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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Identical to SOC 336.
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4.00 Credits
Investigates the literary, historical, and theological contributions of British author C. S. Lewis, exploring key literary and philosophical influences upon his life and literature and examining how his thought and imagination have effected contemporary religious discourse and practice. This course may be taught either as an on-campus course or as a travel course. Prerequisites: 4 semester hours of religious studies or English. Offered spring of evennumbered years.
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4.00 Credits
Offers the opportunity for focused, in-depth study of one important religious thinker (or thinker about religion), or a narrowly defined topic of current importance in religious studies. May be repeated for credit with the instructor's permission. Prerequisite: junior/senior status, or consent. Offered every year. * RELST 361(V); 461(I).
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4.00 Credits
Examines the relationship between sports and religion. From the use of sports as a means of acculturation, the use of legitimate competition as a surrogate for interreligious conflict, and the competition between organized sports and organized religion for money, attention, and devotion, to the sacrality of the time and space of the field of play and elevation of athletes to modern gods, the world of athletic competition ("sports") is overflowing with religiouselements, particularly (but not exclusively) in the U.S. Using a variety of disciplinary methods, this class examines this relationship, the ways in which religion and sport reinforce similar ideals, and the ways in which they are in competition with one another for the minds, hearts, and bodies of the "fans." Offered intermittently. *RELST 463only.
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3.00 Credits
Independent research under the direction of a member of the department leading to the preparation and writing of a senior essay or thesis. Open to religious studies majors and to humanities divisional majors with a religious studies concentration. Prerequisite: consent. Offered on demand.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the nature of culture; comparative analysis of social, religious, economic, and political institutions in specific preliterate and modern cultures; the cultural dimensions of behavior. Offered each fall.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the processes and consequences of change arising from various types of collective action, from spontaneous collective behaviors (e.g., rumors or disaster reactions) to planned institutional actions such as the civil rights movement. Prerequisite: any 100-level sociology course. Offered fall of odd-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
A study of traditional culture patterns, religious beliefs and practices, political and economic behavior, and art forms of a selected ethnic group or geographic area. Prerequisite: any 100-level sociology course. Offered each spring.
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3.00 Credits
A futures course which examines urban and rural communities as forms of social life and fields for various social system interactions. Theory, research, and the practical application of both are viewed in the context of patterns of exchange, the planning and development of community action and social change. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or 188. Offered intermittently.
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3.00 Credits
A critical investigation of selected current social problems-their issues, causes, development, and alternative solutions. Offered each spring.
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