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Humanities and Social Sciences Track Six

Prerequisites are listed in [brackets]

Track 6:  Ethics, Values, and Spirituality

Teachers not only present knowledge, they embody and nurture values and character.  This track is for the student who wishes to deepen his or her understanding of the religious, philosophical, and political values that animate human cultures and individual character. 

 

ANTH 350  Magic, Witchcraft and Religion

ANTH 366  Anthropology of War

ARTH 322 or 420  Ancient Art

ARTH 442  Art of the Later Middle Ages

ENG 304  Modern Literature and Religion

ENG 305  Mythology

ENG 306  The Bible as Literature

ENG 311  Medieval Literature and Culture

ENG 312  Special Topics in Medieval Literature

HIST 455  World Political and Social Thought to Early Modern Times

HIST 464  Renaissance and Reformation                

HIST 472  Greece and Rome                                  

HIST 473  Islamic World                                        

HIST 483  Baroque and Revolutionary Europe

PHIL 262  Problems in Applied Ethics

PHIL 330  Moral Theory

PHIL 335: The Individual, the State and Justice [GPHIL 101 or permission]

PHIL 340  Ancient Greek Philosophy

PHIL 344  Existentialism [GPHIL 101 or permission]

PHIL/REL 218  The Philosophy of Religion

POSC 316  Contemporary Political Theory

REL 201  Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

REL 202  Introduction to the New Testament

REL 240  Jesus and the Moral Life

REL 305  Islamic Religious Tradition

REL 325  Catholicism in the Modern World

REL 270  Religious Ethics

REL 310  Hindu Traditions

REL 312  Religions of East Asia

REL 315  Women and Religion

REL 320  Judaism

REL 330 African and African-American Religion

REL 360 History of Western Religious Thought

REL 370 Mysticism

REL 380 Contemporary Theologies

REL/PHIL 385  Buddhist Thought

REL/SOC 322  Sociology of Religion

SOCI 303  Sociology of Death & Dying

WRTC 320 Writing in the Public Sphere

WRTC 322 Making a Difference, Service Learning Writing

WRTC 410  Studies in Cultural Rhetoric