Nov 14, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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CARS 2510 - Difficult Dialogues: Religion, Gender and Sexuality
This course provides a space for students to dialogue productively on historically contentious topics involving religious beliefs, gender and sexuality. Students develop thoughtfulness and engagement with beliefs that are rooted in different religious or secular humanist traditions outside of their individual experiences. During the course, students draw on perspectives from intellectual and religious history, cultural analysis of religions, and contemporary religious dialogue. Students search for understanding of others whose beliefs are rooted in different religious or secular humanist traditions. Students are asked to engage in disciplined, self-critical thinking. Students draw on methods and content from intellectual and religious history, the philosophy of religions, and contemporary religious dialogue.
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to distinguish a humanistic from a social scientific or natural science approach to studying religion, gender and sexuality.
- Students will be able to identify four humanistic approaches (historical context, close-reading of texts, narrative construction, and cultural context) to religion, gender and sexuality.
- Students will be able to reflect on the historical and contemporary interaction between religion, gender, and sexuality in a variety of primary and secondary texts from a wide range of global contexts.
- Students will be able to reflect on personal views of religion, gender and sexuality in light of humanistic approaches to these themes.
- Students will be able to incorporate a humanistic reflection on religion, gender, and sexuality in their assessment of political views that are contrary to their own.
- Students will be able to use primary and secondary sources to develop complex, evidence-based arguments concerning the ways in which religion, gender and sexuality are employed in contemporary political debates.
- Students will be able to recognize and articulate the influence of their own perspective, assumptions, and cultural biases on their interpretation of religion, gender and sexuality.
- Students will be able to critically describe the role of religion and gender in contemporary political debates over reproductive technologies, abortion, and sexual education.
- Students will be able to explain the consequences of different interpretations of sacred texts for contemporary understandings of religion and sexual ethics.
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