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Religious Studies
Department of History & Philosophy
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RELS 105D INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF RELIGION
RELS 110D RELIGION,CONFLICT,AND POLITICS
RELS 201D RELIGION IN LATIN AMERICA
RELS 202D ASIAN RELIGIONS-HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM
RELS 203D ASIAN RELIGIONS:FROM TAOISM TO ZEN
RELS 204IH INTRODUCTION TO THE HEBREW BIBLE
RELS 205IH INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
RELS 206IH ORIGINS OF GOD
RELS 207IH MYTH, METAPHOR, AND METAMORPHOSES
RELS 217IH RELIGION AND SCIENCE
RELS 220IH INTERPRETATION OF AMERICAN RELIGION
RELS 223 NATURE & CULTURE
RELS 280 SPECIAL TOPICS
RELS 289R UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY INSTRUCTION
RELS 290R UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY
RELS 320 PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
RELS 321 GENDER AND RELIGION
RELS 325 LITERATURE AND RELIGION
RELS 326 MYSTICS, FOUNDERS, REFORMERS
RELS 330 RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT EGYPT
RELS 332 BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
RELS 402 THE NATURAL, THE UNNATURAL, AND THE SUPERNATURAL
RELS 405 TEXT AND IMAGE
RELS 407 Isms-THE RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND OF SOCIAL & POLITICAL CATEGORIES
RELS 410 PSYCHE AND THE SACRED
RELS 470 INDEPENDENT STUDY
RELS 480 SPECIAL TOPICS
RELS 489R UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY INSTRUCTION
RELS 490R UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY
RELS 570 INDEPENDENT STUDY
RELS 105D 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.
RELS 110D RELIGION, CONFLICT AND 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.
RELS 201D RELIGION IN LATIN AMERICA
S alternate years, to be offered odd years 3 cr. SEM 3
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This course examines the history
of religion in Latin America
from pre-conquest times to
the present and traces the
mutual influences of indigenous,
African, and Iberian traditions.
It will emphasize "popular" beliefs,
symbols, and rituals and
their relationship with elite
religion and state power. Cross-listed with HIST 201.
RELS 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.
RELS 203D ASIAN RELIGIONS:FROM TAOISM 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.
RELS 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.
RELS 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.
RELS 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.
RELS 207IH MYTH, METAPHOR, AND METAMORPHOSES
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.
RELS 217IH RELIGION AND SCIENCE
On Demand 3 cr. LEC 3
-- The histories of religious world-views and their responses to scientific thought.
RELS 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.
RELS 223 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.
RELS 280 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 289R UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY INSTRUCTION
F,S 1-3 cr. RCT may be repeated
-- Classroom instruction associated with directed undergraduate research/creative activity projects.
RELS 290R UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY
F,S 1-6 cr. IND may be repeated
-- Directed undergraduate research/creative activity which may culminate in a written work or other creative project.
RELS 320 PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
On Demand 3 cr. LEC 3
PREREQUISITE: One of the following: PHIL 105, PHIL 120, RELS 206, RELS 207, PHIL 220, PHIL 231, or PHIL 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.
RELS 321 GENDER AND RELIGION
On Demand 3 cr. LEC 2 RCT 1
PREREQUISITE: One of the following: HUM 204, HUM 205, RELS 105, RELS 110, RELS 202, RELS 203, RELS 204, RELS 205 or RELS 220.
-- Investigation of metaphors and myths of gender and world cultures.
RELS 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.
RELS 326 MYSTICS, FOUNDERS, REFORMERS
On Demand 3 cr. SEM 3
PREREQUISITE: One of the following: RELS 105, RELS 202, RELS 203, RELS 204, RELS 205, RELS 206, RELS 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.
RELS 330 RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT EGYPT
On Demand 3 cr. LEC 3
PREREQUISITE: RELS 105, RELS 110, RELS 204, RELS 205, or RELS 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.
RELS 332 BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
S alternate years, to be offered even years 3 cr. LEC 3
PREREQUISITE: RELS 105 or RELS 110, and RELS 204 or RELS 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."
RELS 402 THE NATURAL, THE UNNATURAL, AND THE SUPERNATURAL
On Demand 4 cr. SEM 4
PREREQUISITE: One of the following: HUM 205, RELS 202, RELS 203, RELS 204, RELS 205, RELS 206, RELS 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.
RELS 405 TEXT AND IMAGE
On Demand 4 cr. LEC 3 RCT 1
PREREQUISITE: One of the following: RELS 105, RELS 110, RELS 204, RELS 205, RELS 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.
RELS 407 Isms-THE RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND OF SOCIAL & POLITICAL CATEGORIES
F,S alternate years, to be offered Fall even years 3 cr. SEM 3
PREREQUISITE: RELS 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.
RELS 410 PSYCHE AND THE SACRED
On Demand 3 cr. LEC 3
PREREQUISITE: One of the following: RELS 105, RELS 202, RELS 203, RELS 204, RELS 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.
RELS 470 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
RELS 480 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.
RELS 489R UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY INSTRUCTION
F,S,Su 1 - 2 cr. RCT May be repeated. Max 4 cr.
COREQUISITE: RELS 490.
-- Classroom instruction associated with directed undergraduate research/creative activity projects.
RELS 490R UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY
F,S,Su 1 - 6 cr. IND May be repeated. Max 12 cr.
PREREQUISITE: Junior standing and consent of department head.
-- Directed undergraduate research.
RELS 570 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
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