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ENGL 487-488
The Department provides an opportunity for study in any area of English for which the student is qualified. Independent study is intended to supplement regular course offerings.ENGL 489
The Department provides an opportunity for students to receive credit for an internship in any area of English for which the student is qualified.ENGL 490
The senior project generally consists of a major critical paper on a topic developed from at least one of the student’s elective courses in the department. Sometimes projects may take other forms. Reading, research, and writing are completed during the student’s senior year, although the student is expected to consult with the chair of the Department and to begin preliminary work in the junior year.ENGL 495
This course is an administrative placeholder used to record a student’s score on Comprehensive Exams (CR/NCR).RELS 100
This course introduces students to the critical study of religions and to the character of religious traditions as living, dynamic communities of interpretation with textual, ritual, moral, philosophical and practical dimensions. The course considers three different religious traditions through the lens of a topic or problem with which religions are concerned or through which they can be usefully analyzed. The topic and the traditions vary with the expertise and interest of the professor teaching the course, but one eastern tradition and one biblical tradition are always included. Attention is given to the nature and definition of religion and to methodologies in the critical study of religion.RELS 210
Through a concentrated study of yoga asanas (postures), mantras (chants), pranayama (breath work), meditation techniques, and religious and philosophical scriptures, students have the opportunity to learn the history, philosophy, and techniques of several styles of yoga.RELS 215
This course explores religious ideas and practices in works of literature from different cultures. The focus is on modernity, since it is the last several centuries that have presented the greatest challenges to traditional religious systems. In the course, students will study a wide range of literature written by persons of different genders, races, and ethnicities.RELS 220
Introduction to World Religions is a thematic introduction to the study of religion and examines the multiplicity of ways in which humans throughout the world find and create meaning and value in their lives. Primary religious traditions of both the East and West, including ancient indigenous cultures and their contemporary expressions, are studied.RELS 224
Religion and Culture explores the relationship between religion and culture andthevariety ofways inwhich they aremutually interactive in the construction of, for example, meaning, values, worldviews, practices, institutions, and artifacts. As part of that exploration, the course undertakes a critical analysis of the theoretical and methodological concerns associated with the academic study of religion.RELS 229
This course explores the myriad Christian beliefs and practices around historical doctrines, such as God, the person of Jesus, creation, sin, salvation, the Holy Spirit, the resurrection, and life after death. Multiple academic and faith perspectives will be utilized, and emphasis will be given to Christianity's relationship to other religious traditions