Comprehensive List of Courses

RELS 1001 - Introduction to the Religions of the World (IP)
RELS 1002 - Introduction to the Study of Religion
RELS 1003 - World of the Bible: Religions, Empires, and Discourses of Power (HP)
RELS 1031 - Introduction to the Religions of South Asia
RELS 1034 - Introduction to Jewish History and Civilization (HP)
RELS 1035 - Introduction to Christianity
RELS 1082 - Jesus in History (HP)
RELS 1082H - Honors Course: Jesus in History (HP)
RELS 1201 - The Bible: Context and Interpretation (LIT)
RELS 1905 - Freshman Seminar
RELS 3001 - Theory and Method in Religion: Critical Approaches to the Study of Religion
RELS 3013W - Biblical Law and Jewish Ethics (WI)
RELS 3034 - Introduction to Jewish History and Civilization (HP)
RELS 3035 - Introduction to Christianity
RELS 3070 - Topics in Religious Studies
RELS 3071 - Greek and Hellenistic Religions (HP)
RELS 3071H - Honors Course: Greek and Hellenistic Religions (HP)
RELS 3072 - The New Testament (HP)
RELS 3073 - Roman Religion and Early Christianity
RELS 3076 - The Apostle Paul: Life, Letters, and Legacy
RELS 3077 - Religious Violence in the Early Roman Empire: Jews, Christians, and Pagans
RELS 3079 - Muslims and Jews: Conflict and Coexistence in the Middle East and North Africa since 1700
RELS 3083 - Jesus the Jew
RELS 3089 - Archaeology in Biblical Lands II: New Testament Period
RELS 3112 - Jewish Mysticism, Magic, and Kabbalah
RELS 3115 - Mishnah and Midrash in Translation
RELS 3126 - Judaism in the Modern World
RELS 3201 - The Bible: Context and Interpretation (LIT)
RELS 3202 - Prophecy in Ancient Israel (LIT)
RELS 3203 - The Bible: Wisdom, Poetry, and Apocalyptic (LIT)
RELS 3204 - The Dead Sea Scrolls
RELS 3251 - Modern Study of the Old Testament
RELS 3373 - Religion and Society in Imperial China (HP)
RELS 3377 - A Thousand Years of Buddhism in China: Beliefs, Practices, and Culture
RELS 3413 - Buddhism (IP, OH)
RELS 3501 - Ancient Israel: The Origins of Israel in Biblical Traditions (HP)
RELS 3502 - Ancient Israel: From Conquest to Exile (HP)
RELS 3503 - History and Development of Israelite Religion I
RELS 3504 - Development of Israelite Religion II
RELS 3521W - History of the Holocaust (HP, WI)
RELS 3535 - Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World
RELS 3611 - Sinners, Saints, and Savages: Religion in Early America
RELS 3621 - The Christian Right and Left in America
RELS 3623 - Religion and the Founding of the United States: Contests Then and Now over the Place of Religion in American Politics
RELS 3671 - Hinduism (OH)
RELS 3679 - Religion and Society in Modern South Asia
RELS 3711 - The Islamic World (IP)
RELS 3712 - Islam: Religion and Culture Islam (IP, OH)
RELS 3970 - Supplemental Discussion in Religious Studies
RELS 3993 - Directed Studies
RELS 4003 - Medieval Philosophy
RELS 4049 - Religion and Culture
RELS 4309 - Religion and Public Life in the United States (C/PE)
RELS 5001 - Theory and Method in the Study of Religion: Critical Approaches to the Study of Religion
RELS 5013 - Biblical Law and Jewish Ethics
RELS 5070 - Topics in Religious Studies
RELS 5071 - Greek and Hellenistic Religions
RELS 5072 - The New Testament
RELS 5073 - Roman Religion and Early Christianity
RELS 5076 - Apostle Paul: Life, Letters, and Legacy
RELS 5077 - Religious Violence in the Early Roman Empire: Jews, Christians, and Pagans
RELS 5080 - New Testament Proseminar
RELS 5111 - Problems in Historiography and Representation of the Holocaust
RELS 5112 - Jewish Mysticism, Magic, and Kabbalah
RELS 5115 - Mishnah and Midrash in Translation
RELS 5251 - Archaeology of Herodian Israel
RELS 5255 - Archaeology of Religion
RELS 5413 - Buddhism (IP)
RELS 5503 - History and Development of Israelite Religion I
RELS 5504 - Development of Israelite Religion II
RELS 5513 - Scripture and Interpretation (WI)
RELS 5535 - Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World
RELS 5671 - Hinduism
RELS 5993 - Directed Studies
RELS 8190 - Comparative Seminar in Religions in Antiquity
RELS 5535 - Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World

Comprehensive List: Other Courses of Interest

These courses may be included in students’ major or minor programs with the consent of the DUS.

AFRO 3001 West African History: Early Times to 1800
AFRO 3120 Social and Intellectual Movements in the African Diaspora
AFRO 3543 - Psychology and the Black American Experience
AFRO 3597W Introduction to African American Literature and Culture
AFRO 3598W - Introduction to African American Literature and Culture II
AFRO 3866 The Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, 1954-1984
AFRO 5866 The Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, 1954-1984

AMIN 1001 American Indian Peoples in the United States
AMIN 1002 Indigenous Peoples in Global Perspective
AMIN 3109 - Anishinaabe Literature
AMIN 3201W American Indian Literature
AMIN 3701 - Ojibwe Culture and History
AMIN 3711 - Dakota Culture and History
AMIN 3401 - American Indian Art
AMIN 3601 - American Indian Oral Tradition
AMIN 4990 - Topics: Magical Realism in Contemporary Native Texts

AMST 1011 - Religions and American Identity in the United States, World War II to Present
AMST3113W - America's Diverse Cultures
AMST 3252W American Popular Culture and Politics: 1900 to 1940

ANTH1003W - Understanding Culture
ANTH1005W - Introduction to Cultural Diversity and the World System
ANTH3003 - Cultural Anthropology
ANTH3009 - Rise of Civilization
ANTH3021W/5021W - Anthropology of the Middle East
ANTH3022W - Anthropology of Dreaming and Myth
ANTH3035 - Anthropology of Death
ANTH4019 - Symbolic Anthropology
ANTH 4047 Anthropology of American Culture
ANTH4075 - Cultural Histories of Healing

ARAB 3505 Survey of the Middle East
ARAB 3547 The Ottoman Empire

ARTH 3008 - History of Ancient Art
ARTH 3009 - History of Medieval Art
ARTH 3013 - Introduction to East Asian Art
ARTH3014W- Art of India
ARTH 3015W - Art of Islam
ARTH3017 - Islamic Culture
ARTH 3035 - Classical Myth in Western Art
ARTH 3142 - Art of Egypt
ARTH 3152 - Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece
ARTH 3162 - Roman Art and Archaeology
ARTH 3309 Renaissance Art in Europe
ARTH 3311 - Baroque Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe
ARTH 3315 - Age of Curiosity: Art and Knowledge in Europe, 1400-1800
ARTH 5101 - Comparative Myth and Art
ARTH 5103 - Hellenistic and Early Christian Art in Context
ARTH5172- House, Villa, Tomb: Roman Art in the Private Sphere
ARTH 5182 Art and the State: Public Art in the Roman Empire
ARTH 5234 - Gothic Sculpture
ARTH 5252 - History of Early Christian Art in Context
ARTH 5775 - Formation of Indian Art: 2500 BCE to 300 BCE
ARTH 5781 - Age of Empire: The Mughals, Safavids, and Ottomans
ARTH 5785 - Art of Islamic Iran

AAS 3501 Asian America Through Arts and Culture

ALL 1275 - Buddhism in East Asia
ALL3001 - Reading Asian Cultures
ALL3672/5672 - Buddhism
ALL 3373 - Religion and Society in Imperial China
ALL 3920 Topics in Asian Culture-Korean Culture
ALL 3920 Topics in Asian Culture- Japanese Culture

CAS 3511 Ancient Iran
CAS3533 - Islam and the West

CHIC 3375 Folklore of Greater Mexico

CNES1042 - Greek and Roman Mythology
CNES3107 - Age of Constantine the Great
CNES5013 - Introduction to Roman Law
CNES 5794 Introduction to Classical and Near Eastern Studies
CNES 5796 Classical Texts: Approaches and Methods

COMM3451W - Intercultural Communication: Theory and Practice
COMM3452W - Communication and the Intercultural Reentry
COMM 5451W Intercultural Communication Processes

CSCL1001 - Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desire
CSCL3321W- Theories of Culture
CSCL 3331 - Science and the Humanities
CSCL 3456W Sexuality and Culture
CSCL 3979 - Issues in Cultural Pluralism
CSCL 5910 Topics in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature: Storytelling, Critical Literacy, & Creative Drama

EAS3013- Introduction to East Asian Art
EAS 3461 Introduction to East Asia I: The Imperial Ag

EdPA 3036 Religion, Ethics, and Educational Policy

ENGL 3003W Historical Survey of British Literatures I
ENGL 3004W Historical Survey of British Literatures II
ENGL 3005W Survey of American Literatures and Cultures I
ENGL 3006W Survey of American Literatures and Cultures II
ENGL 3020 Studies in Narrative:New Gods: Cosmic Dramas of Blake and Kirby
ENGL 3070 Studies in Literary and Cultural Modes: Reading the Cemetery: Headstones Horror & History
ENGL 3134 - Milton and the Century of Revolution
ENG 3132 - King James Bible as Literature

FREN 1904 - The Poetry of Vision: Dante's "Purgatory" and Trecento Painting
FREN 1909W - Remembering to Forget: Holocaust and Its Afterlife
FREN 3111 - Medieval Stories

FSOS 4150 Special Topics in Family Social Science: Special Topic: Religious and Spiritual
Development in Adolescence

GER3631 - Jewish Writers and Rebels in German, Austrian, and American Culture

GEOG 1301W Our Globalizing WorldHIST 1019 Globalization: Issues and Challenge

GEO 3145 - The Islamic World

GLBT 3456W Sexuality and Culture
GLBT 3472 Gay Men and Homophobia in American Culture

GLOS 3401 International Human Rights Law
GLOS 3602 Other Worlds: Globalization and Culture
GLOS 5403 Human Rights Advocacy

GWSS 3002 Gender, Race, and Class: Women's Lives in the United States
GWSS 3407 Women in Early and Victorian America: 1600-1890

ITAL 5401 - Mondo di Dante

SCAN 3502 - Scandinavian Myths
SCAN 5501 - Scandinavian Mythology

HIST 1027 Europe and the World: Expansion, Encounter, and Exchange from 1500 to Present
HIST 3000W Visions of the Past: Thematic Approaches to Understanding History - The Family from 10,000 BCE to the Present
HIST 3051 Ancient Civilization: Near East and Egypt
HIST 3053 Ancient Civilization: Rome
HIST 3101 Introduction to Medieval History
HIST 3151W British History to the 17th Century
HIST 3461 - Intro to East Asian I
HIST 3483 Hmong History Across the Globe
HIST 3485 - History of Southeast Asia
HIST 3491 - Islamic Civilization
HIST 3493 - Islam: Religion and Culture
HIST 3502 - Ancient Israel
HIST 3503 - Ancient Iran
HIST 3541 - Islam in the Catholic Age
HIST 3542 - Medieval Islam
HIST 3608W - Catholic Church in the Middle Ages
HIST 3613 - History of the Crusades
HIST 3618 - The Dark Ages Illuminated
HIST 3619 -Chivalry, Crisis, and Revival
HIST 3623 - Germany in the Age of Reformation
HIST 3651 - England Under the Tudors
HIST 3681 Irish History
HIST 3709 - Science and Enlightenment
HIST 3714W - Medieval Spain
HIST 3721 Studies in 20th-Century Europe From the Turn of the Century to the End of World War II: 1900-45
HIST 3722 20th-Century Europe From the End of World War II to the End of the Cold War: 1945-1991
HIST 3775 - History of the European Jews
HIST 3871 American Indian History: Pre-Contact to 1830
HIST 3930 Topics in Ancient History - Egypt of the Pharaohs
HIST4071 - History of Rome to 78 B.C.
HIST 4072 History of Rome: 78 B.C. to A.D. 117
HIST 5614 The Medieval Church
HIST 5900 Topics in European/Medieval History - The Medieval Mediterranean World: Econ/Culture
HIST 5910 Topics in U.S. History - History of Sexuality
HIST 5960 - Fundamentalist Movements in Islam
HIST 8910 - Religions & Society in Early America

JWST 1034 - Introduction to Jewish History and Civilization
JWST 1909W - Remembering to Forget: The Holocaust and Its Afterlife
JWST 3013W - Biblical Law and Jewish Ethics
JWST 3034 - Introduction to Jewish History and Civilization
JWST 3111 - Too Jewish? The Complex Construction of the Jewish American Psyche in Literature, Art, and Film
JWST 3112 - Jewish Mysticism, Magic, and Kabbalah
JWST 3113 - African American and Jewish American Relations in the United States
JWST 3115 - Mishnah and Midrash in Translation
JWST 3116 - Jews and Popular Culture in 20th Century United States
JWST 3315 - Contemporary Israeli Literature in English
JWST 3522 - History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
JWST 3631 - Jewish Writers and Rebels in German, Austrian, and American Culture
JWST 3632W - Jewish Women in the United States
JWST 5111 - Problems in Historiography and Representation of the Holocaust

LAS 3401W Early Latin America to 1825

MUS 3027 - Lyric Song in Medieval Culture
MUS8255 - Choral Literature: Baroque Era to the Present

PHIL1006W - Philosophy and Cultural Diversity
PHIL 3001W General History of Western Philosophy: Ancient Period
PHIL 3005W - History of Modern Philosophy
PHIL3005W General History of Western Philosophy: Modern Period
PHIL 3302W Moral Problems of Contemporary Society
PHIL 3311W Introduction to Ethical Theory PHIL 3322W Moral Problems of Contemporary Society
PHIL 4003 - History of Medieval Philosophy
PHIL 4004 - Kant and Nineteenth-century Philosophy
PHIL 4009 - Existentialism
PHIL 4055 - Kant (Critique of Reason)
PHIL 4521 - Philosophy of Religion

POL 3251 Greeks, Romans, and Christians: Ancient and Medieval Political Thought
POL 3873W Global Citizenship and International Ethics
POL 4867W United States Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East
POL 4885W International Conflict and Security

SCAN 3502 Scandinavian Myths

SOC1001 - Introduction to Sociology
SOC 3251W Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender
SOC 3501 Sociology of Families
SOC 3661 - Japan and the U.S.: Tides of Change in Race, Class, and Gender
SOC3701 - Social Theory
SOC 4309 - Religion and Public Life in the US
SOC 4521 Love, Sex, and Marriage

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