. The course approaches these writings with particular attention to analysis of the concepts central to Islamic thought and their interconnections, and to the forms of expression through which these concepts are presented to envisioned audiences. Throughout the course, emphasis will be placed on the implications of the ideas we study for values pertaining to justice, social hierarchy and inequality, freedom and domination. Ideas regarding the nature of human existence and its place within the universe always have relation to social life and order. Examining this relation in Islamic thought will involve probing our own notions on these matters and their implications in our own social life.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 25
  • +
  • Section: 101
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 25

RELI 335 – Rap, Culture and God

This course is a study of popular culture and religion in African-American and Latin@ communities, with a focus on the place of rap music in the cultural identity of these traditions. The class will begin with a study of some major themes in cultural studies concerning identity, class, race, and gender in addition to a study of the role of religion in Black and Latin@ communities. We will consider the approaches and self-understandings of identity and culture in rap music with special attention to the voices of protest, resistance, and spirituality among rap artists.

Section
001
Days
Tu
Time
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 300
  • Days: Tu
  • Time: 12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 300

RELI 336 – Spirituality, Psychology, and the Mind

This course is a survey of psychological theory and research investigating religious beliefs, experiences, and practices.

Section
001
Days
We
Time
03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 200
  • Days: We
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 200

RELI 359 – Buddhism and Healing

Is Buddhism a tradition of healing? In what ways has Buddhism been involved in reviving, sustaining, and curing human individuals? This course explores relationships and encounters between Buddhism and the domains of religion, science, and medicine. It considers historical relationships between Buddhism and traditional medicine in Asia as well as contemporary Western discourses involving Buddhism in popular culture, psychology, and spirituality. Finally, it invites a critical approach to the current dialogue between Buddhism and science. In the process, it reveals hidden assumptions behind commodifying `mindfulness' and the quest to document the therapeutic impact of meditation upon health, happiness, and success in the modern age. Students will have the opportunity to apply the ideas they have learned through analysis of relevant initiatives at the U of A such as the Neuropsychology, Emotion, and Thought Lab and the Center for Compassion Studies as well as of broader Tucson community events like the Gem Show.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
03:30 PM - 04:45 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 60
  • Days: TuTh
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 04:45 PM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 60

RELI 367 – Yoga

In this course we examine the philosophy, practice, historical roots, and development of yoga. Students are asked to use and reflect on the disciplinary perspectives of the historian to examine premodern primary texts (in English translation) that provide a window into the origins of yoga, as well as the perspectives of the anthropologist and cultural critic to examine contemporary yoga practices. Students will compare and contrast perspectives of Indian yogis and contemporary international yoga influencers in order to understand how the experience of yoga differs across time and culture and how social systems of power and inequality are both subverted and reinforced by yoga and its practitioners.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 230
  • Days: TuTh
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 230

RELI 370A – History of the Jews: Modern Jewish History

Survey of major political, socioeconomic, and cultural developments in the history of Diaspora Jewry: Modern Jewish history.

Section
001
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 30
  • +
  • Section: 001
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 30

RELI 372A – Interpreting the Bible (Old Testament): Approaches to Understanding Israelite Religion and Society

The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) is one of the most influential and widely studied texts in the world. For more than two millennia, it has played a central role in shaping Western culture, religion, and ethics. However, the stories, laws, and prophetic writings contained in the Bible are products of a specific time and place--embedded in the ancient Near East, where the Israelite people lived and interacted with other cultures over the course of many centuries. This course explores the contexts in which the Bible was written and compiled, drawing on literary analysis, historical criticism, and the witness of archaeology evidence. Students analyze key topics in Israelite religion and society, including the daily life of men and women, the emergence of monotheism, the role of the priesthood, development of the prophetic tradition, the political formation of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah among others.

Section
001
Days
TuTh
Time
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days: TuTh
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40

RELI 387 – The History of Anti-Semitism

This course examines various definitions of anti-Semitism and traces the history of anti-Semitism (or "anti-Judaism") from the earliest arguments between Christianizing Jews and Judaizing Christians to the birth of Islam, through the period of Muslim expansion and the Crusades, to the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and the Holocaust. It looks at the differences among various types of Christian anti-Semitism, Muslim anti-Semitism, and Jewish anti-Semitism, and concludes with a look at contemporary forms of anti-Semitism.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Oct 16
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Oct 16
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
401
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Oct 16
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Oct 16
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40

RELI 389 – Middle Eastern Ethnic and Religious Minorities

Overview of ethnic and religious minorities in the contemporary Middle East, study of ethnic and religious diversity and its origin and manifestations in the modern Middle East. Examination of how the concept of religious and ethnic minority has emerged as a key factor in state policies towards minorities as well as the cultural, economic, political, religious, and educational lives of its people.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 30
  • +
  • Section: 101
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 30

RELI 405B – Medieval Europe

Major institutions and trends in Europe from the breakup of the Roman World to the 14th century.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 30
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 30
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 30
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 30

RELI 431 – The Divine Comedy by Dante

This course examines Dante's masterpiece, "The Divine Comedy", the poet's life and other works. The primary focus is on "The Divine Comedy" and its influence on European literature and culture. Other texts will be included.

Section
001
Days
MoWeFr
Time
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 25
  • Days: MoWeFr
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 25

RELI 435 – Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism

Surveys the ideology, symbolism, and major themes of Jewish mysticism as evidenced in several prominent mystical texts. The core of this course will be reading the texts in English translation and the development of skills in reading and understanding a Jewish mystical text.

Section
001
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 25
  • +
  • Section: 001
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 25

RELI 444 – Islamic Mysticism

Origin and development of Sufism and its impact on Muslim and non-Muslim worlds.

Section
001
Days
MoWe
Time
03:00 PM - 04:15 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 30
  • Days: MoWe
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:15 PM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 30

RELI 454 – The Spanish Inquisition

The Inquisition in Spanish, European, & ethnic history: its bureaucracy and procedures; its festivities, its victims, New and Old Christians; and witches. Social, economic, and demographic context.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
401
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40

RELI 483 – Confucianism: The Classical Period

Section
001
Days
Mo
Time
03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 25
  • Days: Mo
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 25

RELI 485 – History of Japanese Religions: Ancient

A selective survey of Japanese religious history from earliest times through the 11th century. Topics covered may include prehistoric religions; the development of Shinto; Nara-period state Buddhism; tantric Buddhism in the Heian period; and spirit possession and exorcism.

Section
001
Days
We
Time
03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 15
  • Days: We
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 15

RELI 491 – Preceptorship

Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of instruction and practice in actual service in a department, program, or discipline. Requires faculty member approval, preceptor application on file with department.

Section
001
Days
Time
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 5
  • +
  • Section: 001
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 5
Section
014
Days
Time
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 5
  • Days:
  • Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 5

RELI 498 – Senior Capstone

A culminating experience for majors involving a substantive project that demonstrates a synthesis of learning accumulated in the major, including broadly comprehensive knowledge of the discipline and its methodologies. Senior standing required.

Section
010
Days
Time
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 5
  • +
  • Section: 010
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 5
Section
012
Days
Time
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Closed
Enrollment
0 / 0
  • +
  • Section: 012
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 0 / 0
Section
014
Days
Time
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 5
  • Days:
  • Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 5
Section
016
Days
Time
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Closed
Enrollment
0 / 0
  • +
  • Section: 016
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 0 / 0

RELI 498H – Honors Thesis
Honors Course

An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis.

Section
010
Days
Time
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 3
  • Days:
  • Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 3
Section
012
Days
Time
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Closed
Enrollment
0 / 0
  • +
  • Section: 012
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 0 / 0
Section
014
Days
Time
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 5
  • Days:
  • Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 5
Section
016
Days
Time
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Closed
Enrollment
0 / 0
  • +
  • Section: 016
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Closed
  • Enrollment: 0 / 0
Section
017
Days
Time
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 3
  • Days:
  • Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 3

RELI 535 – Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism

Surveys the ideology, symbolism, and major themes of Jewish mysticism as evidenced in several prominent mystical texts. The core of this course will be reading the texts in English translation and the development of skills in reading and understanding a Jewish mystical text. Graduate-level requirements include a substantial research paper.

Section
001
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 25
  • +
  • Section: 001
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 25

RELI 554 – The Spanish Inquisition

The Inquisition in Spanish, European, & ethnic history: its bureaucracy and procedures; its festivities, its victims, New and Old Christians; and witches. Social, economic, and demographic context. Graduate-level requirements include graduate students studying more deeply the economic, social and demographic context of the Inquisition, through more scholarly reading, discussion and writing.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
401
Days
Time
Date
Oct 17 - Dec 11
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Oct 17 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40

RELI 583 – Confucianism: The Classical Period

Section
001
Days
Mo
Time
03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 25
  • Days: Mo
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 25

RELI 585 – History of Japanese Religions: Ancient

A selective survey of Japanese religious history from earliest times through the 11th century. Topics covered may include prehistoric religions; the development of Shinto; Nara-period state Buddhism; tantric Buddhism in the Heian period; and spirit possession and exorcism. Graduate-level requirements include oral presentations and longer, more in-depth papers.

Section
001
Days
We
Time
03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Date
Aug 26 - Dec 11
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 15
  • Days: We
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 06:00 PM
  • Dates: Aug 26 - Dec 11
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 15
Summer 2024
RELI

RELI 150B1 – Religion and Popular Culture

This course introduces the study of religion and popular culture. It explores how religion is represented in popular cultural forms, and how social conceptions of "religion" and "popular culture" change over time. Students will examine how differing definitions of religion, culture, and taste intersect with historical and contemporary categories of class, gender, ethnicity, and race.

Section
001
Days
MoWeFr
Time
09:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Date
Jul 8 - Aug 7
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 20
  • Days: MoWeFr
  • Time: 09:00 AM - 11:15 AM
  • Dates: Jul 8 - Aug 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 20

RELI 160A1 – Gods, Goddesses, and Demons: Divinity in South Asia

This course is an introduction to multiple concepts of the divine in South Asia. We will explore the different ways that the religious traditions of South Asia understand supernatural beings and forces. In order to do this we will read portions of primary texts in translation, examine iconography, and watch rituals as they unfold. In addition to learning about the South Asia traditions, we will put those conceptions of the divine in conversation with those rooted in a European context, forcing you to learn to think critically about the ways people from different cultures view the world around them.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jul 8 - Aug 7
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 8 - Aug 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
131
Days
Time
Date
May 13 - Jun 1
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: May 13 - Jun 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jul 8 - Aug 7
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 8 - Aug 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
401
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
401
Days
Time
Date
Jul 8 - Aug 7
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 8 - Aug 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40

RELI 160D4 – Introduction to World Religions

This course explores the diversity of religions and religious experiences across the globe. Religions to be examined include, but are not limited to, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, as well as indigenous traditions.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
401
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40

RELI 203 – Religion and Medicine in the Western Healing Traditions

An examination of the intersection between medicine and healing in western healing traditions, from ancient times to the modern era. Key scientific and humanistic questions will be addressed.

Section
131
Days
Time
Date
May 13 - Jun 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 25
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: May 13 - Jun 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 25

RELI 227 – Religion and Film

This course explores religion and its relationship with visual storytelling culture. We will analyze, explore, and challenge various religious, pop-cultural, ideological, and moral messages as presented in various types of film, from art house cinema to blockbuster movies, and genres ranging from horror to comedy.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jul 8 - Aug 7
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 8 - Aug 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
131
Days
Time
Date
May 13 - Jun 1
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: May 13 - Jun 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jul 8 - Aug 7
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 8 - Aug 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40

RELI 241 – Introduction to Chinese Religions

The course is a comprehensive historical survey of the main religious traditions in China, including Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and popular religion. Through lectures, discussions, and reading of select primary and secondary sources, we will explore the formulations and subsequent transformations of key beliefs, doctrines, practices, and institutions that characterized specific religious traditions. We will also examine the patterns of interaction among different traditions, as well as the general character of religious life in both traditional and modern China.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jul 8 - Aug 7
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 25
  • +
  • Section: 101
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 8 - Aug 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 25

RELI 304 – The Question of God

Study of the question of God from a theological, philosophical, and literary perspective.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jul 8 - Aug 7
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 8 - Aug 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40

RELI 305 – Greek and Roman Religion

Religious beliefs and cult practices in ancient Greece and Rome. All readings in English.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 100
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 100
Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jul 8 - Aug 7
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 100
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 8 - Aug 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 100
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 100
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 100
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jul 8 - Aug 7
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 100
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 8 - Aug 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 100

RELI 321 – Women in Judaism

This course examines religion and gender through the study of women in Judaism. How do scholars construct a history of women in ancient Judaism when Jewish sacred texts are written by and for men? How have modern Jewish women accommodated feminist ideals without undermining the authority of the established tradition? What impact has the feminist movement had on Jewish communal institutions in the United States and Israel? In this course, we explore these questions and others by examining the influence Jewish religious beliefs and practices have played in the formation of Jewish women's identities, image and their understanding of power and authority. Students study the role of women in the formation of Judaism and Jewish society as a culturally constructed and historically changing category through archaeology, biblical studies, rabbinics, theology, folklore, social and political movements.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 30
  • +
  • Section: 101
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 30
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 10
  • +
  • Section: 201
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 10
Section
401
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 10
  • +
  • Section: 401
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 10

RELI 332 – The Holocaust: Witnesses and Representations

This course explores Holocaust memory and representation in Europe, Israel and the United States through various media and genres from diaries, memoirs and oral testimonies to Yiddish and Hebrew poetry, second generation graphic novels and film to memorial gardens and resistance monuments, archives and museums. We engage with some of the most fundamental questions of memory and Holocaust trauma from multiple perspectives and contexts. Is it possible to communicate the horrors of the concentration camp? Who has the right to speak about the Holocaust? How does "Jewish" memory of the Holocaust shape our understanding of the history of Nazism, genocide, World War II and its aftermath? In what ways, has Holocaust memory become associated with movements for historical justice and human rights, in particular, in the United States?

Section
131
Days
Time
Date
May 13 - Jun 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 30
  • +
  • Section: 131
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: May 13 - Jun 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 30
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
May 13 - Jun 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 10
  • +
  • Section: 201
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: May 13 - Jun 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 10
Section
401
Days
Time
Date
May 13 - Jun 1
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 10
  • +
  • Section: 401
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: May 13 - Jun 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 10

RELI 335 – Rap, Culture and God

This course is a study of popular culture and religion in African-American and Latin@ communities, with a focus on the place of rap music in the cultural identity of these traditions. The class will begin with a study of some major themes in cultural studies concerning identity, class, race, and gender in addition to a study of the role of religion in Black and Latin@ communities. We will consider the approaches and self-understandings of identity and culture in rap music with special attention to the voices of protest, resistance, and spirituality among rap artists.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jul 8 - Aug 7
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 8 - Aug 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
131
Days
Time
Date
May 13 - Jun 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: May 13 - Jun 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40

RELI 336 – Spirituality, Psychology, and the Mind

This course is a survey of psychological theory and research investigating religious beliefs, experiences, and practices.

Section
131
Days
Time
Date
May 13 - Jun 1
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 25
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: May 13 - Jun 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 25

RELI 350 – Hindu Mythology

Overview of the traditional Hindu narratives found in the Vedic, epic, and puranic literature. We will also examine Hindu myth in their many regional literary and artistic forms, and how these narratives influence culture, philosophy, literature, and folklore.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jul 8 - Aug 7
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 8 - Aug 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
131
Days
Time
Date
May 13 - Jun 1
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: May 13 - Jun 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jul 8 - Aug 7
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 40
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 8 - Aug 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 40

RELI 367 – Yoga

In this course we examine the philosophy, practice, historical roots, and development of yoga. Students are asked to use and reflect on the disciplinary perspectives of the historian to examine premodern primary texts (in English translation) that provide a window into the origins of yoga, as well as the perspectives of the anthropologist and cultural critic to examine contemporary yoga practices. Students will compare and contrast perspectives of Indian yogis and contemporary international yoga influencers in order to understand how the experience of yoga differs across time and culture and how social systems of power and inequality are both subverted and reinforced by yoga and its practitioners.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 100
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 100
Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jul 8 - Aug 7
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 100
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 8 - Aug 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 100
Section
131
Days
Time
Date
May 13 - Jun 1
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 60
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: May 13 - Jun 1
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 60
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jun 3 - Jul 3
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 100
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jun 3 - Jul 3
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 100
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jul 8 - Aug 7
Instructor
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 100
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 8 - Aug 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 100

RELI 371B – History of Muslim Societies

Evolution and global spread of Muslim societies, modernization and its problems.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jul 1 - Aug 16
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 30
  • +
  • Section: 101
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 1 - Aug 16
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 30
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jul 1 - Aug 16
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 30
  • +
  • Section: 201
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 1 - Aug 16
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 30

RELI 372B – Early Judaism and Christianity: One Book, Two Religions Second Temple Judaism and its Legacy

This course surveys scriptures and stories, wisdom texts, histories and apocalyptic visions that Jews living in the Persian and later Greco-Roman worlds produced and circulated in Second Temple period (539 BCE -135 CE). Examining Jewish history and writings of the Second Temple period is key to understanding an important time not only in Jewish religious formation but also the emergence of early Christianity, first as a Jewish sect and later, as a separate religion.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
Jul 8 - Aug 7
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 30
  • +
  • Section: 101
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 8 - Aug 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 30
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
Jul 8 - Aug 7
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 10
  • +
  • Section: 201
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 8 - Aug 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 10
Section
401
Days
Time
Date
Jul 8 - Aug 7
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 10
  • +
  • Section: 401
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: Jul 8 - Aug 7
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 10

RELI 374 – The Holocaust

Socio-economic and intellectual roots of modern anti-Semitism, evolution of Nazi policy, the world of death camps, responses of Axis and Allied governments, and responses of the Jews.

Section
101
Days
Time
Date
May 13 - Jun 28
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 30
  • +
  • Section: 101
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: May 13 - Jun 28
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 30
Section
201
Days
Time
Date
May 13 - Jun 28
Instructor
unassigned
Status
Open
Enrollment
0 / 30
  • +
  • Section: 201
  • Instructor: unassigned
  • Days:
  • Time:
  • Dates: May 13 - Jun 28
  • Status: Open
  • Enrollment: 0 / 30