Course Offerings Fall 2021
UMass Amherst
| Course Name | Course # | Credits | Instructor | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Holocaust in Holland: Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum, and the Search for Meaning | Judaic 297F | 4 | Ralph Melnick | MW 4:00-5:15pm |
| The Jewish Experience I – Ancient to Medieval | Judaic 101 | 4 | Jordan Katz | T/TH 11:30am-12:45pm |
| The Jewish Experience II – Medieval to Modern | Judaic 102 | 4 | STAFF | T/TH 10:00-11:15am |
| Marriage, Sexuality, and Sexual Difference in Jewish History | Judaic 391A | 3 | Jordan Katz | TH 2:30-5:00pm |
| The Desert, the Gazelle, and the Moon: Classical Arabic Literature in Translation | MidEast 297A | 3 | Hadi Jorati | TTH 2:30-3:45pm |
| Sufism: Islamic Mystical Traditions & Legacies | MidEast 362 | 4 | Malissa Taylor | MW 4:00-5:15pm |
| Islamic Thought in History | History 415 | 4 | Anne Broadbridge | T/TH 10:00-11:15am |
| From Muhammad to the Islamic Empire: The Rise of Islam in the Late Antique | History 397ML | 3 | Hadi Jorati | T/TH 4:00-5:15pm |
| Intro to World Religions | History 112 | 4 | Mark Roblee | MW 10:10-11:00am
F discussions |
| Islamic Art & Architecture | ArtHist 347/647 | 3 | Walter Denny | MWF 12:20-1:10pm |
| Greek Mythology | Classics 224/692A | 4 | Anthony Tuck | MWF 11:15-12:05pm |
| Witches: Myth and Reality | German 363 | 4 | Kerstin Mueller Dembling | MWF 1:25-2:15pm |
| Death and the Meaning of Life | Phil 180 | 4 | Julia Jorati | MW 11:15-12:05pm |
Amherst College
| Course Name | Course # | Credits | Instructor | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Religion, Democracy, and American Culture | AMST 217 | Couvares | TTH 8:30-9:50am | |
| Buddhist Art of Asia | ARHA 261 | Morse | MWF 11:00-11:50am | |
| Introduction to Religion | RELI 111 | Niditch | MWF 10:00-10:50am | |
| Orthodoxy, Heresy, and Apostasy in Islam | RELI 283 | Jaffer | TTH 3:00-4:20pm | |
| Buddhist Stories from Modern East Asia | ASLC 360 | Ying | TTH 10:00-11:20am | |
| Christianity and Capitalism | RELI 172 | Dole | MW 12:00-1:20pm | |
| The Body in Ancient Christianity | RELI 275 | Falcasantos | THTH 1:00-2:20pm | |
| The Qur’an and Its Controversies | RELI 385 | Jaffer | TTH 10:00-11:20am | |
| Beginning the Bible | RELI 166 | Niditch | MWF 11:00-11:50am | |
| Visual Culture of the Islamic World | ARHA 152 | Rice | MW 12:00-1:20pm | |
| Christian Scriptures | RELI 178 | Falcasantos | MWF 3:00-3:50pm | |
| Buddhist Ethics | RELI 255 | Heim | TTH 10:00-11:20am | |
| Cool Buddhist Texts | RELI 350 | Heim | TTH 1:00-2:20pm |
Smith College
| Course Name | Course # | Credits | Instructor | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology of Religion | ANT 274 | 4 | Hota | TTH 10:50-12:05pm |
| The Study of Buddhism | BUS 120 | 1 | Culbertson | 7:00-9:30pm |
| An Introduction to World Religions | REL 105 | 4 | Zaleski | 10:50-12:05pm |
| Spiritual But Not Religious | REL 107 | 4 | Rotman/Howlett | MW 1:20-2:35pm |
| Putin’s Russia: After Communism, After Atheism | REL 140 | 4 | Shevzov/Roberts | TTH 10:50-12:05pm |
| Colloquium: Approaches to the Study of Religion | REL 200 | 4 | Rotman | MW 2:45-4:00pm |
| Philosophy of Religion | REL 205 | 4 | Zaleski | TTH 2:45-4:00pm |
| Colloquium: Religion, Race, and Resistance in America | REL 292 | 4 | Howlett | TTH 10:50-12:05pm |
| Indian Philosophy | PHI 127 | 4 | Bhushan | TTH 2:45-4:00pm |
| Colloquium: Buddhism and Social Justice | REL 261 | 4 | Culbertson | MW 2:45-4:00pm |
| The Jewish Tradition | JUD 125 / REL 125 | 4 | Dubin | TTH 2:45-4:00pm |
| Colloquium: The Lost World of East European Jewry, 1750-1945 | JUD 284 | 4 | Cammy | MW 1:20-2:35pm |
| Women and Gender in Jewish History | REL 227 | 4 | Dubin | TTH 9:25-10:40am |
| Seminar: Hebrew Bible-Why Do the Innocent Suffer? | REL 310 | 4 | Kaminsky | T 7:00-9:30pm |
| Topics in Modern Islam-Jihad | REL 248jh | 4 | Mourad | MW 10:50-12:05pm |
| Blasphemy | REL 204 | Shevzov | TTH 2:45-4:00pm |
Hampshire College and Mount Holyoke College courses will be posted when they become available.