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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

  This seminar explores the nature of religious traditions and their role in the modern world. If traditions change over time and are marked by diversity and debate, what holds them together, and who decides? If modernity is associated with a process of secularization, what status do religious actors have in the public sphere? As we engage contested definitions and assessments of modernity and secularism, we explore how traditions and societies wrestle with difference, pluralism, and truth. Case studies examine the role of ritual and practice in negotiating identity, as well as questions of ethics, law, gender, and politics.

  12 seats held for Religion majors and minors until the day after junior priority registration

  • Offered: Fall 2024
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: HI, Humanistic Inquiry WR2, Writing Rich 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