College of Arts and Sciences
REL 500 - Selected Topics 1-3 credit(s) Irregularly
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable
REL 551 - Ethics and the Health professions 3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Crosslisted with: PHI 593
Ethical theories in professional, organizational, and political-economic fields in health care. Specific issues: assisted suicide, professional codes, ethics of “cost- cutting” and justice with respect to care.
REL 552 - Bioethics 3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Crosslisted with: PHI 594
Use of ethical theory in thinking about case problems in health care. Moral dilemmas: use of reproductive technologies, abortion, surrogate motherhood, research with humans, refusal and withdrawal of treatment, physician-assisted suicide.
REL 557 - Modern Theology 3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
Introduction to major figures and movements in twentieth- century theology. Upper division standing.
REL 595 - Religion, Art, and Aesthetics 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Intersection between religion, art, and philosophy. Sources culled from Western religious thought and philosophy.
REL 600 - Selected Topics 1-3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable
REL 602 - Gnosticism 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Gnosticism as a structure of religious belief; as sectarian movement within “mainline” traditions of late antiquity (Judaism, Christianity, paganism); as a literary-critical perspective on religious texts and traditions in antiquity and contemporary thinking.
REL 605 - Religion and the Body in Late Antiquity 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Crosslisted with: WGS 605
History of the human body as history of its modes of construction in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Problems that arise when the body becomes a topic for religious inquiry. Readings in ancient texts and contemporary theory.
REL 607 - Ancient Religioius Rhetoric 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Rhetoric of ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean religious texts, including parts of the Bible; role of persuasion in ancient religion and its effects on literature, power, and on conceptions of knowledge and text in antiquity.
REL 611 - The Idea of Scripture 3 credit(s) Irregularly
The religious, literary, and political factors that affected the development and canonization of Jewish and Christian scriptures and shaped the idea of authoritative scripture in Western religious traditions.
REL 616 - The Torah/Pentateuch as a Scripture 3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: REL 416
How the Pentateuch became the Torah, the first Jewish scripture: its origins, rhetorical use, performance in various media, and ritual function as an iconic book. Additional work required of graduate students.
REL 619 - Ritual Theory and Religious Practice 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Crosslisted with: ANT 619
Survey and evaluation of major ritual theories, tested against a particular set of religious and cultural practices, such as those involving purification and pollutions, or holidays and festivals.
REL 621 - Teaching World Religions in Theory and Practice 3 credit(s) Irregularly
The complexities of teaching introductory courses in world religions, especially in the context of recent debates on comparison as well as the very concept of “religion.” Graduate standing.
REL 622 - Sacrifice 3 credit(s) Irregularly
An investigation of “sacrifice” as a name for ritual and non-ritual practices in contemporary and historical societies and in academic discourse about religions and cultures.
REL 625 - Pluralism in Islam 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Historical development of multiple discourses within the Muslim world. Role of Islamic texts, institutions, and contexts on intra-Islamic politics of identity, representation, and religious authority. Hybridity and syncretism of Islams in contemporary local contexts.
REL 626 - Beyond the Veil: Gender Politics in Islam 3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Crosslisted with: MES 626
Double Numbered with: REL 465
Politics of gender, religious identities, and resistance in the Islamic world. Gender scripts in Qur’anic scripture and Shariah laws. Contemporary realities of Muslim women living in different parts of the world. Additional work required of graduate students.
REL 627 - Globalization and Religion: Processes and problems 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Sophisticated works in globalization theory emerge from sociology, economics, political history, and contemporary cultural studies with broad significance for the study of religion. Bringing these into conversation with religious studies is the project of this seminar. Graduate standing.
REL 628 - Muslim Rituals, Practices, and Performances 3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
Crosslisted with: ANT 628
Historical, cultural, and sociological analysis of pan-Islamic festivals and rituals. Local, culturally-specific, unofficial practices in Islam.
REL 640 - The Philosphical Foundations of Religion 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Philosophic and religious heritage highlighted by Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, and Aquinas. Focus varies from year to year.
Repeatable
REL 642 - Critical Issues in the Study of Native Americans 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Crosslisted with: ANT 691
Methodological issues related to studies of indigenous traditions and develops interpretive strategies for using literature about Native American religions.
REL 644 - Feminist Theology 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Crosslisted with: WGS 644
Feminist theology as a global religious movement from its roots in U.S. feminism to its current political and philosophical battles.
REL 650 - Themes in 19th Century Religious Thought 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Religious thought in 19thcentury Europe and America. Themes may include God, freedom, and selfhood; Romanticism and religion; and religion, freedom, and slavery. Figures examined may include Kierkegaard, Kant, Douglass, Emerson, and others.
Repeatable 1 time(s), 6 credits maximum
REL 651 - Classics in the Sociology of Religion and Morals 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Crosslisted with: ANT 651 , SOC 651
Classical sociological writings of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber and their contemporary significance.
REL 652 - Psychoanalysis and Religious Ethics 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Psychoanalysis and its implications for religious ethics.
REL 653 - Postmodern Ethics 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Selected philosophical and religious perspectives on postmodern ethics. Readings from Rorty, Stout, Kristeva, Wyschogrod, MacIntyre, Nussbaum, and others.
REL 654 - Religious Corporealities 3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
Ways in which corporealities are shaped by and shape religious texts and traditions, philosophically and practically. Potential topics include nudity, body, flesh, skin, and sensuality, with attention to sexuality and biopolitics.
REL 656 - Christianity and the Enlightenment 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Theological responses of representative thinkers to the challenges of the new science, natural religion, Deism, and the philosophies of the European Enlightenment.
REL 658 - The Other in Ethics 3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
The significance of the Other in contemporary religious and philosophical ethics. Readings in Levinas, Lacan, Derrida, Kristeva, Critchley, Caputo.
REL 659 - Kierkegaard Seminar 3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This seminar examines a wide array of themes and issues in Kierkegaard’s religious thought which may include Kierkegaard and Romanticism; Kierkegaard on Love, God and Selfhood; Kierkegaard and Politics; Kierkegaard’s Existential Aesthetics.
Repeatable 2 time(s), 9 credits maximum
REL 660 - Continental Philosophy of Religion 3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
Crosslisted with: PHI 640
Continental philosophers such as Husseri, Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Irigaray, and Marion. Their influence on theology, religious theory. Topics include overcoming onto-theology; phenomenology, deconstruction and theology; return of religion.
Repeatable 1 time(s), 6 credits maximum
REL 661 - Self, Body, Transcendence 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Crosslisted with: WGS 661
Examines Continental and American feminist and gender theory for intersections between religion, subjectivity, and bodily practice.
REL 662 - Marx and Foucault 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Texts from Marx and Foucault are read for their implications for Religion scholars.
REL 663 - Religion and Revolution 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Texts from theology and political theory that examine their mutual terms, themes, and concerns.
REL 665 - Religion and Mass Culture 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Twentieth-century theories of mass culture are read for their use and implications for religion scholars. [Effective spring 2009]
REL 667 - Postmodern Theology 3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
Philosophical background of postmodernism and its theological and cultural expressions. Content varies.
Repeatable
REL 668 - Critical Theory in Theology 3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
Theories of discourse formation and textual production in theology in relationship to the critique of ideologies of theory.
REL 671 - Religion and Post-Freudian Depth Psychologies 3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
Contemporary psychoanalytic theories and their implications for interpreting religious phenomena: Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, D.W. Winnicott, Erick Erickson, Hans Leowald, Heinz Kohut, Christopher Bollas, and others.
REL 676 - Religion and Judaic Literature 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Crosslisted with: JSP 676
Readings in Judaic literature, with emphasis on allegorical, hasidic, neohasidic, and anti-hasidic writing by Nahman of Bratslav, Joseph Perl, I.L. Peretz, Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel, and S. Y. Agnon.
REL 686 - Zen Master Dogen 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Selected writings of the thirteenth-century Japanese Zen master dogen Zenji. Related Mahayana Buddhist texts.
REL 687 - Global Hinduism 3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
Double Numbered with: REL 487
Exploring how mobile middle-class Hindus re-create and re-define religion in new urban and global environments as a context for rethinking the place of religion(s) within rapid world-wide urbanization, migration, globalization, and increasing cultural (dis)integration. Additional work required of graduate students.
REL 689 - Memory, Culture, Religion 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Crosslisted with: ANT 689
Collective memory and constructions of the past as cultural phenomena; the roles religious identities, values, and institutions play as individuals, communities, and nations recollect particular moments, eras, crises, and localities.
REL 691 - Approaches to the Study of Religion 3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Introduction to classic texts, methods and approaches used in the field of religion and in this department. Must be enrolled in the Religion Department M.A. or Ph.D. programs.
REL 692 - Other People’s Religions 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Explores the ways that Western studies of non- Western religions have dealt with difference. Central aim is to understand the politics of knowledge and the arts of interpretation involved in research and writing about other people’s religious traditions.
REL 693 - Materiality of Religion 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Methodological issues related to the interpretation of diverse religious phenomena including architecture, the body, and land.
REL 696 - Gender and Religion: Theory and Practice 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Focus on the intertwining of gender and religion; emphasis on gendered visions of power in mythic, symbolic, and ritual phenomena. Readings in feminist and anthropological theory as well as cultural cases in ethnography and history of religions.
REL 699 - Writing Religions and Cultures: Ethnographic Practice 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Crosslisted with: ANT 699
A range of aims and strategies for writing ethnographies of religion in the multiple contexts of culture, history, and politics.
REL 719 - Research and Writing in the History and Thought of the New Testament 3-6 credit(s) Every semester
REL 739 - Research and Writing in the History and Thought of Israel 3-6 credit(s) Every semester
REL 749 - Research and Writing in Religion and Society 3-6 credit(s) Every semester
Repeatable
REL 759 - Research and Writing in Religious History and Thought 3-6 credit(s) Every semester
REL 769 - Research and Writing in Philosophy of Religion and Theology 3-6 credit(s) Every semester
Repeatable
REL 779 - Research and Writing in Religion and Culture 3-6 credit(s) Every semester
REL 789 - Research and Writing in History of Religions 3-6 credit(s) Every semester
REL 791 - Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Introduction to “classic” literature and issues in the field of religion.
REL 799 - Research and Writing in Methodology 3-6 credit(s) Every semester
REL 997 - Master’s Thesis 1-6 credit(s) Every semester
Repeatable
REL 999 - Dissertation 1-15 credit(s) Every semester
Repeatable
RUS 620 - Language Training in Preparation for Research Using Russian 3 credit(s) Every semester
Language training to prepare students to conduct research in areas that require knowledge of Russian.
Repeatable 3 time(s), 12 credits maximum
SCI 544 - Teaching of College Science 3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Current approaches. Analysis of teaching methods, such as lectures, discussions, evaluation, use of institutional technology, individualized instruction. Supervised teaching experiences to aid self-improvement as a college science teacher.
SCI 670 - Experience Credit 1-6 credit(s)
Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.
Repeatable
SCI 701 - General Science Comprehensive Paper 3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Comprehensive science paper required for the M.S. degree in general science. Topic selected by student and advisor. Given in cooperation with the various science departments.
SPA 601 - Literary Theory and Research Methods 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Reading in semiotics and research theory concerning literary texts.
SPA 620 - Language Training in Preparation for Research Using Spanish 3 credit(s)
Language training to prepare students to conduct research in areas that require knowledge of Spanish.
Repeatable 3 time(s), 12 credits maximum
SPA 635 - Spanish Phonetics and Phonology 3 credit(s)
Double Numbered with: SPA 435
Introduction to formal linguistic analysis of the Spanish sound system. Survey of dialectal variation. Additional work required of graduate students.
SPA 636 - The Structure of Spanish 3 credit(s)
Double Numbered with: SPA 436
Introduction to the formal linguistic analysis of the structure of Spanish sentences. Additional work required of graduate students.
SPA 637 - Introduction to Spanish Linguistics 3 credit(s)
Double Numbered with: SPA 437
Formal linguistic analysis of the Spanish language: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and language variation (sociolinguistics and dialectology). Taught entirely in Spanish. Additional work required of graduate students.
SPA 638 - History of the Spanish Language 3 credit(s)
Double Numbered with: SPA 438
The evolution of modern Spanish. The causes of linguistic change, the development of the phonological and morphosyntactic systems, the semantic/lexical development of the language. Additional work required of graduate students.
SPA 639 - Community Outreach: Language in Action 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Double Numbered with: SPA 439
Language immersion in the Spanish-speaking community in the Syracuse area. Emphasis on improving spoken and written Spanish through a service learning component. Additional work required of graduate students.
SPA 641 - Medieval and Golden Age Literature 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Critical reading of significant literary works drawn from the Middle Ages and the 16th and 17th centuries.
SPA 643 - Cervantes 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Don Quixote, with selections from other representative works by Cervantes.
SPA 652 - Spanish Enlightenment to Modernism: Aesthetics and Power 3 credit(s)
Through a diverse theoretical approach, analyzes the construction of the following notions: literature, nation, identity, and gender. Representations of women in literary and cinematic texts.
SPA 653 - Sinner and Saints in 19th and 20th Century Spanish Literature and Film 3 credit(s)
Crosslisted with: WGS 653
Representations of women in novel, poetry, theater, and film through diverse theoretical approaches. Issues of power, sex, hierarchy, and institution.
SPA 655 - Caribbean Spaces 3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
This course explores visions of urban imaginaries in Caribbean and U.S. Caribbean cultures. It analyzes the intersections between urban spaces and the formation of local/global subjectivities.
SPA 656 - Reality and Desire: Theater and Poetry (20th Century) 3 credit(s)
A diachronic study of the Spanish theater and poetry. Literary works will include texts by Valle-Inclán, Machado, Garcia Lorca, Aleixandre, Cernuda, Sastre, Buero Vallejo, among others.
SPA 658 - Narrative and Film in Spain (1940 to the Present) 3 credit(s)
Diachronic study of the “art of adaptation” in Spain. Exploration of the language of translation. Exchange between literature and film during and after Franco.
SPA 662 - Latin American Colonial Literature 3 credit(s)
Literature written during the Colonial period and contemporary criticism and theory about that period.
SPA 663 - Latin American Theater 3 credit(s)
Inclusive instructional strategies for students with disabilities, with particular focus on students with autism. Collaborative teaching approaches, IEP implementation, positive behavior supports, fostering communication and adaptations to access enriching curricula. Implementation during field experience. Effective Fall 2010
SPA 664 - Nineteenth Century Latin American Literature 3 credit(s)
Narratives and poetry written during the 19th century in Latin America. Analyzed in relation to literary movements such as costumbrism, romanticism, realism, naturalism, and the gaucho trend.
SPA 665 - Performance and Postmodernism in Latin America 3 credit(s)
Latin American theater written or performed from 1990 to the present alongside theories on performance and postmodernism related to Latin America and its theater.
SPA 671 - Latin American Literature and Feminist Theory 3 credit(s)
Crosslisted with: WGS 671
Includes reading and critical discussion of novels by 20th-century Latin American women writers and an introduction to feminist theory as it pertains to Latin America.
SPA 672 - Gay and Lesbian Hispanic Caribbean Literature 3 credit(s)
Caribbean poetry and fiction in homosexual literature. Includes literary theories and social, political, cultural, and religious values related to homosexuality.
SPA 673 - Afro-Hispanic Literature of the Caribbean 3 credit(s)
Evolution of the African culture within the Cuban Literature of the 20th century. The relationship of Santeria/Revolution is especially emphasized.
SPA 674 - Cuban Neo-Baroque 3 credit(s)
Analysis of three contemporary Cuban writers: Alejo Carpentier, José Lezama Lima, and Severo Sarduy. Literary theories of novel, poetry, and lectures.
SPA 678 - Latin American Literature in the New Millenium 3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
This course will trace the major developments in Latin American literature and cultural phenomena that followed the Boom, with emphasis on the production of the 21st century.
SPA 679 - The Literature of Postmodernism in Latin America 3 credit(s)
Contemporary trends in Latin-American literature.
SPA 681 - U.S. Latina/o Literature 3 credit(s)
Literary texts written by Latina/os in Spanish from the 17th century to present. Focus from late 19th century to the present; examining socio-historic, cultural and literary contexts.
SPA 685 - Contemporary Spanish-American Literature 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Precursors, modernists, and postmodernists
SPA 686 - Thinking/Writing the Nation 3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
An introduction to texts within the variety of discursive modernity models of 19th century Latin America. From Independence Era to the end of that century.
SPA 687 - Revisiting Foundational Fictions 3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
A discussion of Anderson’s Imagined Communities and Sommer’s Foundational Fictions, to determine how helpful they are today in the study and mapping of 19th century Latin American narrative texts.
SPA 690 - Independent Study 1-6 credit(s) Every semester
In-depth exploration of a problem or problems. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor or instructors and the department.
Repeatable
STT 690 - Independent Study 1-6 credit(s)
Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
Repeatable
STT 750 - Statistical Consulting 3 credit(s) Irregularly
Crosslisted with: MAT 750
Experience in working with real data taken from current projects in the statistical laboratory and from published papers.
Repeatable
SWA 620 - Language Training in Preparation for Research Using Kiswahili 3 credit(s) Every semester
Language instruction to prepare students to conduct research in areas that require knowledge of Kiswahili. Permission of instructor.
Repeatable 3 time(s), 12 credits maximum
TML 620 - Language Training in Preparation for Research Using Tamil 3 credit(s) Every semester
Crosslisted with: SAS 620
Language training to prepare students to conduct research in areas that require knowledge of Tamil.
Repeatable 3 time(s), 12 credits maximum
TRK 620 - Language Training in Preparation for Research Using Turkish 3 credit(s) Every semester
Language training to prepare students to conduct research in areas that require knowledge of Turkish.
Repeatable 3 time(s), 12 credits maximum
WGS 500 - Selected Topics 1-3 credit(s) Irregularly
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable
WGS 512 - African American Women’s History 3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
Crosslisted with: AAS 512
The intellectual, political, and social history of African American women from pre-colonial Africa to the re-emergence of black feminism in the late 20th-century United States.
WGS 513 - Toni Morrison: Black Book Seminar 3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
Crosslisted with: AAS 513
A multi-dimensional study of Morrison’s bookwork: fiction, non-fiction, and scholarship. Involves conceptual frameworks and ideas that link this project with broader understandings and interpretations of Blacks in the world. A wide range of questions (i.e., aesthetics, feminisms, knowing-politics, language, race) derives from Morrison’s literary witnessing of Black community life.
WGS 525 - Economics and Gender 3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Crosslisted with: ECN 525
Offered only in Strasbourg. European economy, with central focus on economic principles underlying decisions to create and extend scope of European Community and on economic policies EU has followed since creation.
WGS 553 - Women and Social Change 3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
Crosslisted with: ANT 553
Function of changes in women’s roles in sociocultural urbanization, revolution, and modernization. Women in Third World countries compared to women in industrialized countries.
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