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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. A preparation for informed study of the Bible. Examines contemporary interpretive stances, history, methods, and major themes through the study of significant portions of the Bible.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Examines the many expressions of Christianity in diverse cultural locations: New England, the South (among African Americans), California in the American period, New Spain (Mexico and the Caribbean), South Africa, and Korea.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to the meanings, origins, and functions of religion; the roles of myths, rituals, and symbols; and images of transcendence. Religious beliefs and expressions are examined from diverse cultural perspectives. Source materials are drawn from indigenous Native (North and South) American, African American, and/or Asian American religions. Cross-listed with ETST 012. Credit is awarded for only one of ETST 012/RLST 012 or ETST 012H/RLST 012H.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): admission to the University Honors Program or consent of instructor. An introduction to the meanings, origins, and functions of religion; the roles of myths, rituals, and symbols; images of transcendence; and understanding religious beliefs and expressions from diverse cultural perspectives. Source materials are drawn from indigenous Native (North and South) American, African American, and/or Asian American religions. Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grading is not available. Cross-listed with ETST 012H. Credit is awarded for only one of ETST 012/RLST 012 or ETST 012H/RLST 012H.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; field, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. Explores the religious landscape of California, providing basic background to texts, beliefs, and practices. Topics include local expressions of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Native American religious traditions, as well as spiritual movements specific to the state such as Scientology, Heaven's Gate, Muir's nature mysticism, and JimJones's Peoples' Temple.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; extra reading, 3 hours. Covers major themes in the relation of science and religion. Primary focus is on issues between science and Western religions, with attention to Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Major attention is given to creationism and Darwinian evolution. Explores religious meaning in a scientific cosmos through the study of contemporary science fiction and film.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): none. Investigates the psychological aspects of facing death and dealing with dying persons; cross-cultural religious and philosophical interpretations of death (as new life, resurrection, rebirth, etc.); and medical, ethical, and legal issues such as physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. Credit is awarded for only one of RLST 015 or RLST 015H.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): admission to the University Honors Program or consent of instructor. Honors course corresponding to RLST 015. An examination of three sets of issues pertaining to death and dying: psychological and experiential aspects of facing medical crisis, illness, death, and grief; cross-cultural perspectives on the ways in which death is conceived in selected religions of the world with respect to life and claims about afterlife; public policy issues that involve ethical, legal, and medical concerns regarding euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and hospice alternatives. Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grading is not available. Credit is awarded for only one of RLST 015 or RLST 015H.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Interdisciplinary study of contemporary and historic Native American efforts to resist colonialism, with a strong emphasis on land matters, identity issues, and religious forms. Promotes critical reflection on historic and contemporary culture and politics. Cross-listed with HIST 034.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; written work, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. Explores how diverse urban landscapes constitute and have been constituted by religious architecture, ritual, schools, activism, monuments, and social ethics. Draws specific examples from Boston, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Benares, Venice, Bangkok, and Beijing.
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