1999-2000 Undergraduate Calendar Programs | 1999-2000 Undergraduate Calendar Programs |
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| 1999 - 2000 UNDERGRADUATE CALENDAR | ||
| Carleton University |
Telephone: 520-2100
Fax: 520-3962
Co-ordinator, Joseph G. Ramisch
Supervisor of Graduate Studies, Joseph G. Ramisch
Undergraduate Supervisor, Eugene Rothman
Professors
John P. Dourley, B.A., L.Ph., S.T.L., M.Th. (Ottawa), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Fordham) • S.G. Wilson, B.A., Ph.D. (Durham)
Leonard T. Librande, B.A. (St. Louis), M.A. (Syracuse), Ph.D. (McGill) • Joseph G. Ramisch, B.A. (St. Mary's), M.A., Ph.D. (Catholic University of America) • Eugene Rothman, B.A. (Jerusalem), M.A. (Columbia), Ph.D. (London)
Noel A. Salmond, B.F.A., (Nova Scotia), M.A. (Concordia)
H.V. Dehejia • A.R. Gualtieri
The general purpose of courses offered in this Discipline is to promote a sensitive and intellectually mature understanding of the basic ideas and concerns of outstanding religious leaders and movements irrespective of whether these coincide or conflict with individual convictions. Religious writings are studied critically, in an attempt to understand their meaning, to grapple with their problems and to assess their significance both in their original cultural context and for our own situation.
Students who elect Religion as their B.A. (Honours) or B.A. subject will consult with their respective adviser before registration each year.
In order to graduate, students must fulfill all University graduation regulations (see p. 48), all Faculty regulations including those for First Year Seminars and Breadth requirements (see p. 63), in addition to all Major regulations and requirements as set out below.
B.A. (Honours) in Religion
The Honours program requires 10.0 credits in Religion:
1. 34.100*, 34.101*, and 34.125*
2. 34.331*
3. 34.480* and 34.498
4. 5.5 additional credits in Religion, 2.0 credits of which must be at the 300-level or above.
Courses must be selected in consultation with the Undergraduate Adviser.
The Combined Honours program requires 7.0 credits in Religion:
1. 34.100*, 34.101*, and 34.125*
2. 34.331*
3. 34.480* and 34.499 (1.0 credit Honours Essay).
4. An additional 1.0 credit at the 300-level or above.
Courses must be selected in consultation with the Undergraduate Adviser.
Combined Honours in Philosophy and Religion
Philosophy: At least 7.0 credits including:
1. an introductory course or equivalent;
2. 6.0 credits beyond the 100-level including:
(a) 2.0 credits in history of philosophy;
(b) Philosophy 32.260, or if taken already as Religion 34.260 or if not available, 1.0 credit in philosophical problems, selected in consultation with the Honours Adviser;
(c) 1.0 credit at the 400-level.
Religion: Requirements are those listed above for the Combined Honours program.
A B.A. program requires 6.0 credits in Religion, including 34.100*, 34.101*, and 34.125*, 34.331* and an additional 1.0 credit at the 300-level or above.
Courses must be selected in consultation with the Undergraduate Adviser.
Students majoring in Religion who include as part of their requirements the following courses in Jewish Studies are eligible for the notation of Concentration in Jewish Studies:
34.226*, 34.258*, 34.271*, 34.278, 34.355*, and one of 34.257* or 34.259*.
A Minor in Religion requires 4.0 credits in Religion, including 1.0 credit at the 100-level and at least 1.0 credit at the 300-level or above.
Courses must be selected in consultation with the Undergraduate Advisor.
| Category for Breadth | Courses in this unit |
| The temporal dimension of human societies, analyzing times before the present era or societies other than our own |
(34.) 100*, 101*, 258*, 206*, 212*, 227*, 230*, 370, 271*, 278, 380, 323, 378* |
| The artifacts of the imagination in literature and/or other forms, or that addresses the life of the imagination and culture. |
(34.)257*, 259*, 203*, 226*, 238*, 272*, 303*, 304*, 305*, 328, 330 |
| The understanding of social, technological and/or natural processes and the ways in which that understanding is obtained in science and social science. | (34.)125*, 222, 243, 260, 266* |
| Matters of human values, ethics and social responsibilities |
Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for 1999-2000, please consult the Registration Instructions and Class Schedule booklet published in the summer.
Modern enquiries into the nature of religion from various perspectives such as anthropology, history, psychology, sociology and theology. Different myths, symbols, scriptures, doctrines, codes and rituals of religious traditions are examined. Limited enrolment.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.125, 34.125* or 34.202.
Prerequisite: Normally restricted to students entering the First year of a B.A. program.
Seminar three hours a week.
A survey of the basic beliefs and practices of these major religious traditions from their beginnings to the present.
Lecture three hours a week.
A survey of the basic beliefs and practices of these major religious traditions from their beginnings to the present.
Lecture three hours a week.
Modern enquiries into the nature of religion from various perspectives such as anthropology, history, psychology, sociology and theology. Different myths, symbols, scriptures, doctrines, codes and rituals of religious traditions.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.125 or 34.202.
Lecture three hours a week.
The variety of religious experiences and their interpretations: myth, literature, art and religious doctrine. Topics include time, self, the Other, journey and wisdom. Examples ranging from shamanistic experience to the abstractions of Buddhist philosophy.
Lectures three hours a week.
An examination of the status of women in Christianity, including such themes as images of women and gender roles in churches, recent feminist theologies, practical questions such as inclusive language and the ordination of women, and alternative approaches to Christian spirituality.
Lecture three hours a week.
An introduction to the basic beliefs, myths and symbols, methods of meditation and ethical principles developed in the main branches of the Hindu tradition. The study includes a survey of movements stemming from the Hindu tradition such as Transcendental Meditation and Krishna Consciousness.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.105*.
Lecture three hours a week.
A historical survey of the formation of the Hindu scriptures, the development of basic philosophic concepts and the establishment of the Shiva, Vishnu and Goddess traditions. Discussions of Hindu practices of meditation and presentations of Hindu religious art are included.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Lecture two hours a week.
A study of selected topics in Graeco-Roman religion, such as Homeric religion, chthonic cults, the Sophists, astrology, ruler cults, mystery religions and gnosticism.
Lecture three hours a week.
An introduction to the basic beliefs and practices of the Buddhist tradition and a brief survey of its development and transformations in India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Tibet, China and Japan.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.106*.
Lecture three hours a week.
An introduction to the psychology of religion, which examines the major contributions of psychology to the study of religion, religious experience, and the religious personality through various individuals and schools such as those of James, Freud, Jung, Fromm, Erickson and Maslow.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.112*and 34.122.
Lecture three hours a week.
An introduction to the history of Judaism and the Jews as seen through biblical
and non-biblical sources. Special emphasis is placed on the evolution of leadership,
community, and institutions as the Hebrews move from tribal to national identity.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.102* and 34.120.
Lecture three hours a week.
The rise of the Christian movement as revealed in the New Testament and other early evidence. Topics will include the Hellenistic and Jewish context, Jesus, Paul, Jewish Christianity, the Johannine writings, feminist and sociological approaches to the early church.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.103* and 34.120.
Lecture three hours a week.
The history, literature and thought of early Christianity. The first term will concentrate on the New Testament and its background, the second on subsequent developments that led to the Christianization of the Roman Empire.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.103* and 34.227*.
Lectures three hours per week.
A historical and functional study of mystical experience in its religious context, relying on examples from selected traditions such as the Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.230.
Lecture three hours a week.
Contents of this course may vary from year to year.
Lecture three hours a week.
The nature of religious ethics, both the explicit moral principles and rules of various religious traditions, and the general moral perspectives. A selection of contemporary moral issues examined in depth.
Prerequisite: Other Religion course or permission of the Department.
Lecture three hours a week.
Contents of this course vary from year to year.
Lecture three hours a week.
The meaning of death and afterlife in some religious traditions and secular philosophies with emphasis on the Hindu teaching of the immortal soul; the Hebraic idea of collective survival; the Christian doctrine of resurrection of the body; the Buddhist conception of no-soul and nirvana.
Lecture three hours a week.
Cross-cultural survey of religious institutions, with attention to theories and methodologies in the study of religion. Topics include myth, totemism, cults, ritual, altered states of consciousness, and the relationship of religion to other social institutions and processes. (Also listed as Sociology-Anthropology 56.243.)
Prerequisite: One of Sociology 53.100, Anthropology 54.100, Sociology-Anthropology 56.100 or equivalent, or permission of the Department.
Lecture three hours a week.
The range of Christian thought and history from the time of Jesus to the present.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.107*.
Lecture three hours a week.
The history of Judaism and the Jewish people from the Second Temple until the present day. The organization, basic beliefs, social and ethical practices of the Jews and Judaism.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.108*.
Lecture three hours a week.
An introduction to the Muslim religious tradition and investigation of its organization, basic beliefs, social and ethical principles and practices.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.109*.
Lecture three hours a week.
A philosophical examination of some characteristic concepts of religion, such as faith, hope, worship, revelation, miracle, God. (Also listed as Philosophy 32.261*.)
Prerequisite: A course in Philosophy or Second-year standing.
Lecture three hours a week.
A study of the history of Judaism and the Jewish people from the Maccabees to the Rabbinic Age. Attention is given to the rise of sectarian movements (Pharisees, Saducees and Qumran Covenanters), the rise of Christianity, revolutionaries such as the Zealots and Bar Kochba, the Jewish responses to Hellenism, the reshaping of Judaism after the destruction of the Second Temple, and Rabbinic Judaism in Palestine and the Diaspora.
Lecture two hours a week.
An examination of Islam in the last two hundred years, including the nature of the Islamic resurgence and the new forms of Islamic vitality.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.274.
Lecture three hours a week.
The history of the development of the civilization and culture of the Middle East from 1798 to the present with special emphasis on the mutual discovery of East and West, the search for identity, the impact of colonialism and international rivalry, and social, religious and cultural change within a continuing tradition. (Also listed as History 24.278.)
Lecture two hours a week.
The course examines Tillich's conception of God as Ground of Being and Depth of Reason, drawing on selections from his essays, lesser works and Systematic Theology.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.306.
Lecture three hours a week.
The course examines Teilhard's correlation of a Christian with an evolutionary
perspective from his early writings (First World War)
through to his late synoptic essays.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.306.
Lecture three hours a week.
The course examines Jung's major statements in the Collected Works about the psychogenesis of religion and the implications this has for the understanding of humanity as religious.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.306.
Lecture three hours a week.
Contents of this course vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: One course in Buddhism.
Lecture three hours a week.
Descriptive and critical analysis of perspectives on women, sex, and gender in selected religious traditions. Contents of this course may vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or higher.
Lecture three hours a week.
A systematic study of the available records of the life of Jesus. Lectures, readings and discussions on the historical context of the life of Jesus and on the milieu within which the records developed.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.225.
Lecture three hours a week.
Paul's relation to the Old Testament, Rabbinic Judaism, and Hellenism; the mission to the Gentiles; the "mysticism" of Paul; central ideas such as justification by faith, predestination, the Holy Spirit, the Church. Consideration of the situation and message of each of Paul's writings.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or higher.
Lecture three hours a week.
Examination of selected theoretical and methodological models used in the interpretation of religious data. Contents of this course vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or higher.
Lecture two hours a week.
Selected problems in the study of the Christian religion.
Prerequisite: One course in Religion.
Lecture three hours a week.
Contents of this course may vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or higher.
Lecture three hours a week.
Contents of this course vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or higher.
Lecture three hours a week.
Contents of this course vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or higher.
Lecture three hours a week.
Topic for 1999-2000: Modern Israel. Examination of modern Israel, its origins, state, society and culture. Special emphasis is placed on Israel's different ethnic, cultural and religious communities, and their relationships with communities and states outside the country.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or higher.
Seminar three hours a week.
Discussion of religiously significant texts from the works of William James, Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.265*.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or permission of the Discipline.
Lecture three hours a week.
An examination of developmental, experimental, humanistic and existential theories in psychology as these shed light on religious thought, behaviour and institutions.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.266*.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or permission of the Discipline.
Lecture three hours a week.
Historical and cultural development of selected aspects of Christian thought from its origins to the modern period. Cultural shifts, doctrines of God and Christ, the church as an institution; conciliarism and reform; the Protestant Reformation and its aftermath.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.270.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Lecture three hours a week.
A history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations of the sixteenth century, with special emphasis on the theological disputes of the protagonists and the impact of these disputes on the social, political and cultural developments of the era. (Also listed as History 24.378*.)
Prerequisite: A 200-level History course.
Lecture three hours a week.
An examination of the major currents and developments of religious and philosophical thought among Protestants and Catholics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Protestant developments are traced from the Kantian critique to the present and Catholic thought from its response to the French Revolution up to and beyond Vatican II.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.280.
Prerequisite: One course in Religion or Philosophy.
Lecture three hours a week.
A course conducted on a tutorial or seminar basis designed to enable advanced students to pursue interests in selected areas of religion.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Discipline.
Tutorial/seminar three hours a week.
A course conducted on a tutorial or seminar basis designed to enable advanced students to pursue interests in selected areas of religion.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Discipline.
Tutorial/seminar three hours a week.
A seminar on a topic in religious studies. The topic will vary from year to year. Topic for 1999-2000: Theories of the Psychogenesis of Religious and Mystical Experience in James, Freud, and Jung. The course will examine Jung's appropriation of certain Christian mystics: the Beguines, Meister Eckhart, Jacob Boehme and their influence on aspects of German idealism, especially Hegel.
Prerequisite: Third-year standing in B.A. (Honours) or Combined B.A. (Honours) in Religion.
Seminar three hours a week.
A tutorial on a topic in religious studies. Contents of the tutorial to be arranged with the supervising faculty member.
Prerequisite: Third-year standing in B.A. (Honours) or Combined B.A. (Honours) in Religion.
A written proposal in consultation with a Program Director, consisting of title, outline and bibliography must be submitted to and approved by the Honours Essay Proposal Board. The essay of approximately 16,000 words, is jointly evaluated on its completion by the Departmental Director and one other member of the department.
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.499. (Consult Departmental Document for further details.)
Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in Religion and permission of the Discipline.
Seminar three hours a week.
A written proposal in consultation with a Program Director, consisting of title, outline and bibliography must be submitted to and approved by the Honours Essay Proposal Board. The essay of approximately 10,000 words, is jointly evaluated on its completion by the Departmental Director and one other member of the department. (1.0 credit)
Precludes additional credit for Religion 34.498. (Consult Departmental Document for further details.)
Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in Combined Honours in Religion and permission of the Discipline.
Seminar three hours a week.
• Language Courses
Language courses are intended for students specializing in a particular religious tradition. They are offered according to the availability of members of the Discipline. Courses taken at the 200-level or above will be mainly independent study under the supervision of a member of the Discipline. Students interested in taking these courses should consult the Co-ordinator.
Elementary study of the language required for studying a religious tradition. Restricted to students registered in a Religion program.
Tutorial two hours a week.
Intermediate study of the language required for studying a religious tradition. Restricted to students registered in a Religion program.
Prerequisite: Religion 34.192 or permission of the Discipline.
Tutorial two hours a week.
Advanced study of the language required for studying a religious tradition. Restricted to students registered in a Religion program.
Prerequisite: Religion 34.292 or permission of the Discipline.
Tutorial two hours a week.