CHRISTIANITY: INTERPRETATION AND PRACTICE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss and write in the common language and themes of Christianity. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze theological texts, connect texts to contexts and practices, and make scholarly comparison of texts and their interpretations. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Articulate how Christian interpretation is a dynamic process as evidenced in Christian texts and local examples of Christian communal practice. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Participate in fruitful, academically-informed discussion of difficult and often passionately debated theological ideas. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Articulate how Christianity functions as a complex, global religion in the variety and continuity of its interpretation and practice. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss and write in the common language and themes of Christianity. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze theological texts, connect texts to contexts and practices, and make scholarly comparison of texts and their interpretations. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Articulate how Christian interpretation is a dynamic process as evidenced in Christian texts and local examples of Christian communal practice. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Participate in fruitful, academically-informed discussion of difficult and often passionately debated theological ideas. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Articulate how Christianity functions as a complex, global religion in the variety and continuity of its interpretation and practice. Audience: Undergraduate