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USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
 

Real Estate Development
  

  • RED 562 Legal Issues in Real Estate Development

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Ownership and transfer of real estate; formation and enforcement of contracts; business associations; environmental regulation; taxation of property transfers; acquiring, financing, leasing of commercial property.
    Duplicates Credit in former RED 662.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 563 Introduction to the Asset Management of Real Estate

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Overview of institutional asset management: creating and implementing investment and portfolio strategies through the development, acquisition, underwriting, and operational stages of the investment, asset disposition.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 564 Issues in Asset Management of Real Estate

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Advanced issues in institutional asset management. How value is created during investment process with focus on tactical, operational, and strategic goals of asset and owner.
    Prerequisite: RED 563 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 571 Introduction to Appraisal Principles, Procedures, and Standards

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Valuation concepts. Theory and problem solving. Cost, sales comparison, and income approaches.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 572 Advanced Appraisal Approaches and Applications

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Highest and best use. Advanced income capitalization. Advanced cost and sales comparison approaches. Advanced applications.
    Recommended Preparation: RED 571 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 573 Design History and Criticism

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sm
    The concepts, language and metaphors of design-related disciplines are examined in relation to design and construction values and choices in real estate development.
    Duplicates Credit in former RED 673.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 574 Building Typologies

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    The exploration of categories of building types, including retail, industrial, residential, office and institutional, using key examples or case studies from each.
    Duplicates Credit in former RED 674.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 575L Community Design and Site Planning

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Physical implementation of development projects. Students will develop concept plan, preliminary design and marketing plan for selected domestic and/or international development sites.
    Duplicates Credit in former RED 675L.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 583 International Development Opportunities

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    A survey of various markets prominent in the global real estate community. Protocols for analyzing international development opportunities and cultural, political, and socioeconomic considerations.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 585 Comparative International Development Workshop

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Comparative study tour focused on understanding international real estate development practices and markets, site visits and meeting with principals.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • RED 598 Real Estate Product Development

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    An evaluation of various real estate development types. Case studies and site visits.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • RED 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Current issues, trends, and developments in real estate development.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter


Religion
  

  • REL 111g The World of the Hebrew Bible

    Units: 4
    The Hebrew Bible in the cultural setting of the Ancient Near East; the formation of theological and ethical concepts which have shaped Western culture.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category I: Western Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 112g Religions of Ancient Egypt and the Near East

    Units: 4
    Religions, cultures, and values of ancient Egypt and Near East (Iran, Iraq, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Arabia, Turkey) and their legacies in contemporary society.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category II: Global Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 114g The Mediterranean: A Religious History

    Units: 4
    Explores multiple religious traditions of the Mediterranean as networks that emerge within and among the landscapes, cultures, and politics of this highly interconnected geographic space.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category V: Arts and Letters
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 115g Jerusalem, City of Three Faiths

    Units: 4
    History of Jerusalem as a window onto the nature of the three Abrahamic faiths.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 121g The World of the New Testament

    Units: 4
    Historical investigation of New Testament characters, events, ethics and theology in relation to its social, intellectual, and religious contexts in the Jewish and GrecoRoman world.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category I: Western Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 125gp Introduction to Christianity

    Units: 4
    Survey of the changing beliefs and practices of the Christian religion from obscure origins to globalized present, with special attention to the varieties of Christian literature.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Global Perspective in Category H: Traditions and Historical Foundations
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category I: Western Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 132g Origins of Western Religions

    Units: 4
    Examination of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in their origins and their development in relation to Western civilization.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category I: Western Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 134g Introduction to Buddhism

    Units: 4
    Focus primarily on works of Buddhist literature written in a variety of genres. Introduction of basic teachings that link Buddhist traditions across time and space.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category II: Global Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 135g Chinese Religions and Culture

    Units: 4
    Historical and thematic survey of Chinese religious history from earliest times to the present.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category II: Global Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 136g Sense and Sensuality in Indian Religions and Culture

    Units: 4
    Exploration of the senses and the technologies of pleasure in India, relating this material to some fascinating examples of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist literature.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category II: Global Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 137g Introduction to Islam

    Units: 4
    Introduction to Islam, emphasizing its historical and cultural development since the seventh century C.E., and the basic teachings of Islam.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category II: Global Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 138g Japanese Religions and Culture

    Units: 4
    Major religious traditions of Japan (such as Buddhism, Shinto, Christianity, Confucianism) and their broader social and cultural contexts.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 141g Global Religions in Los Angeles

    Units: 4
    Congregational and individual expressions of religion in Los Angeles.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 147g Religion, Media and Popular Culture

    Units: 4
    Exploration of the manner in which the media frame discussions and understandings of ethical issues, moral dilemmas, spirituality and religious imagination.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 301 Introduction to the Study of Religion

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Survey of academic approaches to the study of religion. When possible this course will be taken during the first year of the major or minor.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 302 Religions of Ancient Egypt and the Near East

    Units: 4
    Religious experience and values of ancient Egypt and Near East through material culture, literature, art, and cultic practices; and their legacies in contemporary society.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as HIST-301
  

  • REL 303g Exploring Ancient Ways of Living: Experimental Archaeology

    Units: 4
    Active learning course enables students to acquire and experience survival skills devised in pre-modern times and to apply this knowledge in an experimental context.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 304 Ethics and Global Heritage

    Units: 4
    Archaeology and global heritage debates, laws, ethical conundrums, and stakeholder perspectives reveal goals and guiding values of society’s exploration of the past.
    Recommended Preparation: REL 301  or ANTH 202g 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ARCG 304, ANTH 318
  

  • REL 305L Virtual and Digital Culture, Heritage and Archaeology

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in ARCG 305L )
  

  • REL 310 Anti-Semitism, Racism and Other Hatreds

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in JS 315g  )
  

  • REL 311g The Bible in Western Literature

    Units: 4
    Comparative analysis of biblical works and how they were employed by various writers in major works of Western literature.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 312 Biblical Wisdom Literature

    Units: 4
    Survey of and inquiry into the biblical wisdom literature; emphasis on the Book of Job.
    Satisfies New General Education in B Humanistic Inquiry
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 314 Introduction to Shiism

    Units: 4
    Examination of the major branches of Shiism, the second largest articulation of Islam, both historically and in the world today.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 315 Thought and Life of Islam

    Units: 4
    History, thought, institutions, and religious practices of Islam.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 316 Women and the Islamic Tradition

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Overview of social and legal status of women in Islamic society, past and present. Examination of social roles established both for and by Muslim women.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 317g The Bible in Its Ancient Context

    Units: 4
    A close consideration of ancient Near Eastern myths — especially those from Mesopotamia and Canaan — with special attention to their influence on the Bible.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 319 Religious and Ethical Issues in Death and Dying

    Units: 4
    Analysis of religious and ethical approaches to death and dying, including refusal of treatment for competent and incompetent patients, voluntary and involuntary euthanasia, and resuscitation.
    Satisfies New General Education in B Humanistic Inquiry
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 323 Aegean Archaeology

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in CLAS 323 )
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 324g Sex and the Bible: Gender, Sexuality, and Scripture

    Units: 4
    Role the Bible has played in debates about sex, gender, and sexuality in Western history.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category V: Arts and Letters
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 325gp Religious Experience in the Greco-Roman World

    Units: 4
    Varieties of religious experience as reflected in the literature, art, and cultic practices of the Hellenistic world.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 326gp Historical Jesus

    Units: 4
    Examination of the question of how ancient and modern Christians and scholars have reconstructed the life of Jesus of Nazareth, founding figure of Christianity.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Global Perspective in Category H: Traditions and Historical Foundations
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category V: Arts and Letters
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 327g Heretics, Martyrs, and Miracles

    Units: 4
    Examines Christianity in the second century including theology, ethics and identity.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 328 Archaeology of Religion in the Greco-Roman World

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in CLAS 328 )
  

  • REL 329 Themes in the Religions of China

    Units: 4
    A study of selected themes in the history of Chinese religions and culture. Compares cases and materials from several historical periods and religious traditions.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 330 Introduction to the Religions of India

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    History, teaching, and practice of Hinduism, Buddhism, and other religious traditions of India.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 331 Religions of East Asia

    Units: 4
    History, teaching, and practice of the religions of China, Tibet, and Japan.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 332 Religions of Japan

    Units: 4
    The development of religious thought and practice in the Japanese islands, with Buddhism and Shinto being the most prominent.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 333 Religion in the Borderlands

    Units: 4
    Survey of religious history of U.S./Mexico borderlands. Emphasis is given to definitions of place and transformations in culture and forms of belief.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AMST-333
  

  • REL 334 Religion and Colonial Encounter

    Units: 4
    Survey of religious responses to colonial encounter in the Americas. Emphasis given to study of religious innovations of Amerindians, Africans, and Europeans.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 335 Gender, Religion, and Sexuality

    Units: 4
    The construction of gender and sexuality in Western religious traditions; its continued impact on contemporary intellectual, cultural, and social life.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 336w Re-Viewing Religion in Asian America

    Units: 4
    Interdisciplinary analysis of the religions traditions, institutions, and experiences of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S.
    Satisfies Global Perspective in Category G: Citizenship in a Diverse World
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AMST 336
  

  • REL 337 Islam in Black America: From Slavery to Hip Hop

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in AMST 337 )
  

  • REL 338 Mysticism and Religious Desire

    Units: 4
    How human appetites for sex, food, community or immortality are articulated as mystical desires in different religions, either within institutional structures or working against them.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 339 Studies in the History of Christianity

    Units: 4
    In-depth exploration of one of the pivotal moments in the history of Christianity and Western society.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 340 Introduction to Indian Philosophy

    Units: 4
    An introduction to Indian philosophy, including major schools of thought in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain philosophies. No previous knowledge of Indian religions or philosophy required.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 341 Technology, Culture, and Ethics

    Units: 4
    Examination of value questions arising from the impact of technology on individuals, social institutions, and culture.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 342g Buddhist Modernism

    Units: 4
    Examines various topics in the process of rapid modernization and globalization in Buddhism including environmentalism, gender, nationalism, social activism, and war and peace.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 344 Islamic Law and American Society

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in AMST 344 )
  

  • REL 359g Culture in Diaspora: The Jews of Spain

    Units: 4
    Course traces the Jewish diaspora from Spain and Portugal with particular attention to how Sephardic Jews maintained ties of culture, commerce, language, and identity.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category B: Humanistic Inquiry
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category V: Arts and Letters
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as HIST-371
  

  • REL 360 Ethical Issues in the New Medical Revolution

    Units: 4
    Multimedia-oriented analysis of issues; definition of life and death; research on human subjects, health care delivery, euthanasia, abortion, genetic counseling, behavior control.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 361 Law and Religion

    Units: 4
    Explores the intersection between law and religion including ways in which religious traditions conceive of, create, order, and contest law.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 364 Religion and Ethics

    Units: 4
    Traces the development of how religious ideas have informed ethics, or accounts of the good life, including notions of justice, righteousness, virtue, duty, charity and happiness.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 365 Global Ethics

    Units: 4
    Provide an overview of debates concerning moral, cultural ethics in a globalizing world. Encourage critical reflection on global justice, ethical systems, role of religion.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 366 Religion and Social Change

    Units: 4
    Empirical and theoretical analysis of social change and its effect on religious institutions as well as the impact of religious movements on society.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 370 Religion and Visuality

    Units: 4
    Examination of the deep connections between visuality and religions, including visions, controversies over religious images, and other connections between religion and visual art.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 371 Religion and the Supernatural

    Units: 4
    Methods of religious studies, history, anthropology, and psychology used to analyze religious beliefs in and responses to the supernatural.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 376g Religion and Human Rights

    Units: 4
    Close examination and discussion of a variety of religious views regarding human rights. Forges useful frameworks for interpreting the complexity of competing ideas.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 390 Special Problems

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 394 Archaeology of Egypt and the Near East

    Units: 4
    Study of archaeology and excavated artifacts from Egypt and the Near East.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as HIST-304, MDES-394
  

  • REL 401 Seminar in Religious Studies

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Survey of methods and selected issues in the field of religious studies; required of all majors during their junior or senior year.
    Recommended Preparation: REL 301 .
    Duplicates Credit in former REL 399.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 402 Cultural Heritage, Religion, and Politics in the Middle East

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    In-depth exploration of archaeology and heritage issues in the Middle East and their implications for politics and practice in modern Islam, Judaism and Christianity.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as HIST-402, IR-405, MDES-402
  

  • REL 414 History of Islamic Law

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Examines legal methods and religious sources used in Islamic law. Emphasis is placed on the way cultural developments affect legal thought and the administration of justice.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 415 Seminar in Buddhism

    Units: 4
    Seminar on selected aspects of the Buddhist tradition.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 417 Seminar in South Asian Religions

    Units: 4
    Exploration of particular themes and/or traditions in South Asian religions.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 425 Communicating Religion

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in COMM 425 )
  

  • REL 426 Religion, Media and Hollywood: Faith in TV

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in COMM 426 )
  

  • REL 431 The Taoist Tradition

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in EALC 431 )
  

  • REL 435 Religious Thought After the Enlightenment

    Units: 4
    Changes in religious thought between the late 18th and early 20th centuries in the wake of the emergence of modernity in the West.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 440 Christian Thought in the 20th Century

    Units: 4
    Examination of dynamic new directions taken by Christian understandings of self, God, and salvation in response to the novel conditions of modern culture, politics and philosophy.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 441 Origins of Modern Theology

    Units: 4
    19th century liberal, rationalist, and historical theology.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 442 Religion and Science

    Units: 4
    Explores whether religion and science offer competing or complementary models for understanding the world and the human place within it.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 448m France and Islam

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in FREN 448 )
  

  • REL 455 Philosophy of Religion: Bases of Belief and Disbelief

    Units: 4
    Rational and empirical foundations for religious faith and for skepticism.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 460 Senior Seminar: Medical Ethics

    Units: 4
    Analysis of ethical problems related to new developments in medical science.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • REL 462 Religion and Violence

    Units: 4
    Religious and moral perspectives on war, pacifism, violent and nonviolent protest, and religion-based terrorism and militia.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 465 Archaeology and Society

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Enroll in CLAS 465 )
  

  • REL 468 Sociology of Religion

    Units: 4
    The role of religion in modern society from the standpoint of sociological theory and research.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as SOCI-468
  

  • REL 469 Black Religion in America

    Units: 4
    Historical, sociological, and theological analysis of the nature and role of black religion in the American setting.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ETST-469
  

  • REL 471 Jesus

    Units: 4
    A study of major interpretations of the figure of Jesus, with focus on the interaction between religious traditions and culture.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 473 Advanced Hebrew Bible Studies

    Units: 4
    Consideration of specific topics in Old Testament studies; particular topics determined each semester.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 474 Advanced New Testament Studies

    Units: 4
    Consideration of specific topics in New Testament studies. Particular topics determined each semester.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 475 Religion, Material Culture and the Senses

    Units: 4
    A comparative study of the role of material culture and the senses in religions based on a number of case studies and problem sets.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 479 Seminar in Christian Thought

    Units: 4
    Studies a theme, period, or problem from the history of Christian thought within its intellectual and social context.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 481 History of Religion in America

    Units: 4
    Intellectual, institutional, and social history of religion in America from colonial times to the present.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • REL 482 Jesus in American History and Culture

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in HIST 482 )
  

  • REL 483 Religion and Popular Culture in the United States

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Critical analysis of the relationship between religion, mass media, and popular cultural forms in the U.S.
    Recommended Preparation: REL 301 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AMST-483
  

  • REL 484 American Religion, Foreign Policy and the News Media

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in JOUR 484 )
 

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