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3.00 Credits
RAS 403 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Permission of the Russian Area Studies Committee. Directed Indvidual Study. Staff.
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Prerequisites: Senior standing, Russian Area Studies major, and permission of the program head. Students explore specialized issues in Russian Area Studies through writing a thesis on a topic chosen in consultation with two members of the Russian Area Studies faculty committee. Staff.
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Prerequisites: Senior standing and honors candidacy. Honors Thesis. Staff.
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This course explores the nature, function, and meaning of religion in individual and collective experience. Through consideration of texts in a diversity of humanistic and social scientific disciplines, students study the meaning of myth, symbol, ritual, ethics and other categories integral to understanding religion. They also explore texts, practices, and symbols from a variety of world religions. Kosky.
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An introduction to the history, literature and interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament). Marks.
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An introduction to the history, literature and interpretation of the New Testament. Brown.
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A survey of the teachings, practices, and historical significance of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto. Haskett.
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This course familiarizes students with the foundations of the Islamic tradition and the diverse historical and geographical manifestations of belief and practice built upon those foundations. Throughout the course, the role of Islam in shaping cultural, social, gender, and political identities is explored. Readings are drawn from the writings of both historical and contemporary Muslim thinkers. Hatcher.
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Through a variety of sources, including Talmudic debate, novels, liturgy, memoirs, film, and history, this course introduces the main concepts, literature, and practices of the classical forms of Judaism that began in the first centuries C.E., and then examines how Judaism has changed during the past two centuries, in modernist movements (Reform, Neo-Orthodoxy, Zionism) and contemporary fundamentalist movements (Ultra-Orthodoxy, messianic settler Zionism), as well as current ideas and issues. Marks.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the modern study of religion through a consideration of the diversity of religious expression in the United States as seen in differences among periods of American history, geographic regions and populations. Markowitz.
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