Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop a definition of religion that recognizes the diversity of religious traditions.
2. Compare and contrast the components of the major world religions.
3. Identify the world’s religious traditions within their global and cultural context.
4. Situate contemporary religious issues in their historical roots.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop a definition of religion that recognizes the diversity of religious traditions.
2. Identify the world’s religious traditions within their global and cultural context.
3. Critically analyze contemporary religious issues in their historical roots.
4. Communicate their critical thinking through research and writing.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop a definition of religion that recognizes the diversity of religious traditions.
2. Identify the world’s religious traditions within their global and cultural context.
3. Critically analyze contemporary religious issues in their historical roots.
4. Communicate their critical thinking through research and writing.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze how religion can presented in films;
2. Collaborate with others in critical thinking, research, and writing
3. Demonstrate knowledge of the basic terminology and concepts for the academic study of religion; demonstrate comprehension of different analytical methods that can be used in the interpretation of religion in film;
4. Evaluate how a film's use of religion reflects and/or creates worldviews;

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Engage with the complexity of relationships between religion and science using the methods and theories of religious studies.
2. Examine the form and functions of a variety of stories about religion and science that people have told themselves across different places and times.
3. Formulate research questions about religion and science and analyze the significance of these research questions for public life and academic conversations.
4. Identify some key concepts, issues, and debates going on in the study of religion and science.
5. Practice your scholarly writing and conversation skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Closely read and critically evaluate media depictions of religion
2. Describe how the advent of new media have changed religious practice
3. Recognize how news media create and shape discourses about religion
4. Write a cogent, critical analysis of news media engaging with religion

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. The instructor appointed to teach the course would set the specific learning outcomes. The Director of the School of Religion will ensure that the specific learning outcomes on the course syllabus are aligned with the general learning outcomes for the undergraduate program in Religious Studies, which are listed below.
2. Graduates of the undergraduate program in Religious Studies will have skills to; examine the historical, textual, and cultural dimensions of diverse religious traditions.
3. Articulate characteristics of religion as a cultural phenomenon in the social, political, and economic aspects of public life.
4. Employ the methods and theories used in the academic study of religion.
5. Engage in self-reflective, open, informed, and civil conversations about diverse religious traditions.
6. Conceptualize and develop arguments through careful analysis, cogent writing, effective speaking, and critical thinking.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Examine the role of psychoactive substances in religious life historically and today, with special attention to esotericism.
2. Investigate how Western medicine is secularizing sacred psychoactive substances from Indigenous traditions.
3. Identify the use of religion-related concepts in today's so-called "psychedelic renaissance," and analyze this movement itself as a "new religious movement."
4. Articulate how religious ideas (like mystical experiences or notions of salvation) have informed legal and cultural perceptions of drugs (e.g., the categorical division of drug vs. food vs. medicine; the moral and health risks connoted by discourses of addiction and abuse vs. experimentation and recreation).
5. Consider and evaluate claims that substances (e.g., psychedelics) give us access to true knowledge about the nature of reality itself (e.g., other dimensions, beings, ultimate purpose and meaning, etc.).

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze the interaction between religious and political ideologies.
2. Compare the religious/social ideas expressed in one ancient myth with those of another
3. Describe important cultural narratives/myths transmitted in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
4. Learn a method for analyzing a mythic artifact or composition.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Engage with the complexity of the historical development of the stories in the Biblical texts.
2. Cultivate skills to analyze biblical texts.
3. Examine how historical, literary, and archaeological evidence contributes to reconstructing the development of religious groups and movements in antiquity.
4. Deploy the methods and theories of religious studies.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Students will have a better basis for placing both historical and current developments in Christianity in context
2. Students will have a deepened appreciation for the complexities of history generally and of the history of Christianity in particular
3. Students will have a growing awareness of the mix of greatness and frailty found in those who have sought to be practitioners of Christianity

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Collaborate with others in critical thinking, research, and writing.
2. Describe characteristics (history, practices, beliefs, aesthetics etc.) of several New Religious Movements.
3. Formulate research questions about New Religious Movements and analyze the significance of these research questions for ongoing academic conversations.
4. Identify some key concepts, issues, and debates going on in the study of New Religious Movements today and demonstrate an understanding of how the field is composed around them.
5. Practice your scholarly writing, conversation, and presentation skills
6. Translate research-based knowledge and scholarly language on new religious movements into lay language that can inform public conversation about these topics.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Be familiar with the position of women in Hinduism
2. Be introduced to the Hindu pantheon of Gods and know their significance in Hindu religion.
3. Conduct research that develops individual interest in a topic related to Hindu religion. Understand the role of yoga past and present.
4. Know the basic content and significance of the two epics
5. Know the basic content of the 4 Vedas.
6. Understand the basic components of the Hindu religion.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop a "critical understanding" of the practice of meditation through lectures and guest lecture.
2. Examine Buddhism in its modern context by looking specifically at its transplantation to the West.
3. Learn about the history of Buddhism from its earliest origins as a religion indigenous to India.
4. Understand and assess the philosophical, social, and historical developments of Buddhism throughout Asia.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Appreciate how and why scholars produce different interpretations of or approaches to Taoism
2. Evaluate the significance of Taoism in the contemporary world according to your own reasoned criteria
3. Gain experience and confidence in basic life skills such as reading, thinking, evaluating, summarizing, presenting, arguing, etc.
4. Understand core texts, values and worldviews of Taoism, China's indigenous, organized religion, as it developed over history

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop a critical analytical frame of reference in order to be able to understand and explain religious issues in an educated manner.
2. Identify why there are different voices and manifestations of Islam;
3. Understand how historical developments take place within a religion, here, Islam;

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze the making and unmaking of Indigenous identity and spirituality by the State, the Church, the social sciences, and Human Rights to generate decolonizing processes and debates in the social and academic arenas.
2. Define the Indigenous condition in relation to coloniality and the environment.
3. Describe religious systems in ancient Indigenous cultures to explain their syncretism with mainstream world religions in the colonial encounter.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Engage with Confucian philosophy and history and explore the ways in which it can dialogue with and content contemporary Western notions of philosophy, psychology, and spirituality, and so forth.
2. Formulate research questions about religious traditions and seek out new modes of inquiry into older material.
3. Identify the key ideas, practices, and people in the history of Confucianism.
4. Investigate the ways in which the Confucian tradition challenges and enriches our understanding of "religion" and examine the various ways the term has been employed across spatial and temporal locales.
5. Practice academic reading, writing, research, and critical thinking.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate how religion has animated a whole host of social and political movements through history and in different contexts.
2. Demonstrate skills in research, writing, and critical thinking.
3. Describe the ways in which religion and politics, to take one example, are often more intertwined than we generally recognize.
4. Develop a deeper understanding of the historical and cultural aspects of some of the events students may be reading in the news.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Collaborate with others in critical thinking, research, and writing.
2. Critically read source texts.
3. Distinguish between course-relevant terms (eg. Judaism, secularism, midrash, orthodoxy, and so on).
4. Extrapolate from textual evidence to try and understand and interpret cultural practices.
5. Practice your scholarly writing skills (including grammar, punctuation, structure, and referencing).

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Be conversant with major religious perspectives, both historical and contemporary, on the human/nature relationship.
2. Critically analyze current environmental issues.
3. Evaluate what the various cultural traditions of the world say about human responsibility toward the environment.
4. Gain familiarity with key concepts and terms in the field of religion and ecology.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate a knowledge of key theories, ideas and concepts surrounding the historical and contemporary study of religion and sexuality.
2. Evaluate various methods of interpreting the relationship between religion and sexuality from a comparative perspective.
3. Further develop reading, writing and research skills.
4. Identify and explain key strategies that scholars utilize to study religion and sexuality.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply some of the course readings to theorize your own experiences with magic, witchcraft, and the supernatural in popular culture and explain them in relation to social forces.
2. Assess your own academic development and form your own learning goals.
3. Collaborate with others in critical thinking, research, and writing
4. Identify some key concepts, issues, and debates going on in the study of magic, witchcraft, and the supernatural today and demonstrate an understanding of how the field is composed around them.
5. Practice your scholarly writing, conversation, and presentation skills.
6. Translate research-based knowledge and scholarly language about magic, witchcraft, and the supernatural into lay language that can inform public conversation about these topics

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically analyze the philosophical, religious and moral challenges posed by the teaching of various hero myths
2. Demonstrate a knowledge of key theories, ideas, and concepts surrounding the historical and contemporary study of mythology
3. Evaluate various methods of interpreting mythology from a comparative perspective
4. Further develop reading, writing, and research skills.
5. Identify and explain key strategies that scholars utilize to study mythology

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate a knowledge of key theories, ideas and concepts surrounding the historical and contemporary study of mysticism.
2. Evaluate various methods of interpreting mystical experience from a comparative perspective.
3. Further develop reading, writing and research skills.
4. Identify and explain key strategies that scholars utilize to study mysticism.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the character and cultural practices referred to by the broad categories “shaman” and “shamanism” in Indigenous contexts.
2. Describe the shaman’s relationship with humans and non-humans, and list the traditional knowledges associated with them.
3. Analyze in what ways shamanic practices and utterances produce symbolic and material effects.
4. Understand the concept of “shamanism” as a colonial tool imposed onto Indigenous subjects.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply ethical theories to a range of contemporary social issues of moral concern
2. Describe the central ideas of major ethical theories from religious, philosophical, and indigenous perspectives
3. Practice religious studies-specific critical thinking, reading, writing, and speaking and mindful listening skills.
4. Recognize and critically reflect on your own and others' assumptions (and biases) on the morality of disputed moral issues

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the theological questions the Holocaust initiated for both Judaism and Christianity, including issues of chosenness, theodicy, and the nature of evil.
2. Analyze the religious context of the Holocaust, especially concerning religious sentiments, teachings, and attitudes that may have contributed to or been influenced by it.
3. Compare the range of Jewish religious, philosophical, and cultural responses to the Holocaust, including the challenges to traditional beliefs and the evolution of post-Holocaust theology.
4. Communicate the moral and ethical dilemmas faced during the Holocaust and their implications for modern discussions of ethics in both religious and secular contexts.
5. Demonstrate effective critical reading skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate how the experiences of Muslims in Canada may be historically, theologically, regionally, and transnationally informed. Begin to develop religious studies-specific critical writing, reading, and thinking skills.
2. Differentiate and model how a religious studies' student approaches the study of Muslim communities, as opposed to how media, insiders, or others may discuss Islam or Muslims.
3. Recognize some of the historical and contemporary developments of Islam in Canada.
4. Think carefully about your positionality and own bias to the subject content at hand.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate characteristics of religion as a cultural phenomenon in the social, political and economic aspects of public life.
2. Conceptualize and develop arguments through careful analysis, cogent writing, effective speaking, and critical thinking.
3. Employ the methods and theories used in the academic study of religion
4. Engage in self-reflective, open, informed, and civil conversations about diverse religious traditions and/or themes.
5. Graduates of the undergraduate program in Religious studies will have skills to; examine historical, textual, and cultural dimensions of diverse religious traditions and/or themes.
6. The instructor appointed to teach the course would set the specific learning outcomes. The Director of the School of Religion will ensure that the specific learning outcomes on the course syllabus are aligned with the general learning outcomes for the undergraduate program in Religious Studies, which are listed below.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate characteristics of religion as a cultural phenomenon in the social, political and economic aspects of public life.
2. Conceptualize and develop arguments through careful analysis, cogent writing, effective speaking, and critical thinking.
3. Employ the methods and theories used in the academic study of religion
4. Engage in self-reflective, open, informed, and civil conversations about diverse religious traditions and/or themes.
5. Graduates of the undergraduate program in Religious studies will have skills to; examine historical, textual, and cultural dimensions of diverse religious traditions and/or themes.
6. The instructor appointed to teach the course would set the specific learning outcomes. The Director of the School of Religion will ensure that the specific learning outcomes on the course syllabus are aligned with the general learning outcomes for the undergraduate program in Religious Studies, which are listed below.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate theories about gender, sexuality and religion
2. Compare the approaches of sociologists, anthropologists and gender studies and religious studies scholars in addressing the relationship between gender, sexuality and religion
3. Critically analyse how religious myth, doctrine and ritual is used to understand gender
4. Critically analyse the way gender and sexuality are used to understand the religion in a variety of contexts; and how they inform one another
5. Identify and explain how you utilize and/resist gender and queer theories in approaching the study of religion (your own or someone else's)

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate various conceptualizations of death that arise in religious traditions.
2. Examine the forms and functions of how humans ritually engage death and the dead in daily life.
3. Analyze cultural and historical trends in how people live with death.
4. Deploy the methods and theories of religious studies.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Cultivate abilities to analyze ancient inscriptions, papyri documents, and literary texts;
2. Encounter various learning styles through content input, interactive tasks, and graded assignments.
3. Engage with the methodological complexity of (re-)constructing ancient religious practices;
4. Examine diverse social contexts and practices of private and semi-private religious associations in the Greco-Roman period;

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop a "critical understanding" of the practice of postures or asana through field research
2. Examine yoga in its modern context and raise a number of critical debates
3. Understand and assess the philosophical and theological teachings of yoga in India
4. Understand the history of yoga starting with its earliest known origins as a spiritual practice indigenous to India

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically analyse cases and everyday events related to religion and politics in an informed and educated way.
2. Examine the relationship between debates of religion and politics in Muslim societies
3. Understand theories relevant to the relationship between religion and politics; historical overviews in the post-colonial era; certain major themes such as: secularization, nationalism, politics of identity, human rights and democracies, war and peace, and liberationist ideologies and theologies.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Collaborate with others in critical thinking, research, and writing.
2. Critically read source texts, and extract ideas from them which you think will help understand and address ecological problems.
3. Distinguish between course-relevant terms (eg. nonreligion, secularity, atheism, etc.) and use them critically in your writing and speaking (ie. demonstrating an understanding of their origins and politics).
4. Practice your scholarly writing skills (including grammar, punctuation, structure, and referencing).
5. Translate research-based knowledge and scholarly language about course topics into language that can inform public conversation related to other domains, such as art and politics.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze ideological factors implicated in contemporary discourse about religion and violence.
2. Explain particular cases of religiously motivated resistance to experiences of violence in terms of the major processes listed in point
3. Explain particular cases of religiously motivated violence in terms of the major processes listed in point
4. Identify major processes that characterize cases of religiously motivated violence, i.e., social indexing, mimetic rivalry, othering and heroic ideology.
5. Replicate the arguments of academic papers and book chapters in the form of short papers.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Listen and articulate the fraught topic of race and ethnicity as it intersects with religion in an emphatic, respectful, and critical way.
2. Make acute connections between aesthetic and politics, between texts and context, between ideology and representations, and between individuals and communities.
3. Practice religious studies-specific critical writing, reading, and thinking skills.
4. Practice self-reflective reading and think about their positionality to the religious communities studied throughout the term.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Collaborate with others in critical thinking, research, and writing.
2. Critically read source texts.
3. Distinguish between course-relevant terms (eg. Judaism, otherness, alterity, gender, and so on).
4. Extrapolate from textual evidence to try and understand and interpret implicit arguments.
5. Practice your scholarly writing skills, especially the formation of argument (but also including grammar, punctuation, structure, and referencing).

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Gain a deeper understanding of certain ongoing social, legal and political issues related to religion in the society.
2. Improve students' critical thinking ability and analyzing skills through constructing and deconstructing arguments
3. Understand the concepts of religion and democracy and their functional roles in society

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess your own learning and growth as a scholar by reflecting on your efforts, achievements, and progress through this class.
2. Collaborate with others in critical thinking, research, and writing.
3. Demonstrate knowledge about specific groups and movements (eg. SBNRs, Nones, the New Atheists and the new New Atheists
4. Distinguish between course-relevant terms (e.g. nonreligion, secularity, atheism, etc.) and use them critically in your writing and speaking (ie. Demonstrating an understanding of their origins and politics).
5. Practice your scholarly writing sills (including grammar, punctuation, structure, and referencing according to a recognized style guide) by participating in the ongoing, public conversation about this field (with your book review and your comments on the NSRN blog).
6. Translate research-based knowledge and scholarly language about course topics into lay language that can inform public conversation about these topics.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Collaborate with others in critical thinking, research, and writing.
2. Demonstrate knowledge about course-relevant terms, concepts, and theories (eg. Art criticism, ritual as a cultural phenomenon, affect theory, etc.) and use them critically in writing and speaking (ie. demonstrating an understanding of their origins and politics).
3. Practice scholarly communication skills (including argumentation, structure, grammar, punctuation, and referencing according to a recognized style guide) by participating in the ongoing, public conversation about this field (with your art criticism assignment and your blog assignment).
4. Translate research-based knowledge and scholarly language about course topics into non-technical language that can inform public conversation about these topics.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and assess possible social and religious/spiritual implications of human enhancement technologies and investigate what religion scholars are saying about these implications
2. Discuss and debate issues raised in the scholarly material assigned in this course regarding the intersections of religion, spirituality, A.I., biohacking, and possible future technologies, and facilitate peer conversations about these intersections
3. Imagine some possible ethical complexities associated with how we evaluate and interpret human enhancement technologies, including A.I., in relation to religion/spirituality and diverse communities
4. Translate scholarly language about course topics into meaningful language that can inform public conversations

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Challenge understandings of traditional gender norms and binaries, specifically in the context of Islamic cultures, religions and societies.
2. Investigate Islam as a lived tradition that is transforming and transformative, while acknowledging some historical and geographical developments within Muslim societies.
3. Engage primary texts, such as the Qur’an and hadiths, and discuss the interpretative tendencies that have developed from these foundational sources as a hermeneutic process.
4. Discuss how religious and gender identities and meanings are constructed (and are not necessarily self-evident) based on factors such as race, class, gender, culture and region.
5. Research and utilize a variety of reference materials and genres of scholarly work.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Be able to apply specific theories and methods to specific concrete manifestations of religion;
2. Develop an understanding of some historical and contemporary approaches (methods for understanding religion);
3. Develop an understanding of some theories that can be used to interpret various manifestations of religion;
4. Develop an understanding of the various ways that religion can be defined:
5. Develop an understanding of the ways in which religious studies as a field influences theories and methods for study religion and vice-versa

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and evaluate the historical and present-day impact of America's religious traditions in contemporary politics.
2. Demonstrate understanding of historical and contemporary interplay between Christian groups and American politics.
3. Be able to critically analyze how Christianity as a "public religion" has impacted political discourse in the United States.
4. Demonstrate how Christianity in the US has animated a whole host of social and political movements through history and in different contexts.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Construct and communicate rational, responsible, and realistic responses to religious issues
2. Demonstrate pre-class preparation and comprehension of key concepts and ideas in written and oral form.
3. Develop a critical awareness of and analyze their own morality and religious framework.
4. Identify and analyze religious issues, conflicts, and responsibilities in business contexts

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Communicate their critical thinking related to what fundamentalist movements have in common across cultural and political contexts.
2. Demonstrate a factual understanding of how and why fundamentalist movements have arisen within different religions.
3. Engage with the sociological and historical consequences of these movements and their ideas in modern society.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically analyze the role of mindfulness meditation in psychotherapy and wellness cultures
2. Engage with the debates in contemporary Buddhist communities as they pertain to issues of gender, sexuality, race, politics, and ecology.
3. Explore the role of contemplative practice in contemporary Buddhisms by practicing various kinds of meditation
4. Identify key ideas, traditions, practices, and people in the history and transplantation of Buddhism in the West
5. Practice academic reading, writing, research, and critical thinking.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop a critical analytical frame of reference in order to be able to understand and explain issues in an educated manner.
2. Understand how historical developments take place within a religion, here, Islam;
3. Understand why there are different voices talking in the name of Islam;
4. Understanding of current events in Muslim societies;

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate characteristics of religion as a cultural phenomenon in the social, political and economic aspects of public life.
2. Conceptualize and develop arguments through careful analysis, cogent writing, effective speaking, and critical thinking.
3. Employ the methods and theories used in the academic study of religion
4. Engage in self-reflective, open, informed, and civil conversations about diverse religious traditions and/or themes.
5. Graduates of the undergraduate program in Religious studies will have skills to; examine historical, textual, and cultural dimensions of diverse religious traditions and/or themes.
6. The Director of the School of Religion will ensure that the specific learning outcomes on the course syllabus are aligned with the general learning outcomes for the undergraduate program in Religious Studies, which are listed below.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Communicate and present on research projects on religion in the contemporary society
2. Imagine and develop individual research projects
3. Integrate body of debates around the role of religion in contemporary society.