CHECK OUT THE RELIGION DEPARTMENT’S FALL 2015 COURSE OFFERINGS!

Fall 2015 Course Offerings

Introductory Level Undergraduate Courses

RELS 1010 Religious Dimensions of Life (Foley)

RELS 1102 Introduction to the Bible (Carter, Gibbons, Emanuel)

RELS 1202 Christian Belief and Thought (Ahr, Clark)

RELS 1302 Introduction to Catholic Theology/Vision (Deacon Frank)

Crosslisted with CAST 1302

RELS 1402 Religions of the World (Aburaya, Webb, Parikh)

RELS 1502 Contemporary Moral Issues (Fr. Holmes, Gibbons, Esposito)

RELS 1503 Christian Ethics (Choi, Dunn, Baechle)

Upper Level Undergraduate Courses

RELS 2160 Women in the Biblical Tradition (Conway)

Cross listed with WMST 2160/ARCH 1250

RELS 2221 Early Christian Thought (Baechle)

Crosslisted with CORE 3765

RELS 2223 Modern Christian Thought (Sciglitano)

Crosslisted with CAST 2223/CORE 3723

RELS 2415 Introduction to Islam (Aburaya)

RELS 2513 War, Peace, and Theological Ethics (Choi)

Crosslisted with CORE 3758

RELS 3220 Religion in the U.S.: Meetinghouse to Megachurch

(Rzeznik)

Crosslisted with HIST 3386/CORE 3426

RELS 3434 Women, Gender, and Islam (Webb)

Crosslisted with WMST 3318

RELS 3480 Encountering Other Religions (Rabbi Brill)

Crosslisted with JCST 7544/CORE 3470

RELS 3491 Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity in Dialogue

(Parikh)

RELS 3523 Jewish Ethics (Rabbi Brill)

Crosslisted with JCST 7570

RELS 3594 Environmental Theology (Carter)

Crosslisted with ENVL 3052

RELS 3993 Internship in Catholic Studies (Murzaku)

Crosslisted with CAST 3891

Graduate Level Courses in Jewish-Christian Studies

JCST 6001 Christian-Jewish Encounter (Fr. Frizzell)

JCST 6005 Readings in Hebrew Bible I (Fr. Frizzell)

JCST 6014 Lessons from the Holocaust (Fr. Bossman)

JCST 6017 Jewish-Christian Social Service (Fr. Bossman)

JCST 7035         Jewish Roots of Christian Spirituality (Fr. Frizzell)

JCST 7544 Judaism and Other Religions (Rabbi Brill)

Crosslisted with RELS 3480/CORE 3470

JCST 7570 Jewish Ethics (Rabbi Brill)

Crosslisted with RELS 3523

Dr. Brad Gregory, a distinguished historian at Notre University, will deliver a lecture at Seton Hall titled “Buying In: The Makings of Modern Consumerism in the Reformation Era.”  This event is scheduled for Wednesday, March 25, 5pm, Jubilee Auditorium.  This lecture is sponsored by the University Core Curriculum, and is co-sponsored by the Department of Religion. For more information please go to https://www.shu.edu/news/article/505451#.VRHHUkKRs6A

The Departments of Religion, English, and Political Science, and the Environmental Studies Program, will be sponsoring a lecture titled “Social Justice, Sustainability,  and Stewardship:  Bringing the Sabbatical Year  Beyond the Bible.”  This lecture will be given by Rabbi Carie Carter of the Park Slope Jewish Center in Brooklyn, New York (it is a conservative Jewish synagogue).  The date of the lecture is Tuesday, March 17 (St. Patrick’s Day), 4pm, in the Chancellor’s Suite, University Center.

This lecture focuses on how the Sabbath year, as described in the Hebrew Bible, may extend to issues of environmental justice and sustainability.  For more information, please go to http://www.shu.edu/news/article/503939#.VQHe022XRA4