Current Special Topics Course Offerings
Each semester, we offer special topics courses that are designed by our faculty to innovate and engage students with new subject matter.
Theology and Religious Studies special topics courses are numbered THRS 203 and/or 394.
Current Special Topics Courses
THRS 394
Christian Spirituality
Section 02 (CRN: 2268), MW 4-5:20 p.m., 3 units
Section 03 (CRN: 2348), MW 5:30-6:50 p.m., 3 units
Peter Bennett
This course is an exploration of diverse Christian spiritual traditions and an introduction to the methods of the theological sub-discipline of Christian Spirituality. It is designed to help students deepen their knowledge of the nature of growth in light of the Christian spiritual tradition and the factors which both help and hinder its development. It hopes to provide a context in which students can reflect profitably on their personal experience, including religious and spiritual experience. The course will explore the three movements of the Christian spiritual life: to our innermost selves, to our fellow human beings, and to God. Particular attention will be given to such topics as images of God, Christian self-image, methods of prayer, discerning life-choices, growth in Christian freedom, and the integration of solitude and community, contemplation and action. By the end of the course, successful students will be able to identify, analyze, and engage a variety of Christian spiritual traditions and practices and will have the tools to think critically about their own spiritual practices.
THRS 394
Comparative Mysticism
Section 01 (CRN: 1870), MW 2:30-3:50 p.m., 3 units
Louis Komjathy
THRS 394
Women in Buddhism
Section 06 (CRN: 4483), TR 5:30-6:50 p.m., 3 units
Karma Lekshe Tsomo
THRS 394
Womanist Theology
Section 07 (CRN: 4693), TR 7-8:20 p.m., 3 units
Michele Watkins
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
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