Summer 2025 Courses
Religions in the United States
RLST听2500-100听| 3.0
Online - Term A
June 2听- July 3
Instructor: Deborah Whitehead
This course will introduce students to the historical and contemporary study of religions in the United States. 听It will not seek to give either a comprehensive historical account of the development of all American religions, nor a survey of all religious institutions, movements, and traditions that have made up the vast and diverse U.S. religious landscape. 听Rather, the course approaches the topic of religions in the U.S. through a framework of religious literacy and the investigation of primary source texts, which, set in context, will give us snapshots of religion as lived, practiced, and experienced by Americans of all backgrounds during the past 400 years. 听Along the way we will encounter many of the key religious traditions, movements, and figures that have shaped American religious belief and practice. 听In addition the course will consider such questions as: 听What major cultural forces shape and have shaped religions in America? 听How have Americans of different faiths and nationalities encountered, interacted, argued, clashed, and cooperated with one another? 听Have they seen America as a promised land or place of refuge鈥攐r as a place of conflict and suffering? 听What are some ways that religious Americans think about faith, spirituality, religious diversity and church and state? 听Ultimately, how does the academic study of religion shed light on what it means to be an 鈥淎merican鈥 or a religious American?
A&S Core: United States Context
A&S Core: Ideals & Values
Arts & Sciences General Education: Distribution-Arts & Humanities
Arts & Sciences General Education: Diversity-U.S. Perspective
Business General Education: Arts & Humanities
Business General Education: Diversity-U.S. Perspective
CMCI Core: Humanities and the Arts
Education General Education: Arts and Humanities
Education General Education: Diversity-U.S. Perspective
Engineering & Applied Science General Education: Humanities & Social Science
Environmental Design General Education: Humanities-Lower
Music General Education: Arts & Humanities
Music General Education: Diversity-US Perspective
Arts & Hum: Lit & Humanities
Christian Traditions
RLST听3000-100听| 3.0
Online - Term A
June 2听- July 3
Instructor: Brian Catlos
Serves as an introduction to the academic study of Christianity, understood in its historical context, beginning with its most remote Mesopotamian origins and through to beginnings of the Protestant Reformation. Coverage is global, but "Western" Christian tradition are emphasized, as is the evolution of doctrine, ritual and institutions in relation to social, cultural and political factors.
A&S Core: Historical Context
Arts & Sciences General Education: Distribution-Arts & Humanities
Business General Education: Arts & Humanities
CMCI Core: Humanities and the Arts
Education General Education: Arts and Humanities
Engineering & Applied Science General Education: Humanities & Social Science
Environmental Design General Education: Humanities-Upper
Music General Education: Arts & Humanities