Religious Studies (RELST)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2017-2018.
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Classes
RELST 1998
Course Description
The peoples, cultures, religions, and politics of the Middle East are never far removed from the front pages of the most influential journals and newspapers. This course will engage students in discussing ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 1998, NES 1998
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Credits and Grading Basis
2 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- R White Hall 104
Instructors
Brann, R
RELST 2273
Course Description
This course introduces the academic study of religion. The topics vary from year to year. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 2273, NES 2273
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Sensational Religion
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Rockefeller Hall 122
Instructors
Haines-Eitzen, K
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Additional Information
Please contact Ayla Cline, akc52@cornell.edu, for a full course description.
RELST 2297
Course Description
The Crossroads of the World. The Pivot of History. The heart of the Silk Road. For all its grand nicknames and associations, Inner Asia remains a region little-studied in the West. This course endeavors ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 2297, HIST 2797
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 231
Instructors
Eden, J
RELST 2299
Course Description
This course will explore the Buddhist tradition from its origins in ancient India to its migrations throughout Asia and eventually to the West. The first part of the course will deal with Indian Buddhism: ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2299
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Rockefeller Hall 122
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Boucher, D
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- F Rockefeller Hall 127
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Boucher, D
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- F Rockefeller Hall 104
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Boucher, D
RELST 2577
Course Description
Since the 1970s, Jewish women have remade American Judaism by putting their bodies front and center. In the face of a largely male rabbinic elite, they have created new models of ritual, communal leadership, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2577, ANTHR 2577, FGSS 2577, JWST 2577, NES 2577
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G20
Instructors
Rock-Singer, C
RELST 2617
Course Description
In the early twentieth century, a series of movements arose in the Middle East and South Asia, calling Muslims to return to Islam. Today, leaders and members of such groups –now known as Islamists –insist ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 2807, HIST 2607, NES 2607
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Rockefeller Hall 231
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Rock-Singer, A
RELST 2630
Course Description
What must (or could) God be like, and what reasons do we have for thinking that a being of that sort actually exists? What difference would (or could) the existence of God make to our lives? Religion & ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 2530
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Warren Hall 151
Instructors
MacDonald, S
RELST 2640
Course Description
Brexit, immigration, and the election of Donald Trump have all been recently heralded as signs of an imminent apocalypse. Films and fiction are saturated with images of zombies, environmental catastrophe, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 2630
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Stimson Hall G01
Instructors
Jonsson, M
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
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- R White Hall 104
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Staff
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- R Rockefeller Hall B16
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Staff
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- R Rockefeller Hall 105
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Staff
RELST 2644
Course Description
Jewish communities have been established, flourished and often struggled for millennia, throughout much of the world, and in vital contact with a vast range of other peoples and cultures. This course examines ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 2644, JWST 2644, NES 2644
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 112
Instructors
Boyarin, J
RELST 2655
Course Description
At the beginning of the 7th century, a new religion, Islam, appeared in Arabia and by the end of the century, Muslims had defeated the Byzantines and Persians and created an empire that stretched from ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 2530, MEDVL 2655, NES 2655
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 142
Instructors
Powers, D
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 158
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Staff
RELST 2662
Course Description
This course will survey the common and not-so-common daily activities of the world of ancient Israel, with supplementary material from its neighbors in Mesopotamia, Egypt and Canaan. Many courses cover ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 2662, JWST 2662, NES 2662
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 122
Instructors
Zorn, J
RELST 3281
Course Description
A knowledge of the Bible's images, stories and themes is crucial to understanding not only the art and literature of many cultures, but also ancient and contemporary world politics. It is the world's most ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3280
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 231
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Zacher, S
RELST 3310
Course Description
This course will explore a variety of ways people have envisioned and prepared for the afterlife. We will concentrate on how Buddhists and Christians have described supreme states of bliss, have warned ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3310
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 262
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Boucher, D
RELST 3331
Course Description
Examines the new cinemas of Southeast Asia and their engagement with contemporary discourses of gender and sexuality. It pays special attention to the ways in which sexuality and gendered embodiment are ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3331, ASIAN 6631, FGSS 3331, FGSS 6331, LGBT 3331, LGBT 6331, PMA 3431
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 127
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Fuhrmann, A
RELST 3540
Course Description
In the age of smartphones and Facebook, the competing claims made on our attention only seem to be multiplying. This course is an opportunity to think about and to enact certain practices of attentiveness ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 3540
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Morrill Hall 111
Instructors
Howie, C
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Additional Information
Conducted in English.
RELST 3677
Course Description
As the founder of Islam Muhammad is one of the most influential figures in world history. An important source for his life is the Sira of Ibn Ishaq (d. ca. 761), a biography that opens with Muhammad's ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 3677, HIST 6677, MEDVL 3677, NES 3677, NES 6677
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Sibley Hall 318
Instructors
Powers, D
RELST 3747
Course Description
Religious beliefs, practices, and conflicts shape our world and influence global politics. Yet mediatized depictions of religion can be reductive and polarizing. Moreover, these depictions may be different ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3747, ENGL 3947, FGSS 3747, PMA 3747
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- W Schwartz Ctr-Perform Arts 124
Instructors
Gainor, J
West, C
RELST 3795
Course Description
What place does sin have in contemporary culture, from ethics to aesthetics? How do we consider sin, as a condition, an act, a choice? How does a particular community-religious, literary, ethnic-consider ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: SPAN 3795
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 260
Instructors
Pinet, S
RELST 4100
Course Description
Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 7262, MEDVL 4002, MEDVL 6020, PHIL 4002, PHIL 6020, RELST 6020
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 124
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MacDonald, S
RELST 4557
Course Description
How and why do landscapes come to inspire the religious imagination? And how do sensory landscapes, more specifically-territories of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell-inform, inflect, and engage the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4677, MEDVL 4557, NES 4557, NES 6557
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- W Morrill Hall 111
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Haines-Eitzen, K
RELST 4990
Course Description
For undergraduates who wish to obtain research experience or do extensive reading on a special topic. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
Instructors
Haines-Eitzen, K
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
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Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
Instructors
Law, J
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
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RELST 4995
Course Description
RELST 4995 is the first course in the Honors two-part sequence. The Honors Program is open to Religious Studies majors who have done superior work and who wish to devote a substantial part of their senior ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
RELST 4996
Course Description
RELST 4996 is the second course in the Honors two-part sequence. The Honors Program is open to Religious Studies majors who have done superior work and who wish to devote a substantial part of their senior ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
RELST 6020
Course Description
Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 7262, MEDVL 4002, MEDVL 6020, PHIL 4002, PHIL 6020, RELST 4100
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 124
Instructors
MacDonald, S