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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. A study of religious life in America. Emphasis is placed on the role of religion in the development of American life and character. S/2
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3 credits. A general survey of the beliefs and practices of major world religions, with a focus on Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Native American traditions. S
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This course investigates the nature of the Good Life, of moral principles, and the application of moral systems to contemporary debate. These may include questions about the morality of war, capital punishment, sexual behavior, welfare, and so forth. F,S
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3 credits. An examination of the role of women's experiences in religious thought, symbols and traditions, beginning with the centrality of goddess and mythic female figures, to the shift from matriarchy to patriarchy in the major cultures of the world and the consequential suppression of women's experiences by patriarchal society, up to the current trend towards reformation and reconstruction of traditional religions by contemporary women theologians and religious thinkers. S
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3 credits. A theoretical and practical introduction to the principles of reasoning-formal and informal, deductive and inductive. Students will study language and patterns of reasoning as vehicles for and obstacles to critical thinking. The central characteristics of deduction and validity; the role of hypotheses, inductive reasoning, probability estimates in scientific and quasi-scientific investigations and other models of critical thinking and their limits will be covered. F, S
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3 credits. An introduction to the academic study of this ancient literature that includes an investigation of its historical, cultural, and religious contexts, as well as an examination of the fundamental interpretive approaches employed by biblical scholars. F
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3 credits. A survey of Christian traditions, from their origins in Judaism and Greek philosophy; continuing through the growth of Christian doctrine in the 4th to 8th centuries; and concluding with the church in the Middle Ages. F
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3 credits. An introduction to the academic study of the New Testament that includes an investigation of its historical, cultural and religious contexts, as well as an examination of the fundamental interpretive approaches employed by biblical scholars. S
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3 credits. A survey of Christianity from the Protestant Reformation to Vatican II, with an emphasis on the influence of Protestantism, responses to the Enlightenment in Christian theology, and twentieth-century challenges. S
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3 credits. Comparative Jewish thought in cultural context and as manifest in Jewish literature. Topics to be studied include the sacred, the human community, the role of Israel, ethics, the Holocaust. F/3
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