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2022-2023 University Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]
Course Descriptions
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THEA 450 - Independent Study 1-4 Credit Hours
Open to majors or minors with the consent of the theatre faculty.
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THEA 451 - Special Topics in Technical Theatre 1-4 Credit Hours
Individualized study in specialty and advanced topics in technical theatre. This course may be taken for credit multiple times in different areas of interest.
Prerequisite(s): THEA 230 or consent of instructor.
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THEA 455 - Internship 1-8 Credit Hours
Open to majors with the consent of the theatre faculty.
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THEA 495 - Independent Undergraduate Research or Creative Investigation 1-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
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THEO 101 - Introduction to Theology 3 Credit Hours
Sooner or later, we are presented with questions of a most fundamental kind: Does my life truly have meaning? How do we account for evil and suffering? Is the universe friendly and with a final purpose? Is death the end? Such questions-including questions about God’s existence and nature-arise in various times, places, and ways: in the art forms of popular culture, in personal or social crises, in unexpected joy or sorrow, in the midst of nature’s beauty and awesome power, in the struggle to love one’s enemies, in the kindness of strangers and the fidelity of friends, in the restlessness of the human heart. This course offers an introduction to theology as a way of raising and attempting to answer such questions. So, students will learn to think theologically through self-discovery but also by engaging other individuals and communities, especially Catholic Christianity in conversation with other traditions. By exploring sacred texts and other theological sources, we can learn to read the world in profound and often surprising ways.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 103 - Introduction to Roman Catholicism 3 Credit Hours
This course will provide an overview of the central beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic tradition. The development of Catholic understandings of fundamental Christian doctrines (e.g., revelation, Christ, sin, grace) and distinctive features of Catholic communal life (e.g., church, the sacraments) will be approached through a variety of sources. Contemporary concerns will be addressed throughout.
Listed also as CATH 103
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 104 - Introduction to the Study of Religion 3 Credit Hours
Like they do about the weather, everybody talks about religion, but few bother to find out what it is. This course explores the meaning, evolution, and practice of religion as a human experience and social institution from a variety of perspectives. In addition to contributions from the history of religions, and both the philosophy and theology of religion, students will also consider the scientific study of religion from the viewpoint of the disciplines of cultural anthropology, archeology, psychology and sociology. Emphasis will be placed on the religious imagination, the use of symbol, myth and ritual in different cultural settings, and the importance of religion in civic discourse and political life.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 105 - Introduction to Interfaith Studies 3 Credit Hours
This course investigates a range of theological and philosophical warrants and resources within particular religious traditions, including Catholic Christianity, for engaging constructively with other religious and nonreligious worldviews. It explores efforts to establish common ground while understanding the dynamics of conflict. It studies significant moments in the history of interfaith interchange, with particular attention to developments following the 1893 World Parliament of Religions held in Chicago. Students will analyze and have some direct experience with contemporary interfaith organizations and initiatives, including those that foster theological dialogue, the sharing of religious and spiritual experience, and cooperative action in an effort to promote “a more just and humane world.”
Listed also as IFS 105
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 106 - Introduction to Pastoral Theology 3 Credit Hours
As an introductory seminar, this course will engage students in discussion of the theological and practical dimensions of ministry and the minister in the Christian/Catholic tradition. Personal reflection and engagement in the issues are key components of the course.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 107 - Topics in Biblical Theology 3 Credit Hours
This course covers a range of theological topics and methods of interpretation across the biblical canon. Students will utilize historical, cultural, and literary methods to consider various theological themes (creation, covenant, worship, Christ, among others) within biblical books and developments across portions of the canon
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 113 - Biblical and Early Christian Theology 3 Credit Hours
This course examines the development of the biblical canon and key theological themes and ideas in early Christianity. Students will be introduced to topics including, but not limited to: methods of biblical interpretation; key theories about the development of biblical traditions in the Hebrew Bible and Christian Scriptures; the diversity of faith perspectives in early Christian communities; the implications of Christianity’s transformation from persecuted sect to Imperial religion, and the processes of adaptation as the gospel encountered cultures beyond the Greco-Roman world up to c. 500 CE.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 120 - The Bible: The First Five Books 3 Credit Hours
This introductory course engages students in a critical reading of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament), with special emphasis on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and the historical books of the Bible.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 122 - New Testament I: The Gospels 3 Credit Hours
Each of the four Gospels paints a distinctive portrait of the person of Jesus, his origins, life and teaching, death and resurrection. This introduction to New Testament writings offers the student an opportunity to understand each gospel writer’s perspective while critically assessing the information about the historical Jesus of Nazareth and the formation of the early Church.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 201 - Solitary Confinement and Human Rights 1 Credit Hours
Listed also as CRIM 201 , SOC 201 , THEA 201 .
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THEO 218 - Hispanic Social Mystics of the Dominican Order 3 Credit Hours
This course examines the lives of key figures of the Dominican Order. The focus of the examination will consider how their lives and commitment to contemplation, prayer, and social justice contributed towards the creation of a more just and humane world. Questions such as how a life of prayer fosters courage for advocacy, activism, and protest in helping the poor; how might caritas reveal itself at personal and systemic levels. The course is structured in manner attentive to how these figures and questions may form our own lives of prayer, ministry, and social justice to which we-as individual and as a church-are called by God. Figures such as Catherine of Siena, Bartolome de Las Casas, Martin de Porres, Rosa de Lima, Gustavo Gutierrez, among other contemporary social mystics, will be considered.
Listed also as HNSM 218
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Honors program.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 224 - Apostles Acting Up: Gender, Race, Prison, and Power in the New Testament 3 Credit Hours
This course will use the texts of Acts of the Apostles and Paul’s letters to engage questions of hegemonic authority and subaltern critique. These texts are useful in that they represent a subaltern response at their origination and yet have become hegemonic through the use and misuse of Christian theology in Western European elements and into modern US culture. The course will engage the origins of power paradigms concerning gender, race, and nature that supported Roman imperialist propaganda and persist into aspects of US political speak, and even facebook. Students will engage historical background and rhetorical propaganda of Roman imperialism; utilize historical, post-colonial, and ecofeminist methods of interpretation to engage these subaltern-turned-hegemonic texts; and discuss persistence of gender and racial paradigms in systems of injustice in the US today in policies both foreign and domestic.
Listed also as BWS 234
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology and multicultural studies.
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THEO 226 - Game of Altars: Kings and Prophets 3 Credit Hours
This course covers the relationships between religious leaders and royalty in biblical texts, including the Israelite, early Jewish, and early Christian traditions. Students will learn to utilize literary, historical, and cultural methods in evaluating the narratives and intentions of the authors.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 228 - Ritual and Symbol 3 Credit Hours
A person’s understanding of ritual and symbol in many ways frames that person’s worldview. This course will explore the fascinating world of ritual and symbol and examine the deeper source of human imagination, which serves as a context for Christian liturgy and sacrament.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 230 - Prophets, Wisdom, and the End of Time 3 Credit Hours
How is it all going to end? Humans have always wrestled the problem of evil, why good people suffer, and when better days might be in view. This course looks at many of the texts in the Bible that engage these questions. Students get to learn about the authors, their historical and cultural background, and how their texts came to be so influential in ancient times, throughout history, and up to today. Texts covered will include Amos, Isaiah, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Book of the Watchers, Daniel, Job, Ecclesiastes, and Revelation, among others.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 231 - Freedom in Paul’s Letters 3 Credit Hours
This course will provide an overview of the concepts of freedom and social responsibility as conveyed in Paul’s letters (especially his four major letters) in both historical contexts of antiquity and their usage in Western politics, from the medieval to modern periods. Great attention is given to the concepts of freedom and divine favor in Roman religion as the background for Paul’s audiences. Interpretive reading, critical thinking, and discussion will be major components, in addition to written interpretation assignments.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 232 - New Testament II: Acts, Paul, and Other Writings 3 Credit Hours
This course examines the development of the Christian community and its beliefs following the Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament. Major attention will be given to the Acts of the Apostles, the letters of Paul, the pastoral epistles, and the “Catholic” epistles.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 233 - Bad Girls of the Bible 3 Credit Hours
Devious, disobedient, manipulative, and mean. Temptresses, harlots, and queens hiring hit men. This course will offer an exploration of the “bad” girls of the Bible, examining the moral, theological, and societal perceptions of these girls as “bad” in the Bible and tradition, and the ways in which the stories of these women, and their struggles with good and evil, are stories of hope and redemption.
Listed also as SWG 233
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 234 - God and Gangs: Redeeming the Streets and the Sacred 3 Credit Hours
For many Latin@s, gang-life is a forced reality that often functions as alternative communities of not only family life but also divine life. For Latino and Latina gangs, brotherhood and sisterhood function as a unified body-much like the body of Christ. The understanding of community and relationality is not unlike that of the church body. The language, rules, rituals, symbols, and structures of gang life parallel that of church doctrines and liturgy. When Latinos and Latinas join gangs, they are “blessed in,” learning the necessity of communal life, faithfulness, and service to one another. In their “new communal life” Latin@s invoke the protection of God, the Virgin Mary, and the saints-the sacred is alive in gang life. This course will explore the complexities of Latin@ gang life to determine what, if anything, is disclosed about the mystery of God and how this understanding may lead towards the redemption of the streets, and the sacred.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 235 - Flawed Families of the Bible 3 Credit Hours
Violence, infidelity, incest, infertility, sibling rivalry-in the Bible? This course offers an exploration of the messiness of family life in the Bible, in particular the ways in which biblical stories of God’s relationship with broken, messed-up families are stories of love and forgiveness, of redemption and hope.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 236 - Our Lady of Guadalupe: Mother of a New Creation 3 Credit Hours
In 1999 John Paul II proclaimed Our Lady of Guadalupe as the Patroness of the Americas. Since her apparition on Mount Tepeyac in December 1531, Our Lady of Guadalupe has been at the heart of the Mexican and Mexican-American people. This course critically examines the Guadalupe tradition historically and theologically from its origins down to the present day. Speaking Spanish is not a requirement to take this course.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology and multicultural studies.
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THEO 237 - Forgiveness and Reconciliation 3 Credit Hours
Human beings get hurt and hurt others. Consequently, they face the question of whether to forgive and reconcile. But what is forgiveness and reconciliation exactly? This class will explore the means of both, look at the Roman Catholic sacrament of reconciliation, and consider extraordinary acts of forgiveness along with the real struggles associated with it. This course will be taught through the lens of Christianity and will examine the spirituality of forgiveness.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 238 - Latin@ Spirituality: The Origins, Roots, and Contemporary Experience of a People 3 Credit Hours
This course provides an in-depth exploration into the spirituality of Latinos and Latinas living in the United States. With the understanding that Latin@ spirituality varies between and within faith communities, this course will particularly focus on the origins, development, and contemporary experience of Roman Catholic Mexican-American spirituality with special attention to the theological character and implications of that spirituality. We will examine the roots and origins of this perspective through history, literature, cultural anthropology, biblical studies. Additionally, this course will aid the discovery and exploration of one’s own spirituality, whatever one’s cultural and theological starting point might be.
Listed also as LLAS 238
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 239 - Latin@ Religious Experience and Theology 3 Credit Hours
This course will engage the Latin@ religious experience. With an understanding that these experiences vary greatly between and within communities, this course will mainly focus upon Roman Catholic perspectives of these experiences but will be open to the variety of perspectives and experiences of Latin@s. The course will examine these perspectives through histories, literature, the Bible, works of mercy and justice, and social institutions. Through this course participants will gain perspectives of the Latin@ religious experience then respect, engage, and critically analyze these perspectives theologically.
Listed also as LLAS 239 and SWG 239 .
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 240 - Current Issues Facing the Church 3 Credit Hours
Drawing on biblical and other sources (Vatican II documents, individual theologians, etc.), this course examines theologically the nature, structure, and mission of the Church and helps students develop a sound and compelling vision of the Church today.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 241 - Introduction to Liberation Theology 3 Credit Hours
Liberation Theology, with its origins in Latin America, has essentially come to represent all those who find themselves on the “underside” of history-the often-silent victims of institutional oppression, violence, injustice, and inequality that dominate the world in which we live. Liberation theology is inherently identified in the oppressed experiences of the poor and marginalized who seek liberation from conditions of suffering, oppression, and death. This introductory course will discuss the many strands of liberation theology from different global contexts. The focus of the course will be on liberation theology’s tenets, sources, contexts, methods, and its challenge(s) to the theological discipline. Questions such as (i) What is liberation theology? (ii) Where does liberation theology come from? (iii) Who does liberation theology? (iv) Why is liberation theology important to the church and the world? and (v) How do traditional theologians and critics respond to it? will be explored throughout the semester.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 242 - The Mystery of Evil in Religion and Literature 3 Credit Hours
The enigma (mystery, problem) of suffering and evil has been expressed historically through various mythologies: tragedy, original sin, alienation, etc. This course will take an in-depth look at these several themes from the perspective both of religion and of literature.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 243 - Ethics and Literature 3 Credit Hours
Literature documents the stories of what it means to be human, while ethics explores how to live a fulfilled life. This course will examine how an ethics-focused approach to literature will help us to understand ways to live in healthy relationships with nature, with those around us, and with our entire global community. We will address religious and non-religious literary texts from diverse voices through the lenses of various ethical theories.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 244 - Circling around God: The Mystery of the Divine 3 Credit Hours
Deep within the human spirit, there is a profound need to make meaning and find significance. This course will expose students to some of the most significant thinking found in great theological works. We shall look at the Tao Te Ching, the Baghavad Gita, some poetry from Basho, Rumi, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, along with a selection of Catholic writers, and end our exploration with Martel’s Life of Pi. For us, the driving question throughout the class will be how do we cultivate our spiritual imagination and what stories are we willing to believe.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 246 - Giver of Life: The Holy Spirit 3 Credit Hours
This course will explore the scriptural, theological, and ministerial dimensions of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit as the animating principle of the Church, both globally and locally, and the matrix of the spiritual life of individual persons and communities. According to Christian belief and experience, the Holy Spirit is the most accessible and immediately operative of the three persons of the divine tri-unity, yet remains the least recognized and studied, despite important ramifications in scripture scholarship, systematics, and pastoral theology, not least in regard to women’s studies, liberation theology, and spirituality. Topics will include the Hebrew and Jewish experience of God as spirit, the teachings of Jesus on the Holy Spirit, the belief and experience of the early Christian community, the Holy Spirit as the feminine face of God, the Holy Spirit as ground of prayer and religious experience, the “new age” as the era of the Holy Spirit, charismatic manifestations, the eschatological role of the Spirit, and the pastoral implications of the Holy Spirit for ministry.
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THEO 247 - Christianity and Slavery: Redemption through Resistance 3 Credit Hours
The practice of slavery, both with its ancient origins and its stubborn persistence today, raises deep and often disturbing questions for theology and theologians. How, for instance, could Christianity so long condone and even justify the enslavement of fellow human beings, and yet also fuel the fires of abolitionist movements, change the hearts of slave traders, and bring meaning and hope to those enslaved? How are slavery and release from slavery related to such theologically challenging topics as understandings of the human; sin, grace, and redemption; the problem of evil; and the hope for an eternally joyful life? Through examination of scripture and other readings, film, and song (“spirituals”), this course pursues questions of this kind. While the major focus is the Christian tradition, brief comparisons with Islamic attitudes towards slavery will highlight the interreligious and truly global extent of this profound theological problem.
Listed also as BWS 247
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology and multicultural studies.
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THEO 252 - Sacraments in the Catholic Tradition 3 Credit Hours
An in-depth consideration of the history and theology of the Catholic sacramental system. Special emphasis on how and why the sacraments developed, how they assumed their contemporary form, and their relation to Catholic life and thought. Attention is also given to the general concepts of sacramentality, ritual, and symbol.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 253 - Abuelita Theology 3 Credit Hours
This course explores Abuelita (grandmother) theology as part of contemporary U.S. Latinx theological discourse. It focuses on the figure and role of the abuela or grandma/women’s wisdom and voices as a metaphor to critically reflect theologically; the wisdom and voice of the abuelas represent the narratives, historias del corazón (stories of the heart), attitudes, practices and devotions that have shaped identity and memoria histórica (historical memory) of particular communities. In addition, students will reflect on their own lived experiences, social contexts, and faith traditions as critical in theological reflection and action. This course will offer practical theological components or experiential learning as part of the curriculum.
Listed also as SWG 253
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 254 - Latina Theology and Spirituality 3 Credit Hours
This course will depart from the reflection of Lo Cotidiano (the everyday life) as a primary source for U.S. Latinx theology and spirituality. Students will dialogue with the voices of contemporary Latinas doing theology as a response to the particularities of their comunidades (communities). In addition, students will reflect on their own lived experiences, social contexts, and faith traditions as critical in theological reflection and action. This course will offer a practical theological component as part of the learning experience.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 255 - The Mystery of Death 3 Credit Hours
Why do we die? What is death? How should we respond to death? This course considers such questions from various theological perspectives. Special attention is given to ethical issues surrounding death, as well as such topics as grief and concepts of an afterlife.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 256 - Marriage and Family Life 3 Credit Hours
Everyone, in some way, has been formed by marriage and family life. Using texts, articles, movies and projects, we will integrate the tradition of the Catholic Church, the culture, and the students’ lived experience to think critically about marriage and family life. The theology of marriage, rooted in scripture, will provide a starting point for exploration. We will look at communication and conflict resolution, faith development, and ritual within this most critical sphere of life.
Listed also as SWG 256 .
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 257 - Women and Religion 3 Credit Hours
In this course, we will focus our attention on Christian, Jewish, and Muslim women in the United States. More specifically, we will look at how the religious experiences and imaginations of these women have been shaped by the cultures, theologies, and practices of their various religious traditions within the socio-historical context of American life. Conversely, we will look at how particular individuals and groups of women in the United States have contributed to the development and transformation of religious, social, and cultural life, beliefs, and practices both within and beyond their particular religious institutions.
Listed also as SWG 257 .
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 259 - Prayer and Spirituality en Lo Cotidiano 3 Credit Hours
This course explores Christian spirituality en lo cotidiano (of the everyday life) as a critical source for U.S. Latinx theology and spirituality. Students will have the opportunity to critically learn and reflect about religious and spiritual practices, attitudes, devotions, rituals and symbols that have shaped Christian communities and life. In addition, students will reflect on their own lived experiences, social contexts, and faith traditions as critical in theological reflection and action. This course will offer practical theological components or experiential learning as part of the curriculum.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 262 - Mary Magdalene Revealed 3 Credit Hours
The subject of controversy, debate, scholarship, legend, and popular fiction, the figure of Mary Magdalene is puzzling and mysterious. Variously described as a repentant sinner, a prostitute, a saint, the Apostle to the Apostles, the founder of Christianity, the Holy Grail, and the companion/wife of Jesus, no other person in scripture has intrigued our imaginations the way that the Magdalene has. Is Mary a role model for women today? What can we learn about Christian discipleship from her? What do we actually know about her relationship with Jesus? In Mary Magdalene Revealed, we will explore this enigmatic woman as she appears in the canonical scriptures, the gnostic gospels, historical traditions, and the legends associated with her. We will also examine the historical and cultural context of her 1st century world, as well as the theologies that influenced the various roles ascribed to Mary Magdalene through the centuries
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 263 - Health and Healing: Medicine, Religion, and Spirituality 3 Credit Hours
This course explores the historical and contemporary interface between medicine and religion with an emphasis on the origin and development of the nursing tradition, especially its impact on the revival of spirituality in the late 20th century. Tracing the path of wellness from its origins in Greek, Chinese, and Indian cultures, as well as the distinctive approach of Judaism and early Christianity, students will investigate the development of healing practices in the medical traditions of medieval monasticism, Islamic medical schools in Spain and North Africa, and the rediscovery of holistic medicine in recent times. Topics will include studies of longevity, alternative health care, fitness and exercise, diet and nutritional studies, pain management, and the role of emotion in regard to personal and social health.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 264 - The Ways of War and Peace in Christianity and Islam 3 Credit Hours
It is sometimes said that the way we think about war tests all our thinking. With attention to the past, and mindful of momentous challenges today, this course examines the various and often-conflicting ways in which Christians and Muslims have regarded theologically not only war but also peace. Topics to be explored include sources for theologies of war and peace (the Bible, the Quran, and other key texts), “holy war” jihad, “just war,” and approaches to nonviolence within the two traditions.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology and multicultural studies.
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THEO 268 - Theology and Horror Fiction 3 Credit Hours
This course will explore how modern horror fiction engages and reflects themes and that are found in the biblical and Christian theological traditions, such as the human condition, the problem of mortality, good and evil, social justice, war, gender, and the role of nature. Using literary and theological methods, the course will look at specific traditional examples, such as the Books of Genesis and Revelation, before focusing on modern horror fiction, such as I Am Legend, Frankenstein, The Monstromologist, The Walking Dead, World War Z, and The Shining (among others).
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 272 - Spirituality and Mysticism in World Religions 3 Credit Hours
A study of the tradition of mysticism in the major world religions. Using the Catholic mystical traditions as a paradigm, we will compare parallel mystical paths in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Similarities and differences among these several mystical “paths” will provide the basis for our analysis of these traditions.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 273 - Great Women Mystics 3 Credit Hours
This course explores the lives, activity, and writings of outstanding Christian women whose reforming impact on the Church continues to inspire and guide Christians and non-Christians today. Although primary concern will focus on Hildegard of Bingen, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Joan of Arc, and Teresa of Avila, other important figures of past ages and recent times will be considered as well, including artists, writers, and political leaders.
Listed also as SWG 273 .
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 276 - Christianity and Capitalism 3 Credit Hours
This course will explore the relationship between capitalism and religion. We will attempt to provide answers to questions such as: 1) What is capitalism? 2) What role did Christianity and other world religions play in the historical development of the capitalist system? 3) How do markets impact religious decision making? 4) What (if any) was the role of state-sponsored religion in the history of capitalism? 5) What do ethics and theology say about how we should act in markets?
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 277 - African-American Religious Experience and Theology 3 Credit Hours
Beginning with African roots and attentive to historical and cultural factors, this course examines the varieties of religious experience and theology distinctive of the African-American community.
Listed also as BWS 277 .
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 278 - Religions of the Book: Judaism, Christianity, Islam 3 Credit Hours
This course explores the three great monotheistic religions that claim descent from Abraham. Sharing many of the same beliefs and traditions, Jews, Christians, and Muslims also differ theologically and politically. What are the common bonds that tie them together and the forces that create conflict and mistrust both within and among these faiths?
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 281 - Dominican Saints and Mystics 3 Credit Hours
From the beginning, Dominican spirituality has ranged characteristically and widely between the poles of contemplative prayer and prophetic action. Inspired by a visionary love of Truth, the friar and sister preachers employed the liberal and fine arts, the sciences, law, politics, and nursing as well as direct evangelization to proclaim and manifest the Word. This course will explore the major paths and personalities that continue to fund Dominican prayer and work today in the light of the social, natural, and spiritual challenges facing the order and the Church of tomorrow.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 283 - Godflix: Theology and Ethics in Film and TV 3 Credit Hours
Film and television can be a powerful and often subtle vehicles for exploring profound, and often perplexing, theological and ethical questions and themes. Through discussion of selections from film and television, with matching readings, this course will examine such topics as sin, grace, and redemption; the problem of evil; beauty and the transcendent; justice and mercy; and the “end times.”
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 284 - Cosmology and Theology: God, the Universe, and Everything 3 Credit Hours
How did we get here and where are we going? Cosmology studies the origin, nature, structure, and evolution of the universe in the deepest and broadest sense. This course will survey the cosmological notions of the ancient world, the dominant Christian version of the Middle Ages, the Copernican and Newtonian reformulations, and the major transformations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, leading to today’s rapidly developing field in the wake of space exploration and the advent of powerful new telescopes. Some questions to be explored: How did the universe begin? How will it end? What is the place of life in cosmic evolution? Are we alone in the universe or is it teeming with life? Can astronomers and physicists believe in God? What does the doctrine of creation actually mean? What are the theological implications of finding intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? Can humanity find a home elsewhere in the galaxy?
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 299 - Community-Based Learning 1 Lab Hours
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor
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THEO 310 - Jesus the Christ 3 Credit Hours
Jesus of Nazareth is the most famous name in history. But what do Christians mean when they call Jesus “the Christ”? Through scriptural, historical, and theological perspectives, students will explore current research on the historical Jesus, Christian reflection on Jesus’ person and work, and contemporary Christological models of Jesus (e.g. liberation, feminist). Among questions and issues that will be considered are Jesus’ self-understanding and the contemporary perception of him by his disciples and opponents; the development of Christological doctrine by the first generation of post-Resurrection Christians, specifically the evangelists and St. Paul; the development of later doctrines and dogmas during the patristic and imperial period; medieval and later developments; and the meaning of Jesus for women and men today.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 312 - Mystics and Gender 3 Credit Hours
Across religions, mystics transgress normal religious boundaries in order to have a direct experience of the ultimate. The field of gender studies examines the social construction of sex and gender roles and norms, questioning their normatively and naturalization. In this course, mysticism and gender studies will be used to inform and interrogate each other, as we seek to understand the mechanisms for challenging existing structures of power, received notions of goodness and orthodoxy, and transcendent truth claims.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 320 - Theological Ethics 3 Credit Hours
How ought one live? The Catholic tradition has a particularly rich and often controversial legacy of reflection on moral matters. This course will introduce the student to the theological sources and methods of that tradition in dialogue with other traditions and currents of thought. Topics include biblical roots of moral reflection and action, discipleship, moral norms, conscience, the virtues, natural law, and the role of church authority in the changing life of the individual and community.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or consent of instructor.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 322 - Jesus and the Gospels 3 Credit Hours
Each of the four Gospels paints a distinctive portrait of the person of Jesus, his origins, life and teaching, death and resurrection. This introduction to New Testament writings offers the student an opportunity to understand each gospel writer’s perspective while critically assessing the information about the historical Jesus of Nazareth and the formation of the early Church.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Honors program.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 325 - The 1.2%: Words of Women in the Bible 3 Credit Hours
Women speak around 14,000 words in the Bible, or 1.2% of all the words written in the Bible. This course will make a close study of the words of these ancient women of faith, as recorded by ancient men of faith, and handed down to us in Sacred Scripture. Who were these women? What did they say? Why does it matter? And how do they continue to speak to us today?
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Honors program.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 340 - Dreams 3 Credit Hours
From ancient times in both East and West to modern scientific research, sleep and dreaming involve distinctive elements unique to each person which express an overall response to life. Significant sleep routines and patterns of dream symbols are also shared with others in respect to age, gender, personality types, and in the broadest sense with everyone. Recent discoveries in medicine and science have also shown that the meditative process of dream-work has important therapeutic, re-creative, and developmental potential.
This course will explore the significance and value of dream interpretation for contemporary spirituality from a holistic perspective, that is, in respect to the life of the whole person considered as a unity of body, mind, and spirit in constant interaction with the natural and social environment.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Honors program.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 343 - Freud, Jung, and Religion 3 Credit Hours
What do psychologists have to say about religion? Is it a crutch, the “obsessional neurosis of humanity”? Is God an illusion of the weak? Or is religion good for us, and location in the presence of the divine essential for human well-being? This course will focus on the psychologies of religion espoused by Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung, and will consider some of the challenges that their theories present to Christian theology.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or consent of instructor.
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THEO 354 - Great Christian Thinkers 3 Credit Hours
This course provides an opportunity to reach up to and engage the minds of outstanding figures in the Christian tradition. The focus may be the writings of a single figure (e.g., Origen, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, Karl Barth, Karl Rahner, or Gustavo Gutierrez) or the engagement of two or more theologians in dialogue, often on a single problem or theme (e.g., sin and grace, eschatology, revelation, ethics, biblical interpretation, or religious pluralism).
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or consent of instructor.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 358 - Buddhist-Christian Dialogue 3 Credit Hours
Religions have always interacted with each other, but in modern times, explicit and intentional dialogue and cooperation has become more widespread and sustained. This course explores some key reasons for, approaches to, issues within, and outcomes of 20th and 21st century Buddhist-Christian interchange and reflection. Emphasis will be on Catholic Christianity and a variety of Buddhist traditions. Different types of dialogue will be studied, including those involving comparisons of key religious and theological ideas, sharing of spiritual practices, and collaborations intended to build more just societies through cooperative social engagement.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology and multicultural studies.
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THEO 360 - Religion and Politics 3 Credit Hours
Whether the context has been the fall of the Roman Empire, European expansion into the New World, the rise of Nazism, or recent responses to terrorism, the Christian theological tradition has included diverse and often conflicting views. This course explores theologically such topics as understandings of social order, politics, and eschatology, the uses of coercion, and the quest to identify a people’s “common good”.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 362 - Environmental Theology: Ecology in Crisis 3 Credit Hours
Global warming, habitat destruction, species extinction, and attempts to respond to these and other ecological crises raise profound theological and ethical issues. This course explores the religious understanding of nature as “creation,” the biblical tradition of “covenant” and “stewardship” as ecological partnership, theological interpretations of human interaction with nature, and the rise of environmental ethics and activism.
Listed also as ENVS 362 .
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Honors program.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 368 - Biomedical and Health Care Ethics 3 Credit Hours
This course takes up a number of key ethical issues that emerge from contemporary developments in both biomedicine and health care. The theological dimensions, particularly the Catholic ethical approach to these issues, will receive special attention.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or consent of instructor.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 373 - Christian Spirituality 3 Credit Hours
This course considers Christian spirituality holistically, with attention to its biblical foundations, major traditions, and schools. Students will explore elements of religious experience, stages of spiritual development, and the role of prayer and meditation in human life. Contemporary issues and applications will be emphasized, including the priority of the body, social action, lay spirituality, and spiritual guidance.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or consent of instructor.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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THEO 384 - Special Topics in Theology 3 Credit Hours
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THEO 450 - Independent Study 2-4 Credit Hours
This course is intended for advanced students working in consultation with an instructor on a topic not covered in available courses. This course may not be used to satisfy the theology core area requirement.
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THEO 455 - Internship 1-8 Credit Hours
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THEO 485 - Senior Project or Portfolio 3 Credit Hours
In order to help students synthesize and advance what they have learned in the course of their studies, all graduating seniors who major in theology are required to complete a research project or compile an integrative portfolio. Completion of this course includes a formal presentation on the project or portfolio to the Department of Theology.
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TRAN 101 - Introduction to Translation and Interpretation Studies 3 Credit Hours
This course introduces students to the theory and practice of translation. The first part of the course is devoted to the study of the history and methodologies derived from the art and craft of translation, providing students with new ways of interpreting a variety of texts. The second part of the course focuses on the actual process of translating. Special attention is paid to the structural differences among languages; the significance of tone and style; the author’s voice and the translator’s positionality; the on-going problems of fidelity, literalness, freedom, imitation, analogy; and the limitations of cultural and textual translatability.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 /CRWS 101 and either SPAN 202 , SPAN 231 , FREN 202 , ITAL 202 , or documented placement-exam results above the 202/231 level; or consent of instructor.
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TRAN 201 - Professional Translation and Localization: The Legal, Medical, Business, and Education Fields. 3 Credit Hours
Students will practice the fundamentals of translation in a variety of fields: legal, medical, business, education, and other domains as determined by the professor. The course will include translation and interpretation techniques, supervised practice, and ethical use of new technologies that aid in the translation process as well as a community-based learning experience or some professional project component meant to give students practice in finding employment with translation responsibilities in each student’s area and language of expertise.
Prerequisite(s): TRAN 101 and either SPAN 301 , FREN 302 , or ITAL 300 ; or consent of instructor.
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TRAN 299 - Translation and Interpretation: Community-based Learning 1-3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to introduce and involve students in active translation/interpreting tasks within specific community field settings, under the supervision of program faculty, ideally related to the student’s professional track. Collaboration with the Office of Community Based-Learning will be required and facilitated by the professor. The overall purpose is to ensure that students have a professional opportunity in which they are active in translation/interpreting tasks, as well as have other learning activities related to the general work context of translation/interpreting, (e.g. attending, conferences, an agency visit, interpreter-assisted court proceedings, shadowing in health care settings etc.) The program will also facilitate finding and sharing with students internship and community-based openings as possible, however students are encouraged to seek opportunities that best fit their specific and individual goals.
Prerequisite(s): TRAN 101 and either ENGL 310, ENGL 316, ENGL 317, ENGL 322, ENGL 326, or ENGL 359 ; or consent of instructor.
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TRAN 455 - Translation and Interpretation Internship 1-3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to introduce and involve students in active translation/interpreting tasks within specific community field settings, under the supervision of program faculty, ideally related to the student’s professional track. Collaboration with Career Services will be required and facilitated by the professor. The overall purpose is to ensure that students have a professional opportunity in which they are active in translation/interpreting tasks, as well as have other learning activities related to the general work context of translation/interpreting, (e.g. attending, conferences, an agency visit, interpreter-assisted court proceedings, shadowing in health care settings etc.) The program will also facilitate finding and sharing with students internship and community-based openings as possible, however students are encouraged to seek opportunities that best fit their specific and individual goals.
Prerequisite(s): TRAN 101 and either ENGL 310, ENGL 316, ENGL 317, ENGL 322, ENGL 326, or ENGL 359 ; or consent of instructor.
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TRAN 480 - Translation and Interpretation Capstone 3 Credit Hours
Translation capstone gives students an opportunity to organize and complete their professional translation portfolio and complete other assignments in preparation for professional work. They will execute a large-scale project connected to their chosen tract, guided by affiliated faculty advisors. Students will be advised from TRAN 101 to prepare for this course, knowing they are expected to develop and evidence professional skills as part of completing the minor. Some of these are project management, speed translation, efficient and ethical use of machine translation, as well as familiarity with other new technologies. The portfolio will be completed with the goal of presenting it at the URSCI expo in the spring semester of the student’s final year, when possible.
Prerequisite(s): TRAN 101 , TRAN 201 , and either TRAN 299 or TRAN 455 .
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TRAN 501 - Introduction to Translation and Interpretation 3 Credit Hours
This course introduces students to the theory and practice of translation. The first part of the course is devoted to the study of the history and methodologies derived from the art and craft of translation, providing students with new ways of interpreting a variety of texts. The second part of the course focuses on the actual process of translating. Special attention is paid to the structural differences among languages; the significance of tone and style; the author’s voice and the translator’s positionality; the on-going problems of fidelity, literalness, freedom, imitation, analogy; and the limitations of cultural and textual translatability.
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TRAN 502 - Professional Translation and Localization: The Legal, Medical, Business, Education Fields 3 Credit Hours
Students will practice the fundamentals of translation in a variety of fields: legal, medical, business, education, and other domains as determined by the professor. The course will include translation and interpretation techniques, supervised practice, and ethical use of new technologies that aid in the translation process as well as a community-based learning experience or some professional project component meant to give students practice in finding employment with translation responsibilities in each student’s area and language of expertise.
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TRAN 555 - Translation Capstone 3 Credit Hours
Translation Capstone is designed for students to create their professional translation portfolio working on a large-scale project connected to their chosen tract and guided by affiliated faculty advisors. Students will be guided from Translation 501 to prepare for this course knowing they are expected to develop professional skills as part of the minor. Some of these are project management, speed translation, efficient, ethical use of machine translation and familiarity with other new technologies. The portfolio will be executed with the aim of presenting it at the GURSCI expo in the Spring semester of the student’s final year.
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TRAN 599 - Translation Internship or Study Abroad Variable Credit Hours
This course is designed to introduce and involve students in active translation/interpreting tasks within specific field settings and under the supervision of faculty associated with the program and to the student’s professional track. Collaboration with Career Services, the Office of Community Based-Learning is required. The overall purpose is to ensure that students have a professional opportunity in which they are active in translation/interpreting tasks, as well as have other learning activities related to the general work context of translation/interpreting, (e.g. attending, conferences, an agency visit, interpreter-assisted court proceedings, shadowing in health care settings etc.) The program will facilitate finding and sharing with students all internship and community-based openings as possible, however students are encouraged to seek opportunities that best fit their specific and individual needs.
In lieu of TRAN 599, students may travel abroad with a Study Abroad program connected to one of the student’s languages of expertise. Students who decide to study abroad to gain credits towards the Translation and Interpretation Studies minor will need to complete assignments or take courses related to the field of Translation and Interpretation Studies while outside of the United States.
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WII 350 - Inside Washington: Politics, and Policy 3 Credit Hours
A part of the Inside Washington internship program, this course is designed to maximize the student’s knowledge about American politics in general and what actually goes on inside Washington in particular. It is seminar-centered, supplemented with on-site working visits, and covers substantive institutions of American politics such as Congress, the presidency, and the courts. The constitutional framework of America’s democracy is also analyzed with particular focus on the roles and interactions of America’s democratic institutions and its political players within the Washington political theater. In addition, the seminar discusses the roles of political parties, interest groups, and issues such as civil rights and civil liberties within the context of the war on terrorism and the constitutionality of the powers of federal government agencies.
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WII 351 - International and Foreign Policy Studies 3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to help prepare the student in the International and Foreign Policy Studies internship program for professional leadership in American foreign affairs through experience and knowledge of both the American and the international policy-making system/process and its intellectual foundation. The “policy” element of this course will focus on the fact that the United States is in a uniquely strong and in many ways dominant position in world politics, economics, and defense/military prowess today. Thus, while it is important to understand other regions, this course will emphasize U.S. policy, including what it is and discussion of what it should be, i.e., how the United States should utilize this level of national power never before seen in human history. The “practice” element of the course will focus on how U.S. foreign policy is made, implemented, and influenced, and how the neophyte in the field can enter it and move toward ultimate leadership.
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WII 352 - Environmental and Sustainability Policy Studies 3 Credit Hours
In this course, students in the Environmental and Sustainability Policy Studies internship program will examine a number of the major complex environmental issues of our times. Students will be given an introduction to the policies, the players, and the institutions that shape federal environmental decision making. This class will examine how U.S. environmental policy is really made, who and what influences policy, and the scope and breadth of some of the policies. International community and global concerns will also be examined.
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WII 353 - Global Women’s Leadership Development 3 Credit Hours
This course will study key issues facing women around the world and in the United States. Whether considering issues such as women’s health, gender and family, human rights, women in war, human trafficking, or economic entrepreneurship and micro-lending, you will have the chance to critically assess case studies in this intensive seminar. Be a part of shaping opportunities for women in the world well into the 21st century.
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WII 355 - Internship Seminar: Leadership and Professional Development 3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to help WII students reflect on and examine the role of the individual in complex organizations by applying theories of experiential education, cognitive and social development, and organizational development to the experiences gained in their Washington internships. Students reflect critically on their working environment through an analysis of social relationships and the dynamics of working in a professional setting. Field-based exercises are combined with lectures, discussions, readings, and written assignments in which students analyze the internship experience.
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WII 357 - Inside Washington Internship 6-8 Credit Hours
The Inside Washington internship program welcomes all majors and allows students the greatest variety in choosing the internship that best fits their interests. Internships focus mainly on U.S. organizations and institutions in media, advocacy organizations, government agencies, and the elective branches of the federal government.
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WII 358 - International and Foreign Policy Internship 6-8 Credit Hours
The International and Foreign Policy internship program gives students the opportunity to intern and do substantive work at a host of international organizations, including foreign embassies, nongovernmental organizations, or the U.S. Department of State.
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WII 359 - Environmental and Sustainability Internship 6-8 Credit Hours
The Environmental and Sustainability internship program is geared toward students from environmental policy and studies backgrounds. Students intern with public and private environmental organizations.
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WII 360 - Global Women’s Leadership Internship 6-8 Credit Hours
The Global Women’s Leadership Internship program gives students the opportunity to intern and do substantive, hands-on work in the nation’s capital with an international non-governmental organization, women’s political or legal advocacy group, a corporation, a government agency, or a policy organization.
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