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4.00 Credits
An introductory survey of Christian thought from its origins to the present. Attention given to tracking the intellectual trajectories of Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant thought. Topics covered include the relationship between faith and reason, the identity and function of Jesus Christ, understandings of the self in relation to God, and different notions of community. Primary readings include Origen, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Julian of Norwich, Luther, Calvin, Barth, Gutierrez, Daly, and Cone.
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4.00 Credits
In the event of the absence of God, can one still have belief? In the face of nothingness, how is one to live? Can beauty still be encountered in the aftermath of war and genocide? This course discusses various responses to these questions in philosophy, theology, literature, and film, focusing on the ideas emerging out of WWII and the Holocaust. Thinkers considered include Dostoyevsky, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, Marcel, Arendt, and filmmakers, Bergman and Kurosawa.
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4.00 Credits
Study of special topics in the history and comparative study of religion on an individual or small-group basis.
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4.00 Credits
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4.00 Credits
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4.00 Credits
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8.00 Credits
A required component of the senior year tutorial is a monthly seminar, led by the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies. Covers research methods and strategies in thesis writing.
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4.00 Credits
Early Modern writers alike were fascinated by the question of decorum. Moralists like Erasmus, Vives, Luis de Leon, Faret, Gracian produced manuals designed to spell out gender, class and institutional roles, tailored to new social and political conditions, while poets like Lope de Vega, Ruiz de Alarcon, Calderon, Corneille, Moliere, scrutinized decorous and outrageous behavior more playfully in their comedies.
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4.00 Credits
This digital humanities seminar explores the place of multitudes in the Western cultural and socio-political imagination between 1789 and the present, whether from the standpoint of theorizations of the collectivity (Lombroso, Tarde, Le Bon, Sighele, Freud, Ortega, Canetti, Negri) or from that of visual or literary imaginings (Guys, Ensor, Carra, Rodchenko, Sironi, Krueger; Baudelaire, Valera, Manzoni, Zola, D'Annunzio, Marinetti). Assignments include writing semantic histories and curatorial oversight over a digital gallery.
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4.00 Credits
Tutorial supervision of research on subjects not treated in regular courses.
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