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 Department:    PHIL

 Course #:    140

 Credits:    5

 Variable:     No

 IUs:    5

 CIP:    380101

 EPC:    n/a

 REV:    2019

 Course Description  

Philosophical exploration of the nature of religion, the nature of the ultimate (God), and the meaning of religious concepts (faith, revelation, religious experience, immortality).

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: Completed ENGL& 101 with a grade of 2.0 or higher.

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 55

Lab: 0

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 0

Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Academic Humanities  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. become familiar with philosophic and religious language
2. identify methods of evaluating comparative religious experience
3. apply axiology to the study of religion
4. recognize and articulate diverse ways of making sense of religious experience

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2008 and affects outlines for 2008 year 1 and later.

Course Contents

1. methodologies of comparative religion
2. the nature of deities: Hinduism
3. religious practices: Hinduism
4. enlightenment: Buddhism
5. religious experience: Buddhism
6. process religion: Taoism
7. connectivity: Primal Religions
8. the unitary deity: Islam
9. Prayer: Islam & Judaism
10. Immortality: Christianity