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Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Engage with the complexity of the historical development of the stories in the Biblical texts.
2. Cultivate skills to analyze biblical texts.
3. Examine how historical, literary, and archaeological evidence contributes to reconstructing the development of religious groups and movements in antiquity.
4. Deploy the methods and theories of religious studies.
    

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Collaborate with others in critical thinking, research, and writing.
2. Describe characteristics (history, practices, beliefs, aesthetics etc.) of several New Religious Movements.
3. Formulate research questions about New Religious Movements and analyze the significance of these research questions for ongoing academic conversations.
4. Identify some key concepts, issues, and debates going on in the study of New Religious Movements today and demonstrate an understanding of how the field is composed around them.
5. Practice your scholarly writing, conversation, and presentation skills.
6. Translate research-based knowledge and scholarly language on new religious movements into lay language that can inform public conversation about these topics.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate theories about gender, sexuality and religion.
2. Compare the approaches of sociologists, anthropologists, and gender studies and religious studies scholars in addressing the relationship between gender, sexuality, and religion.
3. Critically analyze how religious myth, doctrine, and ritual is used to understand gender.
4. Critically analyze the way gender and sexuality are used to understand the religion in a variety of contexts; and how they inform one another.
5. Identify and explain how you utilize and/resist gender and queer theories in approaching the study of religion (your own or someone else's).
    

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop a "critical understanding" of the practice of postures or asana through field research.
2. Examine yoga in its modern context and raise a number of critical debates.
3. Understand and assess the philosophical and theological teachings of yoga in India.
4. Understand the history of yoga starting with its earliest known origins as a spiritual practice indigenous to India.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Collaborate with others in critical thinking, research, and writing.
2. Critically read source texts, and extract ideas from them which you think will help understand and address ecological problems.
3. Distinguish between course-relevant terms (e.g., nonreligion, secularity, atheism, etc.) and use them critically in your writing and speaking (i.e., demonstrating an understanding of their origins and politics).
4. Practice your scholarly writing skills (including grammar, punctuation, structure, and referencing).
5. Translate research-based knowledge and scholarly language about course topics into language that can inform public conversation related to other domains, such as art and politics.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Students will have a better basis for placing both historical and current developments in Christianity in context.
2. Students will have a deepened appreciation for the complexities of history generally and of the history of Christianity in particular.
3. Students will have a growing awareness of the mix of greatness and frailty found in those who have sought to be practitioners of Christianity.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the theological questions the Holocaust initiated for both Judaism and Christianity, including issues of chosenness, theodicy, and the nature of evil.
2. Analyze the religious context of the Holocaust, especially concerning religious sentiments, teachings, and attitudes that may have contributed to or been influenced by it.
3. Compare the range of Jewish religious, philosophical, and cultural responses to the Holocaust, including the challenges to traditional beliefs and the evolution of post-Holocaust theology.
4. Communicate the moral and ethical dilemmas faced during the Holocaust and their implications for modern discussions of ethics in both religious and secular contexts.
5. Demonstrate effective critical reading skills.
    

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Cultivate abilities to analyze ancient inscriptions, papyri documents, and literary texts.
2. Encounter various learning styles through content input, interactive tasks, and graded assignments.
3. Engage with the methodological complexity of (re-)constructing ancient religious practices.
4. Examine diverse social contexts and practices of private and semi-private religious associations in the Greco-Roman period.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess your own learning and growth as a scholar by reflecting on your efforts, achievements, and progress through this class.
2. Collaborate with others in critical thinking, research, and writing.
3. Demonstrate knowledge about specific groups and movements (e.g., SBNRs, Nones, the New Atheists and the new New Atheists).
4. Distinguish between course-relevant terms (e.g. nonreligion, secularity, atheism, etc.) and use them critically in your writing and speaking (i.e., Demonstrating an understanding of their origins and politics).
5. Practice your scholarly writing sills (including grammar, punctuation, structure, and referencing according to a recognized style guide) by participating in the ongoing, public conversation about this field (with your book review and your comments on the NSRN blog).
6. Translate research-based knowledge and scholarly language about course topics into lay language that can inform public conversation about these topics.
    

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Collaborate with others in critical thinking, research, and writing.
2. Demonstrate knowledge about course-relevant terms, concepts, and theories (e.g., Art criticism, ritual as a cultural phenomenon, affect theory, etc.) and use them critically in writing and speaking (i.e., demonstrating an understanding of their origins and politics).
3. Practice scholarly communication skills (including argumentation, structure, grammar, punctuation, and referencing according to a recognized style guide) by participating in the ongoing, public conversation about this field (with your art criticism assignment and your blog assignment).
4. Translate research-based knowledge and scholarly language about course topics into non-technical language that can inform public conversation about these topics.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Be able to apply specific theories and methods to specific concrete manifestations of religion.
2. Develop an understanding of some historical and contemporary approaches (methods for understanding religion).
3. Develop an understanding of some theories that can be used to interpret various manifestations of religion.
4. Develop an understanding of the various ways that religion can be defined.
5. Develop an understanding of the ways in which religious studies as a field influences theories and methods for study religion and vice-versa.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand the basics of some prominent approaches to biomedical ethics including deontological, teleological and virtue ethics.
2. Comprehend and engage some issues in contemporary biomedical ethics.
3. Identify examples of the impact of diverse religious perspectives on healthcare and other biomedical decisions.
4. Understand and explain why religions are morally relevant to biomedical issues.