Course Descriptions
Winter Quarter (W23)
Dept/Description | Course No., Title | Instructor |
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CLASSIC (W23) | 150 CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY | SNYDER, R. |
Emphasis/Category: Thematic Approaches to Religion (Category 2) The Underworld: Ancient Literature on Life, Death, and Regeneration. Taking a spatial or topographical approach to mythology, this course will examine the significance of “the underworld” to ancient Greek and Roman thought. We will explore the role of the underworld in ancient cosmologies, examine its importance to notions of individual and national (im)mortality and terrestrial fertility, and investigate the central role of “the descent” in the ancient hero’s quest. To explore these ideas, we will read such authors as Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Virgil, Lucretius, Ovid, and others. These readings will be supplemented with critical and theoretical texts, and the course will conclude with a look at modern adaptations of these ideas in literature. The final paper in the course will allow students to apply these ideas to contemporary films and video games or to focus exclusively on ancient texts. | ||
FRENCH (W23) | 171 ISLAM&EUROPE: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES EARLY MODERN WORLD | BHATTACHARYA, M. |
Emphasis/Category: World Religious Traditions (Category 1) French 171/European Studies 101A: Islam and Europe: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Early Modern World |
Courses Offered by the Religious Studies Major & Minor or other Schools at UCI
Winter Quarter (W23)
Dept | Course No., Title | Instructor |
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REL STD (W23) | 5B WORLD RELIGIONS II | TINSLEY, E. |
This course is an introduction to the major religions of Asia, through an exploration of the emergence and development of their beliefs, practices, and historical-cultural contexts. We will be exploring the often-overlapping, intertwining, and mutually influential Confucianism, Daoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Shintoism, across a broad swathe of territory – an exploration that leads back to us in the here and now, and leads us to see each tradition as related to the others whilst also acknowledging key differences and doctrines that also make them unique. | ||
REL STD (W23) | 60 GLOBALSIKHSTUDIES | HUNDLE, A. |
Emphasis/Category: World Religious Traditions (Category 1) | ||
REL STD (W23) | 103 HISTORY OF ATHEISM | MCKENNA, J. |
Emphasis/Category: World Religious Traditions (Category 1) | ||
REL STD (W23) | 120 BUDDHIST ART OF JPN | TINSLEY, E. |
Emphasis/Category: World Religious Traditions (Category 1) | ||
REL STD (W23) | 120 PREMOD JPN GHOSTS | KLEIN, S. |
Emphasis/Category: Thematic Approaches to Religion (Category 2) | ||
REL STD (W23) | 122 ANCIENT INDIA | PATEL, A. |
Emphasis/Category: Thematic Approaches to Religion (Category 2) | ||
REL STD (W23) | 170 TERRISM& POL VLNCE | BURSTEIN, A. |
Emphasis/Category: Thematic Approaches to Religion (Category 2) | ||
ANTHRO (W23) | 139 ANTHRO OF RELIGION | VARZI, R. |
Emphasis/Category: Thematic Approaches to Religion (Category 2) | ||
POL SCI (W23) | 158D MIDEAST POLITICS | PETROVIC, B. |
Emphasis/Category: Thematic Approaches to Religion (Category 2) | ||
POL SCI (W23) | 159 ISRL IN COMP PSPCTV | BURSTEIN, A. |
Emphasis/Category: Thematic Approaches to Religion (Category 2) |