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Religious Studies Core Courses

Religious Studies Courses at the Five Colleges for Fall 2012

YOU ARE WELCOME TO CONTACT  PROGRAM DIRECTOR PROFESSOR SUSAN SHAPIRO IF YOU HAVE FURTHER QUESTIONS.

Regularly scheduled courses that qualify for the Religious Studies Certificate are listed below. Other courses may also qualify; consult the Director for guidance. Please keep in mind that no more than two of the four "middle courses" (besides History 112 and the integrative seminar) can be drawn from the same department, and that only two courses (History 112 and one other course) can be at the introductory level. For descriptions of the courses listed below, please consult Spire for UMass courses and the departments at the other colleges for courses on those campuses. 

UMass Amherst Courses

• ART HISTORY 348, Islamic Art + Architecture II
• CHINESE 155, Chinese Myths and Legends
• CLASSICS 224, Greek Mythology
• COMP-LIT 122, Spiritual Autobiography
• COMP-LIT 141, Good/Evil: East-West
• ENGLISH 203, Bible: Myth/Literature/Society
• GERMAN 363, Witches: Myth and Reality
• GERMAN 365, Scandinavian Mythology
• HISTORY 112, Introduction to World Religions
• HISTORY 297A, Crusades and Islam
• HISTORY 305, Renaissance and Reformation Europe
• HISTORY 425, Christianity
• JAPANESE 190R, Introduction to Japanese Religion
• JAPANESE 197C, Introduction to Japanese Religions
• JAPANESE 592M, S-Japanese Buddhism and the Literary Arts
• JUDAIC 101, Jewish People I
• JUDAIC 102, Jewish People II
• JUDAIC 345, The Making of Modern Jewry
• JUDAIC 354, Jewish Theatre and Film (previously 392O)
• JUDAIC 350, Jewish Law & Society
• JUDAIC 353, Sephardic Cultures and Literatures of the Spanish Diaspora
• JUDAIC 363, Negotiating Religion and State
• JUDAIC 365, Antisemitism in Historical Perspective
• JUDAIC 392K, World Jewish Cultures: Diaspora and Peoplehood
• JUDAIC 392L, Jews of Muslim Lands: Responses to Modernity
• JUDAIC 395A, Family and Sexuality in Judaism
• LATIN 591A, Medieval Latin
• MUSIC 309, Music of the Jewish People
• PHILOSOPHY 383, Philosophical Approaches to Religion
• SOCIOLOGY 321, Sociology of Religion

Amherst College

• AMST 12-01 or -02, Relig/Democr/Amer Cult
• ANTH 22-01, Anthropology of Religion
• ANTH 26 1, African Cultures/Societies
• ANTH 34-01, Religion: S Asian World
• ARAH 58-01, Modern Icon
• ASLC 58 1, Buddhist Ethics
• ASLC 60 1, Religion: S. Asian World
• ASLC 69-01, Theravada Buddhism
• HIST 58-01, Relig & Soc: Great China
• MELL 12-01, Science/Valu/Spirit Trad
• PHIL 29 1, Problem of Evi
• RELI 11-01, Introduction to Religion
• RELI 13 1, Popular Religion
• RELI 15-01, Religion in Contemp Fiction
• RELI 17-01, Islamic Religious Tradition
• RELI 20-01, Close Read/Parbl of Jesus
• RELI 19 1, Religion in the U.S.
• RELI 21-01, Ancient Israel
• RELI 22 1, Christian Scriptures
• RELI 23 1, Buddhism: Theory/Practice
• RELI 24-01, Muhammad and the Qur'an
• RELI 26-01, Theravada Buddhism
• RELI 27 1, Buddhist Ethics
• RELI 37-01, The Body/Ancient Judaism
• RELI 38 1, Folklore & the Bible
• RELI 39 1, Women in Judaism
• RELI 40-01, Prophecy/Wisdom/Apocalypse
• RELI 41-01, Reading the Rabbis
• RELI 43 1, Holy Woman/Man: Late Antiquity
• RELI 45-01, Christianity-Early Years
• RELI 51 1, Problem of Evil
• RELI 52-01, Religious Ethics
• RELI 54-01, Revival & Reform in Islam
• RELI 57 1, Islamic Ethics
• RELI 58-01, Relig in Atlantic World
• RELI 63 1, Suspicion and Religion
• RELI 64-01, Nature of Religion
• RELI 65 1, Scientific Perspective
• RELI 71-01, Asian Studies Colloquium

• RELI 71 1, Buddhist Literature and Culture

Hampshire College

• CS 0102, Science and Religion
• CS 0309-1, Science and Religion
• HACU 143, Introduction to Tibetan Religion
• HACU 147, Religion in Modern India
• HACU 0150-1, Asian Religious Text & Traditions
• HACU 0222-1, Intro to Chinese Religions
• HACU 244, Yoga Tradition
• HACU 0249-1, Introduction to Buddhist Meditation
• HACU 273, Islamic Civilization
• HACU 0289-1, Mystics and Texts
• HACU 0323-1, Buddhism During Colonia Period
• SS224, Science/Religion/Sexuality
• SS 284, Theorizing Religion
• WP 0199, High Spirits: Read/Write Spirituality

Mount Holyoke College

• ANTHR 232 1, Anthropological Perspectives
• ARTH 271 1, Arts of Islam: Book, Mosque, and Palace
• ASIAN 261 1, Hinduism
• HIST 108-01, Rise of Islam to Ottomans
• HIST 223 1, Religion and Politics in Modern India
• INDPT 177-01, Teilhard Controversies
• JWST 109-01, Holy Fast, Holy Feast
• JWST 217-01, Midrash: Early Rabbis/Bible
• RELIG 100 1, Introduction to Religion
• RELIG 110, Introduction to Religion
• RELIG 202 1, Introduction to Islam
• RELIG 203, Introduction to Hebrew Bible
• RELIG 204-01, Intro to New Testament
• RELIG 206 1, Early Christianity in Conflict
• RELIG 207 1, Women and Gender in Islam
• RELIG 210-01, Religious Ethics
• RELIG 212 1, Introduction to Judaism
• RELIG 215, Jewish Spiritual Autobiographies
• RELIG 218 1, Women in American Religious History
• RELIG 219 1, Religion and Revolution in the Nineteenth-Century West
• RELIG 220, Ethics & Public Policy
• RELIG 222, Pilgrimage in Asia
• RELIG 222-01, Engendering Judaism
• RELIG 225-01, Religion and Violence
• RELIG 228-01, On Human Freedom
• RELIG 230, Spirituals & the Blues
• RELIG 241-01, Women & Buddhism
• RELIG 245, The Quest for Meaning after the Holocaust
• RELIG 255, Dimensions of Contemporary Judaism
• RELIG 261 1, Hinduism
• RELIG 263 1, Buddhism
• RELIG 265 Holy Feast, Holy Fast: Sacred Food and Eating in Judaism
• RELIG 275-01, Ethics/Interprsnl Rel/Judaism
• RELIG 306, Sex and Early Church
• RELIG 313-01, Theology of Love
• RELIG 322-01, Modern Theology
• RELIG 323 1, Topic: Feminist Theologies
• RELIG 323 2, Topic; Frederick Douglass
• RELIG 330 1, Contemplative Practice and Religious Traditions
• RELIG 332-01, Sem: the Shakers
• RELIG 345-01, Topic: Islam in the 21st Cen
• RELIG 345, Topic: Islam in South Asia
• RELIG 350, Love, Friendship, and Interpersonal Relations in Judaism

Smith College

• CHINESE 155, Chinese Myths and Legends
• CLASSICS 224, Greek Mythology
• ENGLISH 203, Bible: Myth/Literature/Society
• HST 209 01, Aspects of Middle Eastern History: Islam in the 21st Century: Readings in Islamic Fundamentalism and Libralism
• JUD 283 01, The Spanish Inquistition
• REL 105 01, An Introduction to World Religions
• REL 110-01-COL, Colloquia: Thematic Studies in Religion: Women's Mystics Theology of Love
• REL 110 01, Colloquia: Thematic Studies in Religion: The Holy Land

• REL 110-02-COL, Colloquia: Thematic Studies in Religion: Politics of Enlightenment
• REL 110-03-COL, Colloquia: Thematic Studies in Religion: Religion, Nature, and the Environment
• REL 200-01-COL, Colloquium: Approaches to the Study of Religion
• REL 211 01, Wisdom Literature and Other Books from the Writings
• REL 213-01-LEC, Prophecy in Ancient Israel
• REL 215-01-LEC, Introduction to the Bible II
• REL 219 01, Christian Origins
• REL 220 01, Jews and Judaism in the Ancient World
• REL 222-01-LEC, Sages, Strangers and Women: An Introduction to Rabbinic Literature
• REL 225-01-LEC, Jewish Civilization: Text and Tradition
• REL 227 01, Judaism/Feminism/Women's Spirituality
• REL 234-01-LEC, Contemporary Christianity: Crisis and Reflection
• REL 236-01-LEC, Eastern Christianity
• REL 238 01, Mary: Images and Cults
• REL 245 01, The Islamic Tradition
• REL 260 01, Buddhist Thought
• REL 275 01, Religious History of India: Ancient and Classical Periods
• REL 276-01-LEC, Religious History of India: Medieval and Modern Periods
• REL 282 01, Violence and Non-Violence in Religious Traditions of South Asia
• REL 335 01, Seminar: Topics in Christianity and Culture
• REL 345, Islamic Thought
• REL 360-01-SEM, Seminar: Problems in Buddhist Thought: The Flowering of Chinese Buddhism
• REL 375 01, South Asian Religious Literature

You can also check the Five College course catalogue or inquire with the Five College Religion departments (see the resources page).

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