Course Offerings Spring 2021
UMass Amherst
|
Course Name |
Course # |
Credits |
Instructor |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Islamic Art & Architecture II |
ART-HIST 348 |
3 |
Walter Denny |
MWF 12:20-1:10pm |
|
Art of Buddhism |
ART-HIST 354 |
3 |
Christine Ho |
MWF 9:05-9:55am |
|
Religion and Chinese Culture |
CHINESE 138 |
3 |
Scot Brackenridge |
MWF 1:25-2:15pm |
|
Greek Mythology |
CLASSICS 224 |
4 |
Johannes Wietzeke |
MWF 11:15-12:05pm |
|
Spiritual Autobiography |
COMP-LIT 122 |
4 |
Yan Wu |
TTH 1:00-2:15pm |
|
Good and Evil |
COMP-LIT 141 |
4 |
Jeffrey Diteman |
TTH 10:00-11:15am |
|
Bible Myth/Lit/Soc |
ENGLISH 203 |
3 |
David Toomey |
TTH 10:00-11:15am |
|
Film and Society in Israel |
FILM-ST 344/JUDAIC 344/MIDEAST 344 |
4 |
Olga Gershenson |
4:00-6:45pm |
|
Introduction to World Religions |
HISTORY 112 |
4 |
Timothy Hart |
MW 12:20-1:10pm |
|
Gandhi: Myth, Perspective, and Politics |
HISTORY 397AR |
3 |
Priyanka Srivastava |
TTH 4:00-5:15pm |
|
The Jewish Experience I |
JUDAIC 101 |
4 |
Susan Shapiro |
TTH 11:30-12:45 |
|
The Jewish Experience II |
JUDAIC 102 |
4 |
Aviva Ben-Ur |
TTH 10-11:15 |
|
Jewish Food in Historical Perspective |
JUDAIC 327/MIDEAST 327 |
4 |
Aviva Ben-Ur |
TTH 11:30-12:45pm |
|
Religion and State: Jewish Secularism and the Emergence of European Modernity |
JUDAIC 363 |
3 |
Susan Shapiro |
TTH 2:30-3:45pm |
|
Honors Colloquium for Religion and State |
JUDAIC H363 |
1 |
Susan Shapiro |
TTH 2:30-3:45pm |
|
Anti-Semitism in Historical Perspective |
JUDAIC 365 |
4 |
Ralph Melnick |
MW 2:30-3:45pm |
|
Religion and Politics in the Early Modern Middle East |
MIDEAST 362 |
4 |
Malissa Taylor |
MW 4:00-5:15pm |
Amherst College
|
Course Name |
Course Number |
Credits |
Instructor |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Race and Religion in the U.S. West/Mexico Borderlands |
AMST-231/ LLAS-135/RELI-135 |
4 |
Lloyd D. Barba |
MW 12:30-1:50pm |
|
The Sanctuary Movement: Religion, Activism, and Social Contestation |
AMST-234/LLAS-234/RELI-234 |
4 |
Lloyd D. Barba |
TTH 11:50-1:10pm |
|
Visual Culture of the Islamic World |
ARHA-152/ASLC-142 |
4 |
Yael R. Rice |
TTH 10:10-11:30am |
|
Religion in Ancient India |
ASLC-144 |
4 |
Maria R. Heim |
TTH 1:30-2:50pm |
|
Theravada Buddhism |
ASLC-253 |
4 |
Maria R. Heim |
TTH 8:30-9:50am |
|
Philosophy of Religion |
PHIL-219/RELI-316 |
4 |
Andrew C. Dole |
MW 4:50-6:10pm |
|
Ethics and the Hebrew Scriptures |
RELI-127 |
4 |
Susan Niditch |
TTH 10:10-11:30am |
|
What is Religion Anyway?: Theories and Methods in Religious Studies |
Reli-210 |
4 |
Andrew C. Dole, Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos |
MW 2:10-3:30pm |
|
The Rise of Apocalyptic and the Words of the Wise |
RELI-265 |
4 |
Susan Niditch |
TTH 1:30-2:50pm |
|
Women and Religion in Greece and Rome |
RELI-276/SWAG-276 |
4 |
Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos |
TTH 3:50-5:10pm |
|
God |
EUST-237 |
4 |
IIan Stavchansky |
TTH 11:50-1:10pm |
|
Magic Words |
FREN-359 |
4 |
Raphael Sigal |
TTH 11:50-1:10pm |
Hampshire College
|
Course Name |
Course Number |
Credits |
Instructor |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
The Battle Between Science and Religion in Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy |
CSI 0217 |
4 |
Marlene Fried |
TTH 1:00-2:20pm |
|
20th-C. European Jewish Literature: Writing Across Borders and Languages |
HACU 0260 |
4 |
Jeffrey Wallen |
TTH 10:40-12:00pm |
Mount Holyoke College
|
Course Name |
Course Number |
Credits |
Instructor |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Introduction to Islam |
RELIG-102 |
4 |
Amina Steinfels |
M 9:45-11 TTH 9:30-11:15 WF 10:15-11:15 |
|
Introduction to Judaism |
RELIG-112/JWST-112 |
4 |
Mara Benjamin |
M 2:30-3:45 TTH 2:15-4:00 WF 3:00-4:00 |
|
Introduction to African Diaspora Religions |
RELIG-181/AFCNA-181/CST-149D |
4 |
Meredith Coleman-Tobias |
M 9:45-11:00 TTH 9:30-11:15 WF 10:15-11:15 |
|
Religion and Science Fiction |
RELIG-208 |
4 |
Amina Steinfels |
M 12:45-2:00 TTH 12:45-1:45 WF 12:45-2:30 |
|
Medieval Bodies |
RELIG-225MB/ARTH-290MB |
4 |
Christine Andrews |
M 12:45-2:00 TTH 12:45-1:45 WF 12:45-2:30 |
|
Women and Gender in Judaism |
RELIG-234/JWST-234/GNDST-210JD |
4 |
Mara Benjamin |
M 2:30-3:45 TTH 2:15-4:00 WF 3:00-4:00 |
|
African American Spiritualties of Dissent |
RELIG-331AF/AFCNA-341AF/CST-349AF |
4 |
Meredith Coleman-Tobias |
M 12:45-2:00 TTH 12:45-1:45 WF 12:45-2:30 |
|
Religion: It’s not What it Used to Be |
RELIG-331NW/ANTHR-316NW |
4 |
Wiliam Girard |
M 12:45-2:00 TTH 12:45-1:45 WF 12:45-2:30 |
Smith College
|
Course Name |
Course Number |
Credits |
Instructor |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
What Is the Good Life? Wisdom from the Bible |
REL 211 |
4 |
Joel S. Kaminsky |
MW 3:15-4:30pm |
|
The Meaning of Life |
PHI 108/REL 108 |
4 |
Lois C. Dubin, Jay Lazar Garfield |
TTH 3:15-4:30pm |
|
Classical Mythology |
CLS 227 |
4 |
Scott A. Bradbury |
TTH 10:55-12:10pm |
|
The Jewish Tradition |
JUD 125/REL 125 |
4 |
Joel S. Kaminsky |
MW 10:55-12:10pm |
|
Philosophers and Mystics |
REL 221 |
4 |
Lois C. Dubin |
TTH 9:20-10:35am |
|
Mary: Images and Cults |
REL 238 |
4 |
Vera Shevzov |
TTH 10:55-12:10pm |
|
The Qur’an |
REL 247 |
4 |
Suleiman Ali Mourad |
MW 9:20-10:35am |
|
Muslims, Modernity and Islam |
REL 246 |
4 |
Suleiman Ali Mourad |
MW 10:55-12:10pm |
|
Heaven, Hell and Other Worlds: The Afterlife in World Religions |
REL 206 |
4 |
David J. Howlett, Carol Zaleski |
TTH 10:55-12:10pm |
|
Morals vs. Markets |
REL 207/SOC 207 |
4 |
Rick Fantasia, Andy N. Rotman |
MW 1:40-2:55pm |
|
The Politics and Culture of Russian Sacred Art |
REL 242/RES 242 |
4 |
Vera Shevzov |
TTH 3:15-4:30pm |
|
Ordaining Women in America |
REL 291 |
4 |
David J. Howlett |
TTH 1:40-2:55pm |
|
Seminar: Philosophy of Religion, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien: Faith and Fantasy |
REL 301 |
4 |
Carol Zaleski |
T 7:05-9:35pm |