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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: junior status and at least one liberal studies course or permission. An interdisciplinary exploration of the nature and variety of mysticism. Theoretical debates concerning the psychological roots and cultural conditioning of mysticism. Includes an examination of important mystics in the Christian, Islamic, and East Asian traditions along with their significance for their respective societies.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: junior status or permission of instructor. The focus of this course will be early stages of unfolding of "globalization" in Eurasia, from antiquity intothe early modern period, with particular attention given to China's important role in these developments, and how it was affected in turn.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: junior status or permission of instructor. Modern challenges to the traditional orders of China, Japan, India and Africa and their responses; issues and models in reconciling traditional and modern values, indigenous and foreign forces.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: junior status or permission of instructor. Critical readings of postcolonial novels. Close attention to how they have been shaped as artistic wholes, and how they try to shape emotions and beliefs of readers. Reading beyond the novels about contexts which they assume and incompletely express: change and the absence of change in postcolonial societies.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: one course from the following: LBRL 231, 271, 272, 275, 277; HIST 370. Beginning with a broad overview of the teachings of Buddhism and its core beliefs and practices, this course will then turn to detailed study of the doctrines and institutions of particular Buddhist traditions.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: junior status or permission of instructor. Examination of major Indian religious traditions - Hindu and Islamic - as ritual systems, beliefand-value systems, and systems of social identification; emphasis on the relation of religion to social and gender identities, communal politics, and social change, chiefly in the modern period.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: one course from LBRL 231, 271, 272, 273, 275, 277, 332. Introduction to the foundations of Buddhism with a focus on Buddhist art and architecture. Topics include an introduction to religious activities around which Buddhist art has grown, and exploration of how these activities influenced the production of Buddhist art and architecture. Moving through chronology and geography, the course will examine Buddhism's origins in India, the changes that accompanied its move across the Asian continent, its adaptation to local customs and religions in East and Southeast Asia, and how these changes are manifested in art and architecture.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: one of LBRL 231, 271, 278, 332, 378, HIST 287, 487b. An exploration of the ideological foundations and historical contexts of reform movements in the Middle East, Asia and Africa from the 18th century up to the various contemporary Salafi movements commonly recognized as "fundamentalist." Islamic responsesto imperialism, colonialism, and "modernization" through the analysisof texts written by major Muslim modernist and revivalist thinkers such as al-Afghani, Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Abduh, Mawdudi, Qutb, Khomeini and others.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: two courses from Lbrl 417a-e, senior status, LBRL 400, permission of instructor. Research and writing of a formal paper on a topic developed by the student in consultation with a faculty advisor. Lbrl 400, Readings in Humanities (2), required in the quarter prior to Lbrl 499.
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2.00 Credits
Introduces students to the nature of research with emphasis on strategies for carrying out inquiry, locating electronic and print sources, assessing sources for authority and selecting and incorporating material from sources into writing. Not open to freshmen.
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