Fall 2026 Class Schedule
| Course | Title | Instructor | Day/Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| REL 101-7-20 | First-Year Writing Seminar: The Incredibly True Adventures of Horse Girls | Taylor | TTH 11-12:20PM | |
REL 101-7-20 First-Year Writing Seminar: The Incredibly True Adventures of Horse Girls | ||||
| REL 170-20 | Introduction to the Study of Religion | Bielo | TTH 11-12:20PM | |
REL 170-20 Introduction to the Study of Religion(Fall 2026, Professor James Bielo) This course will guide students through a series of case studies that highlight the practical, ethical, and material dimensions of religions around the world. These case studies dramatize how religions are lived with and against the grain of established doctrine, so that students will gain a richer understanding of the ways religious customs have shaped the world around them. The course also serves to introduce students to the basic methods scholars employ to study religion, including history, ethnography, textual analysis, ritual theory, phenomenology, and comparison—tools through which students will formulate their own accounts of religious phenomena. | ||||
| REL 230-20 / JWSH-ST 230-0-1 | Introduction to Judaism | Wimpfheimer | MWF 10-10:50am | |
REL 230-20 / JWSH-ST 230-0-1 Introduction to JudaismThis course attempts to answer the questions "What is Judaism?" and "Who is a Jew?" by surveying the broad arc of Jewish history, reviewing the practices and beliefs that have defined and continue to define Judaism as a religion, sampling the vast treasure of Jewish literatures, and analyzing the unique social conditions that have made the cultural experience of Jewishness so significant. The class will employ a historical structure to trace the evolutions of Jewish literature, religion, and culture through the ages. | ||||
| REL 250-20 | Introduction to Islam | Hamid | MW 12:30-1:50PM | |
REL 250-20 Introduction to Islam(Fall 2026, Professor Usman Hamid) | ||||
| REL 261-20 | Cultivating Environmental Consciousness | McClish | TTH 9:30-10:50am | |
REL 261-20 Cultivating Environmental ConsciousnessThis course is an experimental, constructive, student-led inquiry into the idea of environmental consciousness, a term recently used by philosopher Michael Bonnett to posit an intrinsic relationship between consciousness and nature. He argues that education should be ecologized by aiming to help students develop environmental consciousness as a responsive receptivity to nature. In this course we will explore the idea of environmental consciousness by developing and carrying out nature-based practices meant to help us understand its feasibility as a basis for education. Students will collectively design, undertake, and assess these practices. In doing so we will reflect on our relationship with nature and the environment, the goals of education, conceptions of learning and assessment, the putative distinction between the secular and religious, and the relationship between educational practices and climate catastrophe. | ||||
| REL 278-20 / AMER-ST 310-0-10 | Religion and the Arts | Bielo | TTH 2-3:20PM | |
REL 278-20 / AMER-ST 310-0-10 Religion and the Arts(Fall 2026, Professor James Bielo) | ||||
| REL 318-20 | Buddhist Literature in Translation | Terrone | TTH 3:30-4:50PM | |
REL 318-20 Buddhist Literature in Translation | ||||
| REL 360-20 | Race, Religion, & Digital Humanities | KB Dennis Meade | MW 11-12:20PM | |
REL 360-20 Race, Religion, & Digital Humanities(Fall 2026, Professor KB Dennis Meade)
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| REL 371-20 | Religion, Film, TV: The Spirit of Horses (RHM, MTJR) | Taylor | F 12-2:30PM | |
REL 371-20 Religion, Film, TV: The Spirit of Horses (RHM, MTJR)(Fall 2026, Professor Sarah Taylor) | ||||
| REL 379-20 | Religions of the Caribbean (RLP) | KB Dennis Meade | MW 3:30-4:50PM | |
REL 379-20 Religions of the Caribbean (RLP)(Fall 2026, Prof. Dennis Meade) | ||||
| REL 379-21 / CLASSICS 370-0-1 | Comparative Sacrifice: Belief and Ritual | Elsen | MW 12:30-1:50PM | |
REL 379-21 / CLASSICS 370-0-1 Comparative Sacrifice: Belief and Ritual(Fall 2026, Sarah Eisen) | ||||
| REL 382-20 | Political Religion in the Contemporary World | Zahra Khoshk Jan | MW 2-3:20pm | |
REL 382-20 Political Religion in the Contemporary World(Fall 2026, Prof.Zahra Khoshk Jan) | ||||
| REL 471-20 / HIS 405-24 | Graduate Seminar: Embodiment, Materiality, Affect | Molina | T 3-5:30PM | |
REL 471-20 / HIS 405-24 Graduate Seminar: Embodiment, Materiality, Affect(Fall 2025, Professor Michelle Molina) | ||||
| REL 476-20 / MENA 411 | Graduate Seminar: Art of Devotion: Islam and Aesthetics | Hamid | TH 2:30-5PM | |
REL 476-20 / MENA 411 Graduate Seminar: Art of Devotion: Islam and AestheticsWhat is the relationship between aesthetics, material culture, and religious experience? In this course we explore this question by examining the aesthetic traditions of Islam, focusing on how Muslims have used literature, visual art, musical performance, and architecture as modes of religious expression and creativity. Through studying aesthetics and devotion in the Islamic tradition, we will reflect on questions of cultural appropriation and reuse, politics of representation, and the global circulation of objects, peoples, and capital. Additionally, we will consider how aesthetics might help us better understand the role of affect, senses, and embodiment in Islam. | ||||