RLST
Religious Studies
RLST 100D INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF RELIGION RLST 110D RELIGION,CONFLICT,& POLITICS RLST 202D ASIAN RELIGIONS-HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM RLST 203D DAOISM TO ZEN RLST 204IH INTRODUCTION TO THE HEBREW BIBLE RLST 205IH INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW TESTAMENT RLST 206IH ORIGINS OF GOD RLST 207IH MYTH AND METAPHOR RLST 217IH RELIGION AND SCIENCE RLST 220IH INTERPRETATION OF AMERICAN RELIGION RLST 223IH NATURE & CULTURE RLST 290R UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH RLST 291 SPECIAL TOPICS RELS 320 PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION RLST 321 GENDER AND RELIGION RLST 325 LITERATURE AND RELIGION RLST 326 MYSTICS, FOUNDERS, REFORMERS RLST 330 RELIGION ANCIENT EGYPT RLST 332 BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY RLST 402 NATURAL/UNNATURAL/SUPERNATURAL RLST 405 TEXT AND IMAGE RLST 407 Isms RELIGION & CATEGORIES RLST 410 PSYCHE AND THE SACRED WORLD RLST 415 MYTH, MAGIC, RELIGION RLST 490R UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH RLST 491 SPECIAL TOPICS RLST 492 INDEPENDENT STUDY RLST 592 INDEPENDENT STUDY
RLST 100D INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY
OF RELIGION
On Demand 3 cr. LEC 3
-- The great themes of the world's religions and the methodological
approaches to the academic study of religion and culture.
RLST 110D RELIGION, CONFLICT &
POLITICS
F 4 cr. LEC 3 RCT 1
-- This course will focus on issues in which political events and conflict
have had their roots in religion or in specific interpretations of different
aspects of religion.
RLST 202D ASIAN RELIGIONS-HINDUISM
AND BUDDHISM
On Demand 3 cr. LEC 3
-- The sacred texts and the historical forms of religious thought and
practice in the traditions of India.
RLST 203D DAOISM TO ZEN
On Demand 3 cr. LEC 3
-- The sacred texts and images of the religious thought and practices
in the traditions of China, Korea, and Japan.
RLST 204IH INTRODUCTION TO HEBREW BIBLE
On Demand 3 cr. LEC 3
-- The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and its interpreters will be studied
from literary, historical, archaeological, anthropological, and cultural
perspectives.
RLST 205IH INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW
TESTAMENT
On Demand 3 cr. LEC 1 RCT 2
-- The New Testament and it interpreters will be studied from literary,
historical, archaeological, anthropological, and cultural perspectives.
RLST 206IH ORIGINS OF GOD
On Demand 3 cr. LEC 3
-- The history and roots and of varieties of concepts of the divine
in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
RLST 207IH MYTH AND METAPHOR
F alternate years, 3 cr. LEC 3 to be offered even years
-- Images of key figures from sacred texts of the world, such as Moses,
Krishna, the Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, or Muhammad, will be explored
through themes such as the avatar, iconoclasm, sacrifice, or textuality,
and examined in their cultural contexts.
RLST 217IH RELIGION AND SCIENCE
On Demand 3 cr. LEC 3
-- The histories of religious world-views and their responses to scientific
thought.
RLST 220IH INTERPRETATION OF AMERICAN
RELIGION
On Demand 3 cr. LEC 3
-- Religion in America and America as religion: an examination of figures,
texts, and material culture in religious traditions that create twenty-first
century America. This includes issues in the history of American religious
traditions, myth, cultural imagery, thought, trends, and practices.
RLST 223IH NATURE AND CULTURE
S alternate years, to be offered even years 3 cr. LEC 2 RCT 1
-- The roots of the western world views of nature; the development of
western scientific theories and technologies; gender, ethnicity, and
class influences on descriptions of nature; and a survey of nonwestern
views of nature and society.
RLST 290R UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
F,S 1-6 cr. IND may be repeated
-- Directed undergraduate research which may culminate
in a written work or other creative project. Course will address responsible
conduct of research.
RLST 291 SPECIAL TOPICS
On Demand 1 - 4 cr. Maximum 12 cr.
PREREQUISITE: None required but some may be determined necessary by
each offering department.
-- Courses not required in any curriculum for which there is a particular
one-time need, or given on a trial basis to determine acceptability
and demand before requesting a regular course number.
RELS 320 PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
On Demand 3 cr. LEC 3
PREREQUISITE: One of the following: PHL 110, PHL 101, RLST 206, RLST
207, PHL 270, PHL 236, or PHL 290.
-- Analysis of concepts of God, revealed truth, and immortality; the
nature of religious emotion and experience, and of religious language;
relation of faith to reason; traditional proofs of God's existence;
the problem of evil.
RLST 321 GENDER AND RELIGION
On Demand 3 cr. LEC 2 RCT 1
PREREQUISITE: One of the following: HUM 204, HUM 205, RLST 105, RLST
110, RLST 202, RLST 203, RLST 204, RLST 205 or RLST 220.
-- Investigation of metaphors and myths of gender and world cultures.
RLST 325 LITERATURE AND RELIGION
On Demand 3 cr. SEM 3
PREREQUISITE: At least two 200 level courses in any one or combination
of Religious Studies, English, Humanities, Modern Languages, or permission
of the instructor.
-- Exploration of the relationship between the sacred and the aesthetic
in a variety of ancient, modern, and postmodern texts.
RLST 326 MYSTICS, FOUNDERS, REFORMERS
On Demand 3 cr. SEM 3
PREREQUISITE: One of the following: RLST 105, RLST 202, RLST 203, RLST
204, RLST 205, RLST 206, RLST 207, or permission of the instructor.
-- The varieties of religious experience and the varieties of theories
describing and analyzing those texts considered mystical. Questions
of foundation and reformation periods considered in light of mystical
experience.
RLST 330 RELIGION ANCIENT EGYPT
On Demand 3 cr. LEC 3
PREREQUISITE: RLST 105, RLST 110, RLST 204, RLST 205, or RLST 206.
-- Survey Egyptian culture, religion, and society from the beginning
of the history of a unified Kingdom of Ancient Egypt in the middle of
the third millennium BCE through the Hellenestic conquest of Egypt by
Alexander the Great in 322 BCE.
RLST 332 BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
S alternate years, to be offered even years 3 cr. LEC 3
PREREQUISITE: RLST 105 or RLST 110, and RLST 204 or RLST 206.
-- This course will examine the archaeology of the biblical world. Major
topics to be covered will be the interaction of archaeological and biblical
scholarship, and the history and background of those peoples and cultures
that make up the "biblical world."
RLST 402 NATURAL/UNNATURAL/SUPERNATURAL
On Demand 4 cr. SEM 4
PREREQUISITE: One of the following: HUM 205, RLST 202, RLST 203, RLST
204, RLST 205, RLST 206, RLST 220 or permission of the instructor.
-- Investigating biblical, medieval, American, Taoist, and Buddhist
views of nature, ways of categorizing nature and the sacred, and implications
of traditional images for contemporary thought.
RLST 405 TEXT AND IMAGE
On Demand 4 cr. LEC 3 RCT 1
PREREQUISITE: One of the following: RLST 105, RLST 110, RLST 204, RLST
205, RLST 206 , HUM 201 or HUM 205.
-- If western religions are grounded in an iconoclastic imagination,
what are the theories of reading and of seeing? This course examines
the histories of literacy and of visual representation as keys to the
foundations of western culture and religion.
RLST 407 Isms-RELIGION & CATEGORIES
F,S alternate years, to be offered Fall even years 3 cr. SEM 3
PREREQUISITE: RLST 110.
-- This course will examine the religious roots of various social and
political categories in today's world which might include, among other,
nationalism, fundamentalism, or sexism, and examine the means by which
these religiously-influenced categories have affected contemporary society
and events.
RLST 410 PSYCHE AND THE SACRED
On Demand 3 cr. LEC 3
PREREQUISITE: One of the following: RLST 105, RLST 202, RLST 203, RLST
204, RLST 205, HUM 201, or permission of the instructor.
-- This course is a cross cultural investigation of the ideas of personhood,
including theories of the individual, the social, the body, and the
transpersonal and transtemporal.
RLST 415 MYTH, MAGIC, & RELIGION
S alternate years, to be offered odd years 3 cr. LEC 3.
PREREQUISITE: Junior standing, ANTH 204.
-- Forms of religious representation and practice in cultural and historical
context; from liminality and symbolic innovation to mythic charters
and social transformations, cosmological scenarios and ritual forms
are explored in this course.
RLST 490R UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
F,S,Su 1 - 6 cr. IND May be repeated. Max 12 cr.
PREREQUISITE: Junior standing and consent of department head.
-- Directed undergraduate research. Course will address responsible
conduct of research.
RLST 491 SPECIAL TOPICS
On Demand 1 - 4 cr. Maximum 12 cr.
PREREQUISITE: Course prerequisites as determined for each offering.
-- Courses not required in any curriculum for which there is a particular
one-time need, or given on a trial basis to determine acceptability
and demand before requesting a regular course number.
RLST 492 INDEPENDENT STUDY
On Demand 1 - 3 cr. IND Maximum 6 cr.
PREREQUISITE: Junior standing, consent of instructor, and approval of
department head.
-- Directed research and study on an individual basis.
RLST 592 INDEPENDENT STUDY
On Demand 1 - 3 cr. IND Maximum 6 cr.
PREREQUISITE: Graduate standing, consent of instructor, approval of
Associate Dean, and Dean of Graduate Studies.
-- Directed research and study on an individual basis.
