Archives for November 2018

New Courses for Spring 2019

Open to all UMW students, CPR has two new courses for the spring semester! CPRD 299, Mysterium Humanum Studies: Madness, will use a multi-disciplinary set of guest lectures to explore the topic of madness. Approaches will include classics, philosophy, disability studies, religious studies, and art history, to name a few. The class meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 to 4:45 and satisfies major requirements for Classics, Philosophy, and Religious Studies majors. There are no prerequisites. RELG 231C4, Special Topics: Christianity in Africa, will survey the history of Christianity in Africa, particularly on selected regions: Egypt and sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Violet Gandiya (Ph.D. , University of Cambridge) will teach the course on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. There are no prerequisites, and the course satisfies an elective for Religious Studies majors. … [Read more...]