THE SABBATH

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2023 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of major forms, practices, social conditions, values, and themes that have shaped the history of the “Sabbath” in Jewish and Christian traditions, from antiquity to modernity Audience: Undergraduate 2. Discern and integrate divergent and contradictory perspectives, identify and question assumptions, and assess evidence and methods in religious studies and across disciplinary lines Audience: Undergraduate 3. Display skills in textual analysis and evaluate a range of formal and structural elements in writing Audience: Undergraduate 4. Identify and interpret the literary techniques used by Jewish and Christian writers across genres, including relevant stylistic, rhetorical, figurative, and liturgical forms used in the representation of the Sabbath Audience: Undergraduate 5. Generate original ideas and texts, experimenting and taking risks, solving problems, and answering questions in a range of media Audience: Undergraduate 6. Write original, coherent, and compelling arguments that push beyond summary to analysis and independent and critical thinking in clear prose that meets expectations for grammatical correctness Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of major forms, practices, social conditions, values, and themes that have shaped the history of the “Sabbath” in Jewish and Christian traditions, from antiquity to modernity Audience: Undergraduate 2. Discern and integrate divergent and contradictory perspectives, identify and question assumptions, and assess evidence and methods in religious studies and across disciplinary lines Audience: Undergraduate 3. Display skills in textual analysis and evaluate a range of formal and structural elements in writing Audience: Undergraduate 4. Identify and interpret the literary techniques used by Jewish and Christian writers across genres, including relevant stylistic, rhetorical, figurative, and liturgical forms used in the representation of the Sabbath Audience: Undergraduate 5. Generate original ideas and texts, experimenting and taking risks, solving problems, and answering questions in a range of media Audience: Undergraduate 6. Write original, coherent, and compelling arguments that push beyond summary to analysis and independent and critical thinking in clear prose that meets expectations for grammatical correctness Audience: Undergraduate