|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
4.00 Credits
Supervised reading and research with a faculty supervisor normally resulting in a thesis prospectus. Required, supplemental group meetings to discuss topic and supervisor selection, study methodology, prospectus writing, and the prospectus meeting. Admission to course via application (available at http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/psych/ug/deadlines/index.html). Graded SAT/UNS. Full prospectus or term paper required.
-
8.00 Credits
Individual supervised thesis research supplemented with occasional group meetings to discuss major aspects of the thesis process (e.g., organizing, conducting, and presenting research). Graded Sat/Unsat. Prospectus meeting required for fall term credit, as well as a paper for students who divide course at mid-year. Submission of thesis required for full year credit.
-
8.00 Credits
Individual supervised thesis research supplemented with occasional group meetings to discuss major aspects of the thesis process (e.g., organizing, conducting, and presenting research). Graded Sat/Unsat. Prospectus meeting required for fall term credit, as well as a paper for students who divide course at mid-year. Submission of thesis required for full year credit.
-
8.00 Credits
Individual supervised research supplemented with occasional group meetings to discuss major aspects of the thesis process (e.g., organizing, conducting, and presenting research). Graded Sat/Unsat. Prospectus meeting required for fall term credit, as well as a paper for students who divide course at mid-year. Submission of thesis required for full year credit.
-
4.00 Credits
This course explores the use of ethnographic methods by anthropologists and scholars of religion as a means of interpreting the lived religious experiences of everyday people. Students will read contemporary ethnographies and conduct their own ethnographic research in order to discover how participant observation, interviews, and other qualitative methods allow scholars to make sense of the very real religious sensibilities of worshipers, while simultaneously bringing to bear their own issues of subjectivity as ethnographers.
-
4.00 Credits
Investigates religious traditions of the world in the dynamic urban context of today, focusing on the presence of these traditions in the increasingly complex and diverse religious life of the Boston area. A review of the religious histories of greater Boston. Visits to Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, and Buddhist centers. Consideration of the interfaith encounters, connections, and tensions with Christian and Jewish communities. Each student undertakes research on a particular community or issue in the Boston cosmopolis.
-
4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the cross-cultural study of religion and literature, considering both the literary dimensions of religious texts and the ways in which literature shapes its readers religiously, spiritually, and morally.
-
4.00 Credits
This course, required of all first-year MDiv students but open to all, serves as an introduction to various approaches to the academic study of religion, from the anthropological and sociological to the philosophical and theological.
-
4.00 Credits
The use of gender as a category of analysis has transformed the study of religion. This course will explore a range of topics in women's studies across a range of religious contexts. Members of the faculty will introduce issues of women and gender from their specific disciplinary and theoretical perspectives.
-
4.00 Credits
This course is about the impact of the past on the 'present' of historical time. Through the disciplinary lenses of anthropology and archaeology, we will explore how different peoples have encountered, imagined, and appropriated earlier times - historical, prehistorical, mythical, ancestral, biographical, material and ideological. Key topics include social time, memory, human temporality, the status of the dead, eternal recurrence, practices of transformation and rebirth, and the modern West's relationship to the classical world.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Cookies Policy |
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|