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| RS 100 | INTRODUCTION TO RELIGIOUS STUDIES | 3.0 | ||
| (GE: S2) | ||||
| A study of the elements of religion and selected contemporary religious issues. Examines such subjects as myth and ritual, the sacred and profane, dreams and theophanies, priests and prophets, science and religion, history and religion, and the possibility of religious faith today. | ||||
| 13403 | MW 1100-1215 | SH 384 | ||
| 13543 | MW 1230-1345 | SH 384 | ||
| 13658 | TR 0930-1045 | SH 390 | ||
| 13699 | TR 1100-1215 | SH 390 | Rodman | |
| 13963 | TR 1230-1345 | SH 390 | ||
| 18138 | TR 1400-1515 | SH 390 | Findlay | |
| 18188 | W 1600-1850 | SH 384 | Mason | |
| 18189 | F 0800-1045 | SH 390 | Wilkerson | |
| RS 100OL | INTRODUCTION TO RELIGIOUS STUDIES | 3.0 | ||
| (GE: S2) | ||||
| 18052 | ARRANGE | ONLINE | Cummings | |
| Getting started in an online class (instructions). | ||||
| RS 101 | THE BIBLE | 3.0 | ||
| (GE: S2) | ||||
| A survey of the basic content and major themes of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), New Testament, and Apocryphal writings. | ||||
| 13384 | MW 1230-1345 | JR 214 | Goodfriend | |
| 13385 | TR 1100-1215 | SH 314 | Tevanyan | |
| 18101 | TR 1230-1345 | SH 384 | Findlay | |
| RS 150 | WORLD RELIGIONS | 3.0 | ||
| (GE: S5) | ||||
| A study of selected major world religions with emphasis on tribal religions as well as the historic international faiths of Asia and the Near East. Investigates rituals, ethics, institutional structures and the cultural ethos of religions as well as their myths, doctrines and sacred texts. | ||||
| 13387 | MW 0930-1045 | SH 390 | Ruzgar | |
| 13388 | MW 1100-1215 | SH 390 | Goss | |
| 13697 | MW 1230-1345 | SH 390 | Ruzgar | |
| 18309 | TR 0800-0915 | SH 192 | ||
| 13402 | TR 0930-1045 | SH 384 | Lee | |
| 13468 | TR 1400-1515 | SH 384 | Lee | |
| 13627 | TR 1400-1515 | SQ 104 | Herman | |
| 13964 | F 1100-1345 | SH 390 | ||
| RS 150OL | WORLD RELIGIONS | |||
| (GE: S5) | ||||
| 13505 | F 0800-1045 | ONLINE | Goss | |
| Information on registration for online classes and instructions | ||||
| RS 204 | RELIGION, LOGIC AND THE MEDIA | 3.0 | ||
| (GE: A2) | (Meets GE Basic Skills, Critical Reasoning) | |||
| This course introduces and guides students in the practical use of the basic concepts of deductive logic as a dimension of critical reasoning. Using these concepts, students will discuss, analyze and critique statements that appear in the media (in the United States and elsewhere) that have been expressed by religious people and by the media itself. | ||||
| 13576 | MW 0930-1045 | SH 192 | O'Donnell | |
| 13577 | TR 0800-0915 | SH 384 | Findlay | |
| 13608 | TR 1100-1215 | SH 192 | Findlay | |
| 13645 | TR 1230-1345 | SH 192 | Lam-Easton | |
| 13977 | TR 1400-1515 | SH 192 | Lam-Easton | |
| 13981 | F 1400-1645 | SH 384 | Mason | |
| RS 240 | THE HISTORY OF RELIGION | 3.0 | ||
| (GE: D) | ||||
| From its inception the academic study of religion has drawn from and spawned a broad spectrum of social scientific disciplines, methodologies, and tools for exploring, dissecting, and interpreting a vast array of World Religions and related phenomena. This course is aimed at assembling state-of-the-art perspectives, modes, theories, and methods for a cross-disciplinary, state-of-scholarship approach to religious inquiry, exploration, and explanation/appreciation past, present, and future. | ||||
| 13695 | MW 0930-1045 | JR 352 | Cummings | |
| 14029 | MW 1100-1215 | SH 192 | Cummings | |
| RS 255 | AMERICAN POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND RELIGION | 3.0 | ||
| (GE: T3/T4) | (Meets Title 5 U.S. Constitution and State and Local Governments) | |||
| Examination of the development of U.S. and California political ideals, institutions, and processes. The course focuses on the religious elements within political ideals, religious freedom, the relation between religion and state, and the role of religion in the public forum, including both politics and public education. | ||||
| 13578 | TR 0930-1045 | SH 276 | Rodman | |
| 18192 | TR 1400-1515 | SH 384 | Rodman | |
| RS 255OL | MERICAN POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND RELIGION | 3.0 | ||
| GE: T3 | (Meets Title 5 U.S. Constitution and State and Local Governments) | |||
| Examination of the development of U.S. and California political ideals, institutions, and processes. The course focuses on the religious elements within political ideals, religious freedom, the relation between religion and state, and the role of religion in the public forum, including both politics and public education. | ||||
| 13654 | F 0800-1045 | ONLINE | O'Donnell | |
| 18108 | ARRANGE | ONLINE | O'Donnell | |
| UPPER DIVISION | ||||
| RS 304 | WOMEN AND RELIGION | 3.0 | ||
| (GE: S2) | ||||
| An examination of religious views of women in oral and literary cultures, focusing on the roles, symbols, and concepts of women within an international, historical framework. The course will also address women’s own perspectives on religion, as reflected in historical sources and in contemporary theology and religious life. Fulfills the GE requirement for Information Competency (IC). Fulfills 3 units for the Women's Studies Major in the Philosophy and Religion section. |
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| 14042 | TR 0930-1045 | SH 192 | Herman | |
| 18191 | F 1100-1345 | SH 384 | ||
| RS 306 | AMERICAN RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY | 3.0 | ||
| (GE: S5) | ||||
| An introduction to the complexity of the American religious landscape. A survey of the religious groups which are marginal to or outside of the “Seven Sisters” of historically dominant mainstream Protestant and Civil Religion Ethos. The interplay between “mainstream” religion and the religion of minority groups, including the so-called “indigenous or Ancestral Religions will be examine. Fulfills the GE requirement for Information Competency (IC). |
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| 18193 | T 1600-1845 | SH 192 | Rodman | |
| RS 307 | RELIGION IN AMERICA | 3.0 units | ||
| (GE: S2) | ||||
| An examination of the religious traditions, practices, and beliefs which have shaped the American character. By approaching America’s religious history as a complex, dynamic, and reflexive process of interaction involving all segments of American society, we will determine how America’s religious history has affected and, in turn, been affected by America’s political, social, economic, and cultural history. | ||||
| 13470 | MW 1230-1345 | SH 192 | O'Donnell | |
| RS 310 | RELIGION AND LITERATURE | 3.0 | ||
| (GE: S2) | ||||
| The Bible, as the most influential collection of literature ever written, is the starting point for many modern authors who seek to examine the human condition. We will examine several sections of the Bible and the modern works generated by them. Authors included will be David Maine, Mark Twain, David Grossman, and Stefan Heym. | ||||
| 13971 | MW 0930-1045 | SH 314 | Goodfriend | |
| RS 310OL | RELIGION AND LITERATURE | 3.0 | ||
| (GE:S2) | ||||
| This course will focus upon literature as evidence of the persistence and pervasiveness of religion in contemporary culture. The range of our considerations will include everything from primary religious models to contemporary fiction and cinema as a way of doing "cultural archeology" to unearth various strata of religious themes, dimensions, insights and/or phenomena. Such themes as the identity and purpose of humanity, the problems of suffering, ethics, the quests for ultimate meaning, significance, power, and transcendence; critiques of religious and social dynamics and/or aberrations; horror and the holy and the wisdom of the monster tale will be among our objects of focus. We will cover a variety of literary genres such as mystery, horror, science fiction, myth, poetry, and fairytales with a view to their overt and covert themes and implications. This class will be conducted entirely online. | ||||
| 13623 | ARRANGE | ONLINE | Cummings | |
| Getting started in an online class (instructions). | ||||
| RS 311 | RELIGION AND FILM | 3.0 | ||
| Examines how film artists address the major religious issues of our time: the nature of reality, sources of transcendence, the nature of good and evil in the self and society, the possibilities of renewal and hope. | ||||
| 13441 | W 1900-2145 | SH 192 | Coppola | |
| RS 355 | MYSTICISM | 3.0 | ||
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| 18055 | TR 1230-1345 | SH 314 | Herman | |
| RS 356 | CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS THOUGHT | 3.0 | ||
| (GE: S2) | ||||
| 13404 | MW 1100-1345 | SH 314 | White | |
| 18194 | T 1900-2145 | SH 314 | Mason | |
| RS 361 | CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL ISSUES | 3.0 | ||
| (GE: S2) | ||||
| This course will emphasize the development of skills in informed and critical reasoning through the analysis of contemporary ethical issues such as scandals in business, sexual behavior, abortion, euthanasia, genetic engineering, racism, gender bias, punishment, animal rights, the environment, economics and the common good, and the relationships between religions and morality that inform all these issues. Throughout, there will be a particular emphasis on ethics in the professions. | ||||
| 13442 | MW 0930-1045 | SH 314 | Mason | |
| 13518 | MW 1400-1515 | SH 314 | Mason | |
| 13567 | R 1600-1845 | SH 192 | Coppola | |
| 18106 | F 1100-1345 | SH 192 | Coppola | |
| RS 361OL | CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL ISSUES | 3.0 | ||
| G.E.: S2 | ||||
| This course consist of a general introduction to ethical theory followed by in-depth analysis of a number of issues, including the relationship between ethics and economics, Post-modern theory as applied to radical feminism and gender equality, animal rights, homosexuality, and Just War theory. | ||||
| 13536 | F 0800-1045 | ONLINE | Herrero | |
| 13698 | ARRANGE | ONLINE | Herrero | |
| Getting started in an online class (instructions). | ||||
| RS 365 | ISLAM | 3.0 | ||
| (GE: S5) | ||||
| The focus of this course is to introduce students to Islam. We will discuss central themes that facilitate a thorough understanding of Islam, basic tenets, prominent figures, rituals, sacred texts, symbols and introductory Islamic concepts. Different aspects of Islamic institutions such as Sufism, Islamic theology, Sunni and Shi’i traditions will be addressed. | ||||
| 13471 | M 1600-1845 | SH 384 | Ruzgar | |
| 13472 | F 0800-1045 | SH 314 | Ruzgar | |
| RS 370 | RELIGION AND ECOLOGY | 3.0 | ||
| (GE: S4) | NEW COURSE! | |||
| 18665 | TR 1400-1515 | SH 314 | Baugh | |
| RS 377 | THE HOLOCAUST: RELIGIOUS RESPONSES | 3.0 | ||
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| Examines several classic religious explanations for the tragic destruction of the Jews. Also studies contemporary responses to the Holocaust on the part of Jewish and Christian theologians, the Churches, and individual artists. | ||||
| 18057 | R 1600-1845 | SH 384 | ||
| RS 378 | AMERICAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE | 3.0 | ||
| (GE: S5) | ||||
| This course describes the experience of the Jewish community in America, and the relationship of the community to the general American culture and to other subcultures or ethnic groups. Fulfills the GE requirement for Information Competency (IC). |
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| 13405 | F 1100-1345 | SH 314 | Myers | |
| RS 380 | HINDUISM | 3.0 | ||
| (GE: S5) | ||||
| Explores Asian religions by comparing human and divine religious figures cross-culturally. Comparison of the figures from the various cultures provides a method to understand the nature of humanity and divinity in Asia. | ||||
| 13742 | ARRANGE | ONLINE | Lee | |
| RS 390 | BUDDHISM | 3.0 | ||
| (GE: S5) | ||||
| This course will examine the emergence of the Buddhisms in India, Southeast Asia, and in Tibet. It will examine monastic and lay Buddhisms, the development of Mahayana and Vajrayana vehicles of Buddhism, and the emergence of engaged Buddhism and contemporary meditation movements. Fulfills the GE requirement for Information Competency (IC). |
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| 13970 | MW 1400-1515 | SH 314 | Cummings | |
| 18059 | R 1600-1845 | SH 314 | Lam-Easton | |
| RS 390OL | BUDDHISM | 3.0 | ||
| (GE: S5) | ||||
| This course will introduce students to the study of Buddhist philosophy and religious traditions, beginning with the life of Siddhārtha Gautama, through the development of Buddhism in ancient India – Theravāda and Mahāyāna – the spread of Buddhism to China, Tibet and Japan. The course concludes with an examination of the coming of Buddhism to the West. Fulfills the GE requirement for Information Competency (IC). |
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| 13502 | ARRANGE | ONLINE | Lee | |
| Information on registration for online classes and instructions | ||||
| RS 395 | THEORY AND METHOD IN RELIGIOUS STUDY | 3.0 | ||
| Required course for RS Majors and Double Majors in Junior Standing. Offered in fall semesters only. | ||||
| Examines modern attempts to study religion objectively from the Western Enlightenment to the present, exploring and criticizing theories and methods from anthropology, sociology, feminist hermeneutics, evolutionary psychology and the history of religions. | ||||
| 13609 | T 1600-1845 | SH 314 | Lam-Easton | |
| RS 396Q | QUEERING RELIGION | 3.0 | ||
| This course investigates Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in their phobic responses to LGBTQI people: Emerging Queer responses to traditional phobic religion such as the camp parodies of traditional sex-negative religion by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Queer faith communities, open and affirming faith communities such as Progressive Muslims, Reformed Judaism, and Progressive Christianity. The course will explore new contextual queer readings of the scriptures, rituals, theologies, same-sex marriage and the national struggle for Marriage Equality, and the inclusion of transgendered and intersexed issues. The course will include documentaries and several speakers to provoke discussion. | ||||
| TBA | MW 1230-1345 | JR 203 | Goss | |
| RS 437 | PAULINE LETTERS | 3.0 | ||
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| 18062 | TR 0930-1045 | SH 314 | Talbott | |
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