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Spring 2021
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
RELI 130 – Asian Religions
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis
The course surveys six religious traditions founded and developed in Asian including two from India: Hinduism and Buddhism, two from China: Confucianism and Taoism, and two from Japan: Shinto and Japanese New Religions. The survey of each religion includes: 1. a primary or sacred text, 2. contemporary practices in Asia, 3. contemporary practices in America, and 4. depictions in modern media. The course studies how the central tenets and teachings of Asian religions create the cultural roots of contemporary Asian cultures and how these teachings have influenced America's religious diversity.
Section 001
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Chieko Nakano
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 15 / 75
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- Section: 001
- Instructor:Chieko Nakano
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 15 / 75
RELI 150B1 – Religion and Popular Culture
Tier 1 Individuals & Societies Honors Contract
This course provides an introduction to the study of Religion and Popular Culture in modern societies. We will study what constitutes "religion" and how definitions of religion change over time. We will examine the ways popular culture becomes "religious" and how religious institutions reflect popular taste and opinion.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Brett Slominski
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 46 / 75
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Brett Slominski
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 46 / 75
RELI 160D1 – Christianity and Art
Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures
The architecture, manuscript illumination, painting and other visual arts of Christianity explored within the contexts of contemporary history.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Jan 13 - Mar 8
Status Open
Enrollment 101 / 120
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- Section: 101
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - Mar 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 101 / 120
Section 501
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Jan 13 - Mar 8
Status Open
Enrollment 101 / 120
- +
- Section: 501
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - Mar 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 101 / 120
RELI 160D4 – Introduction to World Religions
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures Honors Contract
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 TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Instructor Kristy Slominski
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 107 / 155
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- Section: 101
- Instructor:Kristy Slominski
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 9:30 AM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 107 / 155
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Closed
Enrollment 57 / 60
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- Section: 201
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 57 / 60
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Jan 13 - Mar 8
Status Open
Enrollment 48 / 50
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - Mar 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 48 / 50
Section 401
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Jan 13 - Mar 8
Status Open
Enrollment 48 / 50
- +
- Section: 401
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - Mar 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 48 / 50
Section 401
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 57 / 60
- +
- Section: 401
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 57 / 60
RELI 200 – Introduction to the Study of Religion
Honors Contract
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
Location Live Online
Time 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Instructor Andrea McComb Sanchez
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 22 / 30
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- Section: 001
- Instructor:Andrea McComb Sanchez
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 2:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 22 / 30
RELI 203 – Religion and Medicine in the Western Healing Traditions
Tier 2 Humanities Honors Contract
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Hester Oberman
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 27 / 75
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- Section: 101
- Instructor:Hester Oberman
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 27 / 75
RELI 210 – Religion in the American Experience
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities
Examines American religious ideas, practices, and forms of community from the colonial period to the present. Themes include the interrelation of religion with politics, immigration, gender, and racial and ethnic diversity in the United States.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 28 / 50
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 28 / 50
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 32 / 40
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 32 / 40
Section 401
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 32 / 40
- +
- Section: 401
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 32 / 40
RELI 211 – Life After Death in World Religions and Philosophies
Tier 2 Humanities Honors Contract
An examination of the afterlife in major world religions, intimations of life beyond death in contemporary human experience, and key scientific, theological, and philosophical challenges to both.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alison Jameson
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 71 / 75
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- Section: 101
- Instructor:Alison Jameson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 71 / 75
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alison Jameson
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 17 / 35
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- Section: 201
- Instructor:Alison Jameson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 17 / 35
Section 401
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alison Jameson
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 17 / 35
- +
- Section: 401
- Instructor:Alison Jameson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 17 / 35
Section 501
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alison Jameson
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 71 / 75
- +
- Section: 501
- Instructor:Alison Jameson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 71 / 75
RELI 212 – Introduction to American Indian Religious Traditions
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities Honors Contract
An introduction to American Indian religious systems and their larger functions in communities and in history. Of particular importance are the history and effects of colonialism and missionization on native peoples, their continuing struggles for religious freedom and cultural and linguistic survival, and the ways in which American Indians use religion, both past and present, to respond to social, cultural, political, and geographical changes.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Instructor Andrea McComb Sanchez
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 50 / 60
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Andrea McComb Sanchez
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 12:30 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 50 / 60
RELI 220 – Religion in Japanese Society
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities
Introduction to texts, images and activities, both historical and contemporary, that comprise Japanese religion.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Takashi Miura
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 59 / 60
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- Section: 101
- Instructor:Takashi Miura
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 59 / 60
RELI 222 – Introduction to Zen Buddhism
Cross Listed
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 102
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alison Jameson
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 40 / 60
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- Section: 102
- Instructor:Alison Jameson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 40 / 60
Section 202
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alison Jameson
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 40 / 60
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- Section: 202
- Instructor:Alison Jameson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 40 / 60
RELI 227 – Religion and Film
Tier 2 Arts Honors Contract
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Jan 13 - Mar 8
Status Open
Enrollment 49 / 50
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - Mar 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 49 / 50
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Jan 13 - Mar 8
Status Open
Enrollment 21 / 25
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - Mar 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 21 / 25
Section 401
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Jan 13 - Mar 8
Status Open
Enrollment 21 / 25
- +
- Section: 401
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - Mar 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 21 / 25
RELI 245 – Existential Problems
Cross Listed
Exploration of central problems of the human condition, such as meaning of life; death; self-deception; authenticity, integrity and responsibility; guilt and shame; love and sexuality.
Section 001
Days MoWeFr
Location Live Online
Time 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Instructor Ana Sartorio
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 22 / 40
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Ana Sartorio
- Days: MoWeFr
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 12:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 22 / 40
RELI 271 – The History of Christianity
Cross Listed
This course examines the history of the great diversity of beliefs, practices, ways of life, and forms of authority among Christians, and especially conflicts about these. Not narrowly theological, the course construes Christianity broadly, treating, for example, society, culture, and art.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Annie Morphew
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 19 / 30
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Annie Morphew
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 19 / 30
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Annie Morphew
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 19 / 30
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Annie Morphew
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 19 / 30
RELI 277A – History of the Middle East
Cross Listed Tier 2 Humanities
Middle East history from the rise of Islam to the Turkish conquest of Constantinople, 600-1453.
Section 001
Days MoWeFr
Location Live Online
Time 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Instructor Austin O'Malley
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 40 / 92
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Austin O'Malley
- Days: MoWeFr
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 2:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 40 / 92
RELI 277A – History of the Middle East
Cross Listed Tier 2 Humanities Honors Course
Middle East history from the rise of Islam to the Turkish conquest of Constantinople, 600-1453.
Section 002
Days MoWeFr
Location Live Online
Time 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Instructor Austin O'Malley
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 40 / 92
- +
- Section: 002
- Instructor:Austin O'Malley
- Days: MoWeFr
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 2:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 40 / 92
RELI 280 – Introduction to the Bible: New Testament
Tier 2 Humanities Honors Contract
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 110 / 150
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 110 / 150
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 20 / 25
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 20 / 25
Section 401
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 20 / 25
- +
- Section: 401
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 20 / 25
Section 501
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 110 / 150
- +
- Section: 501
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 110 / 150
RELI 303 – Spirituality and Sickness: Religion and Health in the U.S.
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities Honors Contract
This course explores diverse religious and spiritual conceptions of health in the United States and their relationships to experiences of sickness and healing. It will include a critical examination of historical and contemporary cases in which religious and spiritual views of health have interacted with healthcare systems, including cases of cooperation and conflict.
Section 001
Days Tu
Location Live Online
Time 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Instructor Kristy Slominski
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 28 / 60
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Kristy Slominski
- Days: Tu
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 12:30 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 28 / 60
RELI 304 – The Question of God
Tier 2 Humanities
Study of the question of God from a theological, philosophical, and literary perspective.
Section 001
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alexander Nava
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 65 / 100
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Alexander Nava
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 65 / 100
RELI 305 – Greek and Roman Religion
Cross Listed Tier 2 Individuals & Societies Honors Contract Writing Emphasis Course
Religious beliefs and cult practices in ancient Greece and Rome. All readings in English.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Jan 13 - Mar 8
Status Open
Enrollment 132 / 160
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - Mar 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 132 / 160
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Jan 13 - Mar 8
Status Open
Enrollment 132 / 160
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - Mar 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 132 / 160
Section 401
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Jan 13 - Mar 8
Status Open
Enrollment 132 / 160
- +
- Section: 401
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - Mar 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 132 / 160
Section 501
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Jan 13 - Mar 8
Status Open
Enrollment 132 / 160
- +
- Section: 501
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - Mar 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 132 / 160
RELI 306 – Christianity in the Greco-Roman World
Tier 2 Individuals & Societies Honors Contract
Investigates the emergence of Christianity in the first four centuries of the Greco-Roman milieu.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 100 / 100
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 100 / 100
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 100 / 100
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 100 / 100
Section 401
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 100 / 100
- +
- Section: 401
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 100 / 100
Section 501
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 100 / 100
- +
- Section: 501
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 100 / 100
RELI 313 – Health and Medicine in Classical Antiquity
Cross Listed Writing Emphasis 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 001
Days TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Instructor Eleni Hasaki
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 58 / 60
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Eleni Hasaki
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 12:30 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 58 / 60
RELI 316 – Sex and Salvation in Latin America
Cross Listed Tier 2 Individuals & Societies Honors Contract
What do witches in colonial Guatemala, Mexican nuns, born-again gang members in Honduras, Catholics undergoing in-vitro fertilization in Ecuador, and lesbian Afro-Brazilian Candomblé practitioners have in common? Their experiences tell us something about the complex intersection of sex, gender, and religion in Latin America. This course takes an anthropological approach to consider two central questions: (1) What role do religious ideologies and institutions play in the social construction of sexuality and gender in Latin America? (2) How do Latin Americans enact and contest gender power relations through their religious practices, thus contributing to processes of social change in the region? To address these questions, this class focuses on gender and its relationship to sexual desires and transgressions across diverse religious traditions from the pre-Columbian period to the present.
Section 001
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Kathleen Obrien
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 29 / 30
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Kathleen Obrien
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 29 / 30
RELI 331 – Taoist Traditions of China
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Shyling Glaze
Date Jan 13 - Mar 8
Status Open
Enrollment 41 / 75
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Shyling Glaze
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - Mar 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 41 / 75
RELI 334 – Islamic Thought
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Individuals & Societies
A consideration of Islam, one of the world's major religions, and the view of the universe and the modes of behavior and values it advocates. Most of the course will be dedicated to an examination of the majority (Sunni) opinion, but some attention will be directed also to the more significant minority (Shi'i, et al.) positions as well. The course has no prerequisite but does build on the information presented in TRAD 101 Middle Eastern Humanities.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Yaseen Noorani
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 26 / 30
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Yaseen Noorani
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 26 / 30
RELI 335 – Rap, Culture and God
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities Pass/Fail Option Honors Contract
Study of popular culture and religion in African-American and Latino/a communities, with a focus on the place of rap music in the cultural identity of these traditions.
Section 001
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alexander Nava
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 154 / 155
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Alexander Nava
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 154 / 155
RELI 336 – Spirituality, Psychology, and the Mind
Cross Listed Pass/Fail Option Honors Contract
This course is a survey of psychological theory and research investigating religious beliefs, experiences, and practices.
Section 001
Days MoWe
Location Live Online
Time 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Instructor Hester Oberman
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 145 / 200
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Hester Oberman
- Days: MoWe
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 3:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 145 / 200
RELI 358 – Tibetan Buddhism
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities Honors Contract
How did Tibetans adapt Buddhism to create a distinctly Tibetan tradition? How did Buddhism come to Tibetan soil, and how did it evolve over time? Sources from the domains of art, ritual, philosophy, and literature, especially biography, will play an important role in our explorations. We will contemplate questions surrounding individual, religious, and cultural identity, and of the role of women. We will conclude by examining further transformations of Tibetan Buddhism in exile and in western settings like Tucson.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Instructor Rae Dachille-Fitzgerald
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 19 / 70
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Rae Dachille-Fitzgerald
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 9:30 AM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 19 / 70
RELI 359 – Buddhism and Healing
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities Honors Contract Writing Emphasis Course
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 Meditation [NEM] Lab and the Center for Compassion Studies as well as of broader Tucson community events like the Gem Show.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Instructor Rae Dachille-Fitzgerald
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 49 / 70
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Rae Dachille-Fitzgerald
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 2:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 49 / 70
Section 002
Days TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Instructor Rae Dachille-Fitzgerald
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 49 / 70
- +
- Section: 002
- Instructor:Rae Dachille-Fitzgerald
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 2:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 49 / 70
RELI 363 – Religion and Sex
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities Honors Contract
In this course we will analyze attitudes towards sexuality in the major world religions, and focus on the relationship between religion and sexuality in the contemporary U.S. context.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Instructor Max Strassfeld
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 94 / 100
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Max Strassfeld
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 9:30 AM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 94 / 100
RELI 370A – History of the Jews: Modern Jewish History
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Individuals & Societies
Survey of major political, socioeconomic, and cultural developments in the history of Diaspora Jewry: Modern Jewish history.
RELI 370A – History of the Jews: Modern Jewish History
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Individuals & Societies Honors Course
Survey of major political, socioeconomic, and cultural developments in the history of Diaspora Jewry: Modern Jewish history.
RELI 372A – History and Religion of Israel in Ancient Times -- The Biblical Period
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities
Survey of the history and religion of ancient Israel. Biblical period through the Babylonian Exile; introduction to the Hebrew Bible.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Instructor Beth Nakhai
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 22 / 24
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Beth Nakhai
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 11:00 AM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 22 / 24
RELI 372A – History and Religion of Israel in Ancient Times -- The Biblical Period
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities Honors Course
Survey of the history and religion of ancient Israel. Biblical period through the Babylonian Exile; introduction to the Hebrew Bible.
Section 002
Days TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Instructor Beth Nakhai
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 8 / 18
- +
- Section: 002
- Instructor:Beth Nakhai
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 12:30 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 8 / 18
RELI 379 – Religion in German Culture
Cross Listed Tier 2 Humanities
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. Taught in English.
Section 001
Days MoWe
Location Live Online
Time 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Instructor Albrecht Classen
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 29 / 60
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Albrecht Classen
- Days: MoWe
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 11:00 AM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 29 / 60
RELI 381 – African/Indigenous Religions
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities
This course examines religious beliefs in Africa in order to illuminate connections between religion and culture on that continent, and to examine the relationship between religio-culture and the socio-economic and political forces that shape contemporary African societies.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Julian Kunnie
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 31 / 35
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Julian Kunnie
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 31 / 35
Section 102
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Julian Kunnie
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 31 / 35
- +
- Section: 102
- Instructor:Julian Kunnie
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 31 / 35
RELI 383 – Religion and State in Islam
Cross Listed
Examines the changing relationship between Islam and politics from the time of the Prophet to the present day.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Instructor Linda Darling
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 7 / 24
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Linda Darling
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 3:30 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 7 / 24
RELI 387 – The History of Anti-Semitism
Cross Listed
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Deborah Kaye
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 40 / 45
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Deborah Kaye
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 40 / 45
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Deborah Kaye
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 40 / 45
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Deborah Kaye
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 40 / 45
Section 401
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Deborah Kaye
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 40 / 45
- +
- Section: 401
- Instructor:Deborah Kaye
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 40 / 45
RELI 389 – Middle Eastern Ethnic and Religious Minorities
Cross Listed Writing Emphasis Course
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor John Perugini
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 25 / 30
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:John Perugini
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 25 / 30
RELI 399 – Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
Section 010
Days
Location
Time 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Instructor Alexander Nava
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 5
- +
- Section: 010
- Instructor:Alexander Nava
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 12:00 AM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 5
Section 012
Days
Location
Time 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Instructor Karen Borek
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 3
- +
- Section: 012
- Instructor:Karen Borek
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 12:00 AM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 3
Section 014
Days
Location
Time 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 10
- +
- Section: 014
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 12:00 AM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 10
Section 015
Days
Location
Time 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Instructor Andrea McComb Sanchez
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 3
- +
- Section: 015
- Instructor:Andrea McComb Sanchez
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 12:00 AM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 3
RELI 399H – Honors Independent Study
Honors Course
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
Section 014
Days
Location
Time 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Instructor Unassigned
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 30
- +
- Section: 014
- Instructor:Unassigned
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 12:00 AM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 30
RELI 401A – Early Christian Literature: Greek Texts
Cross Listed Honors Contract Writing Emphasis Course
This course involves in depth study of early Christian texts together with related contemporary Jewish and Greco-Roman literature. Students will engage in careful analysis of individual texts in the New Testament and from the first four centuries of the Common Era, focusing on questions of genre, authorship, and meaning. Alongside these, students will examine writings by contemporary Jewish, Greek, and Roman authors (e.g., Philo, Josephus, Seneca, and Plutarch) as illustrative of the wider literary and religious culture. For students who have completed GRK 201, an option for readings in ancient Greek will be available as part of the course.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location Social Sciences, Rm 222
Time 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Instructor Courtney Friesen
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 6 / 30
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Courtney Friesen
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Social Sciences, Rm 222
- Time: 9:30 AM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 6 / 30
RELI 420 – Archaic Greek Sanctuaries
Cross Listed Honors Contract Writing Emphasis Course
This course therefore concentrates on the evidence for Greek sanctuary sites between 1000 and 600 B.C. We examine the excavated material from numerous sanctuary sites, including architectural remains (temples and/or altars), votive offerings of bronze and clay, and any other evidence revealing religious practices during these formative years. The role the sanctuaries played in society is also considered with a view to their political, social, economic and spiritual implications for Archaic Greek life.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Instructor Mary Voyatzis
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 25 / 25
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Mary Voyatzis
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 11:00 AM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 25 / 25
RELI 428A – Globalization, the Environment, and Indigenous Religions
Cross Listed Honors Contract Writing Emphasis Course
This course discusses the impact of globalization on the environment and ecology, with a particular focus on indigenous cultures and religions in the context of environmental instability.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Julian Kunnie
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 13 / 20
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Julian Kunnie
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 13 / 20
RELI 431 – The Divine Comedy by Dante
Cross Listed Honors Contract
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 TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Instructor Fabian Alfie
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 18 / 30
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Fabian Alfie
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 3:30 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 18 / 30
RELI 484 – History of East Asian Buddhism
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis
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.
RELI 489 – History of Japanese Religions: Modern
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis
A selective survey of the history of Japanese religion from the 16th century through the present. Topics may include Shinto and Buddhism; Christianity and its suppression; Edo-period official and popular religion; State Shinto; and Japan's "new religions" and "new new religions."
Section 001
Days We
Location Live Online
Time 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Instructor Takashi Miura
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 13 / 15
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Takashi Miura
- Days: We
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 3:30 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 13 / 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 014
Days
Location
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Hester Oberman
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 1
- +
- Section: 014
- Instructor:Hester Oberman
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 1
Section 015
Days
Location
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 1 / 30
- +
- Section: 015
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 1 / 30
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 001
Days Th
Location Live Online
Time 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Instructor Max Strassfeld
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Closed
Enrollment 15 / 15
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Max Strassfeld
- Days: Th
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 3:30 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 15 / 15
RELI 498H – Honors Thesis
Honors Course Writing Emphasis 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
Location
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alexander Nava
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 3
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Alexander Nava
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 3
Section 002
Days
Location
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 3
- +
- Section: 002
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 3
RELI 499 – Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
Section 001
Days
Location
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Mar 11 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 3
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Mar 11 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 3
Section 019
Days
Location
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Unassigned
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 5
- +
- Section: 019
- Instructor:Unassigned
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 5
RELI 499H – Honors Independent Study
Honors Course
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
Section 010
Days
Location
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Unassigned
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 1
- +
- Section: 010
- Instructor:Unassigned
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 1
Section 015
Days
Location
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Karen Borek
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 3
- +
- Section: 015
- Instructor:Karen Borek
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 3
Section 017
Days
Location
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Hester Oberman
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 3
- +
- Section: 017
- Instructor:Hester Oberman
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 3
RELI 501A – Early Christian Literature: Greek Texts
Cross Listed Writing Emphasis Course
This course involves in depth study of early Christian texts together with related contemporary Jewish and Greco-Roman literature. Students will engage in careful analysis of individual texts in the New Testament and from the first four centuries of the Common Era, focusing on questions of genre, authorship, and meaning. Alongside these, students will examine writings by contemporary Jewish, Greek, and Roman authors (e.g., Philo, Josephus, Seneca, and Plutarch) as illustrative of the wider literary and religious culture. For students who have completed GRK 201, an option for readings in ancient Greek will be available as part of the course. Graduate level requirements included a extended research papers drawing on appropriate levels of training in language, literature, and knowledge of the ancient world.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location Social Sciences, Rm 222
Time 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Instructor Courtney Friesen
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 6 / 30
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Courtney Friesen
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Social Sciences, Rm 222
- Time: 9:30 AM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 6 / 30
RELI 520 – Archaic Greek Sanctuaries
Cross Listed
This course concentrates on the evidence for Greek sanctuary sites between 1000 and 600 B.C. We examine the excavated material from numerous sanctuary sites, including architectural remains (temples and/or altars), votive offerings of bronze and clay, and any other evidence revealing religious practices during these formative years. The role the sanctuaries played in society is also considered with a view to their political, social, economic and spiritual implications for Archaic Greek life. Graduate-level requirements include a more extensive paper than undergraduates.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Instructor Mary Voyatzis
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 25 / 25
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Mary Voyatzis
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 11:00 AM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 25 / 25
RELI 528A – Globalization, the Environment, and Indigenous Religions
Cross Listed
This course discusses the impact of globalization on the environment and ecology, with a particular focus on indigenous cultures and religions in the context of environmental instability. Graduate-level requirements include a 25-30 page double-spaced research synthesis and reflective paper that reflects your understanding of Globalization and the Environment and 4 book reviews from books used in class.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Julian Kunnie
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 13 / 20
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Julian Kunnie
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 13 / 20
RELI 589 – History of Japanese Religions: Modern
Cross Listed
A selective survey of the history of Japanese religion from the 16th century through the present. Topics may include Shinto and Buddhism; Christianity and its suppression; Edo-period official and popular religion; State Shinto; and Japan's "new religions" and "new new religions." Graduate-level requirements include oral presentations and longer, more in-depth papers.
Section 001
Days We
Location Live Online
Time 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Instructor Takashi Miura
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 13 / 15
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Takashi Miura
- Days: We
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 3:30 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 13 / 15
RELI 599 – Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
Section 001
Days
Location
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Unassigned
Date Jan 13 - May 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 2
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Unassigned
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jan 13 - May 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 2
Summer 2021
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
RELI 130 – Asian Religions
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis
The course surveys six religious traditions founded and developed in Asian including two from India: Hinduism and Buddhism, two from China: Confucianism and Taoism, and two from Japan: Shinto and Japanese New Religions. The survey of each religion includes: 1. a primary or sacred text, 2. contemporary practices in Asia, 3. contemporary practices in America, and 4. depictions in modern media. The course studies how the central tenets and teachings of Asian religions create the cultural roots of contemporary Asian cultures and how these teachings have influenced America's religious diversity.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Chieko Nakano
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 3 / 25
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Chieko Nakano
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 3 / 25
RELI 160A1 – Gods, Goddesses, and Demons: Divinity in South Asia
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures Honors Contract
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Closed
Enrollment 18 / 18
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 18 / 18
Section 102
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 10 / 18
- +
- Section: 102
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 10 / 18
Section 103
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 1 / 18
- +
- Section: 103
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 1 / 18
Section 104
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 7 / 18
- +
- Section: 104
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 7 / 18
Section 105
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 18
- +
- Section: 105
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 18
Section 106
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 1 / 18
- +
- Section: 106
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 1 / 18
Section 131
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 1 / 18
- +
- Section: 131
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 1 / 18
Section 132
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 2 / 18
- +
- Section: 132
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 2 / 18
Section 133
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 18
- +
- Section: 133
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 18
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Closed
Enrollment 18 / 18
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 18 / 18
Section 202
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 10 / 18
- +
- Section: 202
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 10 / 18
Section 203
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 1 / 18
- +
- Section: 203
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 1 / 18
Section 204
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 7 / 18
- +
- Section: 204
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 7 / 18
Section 205
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 18
- +
- Section: 205
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 18
Section 206
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 1 / 18
- +
- Section: 206
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 1 / 18
RELI 160D4 – Introduction to World Religions
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures Honors Contract
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 6 / 18
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 6 / 18
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 2 / 18
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 2 / 18
Section 131
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 4 / 18
- +
- Section: 131
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 4 / 18
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 20
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 20
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 10 / 20
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 10 / 20
RELI 203 – Religion and Medicine in the Western Healing Traditions
Tier 2 Humanities Honors Contract
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Hester Oberman
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 1 / 18
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Hester Oberman
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 1 / 18
Section 131
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Hester Oberman
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 18
- +
- Section: 131
- Instructor:Hester Oberman
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 18
RELI 220 – Religion in Japanese Society
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities
Introduction to texts, images and activities, both historical and contemporary, that comprise Japanese religion.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Takashi Miura
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 7 / 25
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Takashi Miura
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 7 / 25
RELI 220 – Religion in Japanese Society
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities
Introduction to texts, images and activities, both historical and contemporary, that comprise Japanese religion.
Section 131
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Takashi Miura
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 3 / 25
- +
- Section: 131
- Instructor:Takashi Miura
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 3 / 25
RELI 222 – Introduction to Zen Buddhism
Cross Listed
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Lixia Dong
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 1 / 25
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Lixia Dong
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 1 / 25
RELI 227 – Religion and Film
Tier 2 Arts Honors Contract
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 131
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 3 / 20
- +
- Section: 131
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 3 / 20
RELI 241 – Introduction to Chinese Religions
Cross Listed Tier 2 Humanities Honors Contract
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Jinhui Wu
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 3 / 25
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Jinhui Wu
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 3 / 25
Section 102
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Jinhui Wu
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 2 / 25
- +
- Section: 102
- Instructor:Jinhui Wu
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 2 / 25
Section 131
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Jinhui Wu
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 25
- +
- Section: 131
- Instructor:Jinhui Wu
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 25
RELI 271 – The History of Christianity
Cross Listed
This course examines the history of the great diversity of beliefs, practices, ways of life, and forms of authority among Christians, and especially conflicts about these. Not narrowly theological, the course construes Christianity broadly, treating, for example, society, culture, and art.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Annie Morphew
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 4 / 30
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Annie Morphew
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 4 / 30
RELI 277A – History of the Middle East
Cross Listed Tier 2 Humanities
Middle East history from the rise of Islam to the Turkish conquest of Constantinople, 600-1453.
Section 131
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Ryan Blair
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 40
- +
- Section: 131
- Instructor:Ryan Blair
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 40
RELI 300 – Christian Literature and Thought
Tier 2 Humanities Pass/Fail Option Writing Emphasis Course
Development of Christian thought from the New Testament through the Protestant Reformation.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 18
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 18
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 18
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 18
RELI 302 – Ellis Island, 9/11, and Border Walls: Religion and Immigration in the U.S.
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Individuals & Societies Honors Contract
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 102
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Daisy Vargas
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 3 / 18
- +
- Section: 102
- Instructor:Daisy Vargas
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 3 / 18
RELI 304 – The Question of God
Tier 2 Humanities
Study of the question of God from a theological, philosophical, and literary perspective.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alexander Nava
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 18
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Alexander Nava
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 18
Section 102
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alexander Nava
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 2 / 18
- +
- Section: 102
- Instructor:Alexander Nava
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 2 / 18
Section 102
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alexander Nava
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 1 / 5
- +
- Section: 102
- Instructor:Alexander Nava
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 1 / 5
RELI 305 – Greek and Roman Religion
Cross Listed Tier 2 Individuals & Societies Honors Contract Writing Emphasis Course
Religious beliefs and cult practices in ancient Greece and Rome. All readings in English.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 18 / 18
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 18 / 18
Section 102
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 4 / 18
- +
- Section: 102
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 4 / 18
Section 103
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 1 / 18
- +
- Section: 103
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 1 / 18
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 18 / 18
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 18 / 18
Section 202
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 4 / 18
- +
- Section: 202
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 4 / 18
Section 203
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 1 / 18
- +
- Section: 203
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 1 / 18
RELI 320 – Reformations and Revolutions in Early Modern Britain, 1485 - 1714
Cross Listed
This course aims at a broad analysis of the enthralling history and legacies of the Tudor and Stuart dynasties that ruled England from 1458 to 1714. The objective is to understand how in a quarter century the radical political and religious events, and figures, transformed the social, political and religious structures of England, giving birth to the foundation of England as a united kingdom, and significant world power. The course begins by focusing on the Tudors with emphasis on Henry VIII and the English Reformation, the return to Catholicism under Mary Tudor, the creation of a new Anglican Church under Elizabeth I and its unforeseen consequences. From there, it explores the Stuarts, with attention to the catastrophic English Revolution culminating in the public execution of King Charles I in 1649, and the rise of the English republic that ended with the restoration of monarchy in 1660. The course then reflects on the transformation of the English state following the elite coup d'etat of 1688, the Glorious Revolution, a fundamental watershed that cleared the way for a constitutional monarchy, parliamentary sovereignty, and religious toleration in England.
Section 131
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Mary Pierce
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 7 / 30
- +
- Section: 131
- Instructor:Mary Pierce
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 7 / 30
RELI 321 – Women in Judaism
Cross Listed
Images of Jewish women in Jewish and other texts. Texts include religious, historical and literary genres from biblical, medieval, and modern sources. The course will deal with Jewish women as mothers, leaders, stereotypes, and current feminist viewpoints.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Deborah Kaye
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 1 / 30
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Deborah Kaye
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 1 / 30
RELI 332 – The Holocaust: Witnesses and Representations
Cross Listed
This course is an exploration of the Holocaust (Shoah) through the experiences, roles and responses of Jewish individuals as represented through various media and genre including diary, testimony (oral), memoir, monument, poetry, photography, graphic novel, personal letters and film.
Section 131
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Deborah Kaye
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 3 / 30
- +
- Section: 131
- Instructor:Deborah Kaye
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 3 / 30
RELI 334 – Islamic Thought
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Individuals & Societies
A consideration of Islam, one of the world's major religions, and the view of the universe and the modes of behavior and values it advocates. Most of the course will be dedicated to an examination of the majority (Sunni) opinion, but some attention will be directed also to the more significant minority (Shi'i, et al.) positions as well. The course has no prerequisite but does build on the information presented in TRAD 101 Middle Eastern Humanities.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Unassigned
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 3 / 30
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Unassigned
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 3 / 30
RELI 335 – Rap, Culture and God
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities Pass/Fail Option Honors Contract
Study of popular culture and religion in African-American and Latino/a communities, with a focus on the place of rap music in the cultural identity of these traditions.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alexander Nava
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 14 / 18
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Alexander Nava
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 14 / 18
Section 102
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alexander Nava
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 18
- +
- Section: 102
- Instructor:Alexander Nava
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 18
Section 131
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alexander Nava
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 11 / 18
- +
- Section: 131
- Instructor:Alexander Nava
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 11 / 18
RELI 336 – Spirituality, Psychology, and the Mind
Cross Listed Pass/Fail Option Honors Contract
This course is a survey of psychological theory and research investigating religious beliefs, experiences, and practices.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Hester Oberman
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 16 / 18
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Hester Oberman
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 16 / 18
Section 131
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Hester Oberman
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 18
- +
- Section: 131
- Instructor:Hester Oberman
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 18
RELI 350 – Hindu Mythology
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities Honors Contract
Overview of the traditional Hindu narratives found in the Vedic, epic, and puranic literature and in their many forms in regional literary and artistic forms, and the narratives influence on culture, philosophy, literature, and folklore.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 12 / 18
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 12 / 18
Section 102
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 18
- +
- Section: 102
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 18
Section 103
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 2 / 18
- +
- Section: 103
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 2 / 18
Section 104
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 18
- +
- Section: 104
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 18
Section 105
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 18
- +
- Section: 105
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 18
Section 106
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 18
- +
- Section: 106
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 18
Section 131
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 1 / 10
- +
- Section: 131
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 1 / 10
Section 132
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 10
- +
- Section: 132
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 10
Section 133
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 10
- +
- Section: 133
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 10
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Closed
Enrollment 12 / 18
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 12 / 18
Section 202
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 18
- +
- Section: 202
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 18
Section 203
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 2 / 18
- +
- Section: 203
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 2 / 18
Section 204
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 18
- +
- Section: 204
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 18
Section 205
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 18
- +
- Section: 205
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 18
Section 206
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 18
- +
- Section: 206
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 18
RELI 367 – Yoga
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities Honors Contract
Examines the philosophy, practice, historical roots, and development of yoga.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Closed
Enrollment 18 / 18
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 18 / 18
Section 102
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Closed
Enrollment 18 / 18
- +
- Section: 102
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 18 / 18
Section 103
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 14 / 18
- +
- Section: 103
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 14 / 18
Section 104
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Closed
Enrollment 18 / 18
- +
- Section: 104
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 18 / 18
Section 104
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 18
- +
- Section: 104
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 18
Section 105
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 10 / 18
- +
- Section: 105
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 10 / 18
Section 105
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 18
- +
- Section: 105
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 18
Section 106
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 18
- +
- Section: 106
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 18
Section 131
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 8 / 10
- +
- Section: 131
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 8 / 10
Section 132
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 1 / 10
- +
- Section: 132
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 1 / 10
Section 133
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 10
- +
- Section: 133
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 10
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Closed
Enrollment 18 / 18
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 18 / 18
Section 202
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Closed
Enrollment 18 / 18
- +
- Section: 202
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 18 / 18
Section 203
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Closed
Enrollment 14 / 18
- +
- Section: 203
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 14 / 18
Section 204
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 18
- +
- Section: 204
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 18
Section 204
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Closed
Enrollment 18 / 18
- +
- Section: 204
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 18 / 18
Section 205
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Closed
Enrollment 10 / 18
- +
- Section: 205
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 10 / 18
Section 205
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 18
- +
- Section: 205
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 18
Section 206
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 18
- +
- Section: 206
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 18
RELI 370B – History of the Jews: Cultural Loss and Resilience from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Individuals & Societies
Survey of major political, socioeconomic, and cultural developments in the history of Diaspora Jewry from the Middle ages to the French Revolution.
Section 131
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Deborah Kaye
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 4 / 20
- +
- Section: 131
- Instructor:Deborah Kaye
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 4 / 20
RELI 371B – History of Muslim Societies
Cross Listed
Evolution and global spread of Muslim societies, modernization and its problems.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alexander Schweig
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Closed
Enrollment 1 / 30
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Alexander Schweig
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 1 / 30
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alexander Schweig
Date Jul 6 - Aug 20
Status Open
Enrollment 2 / 30
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Alexander Schweig
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 6 - Aug 20
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 2 / 30
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alexander Schweig
Date Jul 6 - Aug 20
Status Open
Enrollment 2 / 30
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Alexander Schweig
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 6 - Aug 20
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 2 / 30
RELI 372A – History and Religion of Israel in Ancient Times -- The Biblical Period
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities
Survey of the history and religion of ancient Israel. Biblical period through the Babylonian Exile; introduction to the Hebrew Bible.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Matthew Winter
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 2 / 30
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Matthew Winter
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 2 / 30
RELI 372B – History & Religion of Israel in Ancient Times: Ezra-Nehemiah to the Roman Empire
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities
Survey of the history and religion of ancient Israel. Ezra-Nehemiah to the Roman Empire, with emphasis on the formation of rabbinic Judaism.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Matthew Winter
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 4 / 30
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Matthew Winter
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 4 / 30
RELI 381 – African/Indigenous Religions
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities
This course examines religious beliefs in Africa in order to illuminate connections between religion and culture on that continent, and to examine the relationship between religio-culture and the socio-economic and political forces that shape contemporary African societies.
Section 131
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Julian Kunnie
Date May 17 - Jun 5
Status Open
Enrollment 3 / 18
- +
- Section: 131
- Instructor:Julian Kunnie
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: May 17 - Jun 5
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 3 / 18
RELI 387 – The History of Anti-Semitism
Cross Listed
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Deborah Kaye
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 3 / 35
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Deborah Kaye
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 3 / 35
RELI 389 – Middle Eastern Ethnic and Religious Minorities
Cross Listed Writing Emphasis Course
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Renee Spellman
Date Jun 7 - Jul 8
Status Open
Enrollment 2 / 30
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Renee Spellman
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jun 7 - Jul 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 2 / 30
RELI 489 – History of Japanese Religions: Modern
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis
A selective survey of the history of Japanese religion from the 16th century through the present. Topics may include Shinto and Buddhism; Christianity and its suppression; Edo-period official and popular religion; State Shinto; and Japan's "new religions" and "new new religions."
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Takashi Miura
Date Jul 12 - Aug 11
Status Open
Enrollment 9 / 25
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Takashi Miura
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Jul 12 - Aug 11
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 9 / 25
Fall 2021
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
RELI 150B1 – Religion and Popular Culture
Tier 1 Individuals & Societies Honors Contract
This course provides an introduction to the study of Religion and Popular Culture in modern societies. We will study what constitutes "religion" and how definitions of religion change over time. We will examine the ways popular culture becomes "religious" and how religious institutions reflect popular taste and opinion.
Section 001
Days
Location Flex In-Person
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Daisy Vargas
Date Sep 27 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 130
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Daisy Vargas
- Days:
- Location: Flex In-Person
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Sep 27 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 130
Section 001
Days MoWeFr
Location C E Chavez Bldg, Rm 110
Time 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Instructor Daisy Vargas
Date Sep 27 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 130
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Daisy Vargas
- Days: MoWeFr
- Location: C E Chavez Bldg, Rm 110
- Time: 10:00 AM
- Dates: Sep 27 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 130
Section 002
Days
Location Flex In-Person
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Daisy Vargas
Date Sep 27 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 130
- +
- Section: 002
- Instructor:Daisy Vargas
- Days:
- Location: Flex In-Person
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Sep 27 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 130
Section 002
Days MoWeFr
Location C E Chavez Bldg, Rm 110
Time 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Instructor Daisy Vargas
Date Sep 27 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 130
- +
- Section: 002
- Instructor:Daisy Vargas
- Days: MoWeFr
- Location: C E Chavez Bldg, Rm 110
- Time: 10:00 AM
- Dates: Sep 27 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 130
RELI 160A1 – Gods, Goddesses, and Demons: Divinity in South Asia
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures Honors Contract
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Aug 23 - Oct 13
Status Open
Enrollment 106 / 260
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Oct 13
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 106 / 260
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Aug 23 - Oct 13
Status Open
Enrollment 106 / 260
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Oct 13
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 106 / 260
RELI 160D1 – Christianity and Art
Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures
The architecture, manuscript illumination, painting and other visual arts of Christianity explored within the contexts of contemporary history.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location Education, Rm 211
Time 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 20 / 28
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Education, Rm 211
- Time: 12:30 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 20 / 28
RELI 160D4 – Introduction to World Religions
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures Honors Contract
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 TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Instructor Kristy Slominski
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 23 / 63
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Kristy Slominski
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 9:30 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 23 / 63
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Oct 14 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 9 / 50
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Oct 14 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 9 / 50
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Aug 23 - Oct 13
Status Open
Enrollment 8 / 50
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Oct 13
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 8 / 50
RELI 160D5 – Spirituality, Ceremony, and Saints of the Southwest
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures Honors Contract
An introduction to the religious history and contemporary religious diversity of the region currently known as the American Southwest, focusing on a variety of topics such as land based spirituality, shrines, pilgrimage, folk saints, religious syncretism, and New Age movements. The religious landscape of this area includes the traditions of indigenous communities, Spanish colonial descendants, Mexican Americans, Anglos, and immigrants from around the globe.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location M Pacheco ILC, Rm 140
Time 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Instructor Andrea McComb Sanchez
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 33
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Andrea McComb Sanchez
- Days: TuTh
- Location: M Pacheco ILC, Rm 140
- Time: 2:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 33
RELI 160D6 – Gender and Religion
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures Honors Contract
This course is an introduction to the study of gender and religion. We will examine the ways religious roles have been shaped by gender, and how religion has formulated understandings of gender, including gendered representations of the divine.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location R P Harvill Bldg, Rm 150
Time 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Instructor Max Strassfeld
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 29 / 33
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Max Strassfeld
- Days: TuTh
- Location: R P Harvill Bldg, Rm 150
- Time: 11:00 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 29 / 33
RELI 203 – Religion and Medicine in the Western Healing Traditions
Tier 2 Humanities Honors Contract
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Hester Oberman
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 28 / 60
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Hester Oberman
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 28 / 60
RELI 210 – Religion in the American Experience
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities
Examines American religious ideas, practices, and forms of community from the colonial period to the present. Themes include the interrelation of religion with politics, immigration, gender, and racial and ethnic diversity in the United States.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Oct 14 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 7 / 90
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Oct 14 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 7 / 90
RELI 222 – Introduction to Zen Buddhism
Cross Listed
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alison Jameson
Date Oct 14 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 9 / 60
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Alison Jameson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Oct 14 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 9 / 60
RELI 227 – Religion and Film
Tier 2 Arts Honors Contract
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Aug 23 - Oct 13
Status Open
Enrollment 35 / 75
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Oct 13
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 35 / 75
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Aug 23 - Oct 13
Status Open
Enrollment 35 / 75
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Oct 13
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 35 / 75
RELI 233 – Philosophy of Religion
Cross Listed Tier 2 Individuals & Societies
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 TuTh
Location R P Harvill Bldg, Rm 415
Time 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Instructor Reza Hadisi
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 18 / 40
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Reza Hadisi
- Days: TuTh
- Location: R P Harvill Bldg, Rm 415
- Time: 11:00 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 18 / 40
RELI 240 – Imagining the Buddha: Images of Buddhism in Asia and the West
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Arts Honors Contract
What role do images play in the history, theory, and practice of Buddhism in Asia as well as in cultural encounters between Buddhism and 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 theoretical tools for critically reexamining the categories of "East" and "West" within this cultural moment. Considering how images of Buddhism have functioned across time and space for over two thousand years from its origins in India, robust expansion throughout Asia as well as transformations in colonial encounters, globalization, and immigration allows us to better comprehend how those categories were formed and perpetuated. The course explores the form of Buddhist images, their creation and use, and ritual contexts together with the senses of vision, materiality, and space and place they convey. It introduces a diverse range of key phenomena in sculpture, painting, and architecture such as early Indian sculptures of the Buddha, Chinese painted caves, Himalayan esoteric images of enlightened reality, Cambodian temple complexes, and portraits of Japanese Zen masters. The course reflects upon the lives of Buddhist images in Europe and the U.S. vis-à-vis art, architecture, film, and other visual media since the 19th century. In the process of learning to engage with the "images" of Budhism they encounter in their everyday lives, students are exposed to an interdisciplinary curriculum spanning the fields of art history, religious studies, and visual culture.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location M Pacheco ILC, Rm 150
Time 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Instructor Rae Dachille-Fitzgerald
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 12 / 155
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Rae Dachille-Fitzgerald
- Days: TuTh
- Location: M Pacheco ILC, Rm 150
- Time: 3:30 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 12 / 155
RELI 241 – Introduction to Chinese Religions
Cross Listed Tier 2 Humanities Honors Contract
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Shyling Glaze
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 20 / 60
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Shyling Glaze
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 20 / 60
RELI 271 – The History of Christianity
Cross Listed
This course examines the history of the great diversity of beliefs, practices, ways of life, and forms of authority among Christians, and especially conflicts about these. Not narrowly theological, the course construes Christianity broadly, treating, for example, society, culture, and art.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Annie Morphew
Date Oct 14 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 16 / 40
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Annie Morphew
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Oct 14 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 16 / 40
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Annie Morphew
Date Oct 14 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 16 / 40
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Annie Morphew
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Oct 14 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 16 / 40
RELI 277A – History of the Middle East
Cross Listed Tier 2 Humanities
Middle East history from the rise of Islam to the Turkish conquest of Constantinople, 600-1453.
Section 001
Days MoWeFr
Location R P Harvill Bldg, Rm 305
Time 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
Instructor Austin O'Malley
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 15 / 80
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Austin O'Malley
- Days: MoWeFr
- Location: R P Harvill Bldg, Rm 305
- Time: 1:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 15 / 80
Section 002
Days MoWeFr
Location R P Harvill Bldg, Rm 305
Time 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
Instructor Austin O'Malley
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 15 / 80
- +
- Section: 002
- Instructor:Austin O'Malley
- Days: MoWeFr
- Location: R P Harvill Bldg, Rm 305
- Time: 1:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 15 / 80
RELI 280 – Introduction to the Bible: New Testament
Tier 2 Humanities Honors Contract
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
Location Social Sciences, Rm 206
Time 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Instructor Courtney Friesen
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 16 / 60
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Courtney Friesen
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Social Sciences, Rm 206
- Time: 9:30 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 16 / 60
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Oct 14 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 5 / 140
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Oct 14 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 5 / 140
RELI 302 – Ellis Island, 9/11, and Border Walls: Religion and Immigration in the U.S.
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Individuals & Societies Honors Contract
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Daisy Vargas
Date Oct 14 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 16 / 55
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Daisy Vargas
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Oct 14 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 16 / 55
Section 102
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Daisy Vargas
Date Oct 14 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 16 / 55
- +
- Section: 102
- Instructor:Daisy Vargas
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Oct 14 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 16 / 55
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Daisy Vargas
Date Oct 14 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 16 / 55
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Daisy Vargas
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Oct 14 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 16 / 55
RELI 304 – The Question of God
Tier 2 Humanities
Study of the question of God from a theological, philosophical, and literary perspective.
Section 001
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alexander Nava
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 19 / 50
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Alexander Nava
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 19 / 50
Section 001
Days Tu
Location R P Harvill Bldg, Rm 210
Time 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Instructor Alexander Nava
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 19 / 50
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Alexander Nava
- Days: Tu
- Location: R P Harvill Bldg, Rm 210
- Time: 12:30 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 19 / 50
RELI 305 – Greek and Roman Religion
Cross Listed Tier 2 Individuals & Societies Honors Contract Writing Emphasis Course
Religious beliefs and cult practices in ancient Greece and Rome. All readings in English.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Aug 23 - Oct 13
Status Open
Enrollment 79 / 100
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Oct 13
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 79 / 100
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Aug 23 - Oct 13
Status Open
Enrollment 11 / 25
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Oct 13
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 11 / 25
RELI 313 – Health and Medicine in Classical Antiquity
Cross Listed Honors Contract Writing Emphasis 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 001
Days TuTh
Location M Pacheco ILC, Rm 125
Time 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Instructor Eleni Hasaki
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 26 / 60
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Eleni Hasaki
- Days: TuTh
- Location: M Pacheco ILC, Rm 125
- Time: 12:30 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 26 / 60
RELI 314 – Samurai, Kamikaze, and the Rising Sun: The History of Shinto
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis
This course provides an overview of the history of Shinto in Japan. Recent scholarship has problematized the simplistic characterization of Shinto as the "indigenous religion of Japan." The course introduces students to the on-going scholarly debate over the category of "Shinto" and dissects from a historical perspective modern appropriations of Shinto discourses in relation to modernization, nationalism, and Japan's "self-image" in the world.
Section 001
Days MoWeFr
Location R P Harvill Bldg, Rm 204
Time 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Instructor Brett Slominski
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Closed
Enrollment 13 / 60
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Brett Slominski
- Days: MoWeFr
- Location: R P Harvill Bldg, Rm 204
- Time: 12:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Closed
- Enrollment: 13 / 60
RELI 320 – Reformations and Revolutions in Early Modern Britain, 1485 - 1714
Cross Listed
This course aims at a broad analysis of the enthralling history and legacies of the Tudor and Stuart dynasties that ruled England from 1458 to 1714. The objective is to understand how in a quarter century the radical political and religious events, and figures, transformed the social, political and religious structures of England, giving birth to the foundation of England as a united kingdom, and significant world power. The course begins by focusing on the Tudors with emphasis on Henry VIII and the English Reformation, the return to Catholicism under Mary Tudor, the creation of a new Anglican Church under Elizabeth I and its unforeseen consequences. From there, it explores the Stuarts, with attention to the catastrophic English Revolution culminating in the public execution of King Charles I in 1649, and the rise of the English republic that ended with the restoration of monarchy in 1660. The course then reflects on the transformation of the English state following the elite coup d'etat of 1688, the Glorious Revolution, a fundamental watershed that cleared the way for a constitutional monarchy, parliamentary sovereignty, and religious toleration in England.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Benjamin Miller
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 14 / 60
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Benjamin Miller
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 14 / 60
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Benjamin Miller
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 14 / 60
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Benjamin Miller
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 14 / 60
RELI 321 – Women in Judaism
Cross Listed
Images of Jewish women in Jewish and other texts. Texts include religious, historical and literary genres from biblical, medieval, and modern sources. The course will deal with Jewish women as mothers, leaders, stereotypes, and current feminist viewpoints.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Deborah Kaye
Date Aug 23 - Oct 13
Status Open
Enrollment 7 / 35
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Deborah Kaye
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Oct 13
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 7 / 35
Section 401
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Deborah Kaye
Date Aug 23 - Oct 13
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 10
- +
- Section: 401
- Instructor:Deborah Kaye
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Oct 13
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 10
RELI 330 – North American Buddhism: Transmission, Translation, Transformation
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Individuals & Societies Honors Contract Writing Emphasis Course
This course will explore diverse Buddhist communities in North America, including local expressions of Buddhism. Students will learn about Buddhist perspectives and practices and how these have been transmitted from Asia to the Americas over the past two centuries, with an emphasis on contemporary forms of North American Buddhism.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Instructor Alison Jameson
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 6 / 30
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Alison Jameson
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 12:30 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 6 / 30
RELI 333 – Buddhist Meditation Traditions
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis
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.
RELI 334 – Islamic Thought
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Individuals & Societies
A consideration of Islam, one of the world's major religions, and the view of the universe and the modes of behavior and values it advocates. Most of the course will be dedicated to an examination of the majority (Sunni) opinion, but some attention will be directed also to the more significant minority (Shi'i, et al.) positions as well. The course has no prerequisite but does build on the information presented in TRAD 101 Middle Eastern Humanities.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location C E Chavez Bldg, Rm 103
Time 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Instructor Yaseen Noorani
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 7 / 30
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Yaseen Noorani
- Days: TuTh
- Location: C E Chavez Bldg, Rm 103
- Time: 2:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 7 / 30
RELI 335 – Rap, Culture and God
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities Pass/Fail Option Honors Contract
Study of popular culture and religion in African-American and Latino/a communities, with a focus on the place of rap music in the cultural identity of these traditions.
Section 001
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Alexander Nava
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 98 / 150
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Alexander Nava
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 98 / 150
Section 001
Days Th
Location Gittings Bldg, Rm 129B
Time 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Instructor Alexander Nava
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 98 / 150
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Alexander Nava
- Days: Th
- Location: Gittings Bldg, Rm 129B
- Time: 12:30 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 98 / 150
RELI 336 – Spirituality, Psychology, and the Mind
Cross Listed Pass/Fail Option Honors Contract
This course is a survey of psychological theory and research investigating religious beliefs, experiences, and practices.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Instructor Hester Oberman
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 116 / 132
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Hester Oberman
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 3:30 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 116 / 132
RELI 350 – Hindu Mythology
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities Honors Contract
Overview of the traditional Hindu narratives found in the Vedic, epic, and puranic literature and in their many forms in regional literary and artistic forms, and the narratives influence on culture, philosophy, literature, and folklore.
Section 101
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Oct 14 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 50 / 150
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Oct 14 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 50 / 150
Section 201
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Oct 14 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 50 / 150
- +
- Section: 201
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Oct 14 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 50 / 150
RELI 363 – Religion and Sex
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities Honors Contract
In this course we will analyze attitudes towards sexuality in the major world religions, and focus on the relationship between religion and sexuality in the contemporary U.S. context.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Instructor Kristy Slominski
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 26 / 150
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Kristy Slominski
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 2:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 26 / 150
RELI 372A – History and Religion of Israel in Ancient Times -- The Biblical Period
Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities
Survey of the history and religion of ancient Israel. Biblical period through the Babylonian Exile; introduction to the Hebrew Bible.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Instructor Beth Nakhai
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 3 / 20
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Beth Nakhai
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 11:00 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 3 / 20
RELI 372A – History and Religion of Israel in Ancient Times -- The Biblical Period
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities Honors Course
Survey of the history and religion of ancient Israel. Biblical period through the Babylonian Exile; introduction to the Hebrew Bible.
Section 002
Days TuTh
Location Live Online
Time 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Instructor Beth Nakhai
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 10 / 20
- +
- Section: 002
- Instructor:Beth Nakhai
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Live Online
- Time: 12:30 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 10 / 20
RELI 374 – The Holocaust
Cross Listed
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 001
Days TuTh
Location Modern Languages, Rm 310
Time 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Instructor Susan Crane
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 18 / 40
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Susan Crane
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Modern Languages, Rm 310
- Time: 11:00 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 18 / 40
RELI 381 – African/Indigenous Religions
Cross Listed Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis Tier 2 Humanities
This course examines religious beliefs in Africa in order to illuminate connections between religion and culture on that continent, and to examine the relationship between religio-culture and the socio-economic and political forces that shape contemporary African societies.
Section 001
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Julian Kunnie
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 26 / 30
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Julian Kunnie
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 26 / 30
RELI 387 – The History of Anti-Semitism
Cross Listed
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 001
Days TuTh
Location Engineering, Rm 311
Time 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Instructor David Graizbord
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 8 / 25
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:David Graizbord
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Engineering, Rm 311
- Time: 4:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 8 / 25
RELI 387 – The History of Anti-Semitism
Cross Listed Honors Course
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 002
Days TuTh
Location Engineering, Rm 311
Time 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Instructor David Graizbord
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 8 / 25
- +
- Section: 002
- Instructor:David Graizbord
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Engineering, Rm 311
- Time: 4:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 8 / 25
RELI 389 – Middle Eastern Ethnic and Religious Minorities
Cross Listed Writing Emphasis Course
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
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Unassigned
Date Oct 14 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 8 / 30
- +
- Section: 101
- Instructor:Unassigned
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Oct 14 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 8 / 30
RELI 399 – Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
Section 012
Days
Location
Time 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Instructor Julian Kunnie
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 3
- +
- Section: 012
- Instructor:Julian Kunnie
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 12:00 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 3
RELI 399H – Honors Independent Study
Honors Course
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
Section 017
Days
Location
Time 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Instructor Andrea McComb Sanchez
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 10
- +
- Section: 017
- Instructor:Andrea McComb Sanchez
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 12:00 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 10
RELI 428A – Globalization, the Environment, and Indigenous Religions
Cross Listed Honors Contract Writing Emphasis Course
This course discusses the impact of globalization on the environment and ecology, with a particular focus on indigenous cultures and religions in the context of environmental instability.
Section 001
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Julian Kunnie
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 12 / 25
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Julian Kunnie
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 12 / 25
RELI 445 – Women in Islamic History
Cross Listed
Examination of the roles women have played throughout Islamic history and of the changing discourse in the Islamic community about women and their roles.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location Room To Be Announced
Time 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Instructor Linda Darling
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 3 / 25
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Linda Darling
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Room To Be Announced
- Time: 12:30 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 3 / 25
RELI 481 – Jews in the Roman Empire
Cross Listed
This course explores Judaism from Late Antiquity through the beginning of the Middle Ages. Rather than a traditional survey format, we will cover this period through historical, literary, and cultural approaches to primary literature (including focus on rabbinic literature) organized thematically. Throughout, we will read primary and secondary sources on two levels: exploring the historical and literary narratives they weave about this period in Jewish history, while paying close attention to their rhetorical choices. We discuss rabbinic self-representation simultaneously as we analyze the ways historical narratives and primary texts have been mobilized in the contemporary Jewish clime. Finally, we will treat the question of how this body of literature came to be of such central importance in Jewish culture.
Section 001
Days Fr
Location Modern Languages, Rm 504
Time 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Instructor Max Strassfeld
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 2 / 20
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Max Strassfeld
- Days: Fr
- Location: Modern Languages, Rm 504
- Time: 9:30 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 2 / 20
RELI 490 – Indian Religions and Spirituality
Cross Listed Pass/Fail Option
Examines the positive (curing, harmony with the natural world, etc.) aspects of Indian religions. Indian medicine men may participate in the course at various junctures.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location
Time 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Instructor Andrea McComb Sanchez
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 3 / 15
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Andrea McComb Sanchez
- Days: TuTh
- Location:
- Time: 3:30 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 3 / 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 014
Days
Location
Time 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Instructor Grant Adamson
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 5
- +
- Section: 014
- Instructor:Grant Adamson
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 12:00 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 5
RELI 496G – Islamic Law and Society
Cross Listed Writing Emphasis Course
This course focuses on Islamic Law and Society, topics such as the life and teachings of Muhammad, political and theological controversies, and the classical tradition of Islam.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location Modern Languages, Rm 201
Time 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Instructor Scott Lucas
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 6 / 15
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Scott Lucas
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Modern Languages, Rm 201
- Time: 12:30 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 6 / 15
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
Location
Time 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Instructor Unassigned
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 5
- +
- Section: 010
- Instructor:Unassigned
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 12:00 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 5
Section 014
Days
Location
Time 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Instructor Alexander Nava
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 5
- +
- Section: 014
- Instructor:Alexander Nava
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 12:00 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 5
RELI 498H – Honors Thesis
Honors Course Writing Emphasis 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 014
Days
Location
Time 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Instructor Alexander Nava
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 5
- +
- Section: 014
- Instructor:Alexander Nava
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 12:00 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 5
Section 017
Days
Location
Time 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Instructor Konden Smith Hansen
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 3
- +
- Section: 017
- Instructor:Konden Smith Hansen
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 12:00 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 3
RELI 499 – Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
Section 016
Days
Location
Time 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Instructor Unassigned
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 5
- +
- Section: 016
- Instructor:Unassigned
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 12:00 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 5
Section 017
Days
Location
Time 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 20
- +
- Section: 017
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 12:00 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 20
RELI 499H – Honors Independent Study
Honors Course
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
Section 017
Days
Location
Time 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Instructor Unassigned
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 10
- +
- Section: 017
- Instructor:Unassigned
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 12:00 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 10
RELI 528A – Globalization, the Environment, and Indigenous Religions
Cross Listed
This course discusses the impact of globalization on the environment and ecology, with a particular focus on indigenous cultures and religions in the context of environmental instability. Graduate-level requirements include a 25-30 page double-spaced research synthesis and reflective paper that reflects your understanding of Globalization and the Environment and 4 book reviews from books used in class.
Section 001
Days
Location Online
Time 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Instructor Julian Kunnie
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 12 / 25
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Julian Kunnie
- Days:
- Location: Online
- Time: 5:00 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 12 / 25
RELI 581 – Jews in the Roman Empire
This course explores Judaism from Late Antiquity through the beginning of the Middle Ages. Rather than a traditional survey format, we will cover this period through historical, literary, and cultural approaches to primary literature (including focus on rabbinic literature) organized thematically. Throughout, we will read primary and secondary sources on two levels: exploring the historical and literary narratives they weave about this period in Jewish history, while paying close attention to their rhetorical choices. We discuss rabbinic self-representation simultaneously as we analyze the ways historical narratives and primary texts have been mobilized in the contemporary Jewish clime. Finally, we will treat the question of how this body of literature came to be of such central importance in Jewish culture.
Graduate-level requirements include a 20 page research paper at the end of term. For students with skills in Hebrew and Aramaic, a separate meeting will be convened to read the texts in the original and work on linguistic skills.
Section 001
Days Fr
Location Modern Languages, Rm 504
Time 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Instructor Max Strassfeld
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 2 / 20
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Max Strassfeld
- Days: Fr
- Location: Modern Languages, Rm 504
- Time: 9:30 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 2 / 20
RELI 596G – Islamic Law and Society
Cross Listed Writing Emphasis Course
This course focuses on Islamic Law and Society, topics such as the life and teachings of Muhammad, political and theological controversies, and the classical tradition of Islam. Graduate-level requirements include at least one in-class presentation of the assigned readings for the week, including distribution of an outline and active leading of subsequent discussion.
Section 001
Days TuTh
Location Modern Languages, Rm 201
Time 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Instructor Scott Lucas
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 6 / 15
- +
- Section: 001
- Instructor:Scott Lucas
- Days: TuTh
- Location: Modern Languages, Rm 201
- Time: 12:30 PM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 6 / 15
RELI 599 – Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
Section 010
Days
Location
Time 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Instructor Caleb Simmons
Date Aug 23 - Dec 8
Status Open
Enrollment 0 / 1
- +
- Section: 010
- Instructor:Caleb Simmons
- Days:
- Location:
- Time: 12:00 AM
- Dates: Aug 23 - Dec 8
- Status: Open
- Enrollment: 0 / 1