CATHOLIC STUDIES

University of California,
Santa Barbara


undergraduate courses in catholic studies

Last updated: 9/15/2015

Introductory Courses / Language Courses

RGST 5 Introduction to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
RGST 7 Introduction to American Religion
RGST 80 A-B-C Religion and Western Civilization
CLASS 1-3 Elementary and Intermediate Greek
CLASS 111 The New Testament
CLASS 1-3 Elementary and Intermediate Latin 
CLASS 103 Medieval Latin Readings

Core Courses

RGST 25 Global Catholicism Today (Taves)
RSST 138 Topics in Catholic Studies (Various)
RGST 138F Revelation in the Catholic Tradition (Taves)
HIST 114A-B-C-D History of Christianity

Thematic Courses

RGST xx Varieties of Mystical Experience in the Abrahamic Religions (Wolfson) 
RGST 1xx: Death, Eros, and Religious Experience: Song of Songs in the Jewish and Christian Traditions (Wolfson)
RGST 101B: Religious Experience (Taves)
RGST 101A: New Religious Movements (Taves)


Courses by Period and Area

Bible
ENG 116B Biblical Literature: The New Testament (Staff)
ENG 116BS Seminar for Biblical Literature: The New Testament (Staff)
RGST 116A The New Testament and Early Christianity (Thomas)

Ancient Studies
HIST 114A History of Christianity - Origins to 800 (Digeser)

Medieval Studies
HIST 114B History of Christianity - 800 to 1300 (Staff)
RGST 127B Christian Thought and Cultures of the Middle Ages (Carlson)
RGST xx Images of Jesus in Judaism from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Wolfson)

Renaissance-Reformation-Counter Reformation Studies
HIST 114C History of Christianity (Staff) 
HIST 122 Reformation and Counter-Reformation (Staff)
RENST 100 Studies in Renaissance Civilization (Staff)

North American Studies
RGST 151A-B American Religious History (Walker)
RGST 191A Latino Religious Thought (Busto) 
RGST 116E Evangelical Christianity in the United States (Busto) 
RGST 151C Religion in the American West (Busto, Walker)

Modernity and Modern Thought
RGST 106 Modernity and the Process of Secularization (Carlson)
RGST 2xx Mysticism and Apophasis in Meister Eckhart, Heidegger, and Derrida (Wolfson)

Related Courses by Period and Geographic Area

Ancient Studies
RGST 116C Archaeology and the Study of Religion (Thomas)
RGST 128A Religion and Spirituality in the Roman Empire (Thomas)

Medieval Studies
HIST 115 The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe, 300 to 1050 (Farmer)
HIST 116 The Civilization of the High Middle Ages 1050 to 1350 (Lansing)
HIST 118A The Crusades in Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Blumenthal)
HIST 119 The Crusades and the Near East, 1095-1291 (Humphreys)
ENG 115 Medieval Literature (Staff)
ENG 152A Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (Staff)
ENG 156 Literature of Chivalry (Staff)

Renaissance-Reformation-Counter Reformation Studies
HIST 121A Renaissance Italy, 1300-1550 (Bernstein)
HIST 121B Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 1348-1550 (Bernstein)
HIST 121C History of France from 1500-1700 (Bernstein)
HIST 140 A-B Early Modern Britain (McGee)
GER 179B Mysticism (Weber)

Latin American and Iberian Studies
LAIS 101 Interdisciplinary Approaches to the History and Societies of Latin America and Iberia (Staff)
HIST 151A-B-C Latin American History (Mendez)
HIST 155A Portugal to 1580 (Staff)
HIST 156A-B History of Mexico (Soto-Laveaga)
HIST 157A-B History of Brazil (Staff)
HIST 168A-B History of the Chicanos (Garcia)
ARTHI 130C The Arts of Spain and New Spain (Peterson)

Asian Religion and Culture
AS AM 161 Asian American Religions (Busto)
RGST 111B Religions of Mongolia (Wallace)

Methodology and Theory Courses
RGST 18 Comparing Religions (Taves)
RGST 145 Patterns in Comparative Religion (Holdrege)
RGST 211 The Ethnography of Performance (Reynolds)
ANTH 116A Myth, Ritual and Symbol (Hancock)
ANTH 116B Anthropological Approaches to Religion (Hancock)


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