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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Topics in religion studied through the media of film, fiction, and autobiography. Topics include the nature of authentic religion, challenges to faith posed by modern culture, the quest for meaning and values, and the search for self-identity.
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3.00 Credits
The course will focus on the Christian theology of Paul Tillich. The first half of the course will survey the core elements of Tillich's thought. In the second half, students will closely read two book-length treatises of Tillich's.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys the quest for communion with the sacred in both traditional and modern cultures worldwide. Specifically, it examines Christian mysticism, Islamic Sufism, the modern charismatic movement, the Yoga traditions of Hinduism, the Kabbalistic mysticism of Judaism, and various forms of Buddhist spirituality, including Tibetan, Zen, and Theravada Buddhism.
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3.00 Credits
Examines both historical and contemporary events and movements shaped by the interplay of religion with race-gender-class issues. Topics include women and religion, liberation theologies, and civil rights.
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3.00 Credits
This course will analyze ethical questions focused on issues such as prolongation and termination of medical treatment, physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, reproductive medicine, fetal tissue transplantation, and genetic engineering.
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3.00 Credits
Independent Study
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4.00 Credits
Senior Project
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Russian studies with attention to political, demographic, economic, social, and cultural features of the Russian area.
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3.00 Credits
Viewing of films by such major directors as Eisenstein, Vertov, Ryazanov, Tarkovsky, Muratova, and Paradjanov, as well as other important films of the Soviet and post-Soviet eras. Some reading in film theory and Russian film history. In English.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Russian cultural achievements in music, visual arts, architecture, folk arts, philosophy, and religion.
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