Course Offerings Spring 2024
UMass Amherst
|
Course Name |
Course # |
Credits |
Instructor |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
The Jewish Experience I |
JUDAIC 101 |
4 |
Jordan Katz |
T/TH 11:30-12:45 |
|
The Jewish Experience II |
JUDAIC 102 |
4 |
Aviva Ben-Ur |
T/TH 10:00-11:15 |
|
Jews, Medicine, & Healing in the Premodern World |
JUDAIC 251 |
4 |
Jordan Katz |
TBD |
|
Sustainability in Comparative Religious Perspective |
JUDAIC/MIDEAST 326 |
4 |
Aviva Ben-Ur |
T/TH 11:30-12:45
|
|
Post-Holocaust Thought |
JUDAIC 376 |
4 |
Susan Shapiro |
T/TH 2:30-3:45 |
|
Women, Gender, Judaism |
JUDAIC 383 |
4 |
Susan Shapiro |
T/TH 11:30-12:45 |
|
Mythology of Ancient Persia |
MIDEAST 313 |
4 |
Hadi Jorati |
T/TH 4:00-5:15 |
|
Religion Evolution |
ANTHRO 494RI |
4 |
Lynette Sievert |
MW 2:30-3:45 |
|
Greek Mythology |
CLASSICS 224 |
4 |
Anthony Tuck |
MWF 11:15-12:05 |
|
Magic/Ancient Mediterranean World |
CLASSICS 330 |
4 |
Lauren Caldwell |
MWF 1:25-2:15 |
|
Intro to World Religions |
HISTORY 112H |
4 |
Susan Ware |
T-TH 10:00-11:15 |
|
Shi’i Islam, A Historical Approach |
HISTORY 321 |
3 |
Hadi Jorati |
MW 4-5:15 |
|
Age of the Crusades |
HISTORY 394AI |
4 |
Anne Broadbridge |
MWF 10:10-11:00 |
Smith College
|
Course Name |
Course # |
Credits |
Instructor |
Time |
|
Rest |
REL 109 |
4 |
David Howlett |
W 1:20-2:35 M 1:40-2:55 |
|
Intro to the Bible I |
REL 112 |
4 |
Joel Kaminsky |
MW 10:50-12:05 |
|
Blasphemy! |
REL 204 |
4 |
Vera Shevzov |
T/TH 1:20-2:35 |
|
The Inklings: Religion and Imagination in the Works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien and Their Circle |
REL 208 |
4 |
Carole Zaleski |
W 1:20-2:35 M 1:40-2:55
|
|
Why Believe? Investigating Faith and Doubt |
REL 209 |
4 |
Carol Zaleski |
W 2:45-4:00 M 3:05-4:20 |
|
The Qur’an |
REL 247 |
4 |
Suleiman Ali Mourad |
T/TH 9:25-10:40 |
|
Islamic Popular Music |
REL/MUS 249 |
4 |
Margaret Sarkissian, Suleiman Ali Mourad |
T/TH 2:45-4:00 |
|
Religions of Ancient India |
REL 275 |
4 |
Andy Rotman |
W 1:20-2:35 M 1:40-2:55 |
|
South Asian Visual Culture |
REL 280 |
4 |
Andy Rotman |
W 1:20-2:35 M 1:40-2:55 |
|
Mormonism |
REL 288 |
4 |
David Howlett |
MW 9:25-10:40 |
|
Advanced Topics in Religion-Eastern Christian Worlds: Prayer and Politics |
REL 305ec |
4 |
Vera Shevzov |
T 7:00-9:30 |
|
Hebrew Bible-Why Do the Innocent Suffer? |
REL 310is |
4 |
Joel Kaminsky |
TH 7:00-9:30
|
|
Topics in Medeival European History-Magic in the Middle Ages |
HIST 227mm |
4 |
Joshua Birk |
W 1:20-2:35 M 1:40-2:55 |
|
Motherhood in Early Judaism |
JUD 217 |
4 |
Sari Fein |
T/TH 10:50-12:05 |
|
Midrash: The World of Rabbinic Interpretation |
JUD 219 |
4 |
Sari Fein |
T/TH 1:20-2:35 |
|
Buddhist Philosophy: Madhyamaka and Yogacara |
PHI 252 |
4 |
TBA |
MW 10:50-12:05 |
Mount Holyoke College
|
Course Name |
Course # |
Credits |
Instructor |
Time |
|
Introduction to Religion |
RELIG 100 |
4 |
Amina Steinfels |
MW 10:00-11:15 F 10:00-10:50 |
|
Introduction to Judaism |
RELIG/JWST 112 |
4 |
Mara Benjamin |
MW 1:45-3:00 |
|
Colonialism Then and Now: Religion, Law, Conquest |
RELIG 225CQ |
4 |
Cesar Baldelomar |
TH 1:30-4:20 |
|
Reimagining American Religious History: Race, Gender, and Alterity |
RELIG 225NR |
4 |
Meredith Coleman-Tobia |
MW 11:30-12:45 |
|
Witchcraft and Healing |
RELIG 225WT/ ANTHR 216WT |
4 |
Mark Auslander |
MW 10:00-11:15 |
|
Women and Gender in Buddhism |
RELIG 241 |
4 |
Susanne Mrozik |
MW 1:45-3:00 |
|
Citizens and Subjects |
RELIG/JWST 269 |
4 |
Mara Benjamin |
T/TH 10:30-11:45 |
|
Ethnographic Research in Religious Communities |
RELIG 331RC/ ANTHR 316RC |
4 |
William Gerard |
T 1:30-4:20 |
|
Body/Gender in Religious Tradition |
RELIG 352 |
4 |
Susanne Mrozik |
TH 1:30-4:20 |
Amherst College
|
Course Name |
Course # |
Credits |
Instructor |
Time |
|
Prophet, Caliph, Sultan, Shah: Middle Eastern History, 500-1700 |
ASLC/ HIST 190 |
4 |
Monica Ringer |
MW 12:30-1:50
|
|
The Persian Book of Kings |
ASLC/ARHA/ HIST 357 |
4 |
Yael Rice |
T/TH 1:00-2:20 |
|
The Cognitive Science of Religion |
RELI 115 |
4 |
Andrew Dole |
T/TH 1:00-2:20
|
|
Love and Mysticism |
RELI 123 |
4 |
Mokina Brodnicka |
MW 8:30-9:50 |
|
Intro to Buddhist Traditions |
RELI/ASLC 152 |
4 |
Maria Heim |
T/TH 2:30-3:50
|
|
Books and Readers in Judaism |
RELI 163 |
4 |
Matthew Westermayer |
MW 12:30-1:50
|
|
Islam Through Media: Past, Present, Representation |
RELI/ASLC 183/ FAMS 376 |
4 |
Molloy |
T/TH 11:30-12:50
|
|
What is Religion? |
RELI 210 |
4 |
Andrew Dole |
T/TH 10:00-11:20 |
|
Evangelical Christianity |
RELI 239 |
4 |
Lloyd Barba |
T/TH 11:30-12:50 |
|
The Garden: Nature and Religion in the Mediterranean |
RELI 224 |
4 |
Matthew Westermayer |
MW 2:30-3:50
|
|
Religion, Empires, and Secular States |
RELI 322/ASLC 320/ HIST 319 |
4 |
Trent Maxey |
T/TH 11:30-12:50 |
|
Latin Religion and Immigration |
RELI 333/LLAS 233 |
4 |
Lloyd Barba |
W 3:30-6:00 |