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3.00 Credits
This course examines ancient, medieval, and modern understandings of the ethics of war primarily, but not exclusively, within Christian tradition. It comes in three parts. First, it surveys the emergence and development of the morality of war from ancient times (Jewish, Christian, and classical), through the medieval period (church canonists, Aquinas, the scholastics), and into the modern period (Grotius and later sources of international law). Second, it examines the nature of modern warfare by means of historical illustrations, including the Civil War, the so-called Indian Wars, World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War. Third, it takes up several cases with the aim of exploring the tension between traditional conceptions of just war theory and the practice of modern warfare, focusing on issues involved in the use of weapons of mass destruction, the "fog of war," wars of revolution, ethnic and religious conflict, and the continuing "war on terrorism." Texts include: Roland Bainton, Christian Attitudes Toward War and Peace, Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, John Hersey, Hiroshima, Olson and Roberts, My Lai: A Brief History with Documents, plus writings on the attacks of September 11. Requirements include a take-home test, several short papers, and a final exam.
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3.00 Credits
To explore Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and to examine the Christian theological appraisal of the other world religions. This course is a study in comparative theology and will enable students to gain a deeper understanding of Christianity by "passing over" into and experiencing, as well as appraising, the different major religious traditions of the world.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the basic teachings and spiritualities of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. We will approach these religions both historically and theologically, seeking to determine where they converge and differ from Christianity on such perennial issues as death, meaning, the nature of the ultimate Mystery, the overcoming of suffering, etc. We will also examine some traditional and contemporary Catholic and Protestant approaches to religious pluralism. Our own search to know how the truth and experience of other faiths is related to Christian faith will be guided by the insights of important Catholic contemplatives who have entered deeply in the spirituality of other traditions. By course's end we ought to have a greater understanding of what is essential to Christian faith and practice as well as a greater appreciation of the spiritual paths of others. Requirements: short papers, midterm exam, and final exam.
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3.00 Credits
Sub-Saharan Africa is a geographically massive territory distinguished by a tremendous diversity of cultures, customs, languages, histories, identities, and experiences. In this course, we explore this wealth of diversity, alongside a survey of some of the broad historical and contemporary trends and movements that have characterized the subcontinent. A brief introduction to African geography is followed by an overview of African history in the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial eras. The remainder of the course is devoted to the study of present-day Africa, including readings on social organization, religion, music, art, popular culture, politics, economics, as well as on the contemporary crises and challenges of warfare, poverty, and HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Readings will include historical, ethnographic, literary, and autobiographical texts, and will be supplemented by a number of African-directed films.
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3.00 Credits
A music appreciation course requiring no musical background and no prerequisites. General coverage of the history, various styles, and major performers of jazz, with an emphasis on current practice. Receive permission from the instructor (ldwyer@nd.edu)
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3.00 Credits
Africa's musical culture is as diverse as the landmass, peoples, and languages of the continent. Africans' social systems, politics, their economics, and their religions are integrated with music as creative and expressive form. Like any human cultures in the world, African music has historical and ecological contexts that inform the meanings various communities make of, and express in their music. As a survey course, the class will explore the diversity of cultural and musical expressions in Africa, how Africans create, perform, think about, and use music in their lives. Special attention will be paid to traditional, popular and religious music genres with specific regional examples. Also issues related to intra-African and global components of the production and consumption of music will be explored.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the traditional art and culture of Sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, the class will survey through readings, images and video the artistic and ritual practices of Yorubaland, the Kongo, Dahomey, and Mande. An important aspect of the course will be critically analyzing how the West has constructed an understanding of African art and culture as being primitive. The course will disrupt this predominant perspective by considering the region's worldviews, histories, mythologies, and diversity of creative expression. We will then consider the impact of colonialism, post-colonialism, and globalization on the evolution of art making in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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3.00 Credits
Slavery and the coerced migration of Africans to the New World left a multitude of popular musical styles from black peoples (and others) on both sides of the Atlantic. This course is an examination of the diversity of black popular musics on a global scale.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores such issues as myth and its relationship to philosophy, reality as a whole as a principle that underlies the African universe, the question of ancestors, and being and knowing. It will explore the development of African philosophy through three periods: the traditional/classical, the colonial, and the contemporary/post-colonial.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive study of the philosophy and spirituality of two of the greatest activists and peace educators of our century, M. Gandhi and M. Luther King. We will be especially concerned with the way each of these men came to construct new, yet quite ancient, images or controlling myths that they hoped would lead us to think and act in revolutionary ways.
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