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3.00 Credits
An upper-level, research-based seminar that explores normative, healthy, and abnormal psychosocial development across the life span. Students are assisted to undertake individual or group research projects using a variety of methods-including both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Prerequisites: PSY 230 or BIO 210; PSY 308, or permission. Penn
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The historical origins of contemporary psychology in European philosophy, physiology, and biology, and subsequent development of the schools of structuralism, functionalism, Gestalt, behaviorism, and psychoanalysis. Emphasis on identifying the goals, implicit assumptions, and potential contributions of scientific psychology. Prerequisite: Senior psychology major status or permission of instructor. Same as SPM/STS 489. Chemero, Owens
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3.00 Credits
Independent study under the direction of the Psychology staff. Permission of chairperson required.
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3.00 Credits
A community-based learning course analyzing issues facing urban schools from a sociological perspective, with particular attention to the role of race, class, and gender at both the macro and micro levels. Other topics include teachers, schools as organizations, the social psychological perspective on learning, the politics of curricula and instruction, accountability and other contemporary reform movements. Students are expected to integrate and apply their knowledge through work in a local school. Prerequisite: SOC 100. Same as SOC 384. McClelland
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary seminar will explore women's health and pregnancy outcome through the lenses of both science and social analysis. In addition to reading and discussion on influences on pregnancy outcomes, students will examine results of surveys of Amish women in Lancaster County, African- American and Hispanic women in Lancaster City, and women of child-bearing age in central PA. This course is supported by funds from the PA Dept of Health. (Any course that includes methods of data analysis or permission.) Same as GOV/STS/WGS 388. Miller
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3.00 Credits
Asks the question: "What is religion " and provides a variety of answers by looking both at representativereligious documents from a wide array of traditions and at theories about religion in the West. Aronowicz
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on a number of classical Jewish texts ranging from the biblical period to the present. With the exceptions of a few selections from the modern period, all have had their impact on Jewish culture through the Hebrew language. The chief aim of the course is to immerse students in questions these texts raise, thus exposing them to the continuity and change in Jewish self-understanding over time. Students will become aware of key concepts (e.g., covenant, chosenness, prophecy, exile, redemption, Jewish law) and the continuing debates around them. Course will also discuss important events in Jewish history in order to contextualize the literature. Same as JST 112. Klein
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3.00 Credits
Surveys a variety of topics in the history of Christianity. Topics include the origin of the religion, its persecution by Rome and the eventual conversion of the Roman Empire, the development of Trinitarian theology, the ascetic and monastic movement, scholasticism, the Crusades, mysticism, and reform movements in the Latin church of the Middle Ages, the Protestant Reformation, and the development of liberal and evangelical theologies in the 20th century. Cooper, Washburn
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3.00 Credits
Studies the historical origins and development of Islam in light of the sources that shaped it. Explores themes including the central doctrines of Islam as derived from the Qur'an and traditions (sunna), gender and the family, the development of Islamic law (shari'ah), Shi'ism, the growth of Muslimtheology and philosophy, mysticism (Sufism), and political and social issues among contemporary Muslims. Staff
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3.00 Credits
Historical and thematic survey of the major religious traditions of Asia, concentrating on the more influential traditions of India, China, Japan, and Tibet. Covers select traditions of ancient and modern forms of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism. Focuses on doctrine, myth, and ritual in particular cultural and historical contexts. McMahan
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