Undergrad Seminar-Special Topics
Using a seminar format, the course undertakes an in-depth study of selected contemporary sociological issues in depth. Topics addressed represent specialized or newly emerging areas of sociological inquiry and will vary from semester to semester.
Outcomes: Students have opportunity to examine contemporary social issues in a seminar environment and learn how to use the concepts, theory and methods of sociology to examine them.
Spirituality in a Secular Age
Using a seminar format, the course undertakes an in-depth study of selected contemporary sociological issues in depth. Topics addressed represent specialized or newly emerging areas of sociological inquiry and will vary from semester to semester.
Outcomes: Students have opportunity to examine contemporary social issues in a seminar environment and learn how to use the concepts, theory and methods of sociology to examine them.
Instructor Consent Required
We'll use sociological and historical framings to understand the historical changes that shape our experience of ourselves as "spiritual beings" today, and we'll use philosophical and theological lenses to understand how describing ourselves as spiritual changes our experience of who we are, of what it's possible to imagine, and of what kinds of communities we want to belong to.
This class satisfies the Engaged Learning requirement in the Undergraduate Research category.
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