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• RELG 100 Religion, Science, and the Moral Imagination 6 credits

  How do we imagine the relationship between religion and science? Are they at odds, in harmony, or different ways of imagining ourselves, our world, and our futures? This course explores historical understandings of religious and scientific thought, and asks how the two came to be separated in the modern world. We use the imagination to explore the power dynamics and moral judgments embedded in assumptions about matter, nature, bodies, persons, and progress. We draw on literature, philosophy, and theology to consider questions about authority, ethics, and existential hope, focusing on climate crisis, AI and personhood, racism, and the possibility of alternative futures. Argument & Inquiry

  Held for new first year students

  • Offered: Fall 2024
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: AI/WR1, Argument & Inquiry/WR1
  • Prerequisites:

    Student is a member of the First Year First Term class level cohort. Students are only allowed to register for one A&I course at a time. If a student wishes to change the A&I course they are enrolled in they must DROP the enrolled course and then ADD the new course. Please see our Workday guides Drop or 'Late' Drop a Course and Register or Waitlist for a Course Directly from the Course Listing for more information.

  • Tags: CL: 100 level RELG Pertinent Course

  • RELG  100.04 Fall 2024

  • Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
  • Size:15
  • M, WLeighton 303 12:30pm-1:40pm
  • FLeighton 303 1:10pm-2:10pm

• RELG 329 Modernity and Tradition 6 credits

  How do we define traditions if they change over time and are marked by internal conflict? Is there anything stable about a religious tradition—an essence, or a set of practices or beliefs that abide amidst diversity and mark it off from a surrounding culture or religion? How do people live out or re-invent their traditions in the modern world? In this seminar we explore questions about pluralism, identity, authority, and truth, and we examine the creative ways beliefs and practices change in relation to culture. We consider how traditions grapple with difference, especially regarding theology, ethics, law, and gender.

  • Offered: Fall 2024
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: HI, Humanistic Inquiry WR2 Writing Requirement 2
  • Tags: CL: 300 level PPOL Forgn Policy & Security RELG Christian Traditions RELG Pertinent Course RELG Traditions Americas EUST Transnational Support RELG Islamic Traditions

  • RELG  329.00 Fall 2024

  • Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
  • Size:15
  • M, WLeighton 303 9:50am-11:00am
  • FLeighton 303 9:40am-10:40am