Course Offerings Fall 2023
UMass Amherst
Course |
Title |
Professor |
Cred |
GenEd |
Day |
Time |
Classics 224 |
Greek Mythology |
Anthony Tuck |
4 |
AL |
MWF |
9:05-9:55 AM |
Classics 329 |
Religion of the Roman World |
Caroline Horvitz |
4 |
HS |
MWF |
10:10-11:00 AM |
Classics 390A |
History and Archaelogy of the Silk Road |
Joseph A.P. Wilson |
3 |
|
MWF |
11:15-12:05 PM |
English 203 |
Bible Myth/Lit/Soc |
David Toomey |
3 |
|
T/TH |
10:00-11:15 AM |
German 363 |
Witches: Myth and Reality |
Kerstin Mueller Dembling |
4 |
|
MWF |
1:25-2:15 PM |
Judaic 101 |
The Jewish Experience I |
Susan Shapiro |
4 |
DG/HS |
T/TH |
11:30-12:45 PM |
Judaic 102 |
The Jewish Experience II |
Aviva Ben-Ur |
4 |
DG/HS |
T/TH |
10:00-11:15 AM |
Judaic 327/MidEast 327 |
Jewish Food in Historical Perspective |
Aviva Ben-Ur |
4 |
DG/HS |
T/TH |
11:30-12:45 PM |
Judaic 363 |
Religion and State |
Susan Shapiro |
4 |
|
T/TH |
2:30-3:45 PM |
MidEast 105 |
Islam/Middle East, 600-1800 CE |
Malissa Taylor |
4 |
DG/HS |
MW |
2:30-3:45 PM |
MidEast 362 |
Religion & Politics in the Early Modern Middle East |
Malissa Taylor |
4 |
DG/HS |
MW |
4:00-5:15 PM |
Smith College
Course |
Title |
Professor |
Cred |
GenEd |
Day |
Time |
BUS 120 |
Study of Buddhism |
William Edelglass |
1 |
|
T |
7:00-9:00 PM |
CLS 227 |
Classical Mythology |
Hans Hansen |
4 |
|
MW |
10:50-12:05 PM |
JUD 125 |
The Jewish Tradition |
Sari Fein |
4 |
|
MW |
9:25-10:40 AM |
JUD 227 |
Women and Gender in Jewish History |
Sari Fein |
4 |
|
T/TH |
1:20-2:35 PM |
JUD 238 |
Sacred Space in Jewish Antiquity |
Sari Fein |
4 |
|
MW |
1:20-2:55 PM |
REL 105 |
An Intro to World Religions |
Carol Zaleski |
4 |
|
M & W |
M: 3:05-4:20 PM W: 2:45-4:00 PM |
REL 107 |
Spiritual But Not Religious |
David Howlett |
4 |
|
M & W |
M: 1:40-2:55 PM W: 1:20-2:35 PM |
REL 200 |
Colq: What is Religion? |
David Howlett |
4 |
|
T/TH |
9:25-10:40 AM |
REL 205 |
Philosophy of Religion |
Carol Zaleski |
4 |
|
T/TH |
1:20-2:35 PM |
REL 211 |
What is the Good Life? Wisdom from the Bible |
Joel S. Kaminsky |
4 |
|
MW |
3:05-4:20 PM |
REL 238 |
Mary: Images and Cults |
Vera Shevzov |
4 |
|
T/TH |
10:50-12:05 PM |
REL 240 |
Religious Thought and Spirituality in Revolutionary Russia |
Vera Shevzov |
4 |
|
T/TH |
2:45-4:00 PM |
REL 245 |
Introduction to the Islamic Traditions |
Suleiman Ali Mourad |
4 |
|
T/TH |
9:25-10:40 AM |
REL 305mc |
Sem: T-Muslim World & Crusades |
Suliman Ali Mourad |
4 |
|
F |
9:25-12:05 PM |
Amherst College
Course |
Title |
Professor |
Cred |
GenEd |
Day |
Time |
AMST 217 |
Religion, Democracy, and American Culture |
Francis Couvares |
4 |
|
T/TH |
8:30-9:50 AM |
ASLC 144/REL 143 |
Religion in Ancient India |
Maria Heim |
4 |
|
T/TH |
10:00-11:20 AM |
ASLC 360/ REL 360 |
Buddhist Stories |
Lei Ying |
4 |
|
T/TH |
10:00-11:20 AM |
REL 111 |
Introduction to Religion |
Lloyd Barba |
4 |
|
MWF |
11:00-11:50 AM |
REL 166 |
Beginning the Bible |
Susan Niditch |
|
|
MWF |
10:00-10:50 AM |
REL 172 |
Christianity Capitalism |
Andrew Dole |
4 |
|
MW |
2:00-3:20 PM |
REL 255 |
Buddhist Ethics |
Maria Heim |
4 |
|
T/TH |
1:00-2:20 PM |
REL 278 |
19th-C Christianity |
Andrew Dole |
4 |
|
T/TH |
1:00-2:20 PM |
REL 285 |
The Qur’an and Its Controversies |
Tariq Jaffer |
4 |
|
T/TH |
2:30-3:20 PM |
Mount Holyoke College
Course |
Title |
Professor |
Cred |
GenEd |
Day |
Time |
JwSt 257 |
OMG: God and her critics, from the Bible to Ecological Crisis |
Benjamin |
|
|
T/TH |
10:30-11:45 AM |
REL 172 |
Religion and Ecological Movements |
Cesar Baldelomar |
4 |
|
MW |
3:15-4:30 PM |
REL 181 |
Intro to African Diaspora Religions |
Meredith Coleman-Tobias |
4 |
|
MW |
11:30-12:45 PM |
REL 209 |
Disability and Religion |
Susanne Mrozik |
4 |
|
T/TH |
1:45-3:00 PM |
REL 225AP |
Apocalypse Now? |
Cesar Baldelomar |
4 |
|
MW |
7:15-8:30 PM |
REL/JWST 234 |
Women & Gender in Judaism |
Benjamin |
|
|
T/TH |
1:45-3:00 PM |
REL 331SE |
Anthropology of Secularism |
William Girard |
4 |
|
TH |
1:30-4:20 PM |
REL 331SL |
Spain and Islam |
Nieves Romero-Díaz |
4 |
|
MW |
10:00-11:15 AM |
210WR |
Womanist Religious Thought |
Meredith Coleman-Tobias |
4 |
|
M |
1:30-4:20 PM |