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Course Offerings Fall 2023

UMass Amherst 

Course 

Title 

Professor 

Cred 

GenEd 

Day 

Time 

Classics 224 

Greek Mythology 

Anthony Tuck 

AL 

MWF 

9:05-9:55 AM 

Classics 329 

Religion of the Roman World 

Caroline Horvitz 

HS 

MWF 

10:10-11:00 AM 

Classics 390A 

History and Archaelogy of the Silk Road 

Joseph A.P. Wilson 

 

MWF 

11:15-12:05 PM 

English 203 

Bible Myth/Lit/Soc 

David Toomey 

 

T/TH 

10:00-11:15 AM 

German 363 

Witches: Myth and Reality 

Kerstin Mueller Dembling 

 

MWF  

1:25-2:15 PM 

Judaic 101 

The Jewish Experience I 

Susan Shapiro 

DG/HS 

T/TH 

11:30-12:45 PM 

Judaic 102 

The Jewish Experience II 

Aviva Ben-Ur 

DG/HS 

T/TH 

10:00-11:15 AM 

Judaic 327/MidEast 327 

Jewish Food in Historical Perspective 

Aviva Ben-Ur 

DG/HS 

T/TH 

11:30-12:45 PM 

Judaic 363 

Religion and State 

Susan Shapiro 

 

T/TH 

2:30-3:45 PM 

MidEast 105 

Islam/Middle East, 600-1800 CE 

Malissa Taylor 

DG/HS 

MW 

2:30-3:45 PM 

MidEast 362 

Religion & Politics in the Early Modern Middle East 

Malissa Taylor 

DG/HS 

MW 

4:00-5:15 PM 

 

Smith College 

Course 

Title 

Professor 

Cred 

GenEd 

Day 

Time 

BUS 120 

Study of Buddhism 

William Edelglass 

 

7:00-9:00 PM 

CLS 227 

Classical Mythology 

Hans Hansen 

 

MW 

10:50-12:05 PM 

JUD 125 

The Jewish Tradition 

Sari Fein 

 

MW 

9:25-10:40 AM 

JUD 227 

Women and Gender in Jewish History 

Sari Fein 

 

T/TH 

1:20-2:35 PM 

JUD 238 

Sacred Space in Jewish Antiquity 

Sari Fein 

 

MW 

1:20-2:55 PM 

REL 105 

An Intro to World Religions 

Carol Zaleski 

 

M & W 

M: 3:05-4:20 PM 

W: 2:45-4:00 PM 

REL 107 

Spiritual But Not Religious 

David Howlett 

 

M & W 

M: 1:40-2:55 PM 

W: 1:20-2:35 PM 

REL 200 

Colq: What is Religion? 

David Howlett 

 

T/TH 

9:25-10:40 AM 

REL 205 

Philosophy of Religion 

Carol Zaleski 

 

T/TH 

1:20-2:35 PM 

REL 211 

What is the Good Life? Wisdom from the Bible 

Joel S. Kaminsky 

 

MW 

3:05-4:20 PM 

REL 238 

Mary: Images and Cults 

Vera Shevzov 

 

T/TH 

10:50-12:05 PM 

REL 240 

Religious Thought and Spirituality in Revolutionary Russia 

Vera Shevzov 

 

T/TH 

2:45-4:00 PM 

REL 245 

Introduction to the Islamic Traditions 

Suleiman Ali Mourad 

 

T/TH  

9:25-10:40 AM 

REL 305mc 

Sem: T-Muslim World & Crusades 

Suliman Ali Mourad 

 

9:25-12:05 PM 

 

Amherst College 

Course 

Title 

Professor 

Cred 

GenEd 

Day 

Time 

AMST 217 

Religion, Democracy, and American Culture 

Francis Couvares 

 

T/TH 

8:30-9:50 AM 

ASLC 144/REL 143 

Religion in Ancient India 

Maria Heim 

 

T/TH 

10:00-11:20 AM 

ASLC 360/ REL 360 

Buddhist Stories 

Lei Ying 

 

T/TH 

10:00-11:20 AM 

REL 111 

Introduction to Religion 

Lloyd Barba 

 

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 

 

MW 

2:00-3:20 PM 

REL 255 

Buddhist Ethics 

Maria Heim 

 

T/TH 

1:00-2:20 PM 

REL 278 

19th-C Christianity 

Andrew Dole 

 

T/TH 

1:00-2:20 PM 

REL 285 

The Qur’an and Its Controversies 

Tariq Jaffer 

 

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 

 

MW 

3:15-4:30 PM 

REL 181 

Intro to African Diaspora Religions 

Meredith Coleman-Tobias 

 

MW  

11:30-12:45 PM 

REL 209 

Disability and Religion 

Susanne Mrozik 

 

T/TH 

1:45-3:00 PM 

REL 225AP 

Apocalypse Now? 

Cesar Baldelomar 

 

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 

 

TH  

1:30-4:20 PM 

REL 331SL 

Spain and Islam 

Nieves Romero-Díaz 

 

MW 

10:00-11:15 AM 

210WR 

Womanist Religious Thought 

Meredith Coleman-Tobias 

 

1:30-4:20 PM