Religious Studies (RELST)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.
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Classes
RELST 2204
Course Description
This course is designed for students who are interested in reading the language of the Qur'an with accuracy and understanding. The first week (4 classes) will be devoted to an introduction of the history ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 2204, NES 2204
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF White Hall 106
Instructors
Wahba, K
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Additional Information
Taught in English. Does not count towards Arts and Sciences language requirement.
RELST 2209
Course Description
In this course we will examine the modes of philosophical and spiritual inquiry, varieties of spiritual/bodily cultivation and practice, and religious organizations and movements in China that we know ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 2289, CAPS 2209, HIST 2209
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall B15
Instructors
Hinrichs, T
RELST 2250
Course Description
This course will explore religious traditions in South Asia (Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka) and East Asia (China, Japan, and Korea) including Hinduism, Buddhism (South Asian and East Asian), Sikhism, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2250
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
Instructors
Boucher, D
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- F Rockefeller Hall 112
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Boucher, D
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- F Rockefeller Hall 103
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Boucher, D
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Class Number & Section Details
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- F Rockefeller Hall 102
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Boucher, D
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- F Rockefeller Hall 132
Instructors
Boucher, D
RELST 2277
Course Description
This course probes the truths behind traditional claims of the priority of internal practice in Indian traditions. We will examine both practices themselves - techniques of meditation and contemplation ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 2277
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
Instructors
Gold, D
RELST 2575
Course Description
This course will survey the cultic practices and beliefs of ancient Babylonia and Assyria, the two major civilizations of Mesopotamia. We will examine the major myths of this region, e.g., Ishtar's Descent ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 2575, NES 2575, NES 6575
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Morrill Hall 106
Instructors
Tenney, J
RELST 2695
Course Description
This course offers an introduction to the history of Christianity from the first century through the seventeenth and perhaps a bit beyond. Our emphasis will be on the diversity of Christian traditions, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 2636, MEDVL 2695, NES 2695
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 115
Instructors
Haines-Eitzen, K
RELST 3255
Course Description
These are names of an existential dimension commonly taken to have gone missing in our time. The flight of the gods and the death of God have supposedly left a disenchanted world with little room for the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3255
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Klarman Hall KG44
Instructors
Molde, K
RELST 3309
Course Description
Buddhism is often thought of as a meditative and philosophical tradition, remote from the concerns and pleasures of everyday life, practical ethics, and politics. This course explores the unfolding of ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3309
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Lincoln Hall 107
Instructors
Blackburn, A
RELST 3344
Course Description
This course will survey the rich and sophisticated tradition of Indian philosophical thought from its beginnings in the speculations of Upanishads, surveying debates between Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3344, CLASS 3674, PHIL 3930
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Rockefeller Hall 128
Instructors
McCrea, L
RELST 3416
Course Description
This course explores the Zen's central religious, historical and aesthetic developments. We read primary sources in translation and secondary sources. We examine the rise of the Ch'an tradition in China ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3316, ASIAN 6616, RELST 6616
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Rockefeller Hall 102
Instructors
Law, J
- W Rockefeller Hall 128
Instructors
Law, J
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
RELST 3420
Course Description
Examines how systems of thought, symbolic forms, and ritual practice are formulated and expressed in primarily non-Western societies. Focuses on anthropological interpretations of space, time, cosmology, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 3420
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Morrill Hall 106
Instructors
Garces, C
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- F McGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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- F McGraw Hall 215
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Staff
RELST 3432
Course Description
The modern Jewish religious movement known as Hasidism began in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century and thrives today. We will approach Hasidism primarily through three avenues: recent critical social ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3432, ANTHR 6432, JWST 3432, NES 3432, RELST 6432
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Boyarin, J
RELST 3738
Course Description
Have you ever been asked 'who are you' or 'which group do you belong to'? You would have noted how the answer shifts according to who is asking, in which context, etc. While everyone is unique, the possible ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 3738, CLASS 3738
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall G24
Instructors
Van Oyen, A
RELST 3770
Course Description
Practice makes perfect, the old saying goes, but the nature of that connection remains opaque. This course, conducted in English and intended as a sequel to FREN 3540 - On Paying Attention, gives students ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 3770, MEDVL 3760
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Morrill Hall 110
Instructors
Howie, C
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
RELST 4100
Course Description
Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 7262, MEDVL 4002, MEDVL 6020, PHIL 4002, PHIL 6020, RELST 6020
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
RELST 4241
Course Description
Religion and politics have had a complex relationship in Chinese history. While various systems of belief have been an integral part of state ideology or co-opted by the state to bolster its authority, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4422, CAPS 4241, HIST 4241
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Uris Hall 254
Instructors
Barwick, J
RELST 4352
Course Description
Cosmology can be understood as the search for order in the universe, for an underlying logic that structures and renders intelligible the raw chaos of sensory experience. In this sense, the production ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4352, ARTH 6352, CLASS 4753, CLASS 7753, MEDVL 4352, MEDVL 6352, MUSIC 4352, NES 4352, NES 6352, RELST 6352, STS 4352, STS 6352, VISST 4352
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Anderson, B
Hicks, A
RELST 4400
Course Description
This course is an exploration of the development of the Vajrayana tradition through a focus on the myths and stories about, and writings by central figures in what is known in the west as Tibetan Buddhism. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4400
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Rockefeller Hall 104
Instructors
Law, J
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Additional Information
One course in Religious Studies or Buddhism.
RELST 4449
Course Description
This course provides advanced students in Religious Studies or the humanities a working familiarity with important methodological issues in the academic study of religion. Following a brief historical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4449
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Rockefeller Hall 382
Instructors
Boucher, D
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Additional Information
One course in Religious Studies.
RELST 4517
Course Description
For almost two thousand years the synagogue has been the focal point of Jewish life and identity. It has been the most prominent of Jewish buildings, for Jews and non-Jews. Thousands of synagogues have ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 4517, ARKEO 7517, ARTH 4517, ARTH 6517, JWST 4517, JWST 7517, NES 4517
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall 106
Instructors
Gruber, S
RELST 4548
Course Description
This course will focus on the array of perspectives offered in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament on such contemporary social issues as: immigration; abortion rights, surrogate childbirth, gay marriage, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4548, JWST 4548, NES 4548
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W White Hall 114
Instructors
Monroe, L
RELST 4618
Course Description
An examination of Islamic history from 600-750, with special attention to historiography and interpretive issues. Topics to be discussed will include: Arabia and the Near East before Islam; the collection ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4614, HIST 6710, MEDVL 4618, NES 4618, NES 6618, RELST 6618
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R White Hall 106
Instructors
Powers, D
RELST 4711
Course Description
The Babylonian Talmud is one of the most significant and influential books that the Jews of the ancient world produced. This complex and multi-faceted work comprises over five thousand pages of intricate ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 4711, NES 4711, NES 6711
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 181
Instructors
Septimus, Z
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Additional Information
Some reading knowledge of Hebrew and/or experience reading Talmud in its original language required.
RELST 4991
Course Description
For undergraduates who wish to obtain research experience or do extensive reading on a special topic. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
Instructors
Haines-Eitzen, K
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
Instructors
Boucher, D
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
Instructors
Brann, R
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
Instructors
Law, J
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
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RELST 4995
Course Description
RELST 4995 is the first course in the Honors two-part sequence. The Honors Program is open to Religious Studies majors who have done superior work and who wish to devote a substantial part of their senior ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
RELST 4996
Course Description
RELST 4996 is the second course in the Honors two-part sequence. The Honors Program is open to Religious Studies majors who have done superior work and who wish to devote a substantial part of their senior ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
RELST 6020
Course Description
Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 7262, MEDVL 4002, MEDVL 6020, PHIL 4002, PHIL 6020, RELST 4100
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
RELST 6352
Course Description
Cosmology can be understood as the search for order in the universe, for an underlying logic that structures and renders intelligible the raw chaos of sensory experience. In this sense, the production ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4352, ARTH 6352, CLASS 4753, CLASS 7753, MEDVL 4352, MEDVL 6352, MUSIC 4352, NES 4352, NES 6352, RELST 4352, STS 4352, STS 6352, VISST 4352
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Anderson, B
Hicks, A
RELST 6432
Course Description
The modern Jewish religious movement known as Hasidism began in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century and thrives today. We will approach Hasidism primarily through three avenues: recent critical social ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3432, ANTHR 6432, JWST 3432, NES 3432, RELST 3432
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Boyarin, J
RELST 6616
Course Description
This course explores the Zen's central religious, historical and aesthetic developments. We read primary sources in translation and secondary sources. We examine the rise of the Ch'an tradition in China ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3316, ASIAN 6616, RELST 3416
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Rockefeller Hall 102
Instructors
Law, J
- W Rockefeller Hall 128
Instructors
Law, J
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
RELST 6618
Course Description
An examination of Islamic history from 600-750, with special attention to historiography and interpretive issues. Topics to be discussed will include: Arabia and the Near East before Islam; the collection ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4614, HIST 6710, MEDVL 4618, NES 4618, NES 6618, RELST 4618
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R White Hall 106
Instructors
Powers, D