The Designated Emphasis in the Study of Religion (DESR) is pleased to announce the fall 2022 courses that count towards the core and elective requirements for the DE. These courses reflect the interdisciplinary breadth of the DESR, with core and elective options in Buddhist Studies, French, Hebrew, History, History of Art, Italian, Rhetoric, and Scandinavian.
For more information on fall courses, full course descriptions, and the curricular requirements of the DESR, please visit our courses page.
FALL 2022 CORE COURSES
Histories of the Study of Religion (STRELIG 201)
- HISTORY 280B/285B | Methods in the History of Religion | Jonathan Sheehan
FALL 2022 ELECTIVE COURSES
- BUDDSTD C220 | Seminar in Buddhism and Buddhist Texts
- BUDDSTD/JAPAN C225 | Readings in Japanese Buddhist Texts | Mark Blum
- BUDDSTD/CHINESE C223 | Readings in Chinese Buddhist Texts | Xingyi Wang
- FRENCH 251 | Francophone Literature: The Violence of History in the Colonial and Contemporary Maghreb | Thoraya S. Tlatli
- FRENCH/ITALIAN/SPANISH C203 | Comparative Studies in Roman Literatures and Cultures: Word, Image, Visuality in Romance Literature and Art | Henrike Christiane Lange
- HEBREW 202A | Advanced Late Antique Hebrew Texts | Daniel Boyarin
- HISTART 192D | Visualization: Medieval and Early Modern / Renaissance Europe | Henrike Christiane Lange
- HISTORY 280M | Colonialism, Racism, and Resistance | Ussama Makdisi
- ITALIAN 235 | Decolonizing the Republic of Letters: Literature and Violence from Columbus to Vico | Diego Pirillo
- JEWISH 120 | Jewish Folktales Around the World: Past and Present, Self and Other | Sarah Frances Levin
- JEWISH 123 | Islam in Israel: Religious and Socio-Cultural Identity Dilemmas of the Arab-Muslim Minority in Israel | Muhammad Al-Atawneh
- LEGALST 190 | Gender, Religion, and Law: The Case of Israel | Masua Sagiv
- RHETOR 200 | Classical Rhetorical Theory and Practice | James I. Porter
- SCANDIN 220 | Early Scandinavian Literature: Eddic Books | Katherine Sarah Heslop