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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Selected topics. May be repeated with new content. See Class Schedule for specific content. Limit of nine units of any combination of 296, 496, 596 courses applicable to a bachelor's degree.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Three units of religious studies and completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.C., Humanities required for nonmajors. Literature, history, major themes of Bible; methods and concerns of contemporary biblical studies. Situates folkloric, political, heroic, poetic, and religious meanings of texts among their original audiences.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Three units of religious studies and completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.C., Humanities required for nonmajors. Structure, composition, meaning of New Testament; methods for interpreting Biblical texts. Focus on letters of Paul, post-Pauline writings, Gospel accounts of Jesus's life.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Three units of religious studies and completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.C., Humanities required for nonmajors. Major themes of Qur'an including cosmology, eschatology, good and evil, gender, God and monotheism, People of the Book (Jews and Christians), and role of religion in society. Attention to historical period in which the Qur'an was compiled.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Three units of religious studies. Primary texts from sacred literatures of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. Methods of interpretation, issues of translation, and placement of sacred texts in their social and historical contexts.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Three units of religious studies and completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.C., Humanities required for nonmajors. Jewish history, culture, theory, and practice. Biblical roots of modern Jewish beliefs, basic movements within modern Judaism; Jewish calendar and Jewish life cycle as seen in Hebrew Bible, short stories, and films.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Three units of religious studies and completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.C., Humanities required for nonmajors. Historical development of Christian traditions and major issues confronting Christianity today. Beliefs and practices important to Christian self-understanding, debates over authority of Bible, accommodations to modern science, and relationship with non-Christian religions.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Three units of religious studies and completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.C., Humanities required for nonmajors. Islamic religion and culture in Asia, Africa, and Near East. History, doctrines, practices, literatures, social and intellectual movements, role of Mohammed, and gender relations within Islam as understood in global context.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Three units of religious studies and completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.C., Humanities required for nonmajors. Theological, textual, and political relations among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Shared religious practices and stories such as creation, sacrifice, theories of evil and salvation, prophecy and Messianic expectations. Contemporary issues regarding gender, fundamentalism, and rise of nationalism.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Three units of religious studies and completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.C., Humanities required for nonmajors. Religious worlds of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Canaan through an examination of gods, goddesses, mythology, death, afterlife, and religious art, architecture, and archaeology.
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