This is one of three G.E. courses in UCI's world religions series. There’ll be 200 students in the class. No books to buy. No tests. Lots of discussions on ten provocative topics in religion—a different topic for each week of the term. The course is event-oriented and requires attendance for all sessions. Absences are discouraged and penalized. If you think you'll miss a lot of classes, this is not the course for you. Since the word ‘dialogue’ appears in the title of the class and the word ‘discussion’ appears in ‘discussion section’—you’ll be expected to speak and listen when others speak, and there are points to earn for speaking and listening. It’s a Tuesday/Thursday class with required small-group discussion sections on Wednesdays. There is reading due each Tuesday and short writing due every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. On Tuesdays, a lecture introduces the topic of the week. On Wednesdays, in a separate classroom elsewhere on campus, you’ll discuss aspects of the week’s topic in small-group discussion sections. On Thursdays, we’ll do a full-class discussion in the lecture hall, with three or four separate groups of students sitting on stage to speak and field questions from the audience. (Any given student will only speak for about 35 seconds on stage! So don’t be nervous.) And so it will go, week by week. With 200 students in the class, up to a dozen different religions can be represented, as well as agnosticism and atheism. As such, there are considerable disagreements on all the topics, and in no week will we ‘resolve’ those disagreements.

Same as HIST 16C

Days: TU TH  02:00-03:20 PM

Emphasis/Category: Thematic Approaches to Religion (Category 1)

An overview of Greek and Roman art, and related ancient visual cultures. Considers how and why the peoples of antiquity created art and architecture, as well as the significance of these works within their social, religious, and historical contexts.
(IV and VIII ).
Days: TU TH  12:30-01:50 PM

Emphasis/Category: Thematic Approaches to Religion (Category 2)

An overview of the main myths of the gods of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their influence in contemporary and later literature and art. Includes readings from both ancient and modern sources.

(IV)

This class engages in central issues of Indigeneity and explores contemporary film, video games, and literature created by Indigenous people from nations including those currently called Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, and Sweden. Primary questions we will address this include: What does it mean to be Indigenous? How do contemporary Indigenous people represent themselves? What issues are important to specific Indigenous communities? What issues are important across Indigenous communities? We will further pay particular attention to representations of gender and sexuality and human relationships to the other-than-human across these works.

Same as COM LIT 160
Days: W  12:00-01:50 PM

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Days: TU TH  02:00-03:20 PM

How does the legacy of human evolution affect our world today?  How have technological innovations shaped human societies?  How have human societies explained the natural world and their place in it?  Given the abundance of religious beliefs in the world, how have three evangelical faiths spread far beyond their original homelands?
This class follows the major themes of world historical development through the sixteenth century to consider how developments in technology, social organization, and religion—from the origins of farming to the rise of Christianity—shaped the world we live in today.

(Satisfies Pre-1800 Requirement)
Days: TU TH  02:00-03:20 PM

Emphasis/Category: Thematic Approaches to Religion (Category 2)
Analysis of moral issues concerning health care. Topics may include just allocation of scarce medical resources, the doctor/patient relationship, genetic engineering, surrogate motherhood, abortion, euthanasia, or social policy concerning AIDS.

Same as PHILOS 131C.
Days: TU TH  05:00-06:20
Days: TU TH  05:00-06:20 PM

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In this class, we will take a material-based approach to understanding the past of Mexico and Central America. Moving beyond chronology and famous archaeological sites, students will examine change over time, shared practices and values, networks of exchange, the effects of European colonization and ongoing Indigenous practices today. We will consider how art, architecture, artifacts and human remains and other traces of everyday life have informed archaeological research and the development of
museums and heritage projects. By the end of the course, students will have a fundamental understanding of archaeology in this region spanning the last 2,500 years and its connection to people in the past and present.

Same as Intl St 177I
Days: TU TH  09:30-12:50 PM

Some scholars claim that there is a fundamental difference in the cultural ethos of Muslims and the Western world and that the two clash as seemingly incompatible civilizations. Others suggest that such stereotypical contrasts between Muslims and Westerners wrongly view both sides as monolithic and overlook important ways in which Islam and the West overlap. The course explores this scholarly debate.

Same as SOC SCI 189.
Days: TU TH  02:00-04:20 PM

Emphasis/Category: Thematic Approaches to Religion (Category 2)
In late 2010 and early 2011, a chain of popular uprisings shook North Africa and the Middle East, ousting from power the authoritarian rulers in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. Other countries throughout the Arab world experienced massive protests too, with outcomes ranging from timid reforms to restoration of authoritarian rule to civil wars. This course will start by exploring the cultural, socioeconomic, and geopolitical forces that set the stage for the so-called Arab Spring, the region-wide movement against authoritarianism. It will then examine political mobilization against authoritarian rule in individual Arab countries, explaining specific outcomes in each. Next, it will discuss the movement’s second wind nearly a decade later, which affected a new subset of Arab countries including Algeria, Sudan, Lebanon, and Iraq. Lastly, it will look for answers as to why little progress towards more accountable political governance in the Arab countries has been accomplished despite repeated popular mobilization.

Same as SOCI 189

Days: TU TH  12:30-01:50 PM

Selected topics in contemporary philosophy of science, e.g., the status of theoretical entities, the confirmation of theories, the nature of scientific explanation. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

Same as PHILOS 140.