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PLSC 330 - Human Rights and Humanitarian Assistance
The nature of human rights and humanitarian assistance and their role in the global community; how human rights are established, defined, monitored, and enforced and the actors, issues and obstacles involved in the delivery of humanitarian assistance, with special emphasis on the role of the United Nations in this process.
Pre-req: Sophomore standing or above
Cross-listed with GEN 330
3 credits
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PLSC 332 - American Foreign Policy
Historical evolution of American foreign policy from independence to the present; the decision making process; problems and prospects in contemporary foreign policy. Service Learning Course.
3 credits
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PLSC 333 - International Political Economy
Surveys an influential area of international relations which analyzes the interplay of politics and economics in the international milieu. While the course focuses on contemporary debates over the importance of economic variables in political systems, these issues are analyzed within the context of formative debates such as realism vs. idealism; neomercantilism vs. Laissez faire; and dependency vs. neoinstitutionalism in a variety of regional settings.
Pre-req: PLSC 220
3 credits
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PLSC 339 - Military Strategy & Arms Control
An examination of the development and application of military strategy, focusing on concepts such as deterrence, preemption, weapons of mass destruction and counter-terrorism, with emphasis on the current and future roles of arms control in national security policy.
3 credits
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PLSC 340 - Political Violence
Explores the motivations and causes of political violence, including guerrilla warfare, terrorism, military coups d’état and genocide, looking at various regions of the world.
Pre-req: PLSC 140 or PLSC 220
3 credits
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PLSC 356 - Middle Eastern Political Systems
Comparative approach to the heritage and institutions of Islam and Israel; stresses problems of political development and Arab-Israeli relations.
Pre-req: PLSC 140 recommended
3 credits
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PLSC 358 - African Political Systems
Comparative study of political change in Africa south of the Sahara; traditional political systems, colonialism, nationalism, and problems of nation building and development.
Pre-req: PLSC 140 recommended
3 credits
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PLSC 362 - Federalism and Urban Life
Team research considers the impact of federal, state, and local programs on local political and social life; may include housing, poverty, the environment, crime and punishment, and mass transportation issues. May be repeated for credit
Pre-req: Instructor permission
3 credits
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PLSC 365 - Warfare: In Pursuit of Military Security
Examines war as a human activity, raising issues of civil-military relations, organizing for war, notions of a military-industrial complex, and philosophical, psychological and political aspects of war. Includes guest speakers, films, and field trips. Designed to capture the reality of combat and its costs; to familiarize students with key political, philosophical, and psychological issues of war and peace. Helps students to understand combat.
4 credits
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PLSC 370 - Introduction to Judicial Process & Behavior
Judicial decision-making processes; recruitment, socialization, and behavior of judges and lawyers; other participants in the judicial process; relationships with the other policy-making institutions.
3 credits
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PLSC 372 - American Constitutional Law
The Supreme Court’s role in the governing process; constitutional questions on separation of powers, federalism and government property relationships; civil rights and government property relationships; civil rights and liberties. Satisfies the state teaching credential requirement for American Constitution.
3 credits
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PLSC 376 - Law and the Courts
The U.S. judicial process in selected areas of public law and criminal justice; emphasis on reforming and perfecting the system.
4 credits
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PLSC 380 - Normative Political Theory
Western political philosophy from Plato to Marx: the development of normative theory and its relevance to modern political analysis and contemporary politics; emphasis on Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Marx.
Pre-req: Sophomore standing or above
3 credits
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PLSC 390 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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PLSC 395 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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PLSC 400 - Seminar in American Politics
Seminar dealing with such subjects as American political parties, nominations, campaign, elections, voting behavior, interest groups, and the political novel.
Pre-req: Instructor permission
3 credits
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PLSC 420 - Seminar in International Relations
Survey of international relations theories and methodological problems in research; completion of independent research project.
Pre-req: Instructor permission
3 credits
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PLSC 440 - Seminar in Comparative Politics
Substantive and methodological problems in comparative politics research; completion of independent research project.
Pre-req: Instructor permission
3 credits
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PLSC 460 - Seminar in Public Policy
Seminar will focus on a vital topic of public policy, emphasizing administrative aspects of policy making and implementation.
Pre-req: Instructor permission
3 credits
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PLSC 470 - Seminar in Public Law
Seminar dealing with such subjects as jurisprudence, constitutional law, civil rights, and judicial process.
Pre-req: Instructor permission
3 credits
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PLSC 480 - Seminar in Political Theory
Seminar dealing with such subjects as normative political thought, empirical political theory, and political literature.
Pre-req: Instructor permission
2 or 3 credits
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PLSC 490 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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PLSC 495 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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PLSC 496 - Internship
Supervised field experience in local, state, or national government, law, and practical politics. International organizations, interest groups, and non-governmental organizations with political missions may be considered. Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
Pre-req: Instructor permission
1 to 9 credits
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PSYC 090 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
3 or 4 credits
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PSYC 100 - Introductory Psychology
An introduction to major areas of psychology, emphasizing theories, research methods, critical thinking, and communication skills, to enable students to think like psychologists. Topics include the brain and nervous system, child development, sensory processes, perception, consciousness, learning, memory, language development, motivation, emotion, intelligence, personality, stress, abnormal behavior, social influence, and close relationships. Class exercise forms are discussed in groups of four to provide interactive learning even in a large lecture class.
3 credits
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PSYC 148 - Field Work
Participation in psychologically relevant experiences in a supervised setting, plus weekly seminar. Placements arranged to meet interests and goals of individual students, such as working with children or adults in a community agency, etc. Service Learning Course.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
3 credits
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PSYC 190 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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PSYC 212 - Research Methods
A qualitative and quantitative overview of psychological research including non-experimental and experimental methodology. Lecture and laboratory.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
Co-req: PSYC 212L
4 credits
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PSYC 212L - Research Methods Lab
Co-req: PSYC 212
0 credits
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PSYC 214 - Statistics
Data analysis in the social sciences; analysis of distributions, central tendency, variability, correlation, and parametric and non-parametric statistical tests; use of SPSS program for statistical analysis.
Pre-req: Sophomore standing or above and MATH 076 , or a score of 2 or higher on the Math Placement Exam
Co-req: PSYC 214L
3 credits
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PSYC 214L - Statistics- SPSS
Co-req: PSYC 214
Cross-listed with SOC 214L
1 credits
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PSYC 222 - Biological Bases of Behavior
Introduces the neural, genetic, biochemical, and structural mechanisms that underlie normal and abnormal human behavior. Lecture, films, and visual aids.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
3 credits
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PSYC 224 - Language and the Brain
This course explores the relationship between language and the brain. Research findings drawn from psychology, neuroscience and linguistics are presented. Topics include: lesion studies, brain imaging techniques, models of speech perception and production, aphasia, dyslexia, language development and sign language.
Pre-req:
4 credits
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PSYC 227 - Stress and Disease in the 21st Century
This course will explore how modern life generates stressors that are new in the history of humanity and how this may impact human health, incorporating biological, anthropological, sociological, psychological, and policy perspectives. The goal of this course is to help each student gain a greater understanding of sources of stress in their own lives, how that stress impacts them physically, and what they can do to manage (if not eliminate) the stress they experience.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
4 credits
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PSYC 242 - Child Psychology
Introduces the major theories and issues relevant to physical, emotional, social, and cognitive development from conception through preadolescence. Includes consideration of ethical issues relevant to the study of children, live observations of typically developing infants, preschool-, and school-age children in natural settings, and a presentation on autism. Not open to students who have taken CHDV 105 /GEN 105 .
Pre-req: PSYC 100
3 credits
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PSYC 248 - Psychology of Aging
Current theories, issues, and research on adulthood, with emphasis on cognitive and personality changes occurring during middle and old age.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
3 credits
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PSYC 256 - Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Fundamental concepts of industrial-organizational theory as it applies to understanding, predicting, and managing human behavior within organizations; and how human cognition, attitudes, and behavior are affected by the context of leaders, group norms, and organizational communication.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
3 credits
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PSYC 266 - Psychology of Human Sexuality
A review of human sexuality with a focus on personal decision making and communication, as well as physiological, psychological, and sociological influences on sexual behavior and sexual identity.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
Cross-listed with GEN 266
3 credits
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PSYC 284 - History of Psychology
History of psychological thought and systems from classical times to the present. Major psychological theories and theorists are studied in relation to the broader context of intellectual and social history.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
3 credits
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PSYC 285 - Forensic Psychology
Forensic psychology is the application of psychological insights, concepts, and skills to the understanding and functioning of the legal and criminal justice system. This course will address current theoretical and empirical issues in the study of psychology and law. Topics may include eyewitness testimony, credibility assessment, jury decision making, child abuse and memory for traumatic events, juvenile delinquency and criminology, prediction of violence, and insanity defense.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
3 credits
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PSYC 290 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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PSYC 295 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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PSYC 325 - Functional Neuroimaging
Introduction to various neuroimaging methods used to study human sensory, motor and cognitive systems. Special emphasis on the technique of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Design and analysis of brain imaging data. Lecture and laboratory.
Pre-req: PSYC 222
Co-req: PSYC 325L
4 credits
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PSYC 325L - Functional Neuroimaging Lab
Co-req: PSYC 325
0 credits
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PSYC 328 - Psychopharmacology
This course covers topics in pharmacology, with a focus on how drugs affect the brain and behavior. The course will cover neurobiological and behavioral effects of psychiatric drugs and drugs of abuse, and social, cultural, and political aspects of drug use.
Pre-req: PSYC 222
3 credits
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PSYC 332 - Sensation and Perception
Considers sensory abilities and limitations, and how they are reflected in their perceptions of the world; the nature and development of these perceptions, and the circumstances that distort them. Lecture and laboratory.
Pre-req: PSYC 222
Co-req: PSYC 332L
4 credits
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PSYC 332L - Sensation & Perception Lab
Co-req: PSYC 332
0 credits
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PSYC 334 - Psychology of Learning
Human cognition and learning covering basic phenomena in classical and instrumental conditioning, memory, language learning, concept formation, problem solving, and thinking. Lecture and laboratory.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
Co-req: PSYC 334L
4 credits
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PSYC 334L - Learning Lab
Co-req: PSYC 334
0 credits
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PSYC 336 - Cognitive Psychology
The study of human thought processes and mental representations including topics such as attention, perception, memory representation and improvement, mental imagery, thinking, and artificial intelligence.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
3 credits
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PSYC 344 - Psychology of Adolescence
Introduces the major theories and issues relevant to the physical, emotional, social, and cognitive development of adolescents in the family, peer, school, and work contexts. Includes field trips to local middle and high schools, face-to-face interviews with adolescents, and guest speakers on sexuality and emotional/behavioral disorders.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
Cross-listed with SOC 244
3 credits
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PSYC 345 - Developmental Research
This course introduces the issues, challenges, methods, designs and techniques specific to the study of human development. Lecture will focus on central issues of developmental science, objectivity, reliability, replicability, validity, and consideration of the unique challenges and ethical concerns relevant to research with children and youth. Labs will introduce developmental research methods, designs, and data analytic techniques and will be conducted at Broadoaks Children’s School and Lydia Jackson Elementary School. Lecture and laboratory. Service Learning Course.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
Co-req: PSYC 345L
4 credits
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PSYC 345L - Developmental Research Lab
Service Learning Course.
Co-req: PSYC 345
0 credits
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PSYC 346 - Connecting Developmental Science to Policy
This course explores the interconnections between developmental research and policy and practice related to children’s well being. Students will conduct literature searches on different components of a pre-determined child/youth issue (e.g., childhood obesity), critically analyze and review the empirical literature on the issue, and write-up and present the results of their literature reviews in class. During this process, students will work closely with elementary schools and local non-profit organizations serving children and families to collect data and evaluate children’s needs relevant to the issue. Finally, students will develop viable solutions to the issue based on their research and present a proposal to the non-profit organizations for a research-based community-level program incorporating their solutions. Service Learning Course.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
3 credits
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PSYC 352 - Social Psychology
Issues, theories, and research in social psychology; non-verbal communication, person perception, attitudes, social influence, aggression and helping, social exchange, interpersonal relationships.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
Cross-listed with SOC 320
3 credits
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PSYC 354 - Diverse Identities
Theory and research on processes of identity formation and change. Topics include ethnic, racial, national, religious, gender, sexual, occupational, familial, and other identities. Analyzes stigma, prejudice, discrimination, and conflict from a global perspective.
Pre-req: PSYC 100 or Junior standing or above
Cross-listed with SOC 326
3 credits
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PSYC 362 - Psychology of Personality
A review of the traditional and modern theories of personality, including the psychoanalytic, neoanalytic, trait, learning, and humanistic perspectives, with a focus on personality development, assessment techniques, and application of theory to everyday life.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
3 credits
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PSYC 364 - Psychology of Women
Theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of the psychology of women; the effects of social context and the interplay of gender, race, class, and culture on psychological development, with special attention to where and how women fit into the world including the ways in which they have been and continue to be marginalized in various cultures.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
Cross-listed with GEN 364
3 credits
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PSYC 368 - Psychological Assessment
Provides an introduction to psychological assessment and measurement theory by examining the measurement of cognitive abilities, personality, and preferences. Includes development, administration, and interpretation of psychological assessment instruments.
Pre-req: PSYC 214
3 credits
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PSYC 372 - Abnormal Psychology
Study of the description, causes, and treatments of dysfunctional behaviors; includes both clinical and empirical research perspectives.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
3 credits
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PSYC 376 - Clinical Communication
Emphasis on examining the change agents in psychotherapy and learning how to develop help-intended communication skills through the use of miniature mutual support groups. Analysis of communication using a verbal response mode classification system. Lecture, discussion, and laboratory.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
Co-req: PSYC 376L
4 credits
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PSYC 376L - Clinical Communication Lab
Co-req: PSYC 376
0 credits
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PSYC 382 - Health Psychology
A study of the relationships among mental processes, behavior, and physical health, with an emphasis on the role of psychology in prevention and treatment of illness as well as promoting optimum health.
Pre-req: PSYC 100
3 credits
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PSYC 390 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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PSYC 395 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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PSYC 396 - Research Practicum
Opportunity to learn and apply research skills by assisting faculty on research. May include research design, subject recruitment, data collection, data analysis, and writing up findings. May be repeated for credit
Pre-req: PSYC 100
1 to 4 credits
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PSYC 415 - Literature Review Seminar
Seminar designed to guide the student in choosing a viable literature review topic, conducting an exhaustive literature search, and writing a scholarly literature review paper (using APA 6th edition format) on a topic of the student’s choosing.
Pre-req: PSYC 212 or PSYC 214 , and Senior standing
Co-req: PSYC 499
3 credits
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PSYC 490 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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PSYC 495 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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PSYC 499 - Senior Presentation in Psychology
Fulfills the Senior Presentation requirement of the college Liberal Education program. Students will prepare and make a presentation based on their Literature Review paper from 415.
Pre-req: PSYC 212 or PSYC 214 , and Senior standing
Co-req: PSYC 415
1 credits
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REL 101 - Religious Diversity in America
An introduction to religious studies focusing on field work in the greater Los Angeles, which some experts claim is the most religiously diverse environment in the world. Attention to traditional Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish religions; recent immigrant traditions; religious innovation and change; and the implications of religious pluralism.
3 credits
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REL 190 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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REL 200 - Exploring Religion
An introduction to religious perspectives on human issues, practices, and institutions such as journey, conversion, community, and death. Various interpretive theories are applied to monographs, novels, memoirs, and films.
3 credits
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REL 201 - Monotheisms
An introductory survey of major texts, beliefs, and practices of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
3 credits
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REL 202 - Religions of Asia
An introductory survey of the major texts, beliefs, and practices of religions across Asia, from India to Japan. Religions covered include Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Sikhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto.
3 credits
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REL 210 - Introduction to Biblical Studies
An introduction to biblical literature and the social contexts in which the Hebrew Bible and New Testament arose. Emphasis on contemporary critical methods used to understand the Bible.
3 credits
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REL 216 - Literature of the Bible
A study of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, with an emphasis on biblical texts both as literature in their own right and as sources for other literature, art, and music.
Cross-listed with ENGL 222
3 credits
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REL 222 - Judaism
A survey of the major issues, themes, and practices of the Jewish religion and civilization. The Jewish tradition’s place in the development of western civilization as seen in historical overview: from biblical times to rabbinic and medieval times to the modern era.
3 credits
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REL 225 - Global Christianities I
This course explores how Christianity emerged from and was shaped by diverse communities with contesting perspectives about Christian beliefs and practices. Examines aspects of the ecclesial and everyday history of Christianity by highlighting various Christian peoples and cultures from different historical, social, and global contexts, ranging from the origins of Christianity through the 15th century and paying particular attention to Christianity in the Middle East, Mediterranean, Africa, and Asia. Addresses global issues - the relationships between religion and gender, politics, and economics, for exmaple - and considers those issues as equally important factors in the evolution of Christianity.
3 credits
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REL 226 - Global Christianities II
This course explores how Christianity continued to evolve across diverse communities with contesting perspectives about Christian beliefs and practices. Examines aspects of the ecclesial and everyday history of Christianity by highlighting various Christian peoples and cultures from different historical, social, and global contexts, ranging from the 15th century to the present and paying particular attention to Christianity in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Addresses global issues - the relationships between religion and gender, colonialist as well as freedom movements, war, and national identity, for example - and considers those issues as equally important factors in the evolution of Christianity.
3 credits
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REL 230 - Green Religion
Green Religion examines global religious environmental concerns and movements, particularly in Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. We will explore and compare global ecological theologies in these religious tranditions, and we will investigate how women especially in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity address gender and ecological justice simultaneously. Throughout the course, we will attend to the religious understandings of the human person which inform both distorted relationships between human and other-than-human earthly life and religious women’s ecological activism to reconfigure these relationships.
Cross-listed with ENST 230 and GEN 230
3 credits
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REL 235 - Arabs and Muslims I
The course traces the rise of Islam from Mohammed to the Ottoman Empire, along with analyses of the contemporary scene in the Arab World. Two semester course sequence
3 credits
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REL 236 - Arabs and Muslims II
The course traces the rise of Islam from Mohammed to the Ottoman Empire, along with analyses of the contemporary scene in the Arab World. Two semester course sequence
3 credits
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REL 240 - Theology Through Film
Contemporary cinema as a secular medium for raising theological questions and for exploring theological visions. Films by Spielberg, Allen, Eastwood, Ashby, and others are viewed and analyzed.
Co-req: REL 240L
3 credits
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REL 240L - Theology Through Film Lab
This course is the required lab (or film viewing session) for the course Theology Through Film.
Co-req: REL 240
0 credits
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REL 244 - Muscular Faith
This course examines the histories of several established religions’ interactions with sports: how some moved from a rejection of sports to their toleration and finally to their embrace, and how others have affirmed sports as a means of discipline and a physical expression of faith. The course also investigates how and why athletes align their athletic skills, opportunities, and success with their faith. Finally, the course explores how faith-based sports organizations often function as spiritual communities, such as quasi-churches or auxiliary congregations (like the Christian Deer Hunters Association).
3 credits
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REL 248 - Myanmar: History, Religion, Politics
In this course, we will develop a complex picture of Myanmar’s religious and political cultures over time. Readings and videos will draw from the disciplines/fields of history, religious studies, political science, and anthropology and sociology. Attention will be given to the early and pre-colonial foundations of the country; life during British colonial expansion and rule; the cultural and political affects of long-term closure under modern military rule; the global interest and involvement, especially on the part of China and the West, in the recent political transformations and the “re-turn” to democratic rule; the continuing problems of centralization; and the conundrums of religious and ethnic violence and tension that have racked the country from time to time. Throughout, we will investigate social, political and economic roles of the country’s religious cultures, especially but not limited to Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity. Students will also learn about the interactive feedback between the local and global forces that have produced Myanmar’s religious and political cultures over time.
3 credits
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REL 251 - Monks, Nuns and Ascetics
This course examines theological, practical, and literary traditions of asceticism in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Topics include men’s and women’s disciplinary and visionary practices, the roles of ascetics in politics, and engendering religious life.
Cross-listed with GEN 251
3 credits
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REL 253 - Women and Religion
An introductory examination of religious definitions of women, of women’s religious experiences, and of feminist theologies and transformation of religious traditions. Attention to course topics in cross-cultural perspective.
Cross-listed with GEN 253
3 credits
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REL 255 - Women and U.S. Liberation Theologies
This course examines major theological themes in Christianity, and the role that critical theoretical and religious analyses of gender, race, class, sexuality, ecology, culture, and nationality play in re-articulating those themes within women’s liberation theologies in the United States. More specifically, this course explores criticisms and reconstructions of conventional Christian beliefs and practices regarding the divine, salvation, the human person, and ritual. To do so, we will engage in a critical and comparative study of major works in U.S. white feminist, African-American womanist, Latina feminist or mujerista, and Asian American feminist theologies. Through our study of women’s multicultural theologies within U.S. Christianity, we will consider what distinguishes and what is shared by them, as well as interrogate our own understandings and those of the theologians about the relationships between religion and women’s oppression as well as liberation.
Cross-listed with GEN 255 .
3 credits
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REL 290 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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REL 295 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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REL 299 - Community Based Learning in Religious Studies
1 credit. Service Learning course. Volunteer work in a community-based organization, to be determined by students in conversation with the instructor.
Co-req: REL 290 Christianity and U.S. Social Movements
1 credits
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REL 307 - Religion and the Body
An exploration of the ways in which the interpretations, corporeal practices, and ideologies of diverse religious traditions mediate social meaning. Includes such topics as food and fasting; medicine, healing, and illness; pleasure and pain; representations of the body; sex and reproduction; biological aspects of religion (brain, mind, soul) and religious experience. One semester, 3 credits.
3 credits
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REL 311 - Life and Teachings of Jesus
This course explores the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth in early Christian canonical and non-canonical gospels. Examines significant religious, socio-cultural, and political issues that shaped early Christian communities, beliefs, and texts. Topics include gospel as a literary and religious genre; theories and methods of textual interpretation; the canonization of sacred texts; men’s and women’s religious leadership; and competing understandings of the divine, salvation, and religious life and practice.
3 or 4 credits
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REL 313 - Heroes, Gods and Gurus
This seminar explores the Mahabharata, a massively long epic poem originating in India. It is a “living” epic, with deep and profound ritual, social, theological, and political reverberations continuing up to the present day, in both South and Southeast Asia. Filled with multi-layered narratives about various heroes, gods, and gurus, what is this epic as a religious text? Is it an argument about time, eternity, and salvation? Does it present an argument for the presence of the divine in the day-to-day flow of life? An argument for the proper relations of law, action, and political order? Does it tell us something about the construction of social identity? About the nature of the world and cosmos as such? These and many other questions dominate the focus of this course.
Cross-listed with ENGL 222
3 credits
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REL 315 - The Devil, Jinns, and Others
The Devil, Jinns, and Others, 3 credits. This course explores varied and changing representations of devils, demons, and jinns in the worlds religions. The study of supernatural encounters with the strange, monstrous, and mischievous provides students with an opportunity to explore topics, such as the problem of evil and suffering, discourses of alterity, and constructions of the sacred/profane, across Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and other religious traditions.
3 credits
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REL 321 - Religion in America
Distinct religious movements, themes, and personalities in American history before 1870. Topics include native American religions, Puritanism, California missions, revivalism, frontier religion, and transcendentalism.
3 credits
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REL 330 - Buddha and Buddhism
A study of major aspects of the history and practice of Buddhist traditions throughout Asia as well as the West. Students learn, for example, about Buddhism in Sri Lanka, India, Burma, and the United States. Field trips, videos.
3 credits
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