Courses

This course will explaind and compare Hindu, Jain, Christian, Jewish and Muslim foodways and evaluations of food. In the process of this comparative study, we will appraise how each of tradition conceptualizes wellness, and evaluates eating, feeding, overeating, dieting and fasting to promote or impede upon wellness.

MAC Health and Wellness

Study of classic Christian texts, symbols, rituals, and social movements to the dawn of the Reformation.

MAC Global and Intercultural

This course will introduce the broad array of mental and bodily disciplines and philosophies that fall under the term “yoga”. Exploring foundational texts and contemporary yoga communities, we will identify and compare how various strands of yoga understand, define and pursue holistic wellness through bodily and mental disciplines.

MAC Health and Wellness

This course covers the history of religious freedom and the many religious traditions and thinkers that have played a significant role in the history of the United States from Native American beginnings to the present.

MAC Civics and Community

The focus of this course will be an exploration of various interpretations of religious naturalism.  This will entail comparisons of cultural conceptions of the divine and religion with scientific understandings of the natural environment and will include the study of both theistic and non-theistic religious naturalism.

CIC College Writing

This course will explore the history of schismatic religious groups, anti-cult hysteria, and controlling religious authority in American history by focusing on Jonestown, Waco, and NXIVM. This course asks who gets to call a religion a cult, and whether the term is a useful category for cultural analysis.

CIC College Writing

Using a wide range of topics, analytical theories and methods, as well as ethical perspectives, the course introduces students to the concept of evil, digital media, networked society and consumer culture through the critical interpretation of video gaming.

MAC CritThink Hum and Fine Art

Introduction to origins of Islam and its development as a world religion focusing on doctrine, ritual practices, and community structures.

MAC Global and Intercultural

This seminar will introduce both ancient and contemporary Christian, Jewish, and Buddhist perspectives on suffering and joy, and place these perspectives in conversation to find shared and unique approaches to two concerns at the heart of the human experience.

In-Person

(in person, full term) T/TH 11-12:15

Death has always been a part of videogames: a way of dividing up playtime, effort, and accomplishment. Through a combination of reading about and playing games this course offers a hands-on approach to studying videogaming as an academic pursuit and what that can teach us about death and dying.