Course Description Booklet

SPRING 2009

UPDATED: 12/12/2008

Classics:
CLAS 116 - Scientific Greek and Latin
CLAS 180, Sec. 150 - Classical Mythology
CLAS 180Z, Sec. 101 - Classical Mythology
CLAS 252 - Archaeology: World Civilization
CLAS 282 - World of Classical Rome
CLAS 312 - Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire
CLAS 320 - Classical World:   Archaeology and Texts
CLAS 399 - Independent Study
CLAS 399H - Honors Course
CLAS 440 - Gender & Sex: Ancient World

Greek:
GREK 102 - Elementary Greek II
GREK 302 - Greek Poetry I
GREK 399 - Independent Study
GREK 399H - Honors Course
GREK 896 - Reading and Research
GREK 899 - Masters Thesis
GREK 961 - Seminar in Greek Literature

Latin:
LATN 102, Sec. 001 - Elementary Latin
LATN 102, Sec. 002 - Elementary Latin
LATN 302 - Latin Poetry-Vergil:  Aeneid
LATN 304 - Latin Poetry
LATN 399 - Independent Study
LATN 399H - Honors Course
LATN 492/892 - Topics in Latin Poetry (Roman Satire)
LATN 896 - Reading and Research
LATN 899 - Masters Thesis
LATN 942 - Seminar in Latin Literature

Hebrew:
HEBR 302 - Biblical Hebrew Poetry
HEBR 399 - Independent Study
HEBR 896 - Reading and Research

Religious Studies:
RELG 150 - Explaining Religion
RELG 181 - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
RELG 206 - Ways of Western Religion
RELG 208 - Introduction to Islam
RELG 220 - Reason and Religion
RELG 312 - Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire
RELG 398, Sec. 001 - Special Topics:  Arabic II
RELG 399 - Independent Study
RELG 410 - Gnosticism
RELG 418 - Fundamentalism, Religion, and Politics
UHON 298H - Life on Earth: Darwin or God
UHON 395H - Europe Before 1000

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CLAS 116 - SCIENTIFIC GREEK & LATIN  Instructor Schedule and Office Hours Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor 2603 2 700 ON BLACKBOARD Arranged Arranged Arranged T. Rinkevich Description of Material Being Covered:  Exploration of the linguistic techniques used in the study and formation of scientific terminology, and the classical hertiage of biomedical vocabulary. The emphasis is on the use of Greek and Latin roots and their application to the description of elements in medicine and comparative anatomy, and in one (1) other chosen category of science or technology. Computer, E-mail and Internet required. Required Books:  LaFleur-Brooks, Myrna, Exploring Medical Language, with flashcards & cd, 7th Edition, ISBN: 9780323049504, Elsevier Health Sciences, 2008, Required; Mosby, Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, with cd, 8th Edition, ISBN: 9780323049375, Elsevier Health Sciences, 2008, Required. Method of Instruction:  You should have access to the WEB, since all of the discussion and quizzing will be online. The instructor will be available for consultation. There will also be discussion of developments in the scientific nomenclature, and speculation on the causes of terminological change online. Access to a computer with a CD-ROM player might be useful too, as a CD comes with the text. Number and Types of Assignments:  Exercises will be assigned from the book as an aid to knowledge acquisition; in addition, further exercise may be provided on the WEB. Students will also select material from another area (e.g., ornithology, zoology, psychology, geology) of interest for separate work. Examination Policies and Grading Information:  There will be fifteen (15) quizzes (33% of the grade) and two (2) examinations (67% of the grade). These will be multiple-choice; some (or all) will be available from electronic devices. The last quiz and exam both will contain some of the student's specially-chosen area of interest. CLAS 180, SEC. 150 - CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor 2605 3 150 1230p-0120p MF BESY 117 T. Winter 2606 A 151 Recitation 1230p-0120p T CBA 107 Staff 2609 A 154 Recitation 1230p-0120p W AVH 112 Staff 2610 A 155 Recitation 1230p-0120p R CBA 107 Staff 2611 A 157 Recitation 1230p-0120p R OLDH 207 Staff 2607 A 152 Recitation 0230p-0320p W BURN 232 Staff 2608 A 153 Recitation 0230p-0320p W FERG 112 Staff NOTE:   Must also take Group A Recitation.  Description of Material Being Covered (Sec. 150):  We will read the significant sources of our information and ideas about Greco-Roman mythology. These include: Homer's Odyssey, Hesiod's Theogony, Sophocles' Three Theban Plays, four plays of Euripides, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Seneca's play Thyestes. Lectures will present and explain characters, plots, issues relating to literature, traditions, how the characters understand themselves as human beings, and what that implies. Attention is paid as well to the importance and influence of these stories. These pieces of literary art are among the greatest treasures of the human race. Required Books (Sec. 150):  Homer, The Odyssey, (ed. Cook), ISBN: 0-393-00744-2, Norton, 1968; Hesiod, Theogony, (tr. Brown), ISBN: 0-02-315310-5, Hackett, 1953; Sophocles, Three Theban Plays, ISBN: 0-14-044425-4, Penguin, 1984; Euripides, Ten Plays, (tr. Hadas), ISBN: 0-553-21363-8, Bantam, 1984; Ovid, Metamorphoses, (tr. Humphries), ISBN: 0-253-20001-3, Indiana UP, 1955; Apollodroas, The Library of Greek Mythology, ISBN: 9780192839244, Oxford UP, 1997. Method of Instruction (Sec. 150):  Two lectures/week and a recitation section. Attendance at the lectures is expected, and active participation in the discussion during recitation is required. There will be some audio-visual material (videos, overheads, etc.). Number and Types of Assignments (Sec. 150):  Continuous assignments of reading each week, 3-4 short papers. Examination Policies and Grading Information (Sec. 150):  Two (2) hour-exams (40% of grade), 10-15 quizzes (quizzes and discussion=30% of grade), essays (25% of grade), attendance (5% of grade). Attendance and performance counts! Standard scale on scores and grades: ca. 97-100=A+; 93-96=A; 90-92=A-; 87-89=B+; 83-86=B; 80-82=B-; 77-79=C+; 73-76=C; 70-72=C-; 67-69=D+; 63-66=D; 60-62=D-; below 60=F. CLAS 180Z, SEC. 101 - CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor 2604 3 101 0630p-0920p T ANDR 11 G. Watley Description of Material Being Covered:  The stories, gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, monsters and villains, themes and images of ancient Greek and Roman mythology continue to influence Western culture in myriad ways. In this course we will read a representative selection of the great works of ancient literature through which the classical myths have come down to us, and seek to answer the questions "What is myth?" and "What is it good for?" Required Books:  Homer, Essen Homer, ISBN: 0872205401, 2000, Hackett Publishing; Berner, Mythology: Gods, ISBN: 1572223264, Barcharts, Inc.; Berner, Mythology: Mortals, ISBN: 1572224797, Barcharts, Inc.; Aeschylus, Oresteia, ISBN: 9780140443332, 1977, Viking Press; Eurpides, Eurpides, Ten Plays, ISBN: 9780451527004, 1998, Signet; Sophocles, Three Theban Plays, ISBN: 9780140444254, 1982, Viking Press; Trzaskoma, Anthology of Classical Myth, ISBN: 9780872207219, 2004, Hackett; Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, ISBN: 978-0-226-32966-6, University Chicago Press, 2005; Apollodorus, The Library of Greek Myth, ISBN: 978-0-19-283924-4, Oxford UP, 1997. Method of Instruction:  Lecture and discussion. Number and Types of Assignments:  Weekly reading, in-class discussion, and tests; an essay; and a final exam. Examination Policies and Grading Information:  25% attendance and participation; 25% weekly tests; 25% essay; 25% final exam. CLAS 252 - ARCHAEOLOGY:  WORLD CIVILIZATION  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor 2613 3 001 0200p-0315p TR NH W128 E. Athanassopoulos Cross-Listed with Anthropology 252.  Description of Material Being Covered :  An introduction to the study of complex societies, called civilizations, in both the Old and the New Worlds. Examines anthropological theories and models dealing with the evolution of cultural complexity and reviews archaeological data from specific regions, e.g. Near East, Far East, Mediterranean, Europe, Mesoamerica, Peru, etc. Required Books:  Scarre, Ancient Civilizations, ISBN: 9780131928787, Prentice Hall, 2008. Method of Instruction:  To be announced. Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced. Examination Policies and Grading Information:   To be announced. CLAS 282 - WORLD OF CLASSICAL ROME  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor 8933 3 001 0930a-1020a MWF ANDR 11 J. Goecke PREQ:   Sophomore standing.   Cross-Listed with English 240B.  Description of Material Being Covered:  This course covers many of the most important works of Latin Literature in English, with two main purposes:  A. To study the literature per se; B.  To use the literature as documents from which to see the culture of the Romans. Required Books:  Horace, Horace: Complete Odes & Epodes ISBN: 9780226106793, 1960, Univ. Chicago, Required; Lucan The Civil War ISBN: 9780192839497, 1999, Oxford, Required; Suetonius Twelve Caesars ISBN: 9780140455168, 2007, Penguin, Required; Seneca, Four Tradegies & Octavia, ISBN: 9780140441741, 1966, Penquin, Required; Ovid, Metamorphoses, ISBN: 0-253-20001-3, 1960, Indiana UP, Required; Livy, Early History of Rome, ISBN: 9780140448092, Penquin, 2002, Required; Catullus, Poems of Catullus, ISBN: 9780192835871, 1998, Oxford, Required; Virgil, Aeneid (tr. FitzGerald), ISBN: 9780679729525, Vintage, 1990, Required. Examination Policy:  There will be a test at the end of each of the seven source documents. Each student will do a paper and a presentation. There will be a comprehensive final exam. CLAS 312 - PAGANS AND CHRISTIANS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor 9334 3 001 1230p-0120p MWF ANDR 11 S. Lahey Description of Material Being Covered:  To be announced. Required Books:  Augustine, Against the Academicians & Teacher, ISBN: 0-87220-212-2, Hackett Publishing, 1995 Augustine, City of God Against the Pagans, ISBN: 0-521-46843-5, Cambridge, 1998 Cicero, On Academic Scepticism, ISBN: 087220-774-5, Hackett Publishing, 2006 Method of Instruction:  To be announced. Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced. Examination Policy:  To be announced. CLAS 320 - CLASSICAL WORLD:  ARCHAEOLOGY AND TEXTS  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor 8008 3 001 1100a-1215p TR AVH 111 E. Athanassopoulos Objective:  This course examines the relation between archaeology and textual sources in Classical antiquity. In the first part of the course we will examine the study of written records and material remains in the context of several regional archaeological traditions in the Old World (e.g. Egypt, Middle East). In the second part we will focus on the Classical tradition. Classical archaeology is one of the best examples of text aided archaeology. Both archaeological and textual sources will be used to understand aspects of daily life, e.g. economy and trade, gender, ethnic identity, religion, political organization etc. Required Books:  Whitley, James, The Archaeology of Ancient Greece, ISBN: 0-521-62733-8, Cambridge UP, 2001, (REQ); Camp, John McK., The Archaeology of Athens, ISBN: 0-300-101515, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, (REQ); Stiebing, William, Uncovering the Past: A History of Archaeology, ISBN: 9780195089219, Oxford, 1994. (OPTIONAL). Method of Instruction: The class will include lecture, discussion and student projects. The lectures will provide an outline of the social history of the Classical world, as a frame of reference for subsequent class discussion. We will become familiar with some of the primary written sources (in translation) and the ever expanding archaeological evidence. Classroom discussion will be an integral part of the course. In order to facilitate discussion we will select particular topics that supplement the lectures to be researched by students. The results of these student projects will be presented orally in class. Assignments:  Two exams, oral presentation, and a paper. Examination policies and grading information:  Each exam counts for 25% of the grade, oral presentation 20%, and paper 30%. CLAS 399 - INDEPENDENT STUDY Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor **** 1-6 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged Staff PREQ:    Permission of Instructor. Obtain call # from the Classics office (472-2460). CLAS 399H - HONORS COURSE Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor **** 1-4 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged Staff PREQ:   Candidate for degree with distinction or with high distinction or with highest distinction in the College of Arts and Sciences. CLAS 440 - Gender & Sex: Ancient World  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor 8010 3 001 0130p-0220p MWF CBA 108 A. Duncan Description of Material Being Covered:  Required Books::  Skinner, Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture, ISBN: 9780631232346, Blackwell Publishing, 2005; McClure, Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World, ISBN: 9780631225898, Blackwell Publishing, 2002. Examination Policy:  GREK 102 - ELEMENTARY GREEK II  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor 3997 5 001 1130a-1220p MTWRF ANDR 11 A. Duncan PREQ:   GREK 101.  Description of Material Being Covered:   This course is a continuation of Greek 101. The purpose of the course is to develop i n the student the ability to read Classical and Koine Greek. Required Books:  Hansen, Greek: An Intensive Course, ISBN: 9780823216635, Fordham, 1992. Method of Instruction:  Primarily supervised translation and analysis of Greek texts, with grammatical study. Number and Types of Assignments:  There will be assignments from each lesson on forms and meanings and readings from other sources. Examination Policies and Grading Information:  There will be nearly daily quizzes; there will be mid-term and final exams. GREK 302 - GREEK POETRY I  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor 3941 3 001 0230p-0320p MWF ANDR 241 T. Winter PREQ:  GREK 371 or 372.  Description of Material Being Covered: Required Books:  Edwards, Reading Course in Homeric Greek, (Bk2), ISBN: 9781585101764, Focus Publishing, R. Pullins Company, Required. Method of Instruction:  Lecture and discussion. Number and Types of Assignments:  Quizzes, mid-term, and final. Examination Policies and Grading Information:  To be announced. GREK 399 - INDEPENDENT STUDY  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor **** 1-6 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged Staff PREQ:   Permission of Instructor. Obtain call # from the Classics office (472-2460).  GREK 399H - HONORS COURSE  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor **** 1-4 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged Staff PREQ:   Candidate for degree with distinction or with high distinction or with highest distinction in the College of Arts and Sciences. Obtain call # from Classics office (472-2460)  GREK 896 - READING AND RESEARCH  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor **** 1-6 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged J. Turner PREQ:   Permission of Instructor. Obtain call # from the Classics office (472-2460).  GREK 899 - MASTERS THESIS  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor **** 1-10 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged T. Rinkevich PREQ:  Admission to the Masters Degree Program and permission of Major Advisor.  GREK 961 - SEMINAR IN GREEK LITERATURE  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor **** 1-6 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged T. Rinkevich Description of Material Being Covered:  To be announced. Required Books:  Lesky, A History of Greek Literature, ISBN: 9780872203501, 1996, Hackett Publishing, required. Method of Instruction:  To be announced. Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced. Examination Policies and Grading Information:  To be announced. LATN 102, Sec. 001 - ELEMENTARY LATIN  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor 4550 5 001 1030a-1120a MWF BURN 102 G. Watley 4550 5 001 1030a-1120a TR ANDR 11 G. Watley PREQ:   Latin 101.  Description of Material Being Covered:  This course will continue from Latin 101, with attention to grammar, syntax and vocabulary sufficient to begin reading elementary Latin prose. The student will encounter extracts from Caesar, Cicero, Catullus, Virgil, Livy, and Ovid, and will continue to develop their ability to understand and expand their vocabulary as well as their appreciation for grammatical structure. Required Books:  Keller Learn to Read Latin: Txt/Wkbk, ISBN: 9780300103540, Yale, 2003. Method of Instruction:  Students will learn by doing through extensive in-class translation and form drills. Number and Types of Assignments:  Frequent feedback, frequent quizzes. On your toes is a healthy place for a student to be. Examination Policies and Grading Information:  In addition to the drills, frequent quizzes and a mid-term and a final exam will make up the final grade. LATN 102, Sec. 002 - ELEMENTARY LATIN  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor 4551 5 002 0230p-0320p MTWTF ANDR 11 T. Rinkevich PREQ:   Latin 101 or some high school Latin (see instructor if you have only high school Latin and are interested in this course).  The Use of Latin for Today's Student:  For fifteen hundred years or more the Latin language was the life-blood of the intellectual development of western Europe. Subjects as diverse as history, government, law, rhetoric, literature, philosophy, religion, medicine, physics, astronomy and mathematics were written about, talked about and thought about in Latin. For people of that time, not to know Latin was to be largely cut off from the life of the mind. Likewise, for students of today, to lack all knowledge of Latin language and culture is to remain forever intellectually "childish"; enjoying the fruits and suffering the consequences of our intellectual heritage without even recognition or acknowledgment, not to mention insight and understanding. In addition to its place as an invaluable key to the story of intellectual development in the West, knowledge of Latin may help to unlock for the student much of the modern world as well. In a vast swath across our planet, from the southern tip of South America to the coast of the Black Sea, the languages spoken are essentially Neo-Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese and Catalan are all directly descended from Latin. Much of the grammar, morphology, vocabulary and syntax are readily transparent to those who have studied Latin. A good Latin student can, without any further formal training, learn to read these languages with facility. Description of Material Being Covered:  This course is a continuation of Latin 101. In this class the student will continue to learn the grammar of the adjective and noun. All indicative forms of the verb will also be learned. Required Books:  Keller, Learn to Read Latin: Txt/Wkbk, ISBN: 9780300103540, Yale, 2003. Method of Instruction:  Students will learn by doing through extensive in-class translation and form drills. Number and Types of Assignments:  In addition to the drill, frequent quizzes and a mid-term and a final exam will make up the final grade. Examination Policies and Grading Information: To be announced. LATN 302 - LATIN POETRY - VERGIL:  AENEID  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor 4552 3 001 0200p-0315p TR M&N B6 R. Gorman PREQ:   Latin 201 or 301.  Description of Material Being Covered:  Latin 302 is a continuation of Latin 301. Students will be introduced to some of the most fantastic works of Latin poetry as they continue to enhance their skills in translation and grammatical analysis. Required Books:  Murgatroyd, Ovid With Love: Selections from Ars Amatoria Books I and II, ISBN: 9780865160156. Method of Instruction:  Discussion. Number and Types of Assignments:  Translation and grammatical analysis. Examination Policies and Grading Information:  Quizzes, mid-term and final. LATN 304 - LATIN POETRY Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor 4553 3 001 1030a-1120a MWF CBA 140 T. Winter PREQ:   Latin 201; Latin 301 or 303.  Description of Material Being Covered:  Selected Latin poetry from the earliest to the latest times. Discussion of meters, styles, genres; translation of original Latin Required Books:  Material to be announced in class. Method of Instruction:  Reading and translation cum discussion of selected Latin poetry from the earliest to the latest times. Number and Types of Assignments:  Daily assignments of poetic material, frequent quizzes. Examination Policies and Grading Information:  The grade will be the average of the grades for the individual assignments and quizzes. Mid-term, final exams. LATN 399 - INDEPENDENT STUDY  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor **** 1-6 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged Staff PREQ:   Permission of Instructor. Obtain call # from the Classics office (472-2460).  LATN 399H - HONORS COURSE  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor **** 1-4 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged Staff PREQ:   Candidate for degree with distinction or with high distinction or with highest distinction in the College of Arts and Sciences. Obtain call # from Classics office (472-2460)  LATN 492/892 - TOPICS IN LATIN POETRY (Roman Satire) Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor 4556/**** 3 001 1100a-1215p TR ANDR 241 T. Rinkevich NOTE: LATN 492 may be repeated for credit toward the degree. Description of Material Being Covered:  To be announced. Required Books:  Miller, Latin Verse Satire, 1st Edition, ISBN: 9780415317160, Routledge, 2005, required. Method of Instruction:   To be announced. Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced. Examination Policies and Grading Information:  To be announced. LATN 896 - READING AND RESEARCH  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor **** 1-6 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged J. Turner PREQ:   Permission of Instructor. Obtain call # from the Classics office (472-2460).   LATN 899 - MASTERS THESIS  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor **** 1-10 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged Staff PREQ:   ADMISSIONS TO THE MASTERS DEGREE PROGRAM AND PERMISSION OF MAJOR ADVISER.  LATN 942 - SEMINAR IN LATIN LITERATURE  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor **** 3 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged Staff HEBR 302 - BIBLICAL HEBREW POETRY  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor 9345 3 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged S. Crawford PREQ:   Hebrew 201 or permission of Instructor.  Description of Material Being Covered:  To be announced. Required Books:  C.L. Seow, A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew, ISBN: 0-687-15786-0, Abingdon Press, 1995; Brown, Driver, Briggs; The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, ISBN: 1-56563-206-0, Hendrickson Pub., 1996, Hardcover, Required To be announced. Method of Instruction:  To be announced. Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced. Examination Policies:  To be announced. HEBR 399 - INDEPENDENT STUDY  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor **** 1-3 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged Staff PREQ:   Permission of Instructor. Obtain call # from the Classics office (472-2460).  HEBR 896 - READING AND RESEARCH  Call# Cr Hrs Sec Time Days Bldg/Room Instructor **** 3 001 Arranged Arranged Arranged Staff PREQ:   Permission of Instructor. Obtain call # from the Classics office (472-2460).  Description of Material Being Covered: To be announced.

Method of Instruction:  Lecture/discussion. Experiential learning.

Course Requirements:  It is expected that each class member will attend all meetings of the class and that each student will have read, in advance, the assigned reading for that day. The instructor reserves the right to administer unscheduled quizzes and in-class writing assignments.

Examination Policies and Grading Information:  There are 5 exams for this course, including a cumulative final. 5 exams (500 points), 1 World Religion in Lincoln report (100), For three or more absences, 5 points will be taken off your total points for each absence.

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RELG 150 - EXPLAINING RELIGION
Call#	Cr Hrs	Sec	Time	Days	Bldg/Room	Instructor
6799	3	001	0230p-0320p	MWF	RH 14	G. Watley

Description of Material Being Covered:  The course will try to determine what religion is as it is manifested in various religious beliefs and practices. What is common to all religions? We will explore how religion attempts to reach beyond the natural realm to an ideal and sacred sphere. We look at the role of sacred texts, doctrines, myths, and profound experiences in religion. Is evil a religious concept? How do different religions deal with evil both within and without its own borders? Our approach will be cross-cultural and comparative--illustrating our claims about religion with examples from both western and non-western religions.

Required Books:  Kessler, Studying Religion: An Introduction Through Cases, ISBN: 978-0073386-59-1, McGraw Hill, 2008.

Method of Instruction:  Lecture and discussion.

Number and Types of Assignments:  Requirements will include several short papers (one will involve a presentation), a mid-term and either a final take-lhome exam or a final paper. There is also a "fieldwork" requirement to visit and report on some group that practices a faith other than your own.

Examination Polices and Grading Information:  To be announced.

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RELG 181 - SPECIAL TOPICS: JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM
Call#	Cr Hrs	Sec	Time	Days	Bldg/Room	Instructor
8191	3	001	1230p-0120p	MWF	ARCH 127	G. Watley
****		800	Arranged	Arranged	Arranged	G. Watley

Description of Material Being Covered:  This course will introduce the three major monotheistic religious traditions originating in the Middle East: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. We will discuss the historical origins, scriptures, beliefs and practices of each tradition and also their historical interactions up to the present.

Required Books:  Peters, The Monotheists, Vol. 1, ISBN: 9780691123721, Princeton, 2005; Peters, The Monotheists, Vol. 2, ISBN: 9780691123738, Princeton, 2005; Cleary, The Qur'an: A New Translation, ISBN: 9781929694440, Starlatch, 2004.

Method of Instruction:  Lecture with discussion.

Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.

Examination Policies and Grading Information:To be announced.

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RELG 206 - WAYS OF WESTERN RELIGION
Call#	Cr Hrs	Sec	Time	Days	Bldg/Room	Instructor
8190	3	001	1230p-0145p	TR	ANDR 11	J. Turner

Description of Material Being Covered:  Introduction to the academic study of religion through the reading and analysis of 15 significant literary works from the Bronze Age to the present. These works either reflect or have crucially shaped the western religious consciousness, and each in its own way raises the root questions concerning human existence in an incisive and memorable way: life and death, mortality and immortality, human excellence and failure, ambiguity and paradox versus the logical and straightforward, and the relation between God, man and world, reason and revelation, what can and cannot be known. Each week of the semester will be devoted to the study of a single author in his or her historical context, and how the work invites the reader to perceive and attach significance to the world of human experience. Short weekly papers will be submitted by the student, which may be used as the basis for contributing to class discussion.

Required Books:

Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods and the Duty of Civil Disobedience, ISBN: 0-06-080615-X, Perennial, 1973; St. Augustine, Confessions, ISBN: 0-14-044114-X, Viking Press, 1961; R.J. Hollingdale, Twilight of the Idols and the Antichrist ISBN: 0-14-044514-5, Viking Press, 1990; Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Goethe's Faust, ISBN: 0-385-03114-9, Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1962; John Gardner (Ed.), Gilgamesh: Translated from the Sin-Legi-Unninni Version, ISBN: 0-394-74089-0, Random House, 1985; Dante Alighieri, Inferno, ISBN: 0-451-52798-4, Penguin, 2001; Franz Kafka, Complete Stories of Franz Kafka, ISBN: 0-8052-1055-5, Schocken, 1995; Samuel Becket, Waiting for Godot, ISBN: 0-8021-3034-8, Grove Press, 1997; Euripides, The Bacchae of Euripides: A New Translation with a Critical Essay, ISBN: 0-8032-5194-7, Univ. of NE Press, 1968; Gershom Scholem, Zohar: The Book of Splendor: Basic Readings from the Kabbalah, ISBN: 0-8052-1034-2, Schocken Books, 1995; Plato, The Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo: Apology; Crito; Phaedo (Great Books in Philosophy), ISBN: 0-87975-496-6, Prometheus Books, 1988; Martin Luther, Erasmus Desiderius, Discourse on Free Will, ISBN: 0-8044-6140-6, Frederick Unger, 1961.

Method of Instruction:  Daily discussion sessions.

Number and Types of Assignments:  Fourteen 2-3 page weekly papers; no exams or term papers.

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RELG 208 - INTRODUCTION TO ISLAM
Call#	Cr Hrs	Sec	Time	Days	Bldg/Room	Instructor
8188	3	001	1030a-1120a	MWF	AVH 110	S. Wood

Description of Material Being Covered:  The course provides an introduction to the religion and history of Islam. Topics examined include the Prophet Muhammad, the Qur'an, the hadith, Islamic theology and law, Shi'ism, Sufism, and modern Islam.

Required Books:  Mahmoud M. Ayoub, Islam: Faith and History, ISBN: 9781851683505; Oneworld Pub., Required; Fatema Mernissi, The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights In Islam, ISBN: 9780201632217, Basic Books, Required; Muhammad M. Pickthall, The Glorious Qur'an: Text and Explanatory Translation, ISBN: 9781879402164, Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, Required; Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future, ISBN: 9780393329681, W. W. Norton & Company, Required; Ron Geaves, Key Words in Islam, ISBN: 9781589011243, Georgetown University Press, Required. Mansoor Moaddel, Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam: A Reader, ISBN: 1403960925, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, Required.

Method of Instruction:  To be announced.

Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.

Examination Polices and Grading Information:  To be announced.

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RELG 220 - REASON AND RELIGION
Call#	Cr Hrs	Sec	Time	Days	Bldg/Room	Instructor
6802	3	001	0930-1020	MWF	MABL 230	S. Lahey

Description of Material Being Covered:  This course in philosophical theology will explore the approaches philosophers and theologians have taken to address problems that arise in religious thought. Following a survey of some of the general problems defining philosophical theology, including the possibility of natural theology, understanding the divine nature, and addressing problems associated with the human relation to God, we will focus on one issue that has defined the history of speculative theology in the Western tradition. This semester we will examine how the incarnation has been understood to have occurred, with attention to the various possibilities prevalent in the late classical world, and to the dialogue of 21st century theology.

Required Books:  Ward, God a Guide for the Perplexed, ISBN: 1-85168-323-9, 2002, One World; Lahey, John Wyclif, ISBN: 0195183320, 2009, Oxford University Press; MacKendrick, Fragmentation and Memory, ISBN: 9780823229499, 2008, Fordham University Press.

Method of Instruction:  To be announced.

Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.

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RELG 312 - PAGANS AND CHRISTIANS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Call#	Cr Hrs	Sec	Time	Days	Bldg/Room	Instructor
9335	3	001	1230p-0120p	MWF	ANDR 11	S. Lahey

Description of Material Being Covered:  To be announced.

Required Books:  Augustine, Against the Academicians & Teacher, ISBN: 0-87220-212-2, Hackett Publishing, 1995 Augustine, City of God Against the Pagans, ISBN: 0-521-46843-5, Cambridge, 1998 Cicero, On Academic Scepticism, ISBN: 087220-774-5, Hackett Publishing, 2006

Method of Instruction:  To be announced.

Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.

Examination Policy:  To be announced.

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RELG 398, Sec. 001 - SPECIAL TOPICS:  Arabic II
Call#	Cr Hrs	Sec	Time	Days	Bldg/Room	Instructor
8192	1-3	001	1230p-0120p	MWF	CBA 208	S. Wood

Essential Prerequisite: RELG 398 Arabic I is an essential prerequisite for this course. Students who have taken an equivalent course to RELG 398 Arabic I at another institution may be granted an exception to this requirement. Please note that equivalence (or lack thereof) is determined by the professor.

Description of Material Being Covered:  To be announced.

Required Books:  Brustad, Al-Kitaab fii Ta Allum al-Arabiyya, Part 1, ISBN: 1589011045, Georgetown University Press

Method of Instruction:  To be announced.

Number and Types of Assignments:  To be announced.

Examination Polices and Grading Information:  To be announced.

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RELG 399 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Call#	Cr Hrs	Sec	Time	Days	Bldg/Room	Instructor
****	1-6	001	Arranged	Arranged	Arranged	Staff

PREQ:   Permission of Instructor. Obtain call # from the Classics office (472-2460).

RELG 410 - GNOSTICISM
Call#	Cr Hrs	Sec	Time	Days	Bldg/Room	Instructor
8194	3	001	0330p-0445p	TR	ANDR 11	J. Turner

Cross-Listed with Classics 410/810.

Description of Material Being Covered: A survey of the secret sritings of the Egyptian Gnostics and their relation to Judaism, Christianity and the pagan religions of the first three centuries. The question of the nature, origin, development, and influence of Gnosticism will be discussed.

Required Books:  Robinson, editor, The Nag Hammadi Library in English, ISBN: 0-06-066935-7, Harper, Required; Meyer, editor, The Nag Hammadi Library in English, ISBN: 0-06052378-6, Harper Collins, Required; Layton, The Gnostic Scriptures, ISBN: 0-385-47843-7, Bantam, Required; Pearson, Ancient Gnosticism, ISBN: 9780800632588, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, Required.

Method of Instruction: The course will be conducted as a seminar with occasional lectures by the instructor and presentations by students on selected Gnostic texts.

Examination Policies and Grading Information: The student's work will be evaluated on the basis of a term paper, oral class presentation, and class participation.

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RELG 418 - FUNDAMENTALISM, RELIGION, AND POLITICS
Call#	Cr Hrs	Sec	Time	Days	Bldg/Room	Instructor
8193	3	001	0230p-0320p	MWF	BURN 202	S. Wood

Description of Material Being Covered: This course analyses the complex relationship between fundamentalism, religion, and politics. We will begin by examining a variety of theories that scholars have advanced to define and explain the phenomenon of fundamentalism. We will then examine various examples of fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism.

Required Books:  R. Scott Appleby, Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalism Around the World, ISBN: 978-022-601497-5, Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003, Required; Ruthven, Malise, Fundamentalism: A Very Short Introduction, ISBN: 9780199212705, Oxford UP, 2007, Required; Bartholomueusz, Tessa Buddhist Fundamentalism and Minority Identities in Sri Lanka, ISBN: 9780791438343,, SUNY Press, 1997, Required; Jansen, Johannes, The Dual Nature of Islamic Fundamentalism, ISBN: 9780801433382, Cornell Univ. Press, 1997, Required. Martin, Vanessa, Creating An Islamic State: Khomeini and the Making of a New Iran, ISBN: 97801860649004, I. B. Taruis, 2003, Required; Lincoln, Bruce, Holy Terrors, Second Edition: Thinking About Religion After September 11, ISBN: 9780226482033, University of Chicago Press, 2006, Required.

Method of Instruction:

Examination Policies and Grading Information:

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UHON 298H - Life on Earth: Darwin or God
Call#	Cr Hrs	Sec	Time	Days	Bldg/Room	Instructor
****	3	001	0230p-0345p	MW	Arranged	D. Crawford

Description of Material Being Covered:

Required Books:  Dembski, Debating Design, ISBN: 9780521709903, Cambridge UP, Required; Scott, Evolution vs. Creationism: Intro, ISBN: 9780520246508, University of California Press, Required.

Examination Policy:

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UHON 395H - Europe Before 1000
Call#	Cr Hrs	Sec	Time	Days	Bldg/Room	Instructor
****	3	013	1030a-1120a	MWF	Arranged	S. Lahey

Description of Material Being Covered:

Required Books::

Examination Policy:

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