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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 IR The emergence of Christianity as a distinct religion within the Roman empire; the diversity of early Christian beliefs and practices.
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3.00 Credits
3 IR A study of one literary genre (such as prose narrative, didactic poetry, or hymnody) through the books of the Hebrew Bible in comparison to other ancient literatures.
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3.00 Credits
3 Y Religion as an expression of culture and also as a force that contributes to the formation of culture. Approaches and topics vary.
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3.00 Credits
3 IR Religious teachings in narrative form. Traditions include Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, African, and Native American religions. Topics include saints, miracles, gender, nature, identity, resistance, empowerment.
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3.00 Credits
3 IR Readings in religion and film theory to examine how film-makers employ, construct, and presume particular understandings of the religious. Film viewing outside regular classroom time.
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3.00 Credits
3 Y Readings of 20th-century fiction and drama, focusing on works by Schnitzler, Kafka, Wiesel, P. Levi, Yezierska, H. Roth, I.B. Singer, Malamud, P. Roth, and Ozick.
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3.00 Credits
3 Y Survey of Yiddish literature, with special attention to the classic Yiddish authors, Yiddish theater, modernism, and Yiddish women writers. Themes of minority culture, class struggle, hasidism, and the decline of the Shtetl.
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3.00 Credits
3 IR The impact of modernity on Jewish life and thought. Issues and themes vary.
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3.00 Credits
3 Y Literary and cultural approach to the modern history of Israel, with special attention to conflicts that have arisen during the Zionist project.
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3.00 Credits
3 IR Historical, literary, and philosophical representations of, and responses to, the Nazi genocide. Philosophical, theological, and ethical challenges raised by the Holocaust.
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