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3.00 Credits
In consultation with a faculty member, upper-level students arrange a semester-long internship with one of the many radio broadcast production companies located within Connecticut and the New York metropolitan area.The course combines on-site supervision and meetings with faculty advisors, weekly journal submissions, and an assigned paper at the end of the internship.This is an elective applied course in the radio track of the New Media Film, Television and Radio Program.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course provides a comprehensive introduction to Russian civilization seen through the lens of visual expression, performance, and drama.Students revisit Russian painting, architecture, dance, music, and film at pivotal historical junctures, seeking to comprehend the underlying ideologies of orthodoxy, autocracy, totalitarianism, and perestroika.Images serve as our principle gateway to the deeply religious cultural imagination that has never experienced Renaissance and Reformation.Critical examination of extensive Western and Eastern influences explains the creation of native Russian aesthetic and ideology by way of adaptation, accommodation, and transformation of multicultural and multiethnic input.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary seminar, team-taught by faculty members from different disciplines or available as an independent project, focuses on current and changing developments in Russia or Eastern Europe and covers culture, politics, business, and economics, enabling students to integrate their different disciplines in a case-study format.The course includes oral and written assignments in addition to a special seminar project, designed by students in close consultation with instructors.Open to juniors or seniors only.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Candidates work a minimum of eight hours per week during the semester either for the Russian and East European Studies Program director, helping with publicity, coordination, and public events, or for an organization or business in the area doing work in Russia or Eastern Europe.Under the direction of a faculty member in Russian and East European studies, interns regularly report on their work and write an evaluation of the experience at the end of the summer.The internship is available only to juniors and seniors seeking a minor in Russian and East European studies.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines Jewish faith and community from the biblical period through the present, paying particular attention to the concepts of God, revelation, religious authority, divine election, and personhood; the celebration of holidays and observances; contemporary religious movements; and organizations and institutions that continue to support Jewish life.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines the origin and development of Judaism and the Jewish people.It begins with the Hebrew Bible as the source of Judaism and follows its development to the modern era.This overview introduces the Jewish religion, its history, and development.Formerly listed as RS 100.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces Islam as a global religion and civilization.After a brief historical overview, the course focuses on the foundational concepts of Islam - Quran, Prophet, Ritual and Community, and then analyzes how these concepts are interpreted in the main intellectual traditions, in the ways that Islam is practiced in different cultures and in the works of modern thinkers.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This historical and theological examination of the Christian doctrine of God pays special attention to the problematic aspects of the development of this doctrine through the ages, exploring this development in biblical sources; patristic, medieval, Reformation, and modern times.The course concludes with a consideration of the challenge of post-Enlightenment atheism and of the efforts of contemporary theologians to recast the classical conception of God.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This introduction to the beliefs, doctrines, ideas, and practices that shape the unity and diversity of the Catholic tradition explores theological, devotional, and spiritual forms of expression in their historical and cultural contexts in order to appreciate the particularity of Catholic themes.The course also considers how these themes engage contemporary Catholic life and exercise an influence on the wider culture.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
A systematic treatment of the person and work of Jesus Christ, this course examines different interpretations of the meaning of the Christ event from the scriptural sources to contemporary developments.Three credits.
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