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3.00 Credits
An in-depth topical examination of how children develop, physically, cognitively, and psychosocially. Attention is focused on factors in personality, emotional, and intellectual development. Current research in child psychology will be reviewed with an emphasis on applications of child psychological research to parenting and education. This class will address many controversial issues in infancy and childhood. Prerequisite: PSY 2301 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course will formulate a definition of and reason for religion. It will probe the way religions claim to "know" about the sacred, and theway that modernism has challenged these claims. Religion will be examined from the perspectives of brain science, politics and social sciences.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the New Testament to one who has never read it and reveals the Bible in a totally new way for the student who is already familiar with it. Emphasis is placed on the ancient cultural realities that gave rise to early Christian literature, and the way the literature presupposes, participates in, and even criticizes those realities.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the Old Testament to one who has never read it and reveals the Bible in a totally new way for the student who is already familiar with it. Emphasis is placed on the ancient cultural realities that gave rise to Hebrew literature, and the way the literature presupposes, participates in, and even criticizes those realities.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course permits advanced study of religion. Subject matter will vary. Topics might include courses in non-Christian religions or study of contemporary issues in religion. Prerequisites: REL 1300, 2301, or 2311, or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This is an analysis of the institution of religion in modern societies. The course focuses on human social activity organized around religion rather than on theological or ethical dimensions. Prerequisite: SOC 1300. Cross-listed with SOC 3304.
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3.00 Credits
The course asks several questions:What was a prophet perceived to have been by the ancient Jews who wrote the biblical prophetic texts? What did the ancient prophetic literature intend to say, and how can a modern reader make sense of these diverse, and often obscure, writings? Prerequisite: REL 2301 or 2311.
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3.00 Credits
Specialized investigation of Jewish writings not included in the Torah or Prophets. Topics will include some combination of Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Ecclesiastes, Esther and Deuterocanonical works, such as Wisdom of Solomon and Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach. Prerequisite: REL 2301 or 2311.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a theoretical study of world religions, designed to highlight the diversity of human cultures and their response to the sacred. Most major world religions (Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Chinese Religions) will be examined, and their interaction with the modern world will be evaluated.
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3.00 Credits
A reading course in Christian controversies. The student will read early Church Fathers, as well as medieval, Reformation, and modern theologians. Philosophical critics of Christianity will be studied as well. Stress will be placed on significant moments of change in Christian doctrine, especially the Trinitarian debate (fourth-fifth centuries), the Protestant Reformation (sixteenth-seventeenth centuries) and interaction with modernist thought (eighteenth-twentieth centuries). Cross-listed with PHIL 3350.
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