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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the Old Testament with special attention given to texts dealing with women. This course satisfies the RELI 100 requirement.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the academic discipline of Christian theology, and the way in which the Christian community makes believing possible and meaningful for contemporary people of faith. Particular attention is given to the impact of feminist scholarship on the doing of Christian theology. This course satisfies the RELI 200 requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Informed by the voices of contemporary feminist theologians and biblical scholars, this course examines the traditional understanding of what it means to live Christian faith in a pluralistic world. This course satisfies the RELI 200 requirement.
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3.00 Credits
The focus of this course is to examine the identity and mission of the church as an institution and a community of faith emerging from Vatican Council II. Feminist theology will provide the lens for examining the role of women in the church in both historical and contemporary situations. This course satisfies the RELI 200 requirement.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates how medicines work. It covers various affected organ systems (e.g., immune, endocrine, reproductive), the scientific method, development of effective medicines/treatments, and the potential sex/race/ culture bias of experimental results from drug trails. Various diseases (e.g., AIDS, cancer, diabetes) and treatments will be covered in the course. Designed for non-science majors.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to women and men in the civilizations in the Mediterranean region and Europe from circa 3100 BC to AD 1648, with a focus on political, social, economic, religious and cultural matters; this course will highlight individual and group ideas, institutions and events which have contributed to western society.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines a variety of genres in American Literature through the 1840s: essays, novels, short stories, sermons, poems, womens captivity narratives, and autobiographies. The course will move from Spanish and Native American narratives of contact to the self-questioning of Puritan writers and the mythologizing tendencies of Crevecoeur, Franklin, Cooper, and later writers. in exploring Native American and African American texts as well as works by Emerson and Hawthorne, students will consider the ways in which gender and race help to shape an American literary canon.
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3.00 Credits
The course analyzes the development of American literature from the romanticism of the 1830s to the blooming of the American Renaissance of the 1850s and 1860s. Writers such as Hawthorne, Poe, Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, and Dickinson will be read alongside less canonical writers such as Fuller, Davis, Douglass, Jacobs, and Stowe. This course seeks to broaden an understanding of American literature by reading works from a variety of genres (short stories, poems, essays, autobiographies, novels) and from writers of different races, classes, and geographical backgrounds.
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3.00 Credits
Examining both nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary works, African-American literature seeks to expose students to the historical, aesthetic, and cultural backgrounds of black writers and writing in America. Beginning with the classic slave narratives, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century black intellectuals (e.g., Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois) will introduce the students to the social and political dissension among advocates of black liberation. The course will sample the aesthetic flowering of writers of the Harlem Renaissance (e.g. Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston) and twentieth-century plays and novels (e.g. Lorraine Hansberry, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, August Wilson) Fulfills American literature requirement.
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