College Bulletin 2014-2015

Jun 28, 2024

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Psychology
	PSYC 030. Behavioral Neuroscience Course previously titled Physiological Psychology A survey of the neural and biochemical bases of behavior with special emphasis on sensory processing, motivation, emotion, learning, and memory. Both experimental analyses and clinical implications are considered. Prerequisite: PSYC 001 . Social sciences. Eligible for COGS credit. 1 credit. Spring 2015. Schneider. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 031A. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience This course focuses on the neural underpinnings of cognitive (memory, attention), social (theory of mind, empathy), and affective (emotion, evaluation) processes, as well as how they interact with and contribute to each other. We consider how such processes are implemented at the neural level, but also how neural mechanisms help give rise to social and emotional phenomena. Many believe that the expansion of the human brain evolved due to the complex demands of dealing with others - competing or cooperating with them, deceiving or empathizing with them, understanding or misjudging them. In this course, we review current theories and methods guiding social, cognitive, and affective neuroscience, taking a multi-level approach to understanding the brain in its social context. Prerequisite: PSYC 001 . Social sciences. 1 credit. Fall 2014. Norris. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 032. Perception Perception is fundamental to both cognition and action. How does perception work? This course covers a variety of scientific theories of perception including biological analyses of comparative functional anatomy of sensory systems and the informational “ecology” in which they have evolved, as well as functionalist information processing theories including computational, statistical and inferential approaches. An integrated series of laboratories and demonstrations provides students with experience testing theories of perception empirically. Prerequisite: PSYC 001 and PSYC 025. Research Design and Analysis : or permission of instructor. Natural sciences and engineering practicum. Required weekly laboratory. 1 credit. Spring 2015. Durgin. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 033. Cognitive Psychology Cognitive psychology is one of the intellectual foundations on which modern psychological science is built. This course has two principal goals. On the one hand, it provides an integrated overview of a variety of subfields of cognitive psychology including perception, attention, memory, language, concepts, imagery, thinking, decision-making, and problem solving. On the other hand, it develops a coherent conceptual framework for understanding how behavioral experiments can illuminate the workings of the human mind. Prerequisite: PSYC 001 . Social sciences. Eligible for COGS credit. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. Staff. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 034. Psychology of Language The capacity for language sets the human mind apart from all other minds, both natural and artificial, and so contributes critically to making us who we are. In this course, we ask several fundamental questions about the psychology of language: How do children acquire it so quickly and accurately? How do we understand and produce it, seemingly without effort? What are its biological underpinnings? What is the relationship between language and thought? How did language evolve? And to what extent is the capacity for language “built in” (genetically) versus “built up” (by experience)? Prerequisite: PSYC 001 or permission of the instructor. Social sciences. (Cross-listed as LING 034 ) 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. Grodner. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 035. Social Psychology Social psychology argues that social context is central to human experience and behavior. This course provides a review of the field with special attention to relevant theory and research. The dynamics of cooperation and conflict, the self, group identity, conformity, social influence, prosocial behavior, aggression, prejudice, attribution, and attitudes are discussed. Prerequisite: PSYC 001 . Social sciences. 1 credit. Spring 2015. Ward. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 036. Thinking, Judgment, and Decision Making People in the modern world are flooded with major and minor decisions on a daily basis. The available information is overwhelming, and there is little certainty about the outcomes of any of the decisions people face. This course explores how people should go about making decisions in a complex, uncertain world; how people do go about making decisions in a complex, uncertain world; and how the gap between the two can be closed. Prerequisite: PSYC 001 . Social sciences. 1 credit. Fall 2014. Schwartz. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 038. Clinical Psychology A consideration of major forms of psychological disorder in adults and children. Cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic, sociocultural, and biological theories of abnormality are examined, along with their corresponding modes of treatment. Prerequisite: PSYC 001 . Social sciences. 1 credit. Fall 2014. Spring 2015. Krause. Reimer. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 039. Developmental Psychology Do infants have concepts? How do children learn language? These questions and others are addressed in this survey course of physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development during infancy and early childhood. The course asks how and why human minds and behaviors develop, examining the theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence on the nature of developmental change. Prerequisite: PSYC 001 . Social sciences. Eligible for COGS credit. 1 credit. Fall 2014. Christie. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 041. Children at Risk Violence, educational inequality, war, and chronic poverty are key contexts for many children’s lives. We consider children’s responses to adversity from clinical, developmental and ecosystemic perspectives. In addition, we explore the role of psychology in both prevention and social policy affecting children and families. PSYC 001 Prerequisites: PSYC 001 and either PSYC 038. Clinical Psychology or PSYC 039. Developmental Psychology or permission of the instructor. Social sciences. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. Reimer. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 046. Psychology and Economic Rationality The discipline of economics makes a set of assumptions about human motivation and decision making. This course examines those assumptions in light of evidence from other social sciences, especially psychology. The course is taught in a seminar format, open especially to students in psychology and economics. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 and ECON 001 or related preparation with permission of instructor. Social sciences. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. Schwartz. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 048. Gender and Psychopathology Why are certain clinical syndromes, such as depression, overrepresented among women, while others, such as aggression, are more common among men? This course explores gender differences in emotion socialization, coping styles, and mental illness, including depression, eating disorders, posttraumatic stress, aggressive disorders, and substance abuse. It also critiques definitions of sex and gender and methodological approaches to the study of group differences. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 and PSYC 038. Clinical Psychology . Social sciences. 1 credit. Spring 2015. Krause. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 050. Developmental Psychopathology This course covers several psychological disorders that often first appear in childhood and adolescence, including autism and other developmental disorders, attention-deficit disorder, conduct disorder, eating disorders, and emotional disorders. Theories about the causes and treatment are discussed. A heavy emphasis is on current research questions and empirical findings related to each disorder. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 and either PSYC 038. Clinical Psychology or PSYC 039. Developmental Psychology or permission of the instructor. Social sciences. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. Gillham. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 055. Family Systems Theory and Psychological Change Systems theory is important in clinical, educational, medical and organizational contexts. This course explores family systems perspectives on illness and change. Research and theory are supplemented with popular film, documentaries, and therapeutic case histories to understand how psychologists work with individuals and organizations to address developmental, communication, and emotional impasses. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 and either PSYC 038. Clinical Psychology or PSYC 039. Developmental Psychology or permission of the instructor. Social sciences. Eligible for GSST credit. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. Reimer. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 090. Practicum in Clinical Psychology An opportunity for advanced psychology students to gain supervised experience in off-campus clinical settings. Requirements include 8 hours per week in an off-campus placement, weekly meetings to discuss placement experiences and relevant readings, and a major term paper. Students are expected to have clinical contact with clients/patients and to have an on-site supervisor. Students are responsible for arranging a placement, in consultation with the instructor in advance of the semester. Students applying for this course must have at least a B average in psychology. Contact the instructor for details and an application form. When taken in the senior year, this course fulfills the comprehensive requirement in psychology. Students who plan to take PSYC 090 to fulfill the senior comprehensive requirement must apply by April 15 of the junior year. For all other students, applications are due November 4. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 and one of the following: PSYC 038. Clinical Psychology , PSYC 041. Children at Risk or PSYC 050. Developmental Psychopathology . Enrollment is limited to seniors and juniors. If the course over-enrolls, priority is given to senior majors and special majors. Social sciences. Community-based Learning course. 1 credit. Spring 2015. Gillham. Reimer. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 091. Special Topics in Behavioral Neuroscience Current issues in behavioral neuroscience are considered from both a clinical and an experimental perspective. Topics include learning and memory, with a focus on emotional memory and its relation to anxiety disorders; memory storage, with a focus on the impact of brain damage; neuropsychiatric and degenerative disorders, including schizophrenia, clinical depression, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases; psychopharmacology, with a focus on drug addiction. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 and PSYC 030. Behavioral Neuroscience or permission of the instructor. Social sciences. 1 credit. Fall 2014. Schneider. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 094. Independent Research Students conduct independent research projects. They typically study problems with which they are already familiar from their courses. Students must submit a written report of their work. Registration for independent research requires the sponsorship of a faculty member in the Psychology Department who agrees to supervise the work. Each semester. Staff. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 095. Tutorial Any student may, under the supervision of a member of the Psychology Department, work in a tutorial arrangement for a single semester. The student is thus allowed to select a topic of particular interest and, in consultation with a faculty member, prepare a reading list and work plan. Tutorial work may include field research outside Swarthmore. Each semester. Staff. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 096. Senior Thesis A senior thesis, which is a yearlong empirical research project, fulfills the senior comprehensive requirement in psychology. It must be supervised by a member of the department and must be taken as a two-semester sequence for 1 credit each semester. Admission requirements include a B+ average in psychology and overall, an approved topic, an adviser, and sufficient advanced work in psychology to undertake the thesis. The supervisor and an additional reader (normally a member of the department) evaluate the final product. Students should develop a general plan in consultation with an adviser by the end of the junior year. Students are encouraged to begin thesis work during the summer preceding the senior year. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 and PSYC 025. Research Design and Analysis and permission of a research supervisor. Social sciences. 1 credit each semester. Each semester. Staff. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 097. Senior Thesis A senior thesis, which is a yearlong empirical research project, fulfills the senior comprehensive requirement in psychology. It must be supervised by a member of the department and must be taken as a two-semester sequence for 1 credit each semester. Admission requirements include a B+ average in psychology and overall, an approved topic, an adviser, and sufficient advanced work in psychology to undertake the thesis. The supervisor and an additional reader (normally a member of the department) evaluate the final product. Students should develop a general plan in consultation with an adviser by the end of the junior year. Students are encouraged to begin thesis work during the summer preceding the senior year. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 and PSYC 025. Research Design and Analysis and permission of a research supervisor. Social sciences. 1 credit each semester. Each semester. Staff. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 098. Senior Research Project As one means of meeting the comprehensive requirement, a student may select a topic in psychology in consultation with psychology faculty. Usually prepared during the fall semester of the senior year, the student writes a substantial paper on the topic based on library research or original empirical research. In addition to submitting written reports, students participate in a poster conference at the end of the semester. One-half credit or one credit with a letter grade is awarded for all components of the project. See the department website for further details www.swarthmore.edu/academics/psychology/academic-program/majors-and-minors.xml. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 ; PSYC 025. Research Design and Analysis , and permission of a research adviser. Social sciences. Section 01. 0.5 credit. Section 02. 1 credit. Each semester. Staff. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 102. Research Practicum in Perception and Cognition In this course, students conduct research projects singly or in small groups in collaboration with the instructor. Projects include designing, implementing, analyzing and reporting an experiment. Project topics are negotiated at the beginning of the semester. Past projects have studied eye-movements and decision-making, perception of the bodily self, self-motion and space perception, metaphor processing, and even experimental demand characteristics. All students meet together for a weekly lab meeting; additional weekly meeting times will be scheduled. When taken in the senior year, this course fulfills the comprehensive requirement in psychology. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 ; PSYC 025. Research Design and Analysis and permission of the instructor. Social sciences. Section 01: 0.5 credit. Section 02: 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. Durgin. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 103. Research Practicum in Behavioral Neuropharmacology In this practicum students conduct research projects in small groups in collaboration with the instructor. Projects include designing, implementing, analyzing and reporting an experiment. Experiments are directed at characterizing and pharmacologically targeting underlying mechanisms mediating abnormal fear memory, based on an animal model of anxiety disorders. When taken in the senior year, this practicum fulfills the comprehensive requirement in psychology and in neuroscience. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 ; PSYC 025. Research Design and Analysis ; PSYC 030. Behavioral Neuroscience ; prior training in conducting animal research and permission of the instructor. Social sciences. 0.5 credit. Fall 2014. Schneider. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 104. Research Practicum in Language and Mind In this course students conduct research projects singly or in small groups in collaboration with the instructor. Projects include designing, implementing, analyzing and reporting an experiment. Project topics are negotiated at the beginning of the semester. Past projects have investigated how people understand the perspective of conversational partners, how comprehenders resolve linguistic ambiguity, how perceivers infer what a speaker means from what they have said, and hemispheric differences in the way the brain processes language. All students meet together for a weekly lab meeting; additional weekly meeting times will be scheduled. When taken in the senior year, this course fulfills the comprehensive requirement in psychology. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 ; PSYC 025. Research Design and Analysis , and permission of the instructor. Social sciences. Section 01: 0.5 credit. Section 02: 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. Grodner. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 105. Research Practicum in Psychology and Neuroscience: Social Imitation In this course students conduct research projects singly or in small groups in collaboration with the instructor. Projects include designing, implementing, analyzing and reporting an experiment. Project topics are negotiated at the beginning of the semester but will generally focus on topics related to social imitation, including why we tend to imitate others, what purposes social imitation serves, the consequences of social imitation for the experience of empathy, how imitation may give rise to emotional contagion, and how interpersonal factors such as similarity, attractiveness, and race bias may affect imitation. All students meet together for a weekly lab meeting; additional weekly meeting times will be scheduled. When taken in the senior year, this course fulfills the comprehensive requirement in psychology. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 ; PSYC 025. Research Design and Analysis ; either PSYC 031A. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience or PSYC 035. Social Psychology and permission of the instructor. Social sciences. Section 01: 0.5 credit. Section 02: 1 credit. Fall 2014. Norris. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 106. Research Practicum in Cognitive Development This course provides experience in conducting research with infants and young children. Students conduct research projects singly or in small groups in collaboration with the instructor. Students will design, implement, analyze, and report an experiment. Project topics are negotiated at the beginning of the semester and are focused on language and concept acquisition as well as the interaction between language and cognition early in development. All students meet together for a weekly lab meeting; additional weekly meeting times will be scheduled. When taken in the senior year, this course fulfills the comprehensive requirement in psychology. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 ; PSYC 025. Research Design and Analysis and permission of the instructor. PSYC 039. Developmental Psychology is strongly recommended. Social sciences. 1 credit. Spring 2016. Christie. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 108. Research Practicum in School- Based Interventions This course provides experience conducting research on school-based interventions. Students collaborate on research that is evaluating school-based interventions designed to promote well-being in early adolescents. Students gain experience in many aspects of the research process, such as reviewing research literature, developing hypotheses, collecting, entering and analyzing data, writing in journal article format and presenting findings. All students meet together for lab meetings; additional meeting times will be scheduled. When taken in the senior year, this course fulfills the comprehensive requirement in psychology. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 ; PSYC 025. Research Design and Analysis and at least one of thefollowing: PSYC 038. Clinical Psychology ; PSYC 041. Children at Risk ; PSYC 050. Developmental Psychopathology ; PSYC 055. Family Systems Theory and Psychological Change ; and permission of the instructor. Social sciences. Community-based Learning course. Commitment: 2 semester (fall and spring) commitment required. 1 credit each semester. Not offered 2014-2015. Gillham. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 109. Research Practicum in Clinical Psychology This course provides experience in conducting research related to clinical psychology or positive psychology. Students collaborate on projects evaluating psychosocial interventions designed to promote well-being. Students gain experience in many aspects of the research process, such as reviewing research literature, developing hypotheses, collecting, entering and analyzing data, writing in journal article format and presenting findings. All students meet together for lab meetings; additional meeting times will be scheduled. When taken in the senior year, this course fulfills the comprehensive requirement in psychology. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 ; PSYC 025. Research Design and Analysis and permission of the instructor. PSYC 038. Clinical Psychology is strongly preferred. Social sciences. Community-based Learning course. Commitment: 2 semester (fall and spring) commitment required. 1 credit each semester. Not offered 2014-2015. Gillham. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Psychology - Seminars
	PSYC 130. Seminar in Behavioral Neuroscience Course previously titled Seminar in Physiological Psychology An analysis of the neural bases of motivation, emotion, learning, memory, and language. Generalizations derived from neurobehavioral relations are brought to bear on clinical issues. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 and PSYC 030. Behavioral Neuroscience or permission of the instructor. Social sciences. Eligible for COGS credit. 1 credit. Spring 2015. Schneider. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 131A. Seminar in Psychology and Neuroscience: The Social Brain This seminar focuses on a critical analysis of current social neuroscience literature, covering topics such as person perception, empathy, perspective taking, emotion, attitudes, relationships, stereotypes and prejudice. Students consider evidence from studies using a broad spectrum of methods, including behavioral measures, functional neuroimaging, neurophysiological recordings, neuropsychology and computational modeling. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 and PSYC 031A. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience or permission of the instructor. Social sciences. Eligible for COGS credit. 1 credit. Spring 2015. Norris. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 132. Perception, Cognition and the Embodied Mind Seminar This seminar examines foundational issues and theories in the empirical study of human perception and cognition including the interplay between perception, action, language, and reasoning. Emphasis is placed on skeptical rigor in exploring philosophical and neuroscientific considerations regarding embodied cognition. What counts as an explanation of experience? How could conscious beings evolve? What is the relationship between perception and cognition? Topics vary from year to year. Prerequisites: PSYC 032. Perception , PSYC 033. Cognitive Psychology or COGS 001. Introduction to Cognitive Science or permission of the instructor. Social sciences. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. Durgin. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 133. Metaphor and Mind Seminar This seminar examines scientific theories of metaphor with an emphasis on using metaphor as a way of understanding the representation of meaning in the brain and the communication of meaning. Prerequisites: PSYC 033. Cognitive Psychology , PSYC 034. Psychology of Language or COGS 001. Introduction to Cognitive Science or permission of the instructor. Social sciences. 1 credit. Spring 2015. Durgin. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 134. Seminar in Psycholinguistics An advanced study of special topics in the psychology of language. A research component is sometimes included. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 and PSYC 034. Psychology of Language or permission of the instructor. Social sciences. Eligible for COGS credit. (Cross-listed as LING 134 ) 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. Grodner. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 135. Seminar in Social Psychology The seminar will provide an opportunity for critical exploration of contemporary topics in social psychology, including findings from cross-cultural and social neuroscience research. Various perspectives and methods for investigating how human mind and social behavior interact with situational and environmental factors are considered. Real world implications and applications are also discussed. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 and PSYC 035. Social Psychology or permission of the instructor. PSYC 025. Research Design and Analysis is strongly preferred. Social sciences. 1 credit. Fall 2014. Ward. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 136. Seminar in Thinking, Judgment, and Decision Making The seminar considers in depth several of the topics introduced in PSYC 036 . Prerequisites: PSYC 001 and PSYC 036. Thinking, Judgment, and Decision Making or permission of the instructor. Social sciences. 1 credit. Spring 2015. Schwartz. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 138. Seminar in Clinical Psychology An advanced study of special topics in clinical psychology, including etiology and treatments for several major disorders, and the role of context and culture in the understanding and treatment of psychological disorders. In fall 2014 we also focus on developmental psychopathology and special considerations involved in the psychotherapy of childhood disorders. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 and PSYC 038. Clinical Psychology or permission of the instructor. Social sciences. 1 credit. Fall 2014. Reimer. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 139. Seminar in Developmental Psychology An advanced study of special topics in development: language and concept acquisition. We discuss findings from newborn infants, cross-cultural, and atypical population research relevant to the issues of language acquisition and conceptual development. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 and PSYC 039. Developmental Psychology or PSYC 034. Psychology of Language or permission of the instructor. Social sciences. (Cross-listed as LING 139 ) 1 credit. Fall 2014. Christie. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PSYC 180. Honors Thesis An honors thesis, a yearlong empirical research project, fulfills the senior comprehensive requirement in psychology as part of an honors major in psychology. It must be supervised by a member of the department and must be taken as a two-semester sequence for 1 credit each semester. Students should develop a general plan in consultation with an adviser by the end of the junior year. When possible, students are encouraged to begin work on their thesis during the summer before their senior year. Prerequisites: PSYC 001 ; PSYC 025. Research Design and Analysis and permission of a research supervisor. Social sciences. 1 credit each semester. Each semester. Staff. http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology Psychology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Religion
	RELG 001. Religion and Human Experience This course introduces the nature of religious worldviews, their cultural manifestations, and their influence on personal and social self-understanding and action. The course explores various themes and structures seminal to the nature of religion and its study: sacred scripture, visions of ultimate reality and their various manifestations, religious experience and its expression in systems of thought, and ritual behavior and moral action. Members of the department will lecture and lead weekly discussion sections. Writing course. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 001C. Religion and Terror in an Age of Hope and Fear Religion kills: this is the verdict against religion since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. Since that time, here and abroad, the United States views many forms of religion as potent security threats. Various forms of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, in particular, are seen as direct challenges to the secular ethos and global mission of late capitalist societies. This team-taught course in religion, politics, and culture, will offer a counter-narrative to the argument that religion and violence are equivalent terms using the resources of postcolonial theory, critical race theory, sustainability economics, liberation theology, and psychoanalytic theory. No prerequisites. Eligible for ISLM or PEAC credit. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 002. Religion in America This course is an introduction to religion in the United States, beginning with Native American religions and European-Indian contact in the colonial era, and moving forward in time to present-day movements and ideas. The course will explore a variety of themes in American religious history, such as slavery and religion, politics and religion, evangelicalism, Judaism and Islam in the United States, “cults” and alternative spiritualities, New Age religions, popular traditions, and religion and film, with an emphasis on the impact of gender, race, and national culture on American spiritual life. 1 credit. Spring 2015. Chireau. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 003. The Bible: In the Beginning… The Bible has exerted more cultural influence on the West than any other single document; whether we know it or not, it impacts our lives. This class critically examines the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)-from its Ancient Near Eastern context to its continued use today. We explore a variety of scholarly approaches to the Bible- historical, literary, postmodern-as we read the Bible both with the tools of source-criticism and as cultural critics. Particular focus will be placed on constructions of God, gender, nature, and the “other” in biblical writings as well as the themes of collective identity, violence, and power. Eligible for GSST or INTP credit. 1 credit. Fall 2014. Kessler. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 003A. Hebrew Bible and its Modern Interpreters When was the last time you read the most important text in the West? The Hebrew Bible isn’t what it used to be. In the modern period, the scientific study of the Bible opened up new ways of thinking about sacred texts. This is an introduction to the Hebrew Bible as a literary, historical, political, and religious document. We will explore the use and abuse of the Hebrew Bible by Jews and Christians, paying attention to its role in contemporary culture, politics, and ethics. Reading select books of the Bible, we will emphasize issues of gender and race, revolution and Zionism, genocide and slavery, good and evil. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 004. New Testament and Early Christianity A discussion-rich introduction to the New Testament in light of recent biblical scholarship. The class engages the issues of authorship and redaction, purpose and structure, and historical context and cultural setting. Some of the particular themes that are studied include the dynamic of canon formation, the synoptic problem in relation to the Gospel of John, first-century Judaism, Greek and Roman influences, the messianic consciousness of Jesus, the use of epistolary literature in Paul, the problem of apocalyptic material, and the wealth of extra-canonical writings (e.g., Gospel of Thomas) that are crucial for examining the rise of Christianity in the years from 30 CE to 150 CE. Novels and films inspired by the New Testament are read and viewed as well. Eligible for INTP credit and Community-Based Learning. 1 credit. Spring 2015. Wallace. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 004B. Jewish Interpretation: From the HolyLand to Hollywood A famous rabbinic statement proclaims, “If you wish to know The-One-Who-Spoke-and-the-World-Came-Into-Being, learn aggadah” (Sifre Deuteronomy 11:22). This course further proclaims, if you wish to know Judaism, study Jewish interpretation. The process of Jewish interpretation, begun in the Hebrew Bible and continuing to the present day, offers great insight not only into the ways Jewish tradition, literature, and culture have come into being, but also how these facets of Judaism, and Judaism writ large, adapt and develop over time. This class begins with Jewish interpretations during the 2nd Temple Period, proceeds to examine in some depth classical rabbinic exegesis, moves on to explore some “off the beaten track” medieval sources, and culminates in contemporary meditations (and movies) about Judaism. We pay attention to both the continuities and disjunctions of Jewish writings and representations over time as we explore what the boundaries are-if indeed there are any-of both Jewish interpretation and Judaism. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 005. World Religions Wars are fought; walls go up; hope marches on. Religion plays a crucial role in culture, politics, global events, and in the lives of contemporary peoples world-wide. This class, by examining what religion is and how it manifests itself in multiple ways around the world and in the United States, provides students with religious literacy and analytic skills to better engage as citizens of the world in the 21st century. This course introduces students to both the academic study of religion and to religions as practiced around the world. We will explore textual traditions and lived practices of religions-and investigate the relationships between such texts and practices-in numerous historical and cultural contexts. Topics covered include: definitions and meanings of the term “religion;” understandings and expressions of the sacred; the relationship between violence and religion. We will examine the myths and rituals, the beliefs and practices, institutions, and expression of global religious traditions. Eligible for PEAC credit. 1 credit. Spring 2015. Chireau, Kessler. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 005B. Introduction to Christianity This course is a selective introduction to Christian religious beliefs and practices. This course introduces students to the development and diverse forms of Christianity, drawing on categories from the study of religion including ritual, narrative, art, and theology. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 006. Judaism: God, Torah, Israel plores Judaism through a survey of its history, literature, practices and beliefs-with particular emphasis on the concepts of God, Torah, and Israel (the Jewish people). We examine the fundamental historical developments of Judaism from the biblical to modern eras, paying attention to how Judaism has developed and continues to develop over time. We consider the diversity of Judaism as a religion and the diverse expressions of Jewish identity, particularly in their contemporary North American context(s). 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 006B. The Talmud This course introduces students to the academic study of the Babylonian Talmud (Bavli)-and through it, the academic study of Judaism. Through close, critical, and engaged readings of both brief selections and more lengthy passages, the course not only explores the vast seas of the Bavli but also considers the Bavli’s foundational place within Judaism and its importance to Jewish tradition. We begin by reading selections of the Talmud that both seek to situate the material in its immediate historical-literary contexts and to explore current points of relevance. We proceed to a close reading of one sugya (passage) and then spread out to examine some specific topics, focusing on rabbinic constructions of gender and rabbinic theology. The close readings of texts are supplemented by contemporary scholarship on the Talmud and the rabbis of antiquity. Finally, we read two contemporary mediations on Judaism that use the Talmud as their “anchor,” their point of reference. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 007B. Women and Religion This course will examine the variety of women’s religious experiences in the United States. Topics will include the construction of gender and religion, religious experiences of women of color, spiritual autobiographies and narratives by women, Wicca and witchcraft in the United States, and feminist and womanist theology. Eligible for GSST credit. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 008. Patterns of Asian Religions A thematic introduction to the study of religion through an examination of selected texts, teachings, and practices of the religious traditions of South and East Asia structured as patterns of religious life. Materials are drawn from the Buddhist traditions of India, Tibet, China, and Japan; the Hindu and Jain traditions of India; the Confucian and Taoist traditions of China; and the Shinto tradition of Japan. Themes include deities, the body, ritual, cosmology, sacred space, religious specialists, and death and the afterlife. Eligible for ASIA credit. Writing course. 1 credit. Spring 2015. Hopkins. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 008B. The Qur’an and Its Interpreters This is course will include detailed reading of the Qur’an in English translation. The first part of the course will be devoted to the history of the Qur’an and its importance to Muslim devotional life. The first portion of the course will include: discussion of the history of the compilation of the text, the methods used to preserve it, styles of Qur’anic recitation, and the principles of Qur’anic abrogation. Thereafter, attention will be devoted to a theme or issue arising from Qur’anic interpretation. Students will be exposed to the various sub-genres of Qur’anic exegesis including historical, legal, grammatical, theological and modernist approaches. Eligible for ISLM or MDST credit. 1 credit. Spring 2015. al-Jamil. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 009. The Buddhist Traditions of Asia This course explores the unity and variety of Buddhist traditions within their historical developments in South, Central, and East Asia, by way of the study of its texts The course will be organized chronologically and geographically, and to a lesser extent thematically, focusing on the formations of early Indian Buddhism (the Nikaya traditions in Påli and Sanskrit), the Theravada in Sri Lanka and Thailand, Mahayana Ch’an/Zen traditions in China and Japan, and Vajrayana (tantra) traditions in Tibet. Themes include narratives of the Buddha and the consecration of Buddha images; gender, power, and religious authority, meditation, liberation, and devotional vision; love, memory, attachment and Buddhist devotion; the body, and the social construction of emotions and asceticism. Eligible for ASIA credit. Writing course. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 010. African American Religions What makes African American religion “African” and “American”? Using texts, films, and music, we will examine the sacred institutions of Americans of African descent. Major themes will include Africanisms in American religion, slavery and religion, gospel music, African American women and religion, black and womanist theology, the civil rights movement, and Islam and urban religions. Field trips include visits to Father Divine’s Peace Mission and the first independent black church in the United States, Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church. Eligible for BLST credit. 1 credit. Fall 2014. Chireau. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 011. First-Year Seminar: Religion and the Meaning of Life “Whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for my sake will save it.” One of the most intriguing contradictions in comparative religious studies is the claim that only when one forfeits the self can one discover genuine selfhood; the journey to the true self begins by first abandoning one’s assumptions about selfhood through practicing the disciplines of self-emptying and self-giving. In this seminar, we will analyze the collapse of the received notions of the stable self in classical thought and then move toward a postmodern recovery of the self-that-is-not-a-self founded on the spiritual practice of solicitude for the other. Readings may include Plato, Augustine, Rumi, Kierkegaard, Weil, Nishitani, Bonhoeffer, Levinas, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Dillard. This discussion-rich seminar includes regular student presentations and a community service-learning component. Eligible for Community-Based Learning. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 011B. The Religion of Islam: The Islamic Humanities This course is a comprehensive introduction to Islamic doctrines, practices, and religious institutions in a variety of geographic settings from the rise of Islam in the seventh century to the present. Translated source materials from the Qur’an, sayings of Muhammad, legal texts, and mystical works will provide an overview of the literary expressions of the religion. Among the topics to be covered are: the Qur’an as scripture and as liturgy; conversion and the spread of Islam; Muhammad in history and in the popular imagination; concepts of the feminine; Muslim women; sectarian developments; transmission of religious knowledge and spiritual power; Sufism and the historical elaboration of mystical communities; modern reaffirmation of Islamic identity; and Islam in the American environment. Eligible for ISLM or MDST credit. Writing course. 1 credit. Fall 2014. al-Jamil. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 012. The History, Religion, and Culture of India I: From the Indus Valley to the Hindu Saints A study of the religious history of India from the ancient Indo-Aryan civilization of the north to the establishment of Islam under Moghul rule. Topics include the ritual system of the Vedas, the philosophy of the Upanishads, the rise of Buddhist and Jain communities, and the development of classical Hindu society. Focal themes are hierarchy, caste and class, purity and pollution, gender, untouchability, world renunciation, and the construction of a religiously defined social order. Eligible for ASIA credit. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 012B. Hindu Traditions of India: Power, Love, and Knowledge This course is an introduction to the religious and cultural history of Hindu traditions of India from the prehistoric Indus Valley in the northwest to the medieval period in the southeast, and major points and periods in between, with a look also at formative points of the early modern period. Our focus will be on the interactions between Vedic, Buddhist, brahmanical, popular/ritual, and Jain religious traditions in the development, and formation of Hindu religious streams, along with major ritual and ascetic practices, hagiographies, and myths, hymns and poetry, and art and images associated with Hindu identities and sectarian formations, pre-modern and modern. In addition to providing students with a grasp of the basic doctrines, practices, and beings (human, superhuman, and divine) associated with various Hindu traditions, the course also seeks to equip them with the ability to analyze primary and secondary sources. Eligible for ASIA credit. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 013. The History, Religion, and Culture of India II: Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, and Dalit in North India After a survey of premodern Hindu traditions, the course tracks the sources of Indo-Muslim culture in North India, including the development of Sufi mysticism; Sindhi, Urdu, and Tamil poetry in honor of the Prophet Muhammad; syncretism under Mughal emperor Akbar; and the consolidation of orthodoxy with Armad Sirhindi and his school in the 16th to 17th century. We then trace the rise of the Sikh tradition in the milieu of the Mughals, northern Hindu Sants and mendicant Sufis, popular goddess worship and village piety, focusing on several issues of religious experience. We then turn to the colonial and post-colonial period through the lenses of the Hindu saints, artists, and reformers (the “nationalist elite”) of the Bengali Renaissance, and the political and religious thought of Mohandas Gandhi and Dalit reformer Ambedkar. We will use perspectives of various theorists and social historians, from Ashis Nandy, Partha Chatterjee, Peter van der Veer, to Veena Das and Gail Omvedt. Eligible for ASIA or ISLM credit. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 014. Christian Life and Thought in the Middle Ages Survey of western Christian religious culture and thought from the early to the late Middle Ages. Among other topics, the course will consider debates about the nature of the Divine, the person and work of Jesus Christ, heresy and dissent, bodily devotion, love, mysticism, scholasticism, and holy persons. Readings may include Augustine, Anselm, Avicenna, Abelard, Hildegard of Bingen, Francis of Assisi, Catherine of Siena, Thomas Aquinas, Julian of Norwich, and John Wyclif. Eligible for MDST credit. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 015. First-Year Seminar: Religion and Literature: Blood and Spirit ruct) the meaning of different imaginative variations on reality. Academic and creative writers include many or all of the following: Sophocles, Augustine, Joyce, Morrison, O’Connor, Updike, Dostoevsky, Crace, Lewis, Weil, Scorsese, Kazantzakis, Snyder, Abbey, and Camus. Eligible for INTP credit. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 015B. Philosophy of Religion Searching for wisdom about the meaning of life? Curious as to whether there is a God? Questioning the nature of truth and falsehood? Right and wrong? You might think of philosophy of religion as your guide to the universe. This course considers Anglo-American and Continental philosophical approaches to religious thought using different disciplinary perspectives; it is a selective overview of the history of philosophy with special attention to the religious dimensions of many contemporary thinkers’ intellectual projects. Topics include rationality and belief, proofs for existence of God, the problem of evil, moral philosophy, biblical hermeneutics, feminist revisionism, postmodernism, and interreligious dialogue. Thinkers include, among others, Anselm, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Kant, Wittgenstein, Derrida, Levinas, Weil, and Abe. This year, the central theme of the course is the problem of evil. Eligible for INTP credit and Community-Based Learning. (Cross-listed as PHIL 016 ) 1 credit. Fall 2014. Wallace. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 016. First-Year Seminar: Spiritual Journeys: Into the Wild What does it mean to take religion “on the road”? How does one “pray with one’s feet”? Where is the sacred to be found-on the journey itself or at the place of destination-or both? What is the sacred anyway? Spiritual journeys-pilgrimages to places old and new-are on the rise in contemporary society. By reading a number of accounts of personal spiritual journeys we will travel the landscape of contemporary religious America-with its vibrancy and variety-and consider our own journeys (spiritual or otherwise) along the way. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 018. Global Christianities This course explores Christian beliefs and practices in a global context. We consider Christian worldviews, their cultural expressions, history, and influence upon personal and social self-understanding and action. Examples will be drawn from Christian communities in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Themes include images of the sacred and of Jesus and Mary, mother of Jesus; pilgrimage and festivals; saints; gender; power; and religious authority; politics, conflict, and social transformation; and healing traditions. 1 credit. Spring 2015. Ross. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 018B. Modern Jewish Thought Is modern reason compatible with biblical revelation? Beginning with the heretic Spinoza, we’ll examine the giants of Jewish thought- religious reformers, philosophers, and theologians wrestling with the challenge of modernity, politics, and multiculturalism. Topics will include: the essence of Judaism, the nature of law, religion and state, God and evil, the status of women and non- Jews, the legacy of the Holocaust. Readings from: Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Judith Plaskow, Emmanuel Levinas, and others. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 019. First-Year Seminar: Religion and Food Why do some people eat the body of their god? What is soul food? Is the pig an abomination? Is there such a thing as “devil’s food” and “angel’s food”? Which is more spiritual, to feast or to fast? All of these questions are tied together by a common theme: They point to the relationship between food, eating, and the religious experiences of human beings. This seminar will introduce students to the study of religion, using food as an entry point. We will investigate the significance of food across a variety of traditions and explore such issues as diet, sacrifice, healing, the body, ethics, and religious doctrines concerning food. Topics will include religious fasting, vegetarianism, eating rituals, food controversies, purity and pollution, theophagy and cannibalism as sacred practice. 1 credit. Fall 2014. Chireau. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 020. Christian Mysticism This course considers topics in the history of Christian mysticism. Themes include mysticism as a way of life, relationships between mystics and religious communities, physical manifestations and spiritual experiences, varieties of mystical union, and the diverse images for naming the relationship between humanity and the Divine. Readings that explore the meaning, sources, and practices of Christian mystical traditions may include Marguerite Porete, Francis of Assisi, Julian of Norwich, Simone Weil, Thomas Merton, and Dorothee Soelle. Eligible for MDST credit. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 021. Prison Letters: Religion and Transformation Focusing on themes of religion and transformation and prison as a literal and metaphorical space, this course explores themes of life and death, oppression and freedom, isolation and community, agency, and identity. Drawing primarily on Christian sources, readings move from the New Testament through Martin Luther King, Jr., to the contemporary U.S. context where more than 2 million people are incarcerated today. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 022. Religion and Ecology This course focuses on how different religious traditions have shaped human beings’ fundamental outlook on the environment in ancient and modern times. In turn, it examines how various religious worldviews can aid the development of an earth-centered philosophy of life. The thesis of this course is that the environment crisis, at its core, is a spiritual crisis because it is human beings’ deep ecocidal dispositions toward nature that are the cause of the earth’s continued degradation. Course topics include ecological thought in Western philosophy, theology, and biblical studies; the role of Asian religious thought in forging an ecological worldview; the value of American nature writings for environmental awareness, including both Euro-American and Amerindian literatures; the public policy debates concerning vegetarianism and the antitoxics movement; and the contemporary relevance of ecofeminism, deep ecology, Neopaganism, and wilderness activism. In addition to writing assignments, there will be occasional contemplative practicums, journaling exercises, and a community-based learning component. Eligible for ENVS credit and Community-Based Learning. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 023. Quakers Past and Present In Swarthmore’s 150th anniversary year this course asks: Who are Quakers today? What are the common roots and variations in Quaker belief and practice over time? How did Quakers come to be so well-known for their social activism? This course explores the impact of Quakers in North America from the 1650s to the present as well as the contemporary rapid growth of Quakerism in Africa (46% of Quakers worldwide) and in Latin America. Topics include Quakers and peace work, abolition, women’s rights advocacy, prison reform; Quakers and nature; Quakers and education; Quakers and evangelical and Spirit-centered traditions; Quakers and hospital and school foundations; and Quaker writings about God, self, and world. In exploring Quaker Traditions this class contributes to students’ understanding of the study of Religion and of Christianity. Readings will include the work of George Fox, Margaret Fell, William Penn, John Woolman, Lucretia Mott, Elias Hicks, Elise Boulding, and Rufus Jones, The Friends World Committee on Consultation, and the American Friends Service Committee. Students will have the opportunity to work with the resources of Swarthmore College’s Friends Historical Library and Peace Collection. Eligible for PEAC credit. 1 credit. Fall 2014. Ross. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 024. From Vodun to Voodoo: African Religions in the Old and New Worlds Is there a kindred spirituality expressed within the ceremonies, beliefs, music and movement of African religions? This course explores the dynamics of African religions throughout the diaspora and the Atlantic world. Using text, art, film, and music, we will look at the interaction of society and religion in the black world, beginning with traditional religions in west and central Africa, examining the impact of slavery and migration, and the dispersal of African religions throughout the Western Hemisphere. The course will focus on the varieties of religious experiences in Africa and their transformations in the Caribbean, Brazil and North America in the religions of Candomblé, Santeria, Conjure, and other New World traditions. At the end of the term, in consultation with the professor, students will create a web-based project in lieu of a final paper. Study abroad credit may be available. Eligible for BLST credit. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 025. Black Women and Religion in the United States This course is an exploration of the spiritual lives of African American women. We will hear black women’s voices in history and in literature, in film, in performance and music, and within diverse periods and contexts, and reflect upon the multidimensionality of religious experience in African American women’s lives. We will also examine the ways that religion has served to empower black women in their personal and collective attempts at the realization of a sacred self. Topics include: African women’s religious worlds; women in the black diaspora; African American women in Islam, Christianity, and New World traditions; womanist and feminist thought; and sexuality and spirituality. Readings include works by: Alice Walker; Audre Lorde; bell hooks; Zora Neale Hurston; Patricia Williams, and others. No prerequisites. Eligible for BLST or GSST credit. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 026. Performing Judaism: Feasts and Fasts This course introduces students to Judaism as lived-enacted and embodied-through a critical examination of Jewish holiday and lifecycle rituals. We will study the beginnings of Jewish rituals and chart their development throughout centuries of Jewish history, noting how ritual allows Judaism to retain ancient roots and grow new branches. Our discussions will be informed by contemporary scholarship in performance studies, ritual studies, gender studies, and anthropology. These current approaches will help us compare (and contrast) Jewish rituals with rituals of other religions. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 027. Radical Jesus This class is a discussion-intensive, student-led exercise in the critical study of Jesus that centers on analytical reading and writing; contemplative practice; and community action. Beginning with the joyous and terrifying Gospel of Mark and the recently discovered Gospel of Judas, and continuing with the rise of Constantine, Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses, and Dostoevsky’s “The Grand Inquisitor,” this class theologically analyzes Jesus today as the mystic-prophet revolutionary who, alternately, is “the first and last Christian” (Friedrich Nietzsche), “the preacher of Christian atheism” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer), “the face of divine affliction” (Simone Weil), “my great brother” (Martin Buber), “the advocate for the disinherited” (Howard Thurman), “the God within each of us” (Thich Nhat Hanh), “the prophet of simplicity” (Shane Claiborne), and “the liberating Corn Mother” (George Tinker). Eligible for INTP credit. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 030. The Power of Images: Icons and Iconoclasts This course is a cross-cultural, comparative study of the use and critique of sacred images in biblical Judaism; Eastern Christianity; and the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions of India. Students will explore differing attitudes toward the physical embodiment of divinity, including issues of divine “presence” and “absence”; icons, aniconism, and “idolatry”; and distinctions drawn in some traditions between different types of images and different devotional attitudes toward sacred images, from Yahweh’s back and bleeding icons to Jain worship of “absent” saints. Eligible for ASIA or MDST credit. 1 credit. Spring 2015. Hopkins. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 031. Religion and Literature: From the Song of Songs to the Hindu Saints A cross-cultural, comparative study of religious literatures in Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Hindu traditions. How “secular” love poetry and poetics have both influenced and been influenced by devotional poetry in these traditions, past and present. Eligible for ASIA or MDST credit. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 032. Queering God: Feminist and Queer Theology The God of the Bible and later Jewish and Christian literature is distinctively masculine, definitely male. Or is He? If we can point out places in traditional writings where God is nurturing, forgiving, and loving, does that mean that God is feminine, or female? This course examines feminist and queer writings about God, explores the tensions between feminist and queer theology, and seeks to stretch the limits of gendering-and sexing-the divine. Key themes include: gender; embodiment; masculinity; liberation; sexuality; feminist and queer theory. Eligible for GSST or INTP credit. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 036. Christian Visions of Self and Nature This course is a thematic introduction to Christianity. Beginning with early Christian writings and moving historically up through the contemporary period, we will explore a wide variety of ideas about God, self, and nature. Readings will focus on scientific and natural history treatises in dialogue with theological texts. We will explore the writings of Christian naturalists to study the linking of science and religion, and we will investigate a multiplicity of views about Christian understandings of the relationship between the human and non-human world. This class includes a community-based learning component: Students will participate in designing and teaching a mini-course on “Nature and Chester” to students in the nearby community of Chester. Readings include Aristotle (critical for understanding science in the later Middle Ages), Hildegard of Bingen, Roger Bacon, Galileo Galilei, Charles Darwin, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, Graceanna Lewis, Thomas Berry, Nalini Nadkarni, and Terry Tempest Williams. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 038. Religion and Film An introductory course that uses popular film as a primary text/medium to explore fundamental questions in the academic study of religion. In particular, we will be concerned with the ways that religion and religious experience are constituted and defined on film as well as through film viewing. In discussing films from across a range of subjects and genres, we will engage in the work of mythical, theological and ideological criticism, while examining the nature, function, and value of religion and religious experience. We will also consider some of the most significant writers and traditions in the field of Religion and develop the analytical and interpretive skills of the discipline. Scheduled films include The Seventh Seal, The Matrix, Breaking the Waves, Contact, Jacob’s Ladder, The Passion of the Christ, The Rapture, The Apostle, as well as additional student selections. Weekly readings, writing assignments, and evening screening sessions are required. 1 credit. Spring 2015. Chireau. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 039. Good and Evil What do the Western religious traditions have to teach us about the evils of alienation, racism, war, disease, exploitation and the possibility of solidarity, resistance, love, and goodness? This course will be an intense examination of modern philosophical and theological responses to the mysteries of radical evil and radical good. Eligible for PEAC credit. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 041. Religion and Poetry How is poetry uniquely suited to describing religious experience and concepts? How and why does poetry draw upon the language and techniques of sacred texts? We will read poetic texts from various religious traditions alongside modern and contemporary poetry (including Hopkins, Frost, Larkin, Bidart, Komunyakaa, Levin, and Tracy K. Smith) that is nonetheless engaged in religious inquiry of one kind or another. Assignments will include both critical and creative writing in response to these texts. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 042. Performing Ecstasy Dancing the Sacred (See DANC 038 ) 1 credit. Spring 2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 043. In Quest of God: The Latin American Religious Arena This course counts for distribution in Humanities under the Religion rubric. (See LASC 025 ) 1 credit. Spring 2015. Machuca-Gálvez. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 053. Gender, Sexuality, and the Body in Islamic Discourses An exploration of sexuality, gender roles, and notions of the body within the Islamic tradition from the formative period of Islam to the present. This course will examine the historical development of gendered and patriarchal readings of Islamic legal, historical, and scriptural texts. Particular attention will be given to both the premodern and modern strategies employed by women to subvert these exclusionary forms of interpretation and to ensure more egalitarian outcomes for themselves in the public sphere. Topics discussed include female piety, marriage and divorce, motherhood, polygamy, sex and desire, honor and shame, same-sex sexuality, and the role of women in the transmission of knowledge. Eligible for GSST, ISLM, or MDST credit. 1 credit. Fall 2014. al-Jamil. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 054. Power and Authority in Modern Islam This course examines some of the salient issues of concern for Muslims thinkers during the modern period (defined for the purposes of this course as the colonial and post-colonial periods). Beginning with discussion of the impact of colonialism on Islamic discourses, the course moves on to address a number of recurrent themes that have characterized Muslim engagement with modernity. Readings and/or films will include religious, political, and literary works by Muslims in variety of cultural and linguistic settings. Topics to be discussed will include: nationalism and the rise of the modern nation-state, questions of religion and gender, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, developments in Islam in the United States and Canada, and case studies of reformist and revivalist movements in the modern nation-states of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. Special attention will be paid to contemporary Muslim responses to feminist critiques, democracy, pluralism, religious violence, extremism, and authoritarianism. Eligible for ISLM credit. 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 057. Hebrew for Text Study I What does the Bible really say? Have you ever noticed how radically different the Hebrew Bible seems in different translations? If you want to understand the enigma of this text, if you want to experience it through your own eyes, if you want to plumb its depths, appreciate its beauty, confront its challenges, and understand its influence, you must read it in Hebrew. In this course, you will learn the grammar and vocabulary required to experience the Hebrew Bible and ancient Hebrew commentaries in the original language. You will learn to use dictionaries, concordances, and translations to investigate word roots and to authenticate interpretations of the texts. In addition to teaching basic language skills, this course offers students the opportunity for direct encounter with primary biblical, rabbinic, and Jewish liturgical sources. No experience necessary. If you already have some Hebrew competence, contact the instructor for advice. (Cross-listed as LING 007 ) 1 credit. Spring 2015. Plotkin. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 059. Hebrew for Text Study II This course is a continuation of Hebrew for Text Study I. Students who have not completed that course will require the permission of the instructor to enroll in this course. This set of courses teaches the grammar and vocabulary required to experience the Hebrew Bible and ancient Hebrew commentaries in the original language. You will learn to use dictionaries, concordances, and translations to investigate word roots and to authenticate interpretations of the texts. In addition to teaching basic language skills, this course offers students the opportunity for direct encounter with primary biblical, rabbinic, and Jewish liturgical sources. (Cross-listed as LING 010 ) 1 credit. Fall 2014. Plotkin. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 067. Judaism and Nature “We are not obligated to complete the task; neither are we free to abstain from it.” (Pirke Avot 2:21) The task before us is to examine the relationship(s) between Judaism and Nature. We are setting out to decide-or at least ponder-the following questions (though we will surely encounter more along the way): What does Jewish literature from the Garden of Eden to the present day say about the earth and humanity’s relationship with it? Because of the growing awareness about current ecological concerns and crises, Jewish tradition is being mined-or cultivated-for historical precedents that reflect ecologically sound models of Jewish living. How fruitful is this process? To what extent can contemporary Jews rely on tradition to provide such models, and to what extent must Jews today find new ways of bringing humanity and nature together? 1 credit. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 093. Directed Reading Section 02. 1 credit. Fall 2014 and spring 2015. Staff. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 093. Directed Reading: Readings in Classical Jewish Texts Section 01. 0.5 credit. Fall 2014 and spring 2015. Plotkin. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 095. Religion Café: Senior Symposium This seminar is a weekly symposium for senior majors addressing some of the major themes, theories, and methods in the academic study of religion. The seminar will highlight the inherently multidisciplinary nature of religious studies by reading scholars from several disciplines who have influenced certain theoretical and philosophical assumptions and vocabularies in the field. The seminar will examine a number of approaches to religious studies including, but not limited to, those drawn from: post-structuralism, gender studies, critical theory, cognitive science, phenomenology, ethics, pragmatism, social history, and anthropology. 1 credit. Fall 2014. Kessler. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 096. Thesis Writing course. 1 credit. Fall 2014 and spring 2015. Staff. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 097. Thesis 1 credit. Fall 2014 and spring 2015. Staff. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Religion - Seminars
	RELG 100. Holy War, Martyrdom, and Suicide in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam An examination of the concepts of martyrdom, holy war, and suicide in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. How are “just” war, suicide, martyrdom presented in the sacred texts of these three traditions? How are the different perspectives related to conceptions of death and the afterlife within each tradition? Historically, how have these three traditions idealized and/or valorized the martyr and/or the “just” warrior? In what ways have modern post-colonial political groups and nationalist movements appropriated martyrdom and holy war in our time? Eligible for ISLM or PEAC credit. 2 credits. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 101. Jesus in History, Literature, and Theology This seminar explores depictions of Jesus in narrative, history, theology, and popular culture. We consider Jesus as historical figure, trickster, mother, healer, suffering savior, visionary, embodiment of the Divine, lover, victorious warrior, political liberator, and prophet. 2 credits. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 102. Folk and Popular Religion This seminar investigates the cultural complexity of the American religious experience through the lens of folk and popular traditions. We will utilize historical, anthropological, and literary approaches to explore folk Catholicism in the United States, local religious celebrations, 19th- and 20th-century popular movements, and folk art and other material representations of religion. Topics include serpent handling in Appalachia; American consumerism as religion; heterodox spiritualities in America; Marian shrines and spirit apparitions; and black Gods and racial folk religions. 2 credits. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 108. Poets, Saints, and Storytellers: The Poetry and Poetics of Devotion in South Asian Religions A study of the major forms of Hindu religious culture through the lenses of its varied regional and pan-regional literatures, with a focus on the literature of devotion (bhakti), including comparative readings from Buddhist and Islamic traditions of India. The course will focus on both primary texts in translation (religious poetry and prose narratives in epic and medieval Sanskrit, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Hindi, Pali, Sinhala, Sindhi, and Urdu) as well as pertinent secondary literature on the poetry and poetics of religious devotion. We will also pay close attention to specific literary forms, genres, and regional styles, as well as the performance (music and dance) and hagiographical traditions that frame the poems of Hindu saint-poets, Buddhist monks, and Muslim mystics. Along with a chronological and geographical focus, the seminar will be organized around major themes such as popular/vernacular and “elite” traditions; the performance and ritual contexts of religious poetry; the place of the body in religious emotion; love, karma, caste, and family identity; asceticism and eroticism; gender and power; renunciation and family obligations. Eligible for ASIA or MDST credit. 2 credits. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 109. Afro-Atlantic Religions This seminar explores the historical experiences of the millions of persons who worship African divinities in the West. We will consider the following questions: How were these religions and their communities created? How have they survived? How are African-based traditions perpetuated through ritual, song, dance, drumming, and healing practices? Special attention will be given to Yoruba religion and its New World offspring, Santeria, Voodoo and Candomblé. Eligible for BLST or LASC credit. 2 credits. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 110. Religious Belief and Moral Action The seminar will explore the relationship between religion and morality. Basic moral concepts in Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Taoism, Islam and Hinduism will be studied in relationship to their cosmological/theological frameworks and their historical contexts. The course will analyze concepts of virtue and moral reasoning, the religious view of what it means to be a moral person, and the religious evaluation of a just society. 2 credits. Not offered 2014-2015. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	RELG 112. Postmodern Religious Thought This seminar asks whether religious belief is possible in the absence of a “transcendental signified.” Topics include metaphysics and theology, the death of God, female divinity, apophatic mysticism and deconstruction, ethics without foundations, the question of God beyond Being, and analogues to notions of truth in ancient Buddhist thought. Readings include Eckhart, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Derrida, Nagarjuna, Nishitani, Ricoeur, Marion, Rorty, Loy, Taylor, Panikkar and Vattimo. Eligible for INTP credit. 2 credits. Spring 2015. Wallace. http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion Religion Access the class schedule to search for sections.

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PSYC 030.&nbsp;Behavioral Neuroscience

PSYC 031A.&nbsp;Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

PSYC 032.&nbsp;Perception

PSYC 033.&nbsp;Cognitive Psychology

PSYC 034.&nbsp;Psychology of Language

PSYC 035.&nbsp;Social Psychology

PSYC 036.&nbsp;Thinking, Judgment, and Decision Making

PSYC 038.&nbsp;Clinical Psychology

PSYC 039.&nbsp;Developmental Psychology

PSYC 041.&nbsp;Children at Risk

PSYC 046.&nbsp;Psychology and Economic Rationality

PSYC 048.&nbsp;Gender and Psychopathology

PSYC 050.&nbsp;Developmental Psychopathology

PSYC 055.&nbsp;Family Systems Theory and Psychological Change

PSYC 090.&nbsp;Practicum in Clinical Psychology

PSYC 091.&nbsp;Special Topics in Behavioral Neuroscience

PSYC 094.&nbsp;Independent Research

PSYC 095.&nbsp;Tutorial

PSYC 096.&nbsp;Senior Thesis

PSYC 097.&nbsp;Senior Thesis

PSYC 098.&nbsp;Senior Research Project

PSYC 102.&nbsp;Research Practicum in Perception and Cognition

PSYC 103.&nbsp;Research Practicum in Behavioral Neuropharmacology

PSYC 104.&nbsp;Research Practicum in Language and Mind

PSYC 105.&nbsp;Research Practicum in Psychology and Neuroscience: Social Imitation

PSYC 106.&nbsp;Research Practicum in Cognitive Development

PSYC 108.&nbsp;Research Practicum in School- Based Interventions

PSYC 109.&nbsp;Research Practicum in Clinical Psychology

PSYC 130.&nbsp;Seminar in Behavioral Neuroscience

PSYC 131A.&nbsp;Seminar in Psychology and Neuroscience: The Social Brain

PSYC 132.&nbsp;Perception, Cognition and the Embodied Mind Seminar

PSYC 133.&nbsp;Metaphor and Mind Seminar

PSYC 134.&nbsp;Seminar in Psycholinguistics

PSYC 135.&nbsp;Seminar in Social Psychology

PSYC 136.&nbsp;Seminar in Thinking, Judgment, and Decision Making

PSYC 138.&nbsp;Seminar in Clinical Psychology

PSYC 139.&nbsp;Seminar in Developmental Psychology

PSYC 180.&nbsp;Honors Thesis

RELG 001.&nbsp;Religion and Human Experience

RELG 001C.&nbsp;Religion and Terror in an Age of Hope and Fear

RELG 002.&nbsp;Religion in America

RELG 003.&nbsp;The Bible: In the Beginning…

RELG 003A.&nbsp;Hebrew Bible and its Modern Interpreters

RELG 004.&nbsp;New Testament and Early Christianity

RELG 004B.&nbsp;Jewish Interpretation: From the HolyLand to Hollywood

RELG 005.&nbsp;World Religions

RELG 005B.&nbsp;Introduction to Christianity

RELG 006.&nbsp;Judaism: God, Torah, Israel

RELG 006B.&nbsp;The Talmud

RELG 007B.&nbsp;Women and Religion

RELG 008.&nbsp;Patterns of Asian Religions

RELG 008B.&nbsp;The Qur’an and Its Interpreters

RELG 009.&nbsp;The Buddhist Traditions of Asia

RELG 010.&nbsp;African American Religions

RELG 011.&nbsp;First-Year Seminar: Religion and the Meaning of Life

RELG 011B.&nbsp;The Religion of Islam: The Islamic Humanities

RELG 012.&nbsp;The History, Religion, and Culture of India I: From the Indus Valley to the Hindu Saints

RELG 012B.&nbsp;Hindu Traditions of India: Power, Love, and Knowledge

RELG 013.&nbsp;The History, Religion, and Culture of India II: Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, and Dalit in North India

RELG 014.&nbsp;Christian Life and Thought in the Middle Ages

RELG 015.&nbsp;First-Year Seminar: Religion and Literature: Blood and Spirit

RELG 015B.&nbsp;Philosophy of Religion

RELG 016.&nbsp;First-Year Seminar: Spiritual Journeys: Into the Wild

RELG 018.&nbsp;Global Christianities

RELG 018B.&nbsp;Modern Jewish Thought

RELG 019.&nbsp;First-Year Seminar: Religion and Food

RELG 020.&nbsp;Christian Mysticism

RELG 021.&nbsp;Prison Letters: Religion and Transformation

RELG 022.&nbsp;Religion and Ecology

RELG 023.&nbsp;Quakers Past and Present

RELG 024.&nbsp;From Vodun to Voodoo: African Religions in the Old and New Worlds

RELG 025.&nbsp;Black Women and Religion in the United States

RELG 026.&nbsp;Performing Judaism: Feasts and Fasts

RELG 027.&nbsp;Radical Jesus

RELG 030.&nbsp;The Power of Images: Icons and Iconoclasts

RELG 031.&nbsp;Religion and Literature: From the Song of Songs to the Hindu Saints

RELG 032.&nbsp;Queering God: Feminist and Queer Theology

RELG 036.&nbsp;Christian Visions of Self and Nature

RELG 038.&nbsp;Religion and Film

PSYC 030. Behavioral Neuroscience

PSYC 031A. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

PSYC 032. Perception

PSYC 033. Cognitive Psychology

PSYC 034. Psychology of Language

PSYC 035. Social Psychology

PSYC 036. Thinking, Judgment, and Decision Making

PSYC 038. Clinical Psychology

PSYC 039. Developmental Psychology

PSYC 041. Children at Risk

PSYC 046. Psychology and Economic Rationality

PSYC 048. Gender and Psychopathology

PSYC 050. Developmental Psychopathology

PSYC 055. Family Systems Theory and Psychological Change

PSYC 090. Practicum in Clinical Psychology

PSYC 091. Special Topics in Behavioral Neuroscience

PSYC 094. Independent Research

PSYC 095. Tutorial

PSYC 096. Senior Thesis

PSYC 097. Senior Thesis

PSYC 098. Senior Research Project

PSYC 102. Research Practicum in Perception and Cognition

PSYC 103. Research Practicum in Behavioral Neuropharmacology

PSYC 104. Research Practicum in Language and Mind

PSYC 105. Research Practicum in Psychology and Neuroscience: Social Imitation

PSYC 106. Research Practicum in Cognitive Development

PSYC 108. Research Practicum in School- Based Interventions

PSYC 109. Research Practicum in Clinical Psychology

PSYC 130. Seminar in Behavioral Neuroscience

PSYC 131A. Seminar in Psychology and Neuroscience: The Social Brain

PSYC 132. Perception, Cognition and the Embodied Mind Seminar

PSYC 133. Metaphor and Mind Seminar

PSYC 134. Seminar in Psycholinguistics

PSYC 135. Seminar in Social Psychology

PSYC 136. Seminar in Thinking, Judgment, and Decision Making

PSYC 138. Seminar in Clinical Psychology

PSYC 139. Seminar in Developmental Psychology

PSYC 180. Honors Thesis

RELG 001. Religion and Human Experience

RELG 001C. Religion and Terror in an Age of Hope and Fear

RELG 002. Religion in America

RELG 003. The Bible: In the Beginning…

RELG 003A. Hebrew Bible and its Modern Interpreters

RELG 004. New Testament and Early Christianity

RELG 004B. Jewish Interpretation: From the HolyLand to Hollywood

RELG 005. World Religions

RELG 005B. Introduction to Christianity

RELG 006. Judaism: God, Torah, Israel

RELG 006B. The Talmud

RELG 007B. Women and Religion

RELG 008. Patterns of Asian Religions

RELG 008B. The Qur’an and Its Interpreters

RELG 009. The Buddhist Traditions of Asia

RELG 010. African American Religions

RELG 011. First-Year Seminar: Religion and the Meaning of Life

RELG 011B. The Religion of Islam: The Islamic Humanities

RELG 012. The History, Religion, and Culture of India I: From the Indus Valley to the Hindu Saints

RELG 012B. Hindu Traditions of India: Power, Love, and Knowledge

RELG 013. The History, Religion, and Culture of India II: Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, and Dalit in North India

RELG 014. Christian Life and Thought in the Middle Ages

RELG 015. First-Year Seminar: Religion and Literature: Blood and Spirit

RELG 015B. Philosophy of Religion

RELG 016. First-Year Seminar: Spiritual Journeys: Into the Wild

RELG 018. Global Christianities

RELG 018B. Modern Jewish Thought

RELG 019. First-Year Seminar: Religion and Food

RELG 020. Christian Mysticism

RELG 021. Prison Letters: Religion and Transformation

RELG 022. Religion and Ecology

RELG 023. Quakers Past and Present

RELG 024. From Vodun to Voodoo: African Religions in the Old and New Worlds

RELG 025. Black Women and Religion in the United States

RELG 026. Performing Judaism: Feasts and Fasts

RELG 027. Radical Jesus

RELG 030. The Power of Images: Icons and Iconoclasts

RELG 031. Religion and Literature: From the Song of Songs to the Hindu Saints

RELG 032. Queering God: Feminist and Queer Theology

RELG 036. Christian Visions of Self and Nature

RELG 038. Religion and Film

RELG 039. Good and Evil