CDL COURSE ENTRY FORM


Author: Bernice Kennedy/SUNY
Last modified by: Laura Wait/SUNY
Composed: 10/05/1999 08:24 AM
Curriculum Committee Approval Date:
Modified: 02/28/2018
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Course Number: (prefix) CUL (number) 224034 ESC 2.0 Course number: PHIL-4010 PHIL-4010Religious Thought in World Perspective

Name: Religious Thought in World Perspective
Datatel Title: (30char) Religious Thought

Area Coordinator: Eric Ball Department Code: 10CU Team: Humanities

Liberal Study? YES Level: UPPER Credits: 4 Prerequisite? YES
General Education Course? YES GenEd Approval Term/Year:

GenEd Area 1: 7. HumanitiesFully or Partially: f
GenEd Area 2: 6. Other World CivilizationsFully or Partially: f



Pre-registration Information?
Course will be offered (for online course descriptions, proposed offerings for by term views and web views)
Spring 1, Fall 1		Course will be offered (for final term listings, online registration, online bookordering, web views)
Spring 1, Fall 1
First Term Offered: (Required Format: YearTerm - i.e., 2005SP)
Last Term Offered in Print Version:
Title Changes:
AC Changes:
BK Number: 20

Description: This course looks at a variety of religious traditions, customs, scriptures, liturgies in order to better understand how religious thought and practice has shaped the landscape of human culture in various civilizations. Over the course of the term, students will be using scholarly literature and doing reading in the textual sources of the major traditions to better understand how they account for human experience, the problem of evil, of loss, of what is sacred and what is not and why. The course is designed thematically, offering a vantage point from which to see what traditions share, how they differ and what that difference has to tell us. Students will also be looking at the changing religious landscape of America in order to understand how East and West actually do meet in this country and what the lived realities of religious pluralism involve.

Prerequisites: Prior academic study in religion, philosophy, or world history. Critical reading and analytical writing ability ordinarily attained after at least two years of academic study is expected.

This course fully meets the General Education requirement in Humanities for 4 credits or Other World Civilizations for 4 credits.

Generic:



Major Course Area
Communications Humanities and Cultural Studies		Minor Course Area
Cultural Studies, Philosophy and Religious Studies		SLN Disciplines
Anthropology
Additional Course Requirements
WWW Computer Conference		 Undergrad Certificate Association:


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Meets General Education Requirement

Required Booknote:

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Additional Reading:

Depending upon the number of credits you are registered for, some or all of the following will also be required. Please order these after the term has begun.

Archive Course:

genedcode for dpplanner: 7^f~8;6^f~8

genedfull area for dpplanner: Humanities;Other World Civilizations