Sunday, Mar. 27 | 6:30–8 p.m. | Fromm Hall The newly established annual Alvin H. Baum, Jr. Memorial Lecture highlights an outstanding LGBTQ+ Jewish social justice activist. This event preserves the legacy of Alvin H. Baum, Jr. (1930-2021), a monumental… Continue Reading
Unit(s): 1 to 6 Written permission of the instructor and dean is required.
THRS 390 – ETHICS Unit(s): 4 Identify, analyze critically, and consider possible solutions to fundamental ethical problems and how they relate to contemporary issues, with a special focus on such topics as ecology, economic justice, international conflict, gender and sexuality, race, human… Continue Reading
THRS 320 – PAGANS, CHRISTIANS AND JEWS Unit(s): 4 This course discusses the historical forces that shaped the evolution of Mediterranean society and religion from about 100 to about 500. Focus is on Christianity, and other religious traditions that pre-existed Christianity are… Continue Reading
THRS 131 – QUEERING RELIGION Unit(s): 4 This course explores the following queries: How do queer people navigate religious contexts, especially those that have often attempted to negate them? In what ways can religion be queer How do activists, theologians, clerics, and… Continue Reading
INTD 390 – SPECIAL TOPICS Unit(s): 2 to 4 Exploration of one or more selected topics in the field.
INTD 240 – HONORING OUR LGBTQIA ELDERS Unit(s): 4 This community-engaged learning course gives students the opportunity to meet and interact with transgender, lesbian, gay, intersex and queer identified senior adults (65+ and older); reflect upon the intersections of ageism and LGBTQ… Continue Reading
HIST 335 – MODERN GERMAN HISTORY Unit(s): 4 A survey of the most important developments in Germany from the Bismarck Reich to the unification of 1990. Particular emphasis on the social, economic and cultural conflicts of the second Empire; the Weimar Republic; competing… Continue Reading
HIST 319 – MUSLIM/XIANS/JEWS IN SPAIN Unit(s): 4 Examines interactions between members of the three religions in Islamic and Christian Spain through Muslim, Jewish, and Christian historical sources, literature, art, and architecture. Also analyzes mythologizations of medieval Spain in modern films, literature, and… Continue Reading
HIST 311 – CLASSICAL MEDITERRANEAN WORLD Unit(s): 4 A study of the new forms of society, culture, economy, and government that arose in the central and eastern Mediterranean after the collapse of ancient civilization around 1200 B.C.; the origins of the Greek… Continue Reading
