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CAMS 236 Israeli Society in Israeli Cinema 6 credits
This course will introduce students to the global kaleidoscope that is Israeli society today. Since the 1980s the Israeli public has increasingly engaged with its multicultural character, particularly through films and documentaries that broaden national conversation. Our approach to exploring the emerging reflection of Israel’s diversity in its cinema will be thematic. We will study films that foreground religious-secular, Israeli-Palestinian, gender, sexual orientation, and family dynamics, as well as Western-Middle Eastern Jewish relations, foreign workers or refugees in Israel, army and society, and Holocaust memory. With critical insights from the professor’s interviews with several directors and Israeli film scholars. Conducted in English, all films subtitled. Evening film screenings.
In Translation. Extra Time required. Evening Screenings.
- Spring 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 236.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 236F Israeli Society in Israeli Cinema – FLAC Hebrew Trailer 2 credits
This course is a supplement in Hebrew for CAMS 236, Israeli Society in Israeli Cinema. Open to students currently in Hebrew 103 or higher, we will watch particular film clips from class without subtitles and discuss them in Hebrew. We will also read and discuss some critical reviews not available in English, and a sample of scholarly writing in Hebrew on Israeli film and social history.
CAMS 236 required.
- Spring 2022
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Hebrew 102
Concurrent registration in Cinema and Media Studies 236
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CCST 100 Cross Cultural Perspectives on Israeli and Palestinian Identity 6 credits
How have Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel shaped their senses of personal and collective identity since the early twentieth century? We will explore mental pictures of the land, one’s self, and others in a selection of Israeli Jewish and Palestinian short stories, novels, and films. We will also explore some of the humanistic roots of U.S. involvement in Israeli-Palestinian relations today, particularly in the realm of American initiated bi-cultural youth camps such as Seeds of Peace. Students will enrich our class focus by introducing us to perspectives on Israel/Palestine in their home countries or elsewhere. In translation.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2017, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar International Studies Writing Requirement
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CCST 100.02 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 231 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 231 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CCST 100.02 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CCST 100.02 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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CCST 100.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HEBR 101 Elementary Modern Hebrew 6 credits
Think beyond the Bible! Modern Hebrew is a vital language in several fields from religion and history to international relations and the sciences. This course is for students with no previous knowledge of Modern Hebrew or whose test scores indicate that this is an appropriate level of placement. We continually integrate listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Hebrew, incorporating materials from the Israeli internet and films into level appropriate class activities and assignments.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2021, Fall 2022
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HEBR 101.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 335 1:50pm-3:00pm
- TLanguage & Dining Center 202 3:10pm-4:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 335 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HEBR 101.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 244 11:10am-12:20pm
- TLanguage & Dining Center 244 10:45am-11:50am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 244 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HEBR 101.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- TLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:15pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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HEBR 101.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- TLanguage & Dining Center 330 3:10pm-4:15pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HEBR 102 Elementary Modern Hebrew 6 credits
This course is for students who have completed Hebrew 101 or whose test scores indicate that this is an appropriate level of placement. We continue expanding our vocabulary and grammar knowledge, integrating listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Hebrew. We also continue working with Israeli films and internet, particularly for a Karaoke in Hebrew group project which involves learning and performing an Israeli pop song and researching the artists’ background and messages for a class presentation.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Winter 2023
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Hebrew 101 or equivalent
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HEBR 102.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- THLanguage & Dining Center 330 3:10pm-4:15pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HEBR 102.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- TLanguage & Dining Center 202 10:45am-11:50am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HEBR 102.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- TLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:15pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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HEBR 102.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 335 1:50pm-3:00pm
- TLanguage & Dining Center 335 3:10pm-4:15pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 335 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HEBR 103 Elementary Modern Hebrew 6 credits
This course is for students who have completed Hebrew 102 or whose test scores indicate that this is an appropriate level of placement. We continue expanding our vocabulary and grammar knowledge, integrating listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Hebrew. We also continue working with Israeli films and internet, particularly to publish in-class magazines in Hebrew on topics related to Israel, the Middle East, and Judaic Studies.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Spring 2023
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Hebrew 102 or equivalent
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HEBR 103.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HEBR 103.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HEBR 103.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HEBR 103.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- TLanguage & Dining Center 330 3:10pm-4:15pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HEBR 204 Intermediate Modern Hebrew 6 credits
In this course students will strengthen their command of modern conversational, literary and newspaper Hebrew. As in the elementary sequence, we will continually integrate listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Hebrew. Popular Israeli music, broadcasts, internet sources, and films will complement the course’s goals. Class projects include a term long research paper on a topic related to Israel, the Middle East, or Judaic Studies. Students will create a poster in Hebrew to illustrate their research. They will discuss this with other Hebrew speakers on campus at a class poster session toward the end of the course.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Fall 2023
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Hebrew 103 or equivalent
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HEBR 204.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 231 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 231 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HEBR 204.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HEBR 204.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 335 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 335 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HEBR 204.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 346 The Holocaust 6 credits
This course will grapple with the difficult and complicated phenomenon of the genocide of the Jews of Europe. We will explore anti-Semitism in its historical context, both in the German-speaking lands as well as in Europe as a whole. The experience of Jews in Nazi Germany will be an area of focus, but this class will look at European Jews more broadly, both before and during the Second World War. The question of responsibility and guilt will be applied to Germans as well as to other European societies, and an exploration of victims will extend to other affected groups.
- Winter 2020, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 346.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 303 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 346.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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MELA 230 Jewish Collective Memory 6 credits
Judaism emphasizes transmitting memory from one generation to the next. How have pivotal events and experiences in Jewish history lived on in Jewish collective memory? How do they continue to speak through artistic/literary composition and museum/memorial design? How does Jewish collective memory compare with recorded Jewish history? We will study turning points in Jewish history including the Exodus from Egypt, Jewish expulsion from medieval Spain, the Holocaust, and Israeli independence, as Jews in different times and places have interpreted them with lasting influence. Research includes work with print, film, and other visual/ performative media.
- Winter 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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MELA 230.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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MELA 230.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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MELA 230.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Stacy Beckwith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 233 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 120 Introduction to Judaism 6 credits
This course provides an overview of Judaism as a religion, exploring its history, modes of expression, and characteristic polarities as they have emerged in various times and places. The contours of classical Jewish life and thought are explored, as well as the crises, challenges, and choices confronting Jews and Judaism today. Our uniting theme will be the question of defining Jewishness: who gets to claim an identity as a Jew, and who has (and has had) the authority to decide who is and is not Jewish?
- Spring 2019, Fall 2021, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 120.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 120.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Chumie Juni 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 120.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 162 Jesus, the Bible, and Christian Beginnings 6 credits
This course introduces students to the diverse literature and theologies of the New Testament and to the origins and social worlds of early Christianity. Possible topics include: Jesus and his message; Paul and women’s spiritual authority; non-canonical gospels (Mary, Thomas, Judas, etc.); relations between Christians and Jews in the first century; and conflict with empire. Attention is given to the interpretation of New Testament texts in their ancient historical setting, and to the various ways contemporary scholars and groups interpret the New Testament as a source for theological reflection.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 162.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLibrary 344 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 162.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 162.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 218 The Body in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam 6 credits
Mind and body are often considered separate but not equal; the mind gives commands to the body and the body complies. Exploring the ways the three religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam think about the body will deepen our understanding of the mind-body relationship. We will ask questions such as: How does the body direct the mind? How do religious practices discipline the body and the mind, and how do habits of body and mind change the forms and meanings of these practices? Gender, sexuality, sensuality, and bodily function will be major axes of analysis.
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RELG 218.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Chumie Juni 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 402 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 219 Religious Law, Il/Legal Religions 6 credits
The concept of law plays a central role in religion, and the concept of religion plays a central role in law. We often use the word ‘law’ to describe obligatory religious practices. But is that ‘law,’ as compared with state law? Legal systems in the U.S. and Europe make laws that protect religious people, and that protect governments from religion. But what does ‘religion’ mean in a legal context? And how do implicit notions of religious law affect how judges deal with religion? We will explore these questions using sources drawn from contemporary religions and recent legal disputes.
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RELG 219.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Chumie Juni 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 221 Judaism and Gender 6 credits
Questions raised by feminism and gender studies have transformed religious traditions and dramatically changed the way scholars approach the study of religion. In this course, we will consider how reading Jewish tradition with attention to gender opens up new ways of understanding Jewish history, texts, theology and ritual. We will also consider how women and feminism have continually and newly envisioned Jewish life. We will interrogate how Jewish masculinity and femininity have been constituted through, reinforced by, and reclaimed/transformed in Jewish texts, law, prayer, theology, ethics and ritual, in communal as well as domestic contexts.
- Winter 2017, Fall 2018, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 221.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Shana Sippy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 221.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WGoodsell 03 9:50am-11:00am
- FGoodsell 03 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 221.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Chumie Juni 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 234 Angels, Demons, and Evil 6 credits
Besides humans, animals, and gods, what other beings populate the cosmos? Where do evil, sin, and suffering come from? What can be done about them, and can their existence be justified philosophically? This course explores the problem of evil through an exploration of angels and demons in Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman traditions from antiquity to the present, with a focus on late antiquity. Special attention will be given to the bodies of angels and demons: Are they gendered? Where do they dwell? What do they know, and what can they do to humans? This course will also consider modern articulations of systemic, historical injustice.
- Fall 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 234.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 234.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 234.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 304 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 234.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 322 Apocalypse How? 6 credits
When will the world end, and how? What’s wrong with the world—morally, politically, naturally—such that people have seen its destruction as necessary or inevitable? Are visions of “The End” a form of sophisticated resistance literature, aimed at oppressive systems of power? Or are they evidence of a disturbed mind disconnected from reality? This seminar takes a deep dive into the contours of apocalyptic thought, which in its most basic form is about unmasking the deceptions of the given world by revealing the secret workings of the universe. We will begin with the earliest apocalypses, found in ancient Jewish and Christian texts, and move into modern religious and “secular” visions of cosmic collapse. Our approach will be historical and comparative, and we will explore topics ranging from doomsday cults to climate catastrophe, visions of heaven to tours of hell, malevolent angels to meddling UFOs, all the while asking how the apocalyptic imagination creates, as one thinker put it, “another world to live in.”
- Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 322.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLibrary 344 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 322.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 9:50am-11:00am
- FLibrary 344 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 322.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 303 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 303 12:00pm-1:00pm