Browse through the courses below to explore courses that will fulfill certain degree requirements in the Religious Studies program.
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AP/RLST 1105 9.00 Myth & Imagination in Ancient Greece & Rome
The myths of the ancient Greeks and Romans constitute a continuous tradition that stretches back beyond the writing of history down to our present day. These narratives have survived for millennia because they continue to ...
AP/RLST 1165 6.00 Gods and Humans
This course explores the interactions between Gods and humans in literature, art, and philosophy. We focus on critical questions, emotional struggles, and personal journeys that characterize interactions between humans and Gods. Special attention is given ...
AP/RLST 1844 6.00 Muslim Travel Narratives
This course explores the ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity of the Muslim world through the travelogues and memoirs of Muslim scholars, pilgrims, envoys and adventurers, who traversed its domains from the tenth century to the ...
AP/RLST 1855 9.00 Buddhism and Asian Cultures
This course introduces the diversity of Buddhist ideas and practices in Asia. Exploring Buddhism as a living tradition, it focuses on the impact and interpretation of Buddhism in historical and contemporary cultures. After developing a ...
AP/RLST 1870 6.00 Hebrew Bible and the Arts
This course looks at selected passages from the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and their interpretative reflection in the western artistic tradition, including pictorial/representational art, music, literature, and cinema. The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament is one of the ...
AP/RLST 3106 6.00 Writing Greco-Roman Lives: Ancient Biography
Crosslisted CLST 3106/HUMA 3106 6.0/RLST 3106 6.0 Why do ancient people write about the lives of others? What were ancient people doing when they wrote about themselves? This course explores biographical and autobiographical writing in ...
AP/RLST 3421 3.00 Interpreting the New Testament I
A historical and literary study of the traditions of the apostle Paul as they developed from the time of his missionary career through later generations of those who followed his teachings. The course begins with ...
AP/RLST 3422 3.00 Interpreting the New Testament II
This course takes a historical approach to writings produced in the second generation of the Jesus movements, including the gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John. The course begins with a discussion of the first-century ...
AP/RLST 3423 3.00 New Testament Apocrypha
The New Testament Apocrypha—or better: non-canonical early Christian literature—has had a great impact on western culture despite attempts by mainstream Christianity to suppress it. Stories and ideas from these texts appear in literature, art, church ...
AP/RLST 3424 3.00 History of the Bible
Most people take the existence of the modern English Bible for granted—they assume it sprang fully-formed from the hands of the ancient writers or even directly from God. But the Bible has been three millennia ...
AP/RLST 3425 3.00 Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls provide an intriguing window into the development of early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. This course examines the texts, the communities which produced them, contemporary movements within Judaism and Christianity, and the ...
A study of the life and seminal ideas of Augustine of Hippo. Setting his ideas in the context of his life story, the course explores his teaching on such themes as religion, education, philosophy, grade ...
AP/RLST 3700 3.00 Music, Myth and Ritual
Offers a cross-cultural survey of the role of music in mythology and ritual focusing on exoteric form and esoteric meaning. Explores archetypes (e.g. deities, birds, angels, shamans, bards), mythologies, liturgies, and artistic traditions from the ...
AP/RLST 3810 6.00 Ancient Israelite Literature: The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in Context
The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament is one of the foundational texts of western culture. As such, it has had a history of interpretation and reinterpretation that has lasted for some 2000 years. During this period of ...
AP/RLST 3826 3.00 Religion and Film
This course examines the role and representation of the religious in popular film. It introduces students to the vocabularies of Religious Studies and Film Studies, and critically explores the relationship between religion and film as ...
AP/RLST 3827 3.00 Religion and Television
This course examines the role and representation of the religious on television. It introduces students to the vocabularies of Religious Studies and Media Studies, and critically explores the relationship between religion and television as aspects ...
AP/RLST 4107 6.00 Ancient Greek and Roman Novel
This course studies selected ancient Greek and Roman novels in English translation, the social and literary currents which shape their narratives, and their role in the cultural politics of their era. RELIGIOUS TRADITION(S) COVERED: Greek ...
AP/RLST 4809 6.00 The Hebrew Bible and the Literature of the Ancient Near East
This course examines various biblical literary genres and themes within the context of literature from the ancient Near East. RELIGIOUS TRADITION(S) COVERED: Judaism
AP/RLST 4810 6.00 Religion in Post-Colonial Literature
This course examines the role and status of the religious in the production and reception of contemporary post-colonial literatures in English. Interdisciplinary in approach, the course begins with an assessment of Christianity’s historical function as ...
AP/RLST 4812 3.00 Christianity & Film
This course examines the role and representation of the Christian in popular film. It identifies and analyzes ways in which contemporary cinema reflects, shapes and embodies Christian myths, histories, rituals and doctrines and non-Christian attitudes ...
AP/RLST 4813 3.00 The Arabian Nights: Morality, Sexuality, and Strategies of Interpretation
This course examines the history of the reception and interpretation of The Arabian Nights, from its first appearance in Galland’s 1701 translation to its modern editions by Husain Haddawy in 2008. Interdisciplinary in approach, this course exposes ...
AP/RLST 4819 3.00 Visions of The End: Early Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism
This course investigates the origins and development of apocalypticism within ancient Judaism and early Christianity, covering apocalyptic literature (e.g. Daniel, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Revelation), ancient millennial movements, and the apocalyptic world-view. RELIGIOUS TRADITION(S) ...