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3.00 Credits
Understanding of administrative practices including: legal aspects of recreation services; principles of planning and operation of recreation areas and facilities; financial and business procedures; public relations; principles of organization and coordination of services; personnel practices; evaluation. The purpose of this competency is to provide a foundation on which future depth of administrative competency can build. Prerequisite: REC 206. Offered each spring.
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4.00 Credits
What is religion? How should we study it? This course is an introduction to the academic study of religion. Using the data from a wide variety of religious traditions, students gain familiarity with the categories used in the comparative study of religion: sacred space and time, sacred text, sacred history, myth, and ritual. Offered each fall.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of various religions of the world, their beliefs, practices, and ethical concerns. Focusing primarily on Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, students in this course examine the history, literature, structures, and manifestations of each of these religions. We examine how such disciplines as psychology, sociology, theology, art and ethics shape, and are shaped by, particular religious world views. The course ends with a specific examination of some of the key conflicts/disagreements between two of these religious traditions. Offered each semester. * RELST 116 only.
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4.00 Credits
Using the four principle organizing categories of history, text, God, and covenant, this course introduces students to the length and breadth of Jewish traditions, including its historical development, its sacred texts of Torah, Tanakh, and rabbinic literature, its annual and life cycles and rituals, and the self-conceptions of a relationship to God and the responsibilities that are part of that relationship. Offered each fall.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to the wide variety of major religious traditions in the United States, and examines both how adherents of those traditions have responded to their "American" experience, as well as how religion generally hastransformed in a diverse and increasingly pluralistic environment. Offered each spring.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses not on the content of the Bible but on the function of the Bible in American culture, politics, and society. Students examine such persons as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Thomas Jefferson and focus on distinctively American types of biblical interpretation. Issues such as slavery, prohibition, and the Scopes trial are studied and highlight how the Bible has been used and abused in arguments on social policies. By examining issues related to publishing and translating the Bible, some of the most intense theological debates in American life are highlighted. Students also focus on how American laws shape the influence of the Bible in American life by highlighting contemporary public educational contexts. Offered on demand.
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4.00 Credits
The ancient Israelites wrote stories of their past. They preserved laws. They wrote prophecies, biographies, common-sense advice, love poetry, and apocalypses. This course is an introduction to some of these writings; specifically, the writings preserved in the Old Testament (and in the Apocrypha). Thus, this course looks both at the history of the Hebrews and Israelites and-more specifically-at the literature which they used to express and communicate their faith. Prerequisite: at least three semester hours in one or more of the following: English, history, philosophy, religious studies, general studies. Offered fall of odd-numbered years.
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4.00 Credits
The first Christians wrote letters to each other, they wrote tales about Jesus, they wrote sermons and apocalypses. This course is an introduction to some of those writings preserved in the New Testament, but also those apocryphal and non-canonical works which shaped how the New Testament was remembered and how Christianity developed. Thus, this course looks both at the earliest Christians (from a historical perspective) and-more specifically-at the literature which they used to create communities and to express and communicate their faith. Prerequisite: at least three semester hours in one or more of the following: English, history, philosophy, religious studies. Offered each spring.
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4.00 Credits
Investigates the relationship between religion and politics in the United States, paying particular attention to the role of traditional religious identities and issues, while also acknowledging non-traditional religious movements, ideas, and issues. Emphasis is placed on upcoming elections, and students are expected to be informed of the current debates in the various national elections, which will form the basis of class discussions and student presentations. Identical to CSRF 232. Offered fall of evennumbered years.
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3.00 Credits
Works selected from the fiction, non-fiction, biography and mythology of the world's literature, both classic and modern, academic and popular, and discussed from the point of view of belief, unbelief, values and spiritual orientation. Prerequisite: 251, none; 351, junior/senior status or consent. Offered spring semester of oddnumbered years.
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