Spring 2027

Exploring Religion and Sexuality

Introductory course examining how religious traditions imagine, interrogate, and regulate sexuality, focusing on Ancient Mediterranean religions like Greeks, Romans, Rabbinic Jews, and early Christians.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2020: 3.54 GPA, 82.4% A/AB (n=85 letter grades); Spring 2022: 3.07 GPA, 51.6% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2025: 2.95 GPA, 36.4% A/AB (n=22 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Outline religious literacy, particularly as it relates to sexuality and religion in the ancient Mediterranean.

  • Analyze some of the diversity of ways in which religion both reflects and shapes human communities.

  • Summarize some classic and current theories in the academic study of religion.

  • Apply these theories to a variety of religious expressions related to sexuality developed in ancient Mediterranean communities.

  • Express complex ideas around religion and sexuality in the humanities and social sciences and in thoughtful human discourse generally.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2020: 3.54 GPA, 82.4% A/AB (n=85 letter grades); Spring 2022: 3.07 GPA, 51.6% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2025: 2.95 GPA, 36.4% A/AB (n=22 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Religion and sexuality in religious traditions
  • Ancient Mediterranean religions: Greeks, Romans, Rabbinic Jews, and early Christians
  • Theories in the academic study of religion
  • Religion's role in reflecting and shaping human communities

Skills

  • Summarize classic and current theories in the academic study of religion.
  • Apply religious studies theories to religious expressions related to sexuality in ancient Mediterranean communities.
  • Express complex ideas around religion and sexuality in humanities and social science discourse.

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Dataset & model

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