2023-2024 BSC Catalog Updated_UG ONLY_FINAL[82]
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ACADEMIC PROGRAMS<br />
245<br />
RE 297, 397, 497 Internship in Religion (½ or 1)<br />
An internship opportunity allowing students to practice career skills and/or further<br />
develop abilities beneficial for graduate study. Specific guidelines concerning internships<br />
appear in the “Exploration Term and Contract Learning” section of this catalog.<br />
RE 298, 398, 498 Teaching Experience in Religion (½ or 1)<br />
A contracted teaching experience that requires instructor approval. Specific guidelines<br />
concerning teaching experiences appear in the “Teaching Experiences” section of this<br />
catalog.<br />
RE 300 WR Explorations in Religious Identity (1)<br />
An examination of the way that religious identity (of individuals, communities, and<br />
institutions) is created and sustained by and through religious practices, traditions, and<br />
beliefs. Possible topics include the role of food in the construction of religious identity,<br />
the tension between religious identity and modernity, and comparative religious<br />
identities. May be repeated for credit when course topic is different. A Writing<br />
Reinforcement designated course. Prerequisite: at least one unit in RE. Fall.<br />
RE 301 GP Who Is Jesus? Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon (1)<br />
An investigation of the ways that Jesus Christ has influenced and shaped culture for<br />
twenty centuries. This seminar takes the view that the person of Jesus not only influences<br />
culture but that culture continually interprets him to meet and to satisfy culture’s<br />
understanding of itself. The course begins with a review of scriptural understandings of<br />
Jesus, moves to a survey of his place in the history of culture, and concludes with an<br />
examination of a variety of ways of interpreting the cultural identity of Jesus. A Global<br />
Perspectives designated course.<br />
RE 311 CI Christian Ethics (1)<br />
An examination of the implications of Christian faith for contemporary ethical problems.<br />
A Community Interests designated course. Prerequisite: RE 201.<br />
RE 314 CI Liberation Theology (1)<br />
A study of various liberation theologies. The course will examine Christian, theological<br />
interpretations of Jesus’s life, suffering, death, and resurrection as they relate to the<br />
physical, political, financial, and spiritual liberation of a variety of peoples. A<br />
Community Interests designated course.<br />
RE 315 GP Contemporary Christian Theology (1)<br />
A survey of the thought of certain leading theologians in the twentieth century. Particular<br />
attention is given to Barth, Tillich, Bonhoeffer, the Niebuhrs, process theology, and<br />
liberation theology. A Global Perspectives designated course.<br />
RE 322 GP Sexual Ethics and Religion in Global Perspective (1)<br />
An examination of the wide diversity of ways religious traditions (especially Judaism,<br />
Christianity, and Islam) have understood, taught, and practiced sexual ethics. Attention is<br />
given to understandings of sexual ethics in religious texts and the ways those texts<br />
Birmingham-Southern College <strong>Catalog</strong> <strong>2023</strong>-<strong>2024</strong>