REL 11020     INTRODUCTION TO WORLD RELIGIONS (DIVG) (ELR) (KHUM)      3 Credit Hours

A study of the religious impulse as it manifests itself in the plurality of beliefs, practices and institutions of the world religions.

Prerequisite: None.

Schedule Type: Lecture

Contact Hours: 3 lecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Attributes: Diversity Global, Experiential Learning Requirement, Kent Core Humanities, Transfer Module Humanities

REL 12020     INTRODUCTION TO NEW TESTAMENT LITERATURE      3 Credit Hours

Course introduces students to the literature of the New Testament and to the early Christian communities in which the works were formulated. Of focused interest is the critical study of the content of the texts, with close consideration of the historical and literary influences on the composition and reception of the gospel traditions as regards their presentations of the life, ministry and person of Jesus, and the letters of Paul. The post-Pauline pastoral epistles, and various later works included in the collection are briefly examined.

Prerequisite: None.

Schedule Type: Lecture

Contact Hours: 3 lecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

REL 21021     MOSES, JESUS AND MOHAMMAD (DIVG) (ELR) (KHUM)      3 Credit Hours

An in-depth exploration of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, considering the circumstances of each tradition's beginnings, the influence of the identified founder, and the cultural diversities evident in the history of each of the distinctive religious traditions, as well as the inter-connectedness and influence of each of three religions upon the others. Course concludes with a consideration of the contemporary situations faced by the traditions, including their engagements with modernity and one another as global historic traditions in a changing world.

Prerequisite: None.

Schedule Type: Lecture

Contact Hours: 3 lecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Attributes: Diversity Global, Experiential Learning Requirement, Kent Core Humanities, Transfer Module Humanities

REL 31065     COMPARATIVE RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE      3 Credit Hours

Examination of the phenomena of religious experience, its structure, ramifications and expression in myth and ritual.

Prerequisite: REL 11020 or REL 21021.

Schedule Type: Lecture

Contact Hours: 3 lecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

REL 31075     RELIGION AND WOMEN      3 Credit Hours

Course serves to provide students with an opportunity to examine the status of women as concerns authoritative texts, politics, doctrines and institutions through the critical study of the history, texts and artifacts of selected traditional religions with the use of multidisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches concerning the experience, contributions, topics and status of women – both historically and in contemporary contexts.

Prerequisite: None.

Schedule Type: Lecture

Contact Hours: 3 lecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

REL 40095     SPECIAL TOPICS IN RELIGION STUDIES      3 Credit Hours

(Repeatable for credit) Special topics seminar in religion studies.

Prerequisite: Junior standing.

Schedule Type: Seminar

Contact Hours: 3 other

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

REL 40096     INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATION      1-3 Credit Hours

(Repeatable for credit) Individual investigation in religion studies.

Prerequisite: Special approval.

Schedule Type: Individual Investigation

Contact Hours: 3-9 other

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

REL 41010     RELIGION, VIOLENCE AND TERROR      3 Credit Hours

(Slashed with REL 51010) Course explores a variety of religions focusing on the themes of violence and terror. The examination employs different academic approaches to selected historic examples and their underlying causes.

Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing.

Schedule Type: Lecture

Contact Hours: 3 lecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

REL 41091     SEMINAR IN ADVANCED COMPARATIVE RELIGION      3 Credit Hours

(Repeatable for credit) (Slashed with REL 51091) Variable content course that is an advanced examination of pivotal issues, schools and theorists in the study of religion and the future of comparative studies.

Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing.

Schedule Type: Seminar

Contact Hours: 3 other

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

REL 42091     RELIGION IN THE MODERN WORLD      3 Credit Hours

(Slashed with REL 52091) (Repeatable for credit) An inquiry into the influences of modernity in the conception, valuation and-or interpretation of religious convictions, beliefs, symbolizations, institutions and artifacts (including texts). The study of Religion in the Modern World is a complex undertaking offering multiple foci with multiple attending disciplines and approaches to the inquiry. Given the plurality of foci and approaches, instructors may choose to address any number of the common topics associated with the evolution of religions in the modern world. Examples include: religion and science -- from cosmology (Gallio, Newton, to black holes) to the origins and evolution of the human species (Darwin), or religion and society, or religion and the modern state, or religion and industrial society, or religion in a modern world of pluralism and multicultural societies as well as the religious reactions against science, modern multicultural societies, the modern state and the changing legal status of women, minorities, and children, and the rise of fundamentalism.

Prerequisite: Junior or Senior standing.

Schedule Type: Seminar

Contact Hours: 3 other

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

REL 51010     RELIGION, VIOLENCE AND TERROR      3 Credit Hours

(Slashed with REL 41010) Course explores a variety of religions focusing on the themes of violence and terror. The examination employs different academic approaches to selected historic examples and their underlying causes.

Prerequisite: Graduate studies.

Schedule Type: Lecture

Contact Hours: 3 lecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

REL 51091     SEMINAR IN ADVANCED COMPARATIVE RELIGION      3 Credit Hours

(Repeatable for credit) (Slashed with REL 41091) Variable content course that is an advanced examination of pivotal issues, schools and theorists in the study of religion and the future of comparative studies.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

Schedule Type: Seminar

Contact Hours: 3 other

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

REL 52091     RELIGION IN THE MODERN WORLD      3 Credit Hours

(Slashed with REL 42091) (Repeatable for credit) An inquiry into the influences of modernity in the conception, valuation and-or interpretation of religious convictions, beliefs, symbolizations, institutions and artifacts (including texts). The study of Religion in the Modern World is a complex undertaking offering multiple foci with multiple attending disciplines and approaches to the inquiry. Given the plurality of foci and approaches, instructors may choose to address any number of the common topics associated with the evolution of religions in the modern world. Examples include: religion and science -- from cosmology (Gallio, Newton, to black holes) to the origins and evolution of the human species (Darwin), or religion and society, or religion and the modern state, or religion and industrial society, or religion in a modern world of pluralism and multicultural societies as well as the religious reactions against science, modern multicultural societies, the modern state and the changing legal status of women, minorities, and children, and the rise of fundamentalism.

Prerequisite: Graduate studies.

Schedule Type: Seminar

Contact Hours: 3 lecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter