Goucher College 2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalogue 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
Goucher College 2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.

CPEC 203 - From Crusades to Witch Hunts: Histories of Religious Violence (4 Cr.)

(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course examines moments of religious tension, discrimination, and violence from the medieval period to present day. A major goal of the course is to uncover the ways in which religious belief and practice have shaped specific cultures at different times, and how differences in such beliefs reached beyond spiritual concerns to influence politics, economies, and other social developments. The course therefore illustrates how religious belief and practice are essential components of individual and communal identities. By exploring the lives of past groups of different classes, races, and religions, students will learn how to analyze these experiences historically; they will then apply these skills to examine contemporary examples of religious violence. Restricted to first-year through junior students and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester.