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357. Catholic Traditions in the United States. Historical exploration of the U.S. Catholic
traditions, including Roman Catholicism, independent Catholicism, and other religions'
engagements with Catholicism, both friendly and hostile, through primary and secondary
texts and other media. Course themes include historiography of American Catholicism,
theories of Catholic difference, the new "Catholic Studies," "Catholicizing" the field of U.S.
religious history, and professional development. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
358. Christian Theology/Western Metaphysics. Offers an explanation of the delicate,
albeit crucial function of metaphysics in relationship to Christian theology. Also taught as
Christian Theology 385. Consent of Instructor required. Instructor: Huetter. 3 units.
360. Special Problems in Religion and Culture. Intensive investigation of the relations of
religion and modernity, using seminal contemporary texts. Topics announced each
semester. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
361. Modern Historical Study of the Prophets. With in the history of scholarship on
biblical prophecy, the late twentieth-century 'turn to the book' entailed the reevaluation of
a consensus established one hundred years earlier. By tracing the trajectory of modern
critical study of the Bible's prophetic literature, contemporary interpretive debates and
theories are contextualized and illuminated. Instructor: Chapman. 3 units.
368. Spaces, Bodies, & Narratives: Mapping Religion in Colonial India. How imperial
cartography, understood as the mapping of territories, human bodies, cultural practices, and
oral traditions, influenced mapping of religion in colonial India. Political and personal
contexts of British and Indian-authored ethnographies, folklore collections, colonial census
reports, and their impact on anthropological imagining of religion in South Asia. Instructor:
Prasad. 3 units. C-L: History 345A
369. Early Jewish Apocalypses: Daniel and 1 Enoch. Examines earliest Jewish historical
apocalypses, including Daniel, Apocalypse of Weeks, and Animal Apocalypse/Book of
Dreams of 1 Epoch. Apocalypses will be situated within religious, social, and historical
contexts of Antiochian persecution and Maccabean revolt and studied as literature of
resistance. Primary texts studied in their original languages as well as ancient and modern
translations. Instructor: Portier-Young. 3 units.
381. Destinations. 3 units. C-L: see Art History 381
391. Special Readings in Religion. Readings vary from semester to semester. Consent of
instructor required. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
396. Teaching in Religion. Course specifically designed for students in Graduate Program
in Religion. Offers students chance to engage with different faculty members on methods
and strategies concerning classroom teaching. Students will be asked to reflect on their own
classroom experience and student evaluations of their teaching. Pass/fail only. Consent of
instructor required. Instructor: Staff. 1 unit.
Romance Studies (ROMST)
Professor Longino, Chair, (205 Languages); Professors Bell, Dubois, Finucci, Garci-
Gómez, Greer, Hardt, Jameson, Kaplan, Longino, Mignolo, Moi, Stewart, and Thomas;
Associate Professors Dainotto, Rosa, Sieburth, Solterer, and Viego; Assistant Professors
Adrián, Eisner, Gabara, Milian, and Schachter; Research Professors Dorfman and Keineg;
Professor of the Practice and Director of the French Language Program Tufts; Associate
Professor of the Practice and Coordinator of the Portuguese Language Program Damasceno;
Assistant Professor of the Practice and Director of the Italian Language Program Fellin;
Assistant Professor of the Practice and Director of the Spanish Language Program Paredes
The Department of Romance Studies offers graduate work leading to the PhD in French/
Francophone Studies and Spanish/Latin American Studies; it also offers a new PhD track in
Romance Studies, including Italian and Luso-Brazilian. Related work is required in any one
or two of a number of other subject areas. A reading knowledge of one foreign language that
is outside the major language is required. (For those following the Romance Studies track,
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