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March 10, 2016 at 9:28 pm

Summer 2016 | Online Courses in Biomedical Terminology, Religion & Violence

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The Classics & World Religions Department is offering a variety of summer class, many of them online, that fill Ohio University general education requirements.

CLAS 2110 – Greek and Latin Roots in Biomedical Terminology ONLINE

Class #1560 | First Summer Session

Description: This course develops the linguistic skills that improves one’s ability to acquire, retain, and comprehend the biomedical terms that derive from Greek and Latin roots. The overview of ancient medicine helps to set the origins of many of these terms in their social and intellectual context, and it provides an introduction to basic research tools in biomedical sciences.

CLWR 1810 – Introduction to the Study of Religion

Tier II Humanities & Literature (2HL)

Class #4765 | First Summer Session

Description: What is “religion” and how do we study it? The answer may seem obvious but it’s not. In this course, we explore religious practices in multiple religious traditions and examine the relationship between religion and a range of other social factors–social class, gender, ethnicity, politics, among others. Along the way, we will also reflect on broader comparative and methodological questions posed by scholars who have studied religion from diverse perspectives (historical, psychological, phenomenological, and sociological).

LAT 1110/5010 – Beginning Latin I ONLINE

Tier II Cross-Cultural Perspectives (2CP)

Class #1564 | First Summer Session

Description: This is the first of a sequence that introduces the fundamentals of Latin grammar, syntax, and morphology. This course emphasizes reading continuous passages of Latin prose written by or adapted from ancient authors.

CLAS 2340 – Classical Mythology

Tier II Humanities & Literature (2HL)

Class #1561 | Second Summer Session

Description: This course is an introduction to classical mythology; readings and discussions of myths and their interpretations.

LAT 1120/5020 – Beginning Latin II ONLINE

Tier II Cross-Cultural Perspectives (2CP)

Class #1566 | Second Summer Session

Description: This is the second in a sequence that introduces the fundamentals of Latin grammar, syntax, and morphology. This course emphasizes reading continuous passages of Latin prose written by or adapted from ancient authors.

CLWR 3330 – Introduction to Islam

Tier II Cross-Cultural Perspectives (2CP)

Class #5676 | Second Summer Session

Description: This course introduces Islam as a religious and cultural system. Topics include pre-Islamic Arabia, the Prophet Muhammad and the first Muslims, the Qur’an and shari’a, basic ritual practices, mysticism, theology and philosophy, Shi’ism, the visual and musical arts, women, modernism, fundamentalism, and Islam in the USA. The course draws on historical, sociological, anthropological, and literary-critical approaches and utilizes a range of primary and secondary material to examine the development of Islamic religious practices and ideals as they interact with larger social and cultural processes. While we will be concerned to understand how practitioners of Islam interpret their beliefs and actions, we will also place “insider” perspectives in a broader social and historical context. Religion is a segment of culture, and thus we undertake our inquiry into Islam in the spirit of the Quranic injunction that “humanity consider from what it is created.”

CLWR 3460 – Religion and Violence ONLINE

Class #5726 | Second Summer Session

Description: This course examines religious violence by studying historical case studies from different religious traditions. Themes include divine punishments against humans, martyrdom, forced conversions, persecutions, holy wars, and the importance of religion in contemporary conflicts.

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