Courses

0-99 Advanced Placement Credit; House Courses; First-Year Seminars; First-Year Writing; Registrar/Department special purpose
100-199 Introductory-level undergraduate courses; basic skills/activity courses; foundation courses; Focus program courses
200-399 Undergraduate courses above introductory level
400-499 Advanced undergraduate, senior seminars, capstone courses, honors thesis courses
500-699 Graduate courses open to advanced undergraduates
700-999 Graduate only courses (not open to undergraduates)

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Number Title Codes
RELIGION 80S Special Topics in Writing
RELIGION 89S First-Year Seminar
RELIGION 101 Introduction to Religious Studies CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 102 Religion, Race, Gender, and Power
RELIGION 107 Introductory Sanskrit Language and Literature FL
RELIGION 108 Intermediate Sanskrit Grammar and Readings FL
RELIGION 110 Self, Society and Art in Modern Hinduism CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 118FS Religious Freedom in America: A Legal History CCI, EI, W, CZ
RELIGION 120 Buddhism CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 122 Scribes and Scriptures: The Transmission of the Bible in Antiquity CCI, CZ
RELIGION 140 Judaism CCI, CZ
RELIGION 141 Judaism Through Film CCI, EI, W, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 145 The Old Testament/Hebrew Bible CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 150 Christianity CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 151 Christian Orthodoxy and Heresy CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 155 The New Testament CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 156 Scripture: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 160 Islam CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 170 Comparative Religious Studies
RELIGION 175 Religions of Asia CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 176 Japanese Religions: Buddhas, Gods, and Monsters CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 180S Migration and Human Rights in Korea: Local and Global Perspectives CCI, EI, CZ, SS
RELIGION 181 Silk Roads and China, Ancient and Medieval Transformations CCI, CZ
RELIGION 184S Religion and Popular Culture
RELIGION 185 America's Gods: Religion in the Public Square CCI, CZ
RELIGION 186S Religion & Humor CCI, ALP
RELIGION 190A Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Special Topics in Religion
RELIGION 190FS Focus Program Seminars: Special Topics
RELIGION 190S Special Topics Seminar
RELIGION 201 Race, Film, and Religion CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 202S Psychedelic Religions CCI, CZ
RELIGION 203S Modern Islam: Contemporary Islamic thought between revival and reform CCI, EI, R, CZ
RELIGION 204S Neopaganism and Witchcraft CCI, CZ
RELIGION 205S Women, Gender, and Christian Origins CCI, W, CZ
RELIGION 206FS Clash of Civilizations: In the Heart of Europe ALP, CZ
RELIGION 208 Ancient Myth CCI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 209 Selected Sanskrit Readings FL, CZ
RELIGION 209S Love, Spirit, and Mysticism: The Path of Love in Middle East and South Asia CCI, W, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 210 The Good Life: Religion, Philosophy, and Life's Ultimate Concerns CCI, R, CZ
RELIGION 211 Atheism, Unbelief, and The Not Religious CCI, EI, R, CZ
RELIGION 213S Shamanism and Spirit Possession CCI, EI, R, CZ, SS
RELIGION 214S Andalusia: Muslim, Jewish, Christian Spain CCI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 215 Greek and Roman Religion CCI, CZ
RELIGION 216S Hinduism and Judaism: Culture, Religion, and Identity CCI, CZ
RELIGION 217 Islamic Civilization I CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 218 Loot: Who owns the past?
RELIGION 219S Muslim Women Across the Ages CCI, W, CZ, SS
RELIGION 220 Religions of India CCI, CZ
RELIGION 221 Indian Cinema & Social Change CCI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 222 Intermediate Sanskrit FL, CZ
RELIGION 223S Muhammad: The Prophet of Islam CCI, W, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 224S Islam, Art, and Society CCI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 225 Islam in the Age of Trump: Race, Immigration, and Empire CCI, EI, R, CZ, SS
RELIGION 226 Visual Culture in Late Antiquity
RELIGION 227 Art & Architectural History of the Islamic World, 6th-13th c. CE
RELIGION 228 The Turks: From Ottoman Empire to European Union CCI, EI, R, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 229D From Agra to Istanbul: Islamic Art and Architecture in the Early Modern Era CCI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 230S Jerusalem CCI, CZ
RELIGION 231S Augustine's City of God CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 232S Prophecy and Prophets: Then and Now CCI, CZ
RELIGION 234 Martin Luther King and the Prophetic Tradition CCI, EI, R, CZ, SS
RELIGION 235S Cross-Cultural Encounters CCI, CZ
RELIGION 236S Religion in Black America CCI, CZ
RELIGION 237 Religion in American Life EI, CZ
RELIGION 238S Activism & Christianity in Modern America CCI, EI, W, CZ
RELIGION 240SL West African Rootholds in Dance CCI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 241 Dance and Dance Theater of Asia CCI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 248 Hip Hop and Religion CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 249 Religion and Sport CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 249S Religion and Sport CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 250 Art and Christianity: A History of Christian Visual Culture ALP
RELIGION 254 Christian Ethics and Modern Society EI, W, CZ
RELIGION 257 Four Funerals and a Wedding: Introduction to Chinese Religious Life CCI, R, CZ, SS
RELIGION 257S Four Funerals and a Wedding: Introduction to Chinese Religious Life CCI, R, CZ, SS
RELIGION 258 Religion and the Novel in Modern India CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 260 Pilgrimage and Tourism CCI, EI, W, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 261 From History to Fantasy: Medieval Religions in Film & Fiction CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 262 Dante's Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 264S Religion & Journalism R, CZ
RELIGION 265 The Transnational Realities of an Ancient Tradition CCI, R, CZ, SS
RELIGION 266S Harry Potter and Religion CZ
RELIGION 267 Spiritual But Not Religious CCI, R, CZ, SS
RELIGION 268 Religion and Film CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 269S Fragmented Memories: Polish and Polish Jewish Culture Through Film CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 270 Black Gods and Monarchs: Priests and Practices of the Afro-Atlantic Religions CCI, EI, CZ, SS
RELIGION 271 Sex and Gender in the Hebrew Bible CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 273 Astrology and Religion CCI, CZ
RELIGION 276 Religion and Race CCI, CZ, SS
RELIGION 276S Religion and Race CCI, CZ, SS
RELIGION 278S Epics of India: Ethics, Politics, and Performance Traditions CCI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 281A The Cognitive Science of Religion and Morality EI, R, W, CZ
RELIGION 282AS Science, Ethics, and Society EI, CZ
RELIGION 283 History and Culture of Iran CCI, R, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 284 Ritual, Performance, and Religion CCI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 285S Religion and Technology CCI, R, STS, CZ, SS
RELIGION 286S Religion in Cyberspace EI, R, STS, CZ
RELIGION 287 Religion and Science CCI, STS, CZ
RELIGION 287S Religion and Science CCI, STS, CZ
RELIGION 290 Special Topics in Religion
RELIGION 290S Special Topics in Religion
RELIGION 291 Independent Study
RELIGION 292 Independent Study
RELIGION 293 Research Independent Study R
RELIGION 294 Research Independent Study R
RELIGION 295S Black Muslims: Race, Religion, & Culture CCI, CZ
RELIGION 301D Religion, Restrictions, and Violence CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 310S Literary Translation: History, Theory, and Practice CCI, W, ALP
RELIGION 318S Asian Religion and Knowledge of the Other CCI, R, CZ, SS
RELIGION 320S Modern Buddhism in Asia and America CCI, CZ
RELIGION 321S Buddhist Ethics CCI, EI, W, CZ
RELIGION 323 Buddhist Meditation in Transformation: Historical, Scientific, and Medical Perspectives CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 323S Buddhist Meditation: Cultivation Practices and Psychology CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 324 Zen Buddhism: A Survey from Its Origins to the Present Day CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 325 The Seven Deadly Sins: Representing Vice and Virtue in Christian Tradition CCI, EI, W, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 326S Literary Islam CCI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 333S Buddhism, Death, and Dying: Religious and Medical Perspectives CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 340 Jewish History, 1492 to the Present CCI, EI, CZ, SS
RELIGION 342 The Holocaust CCI, EI, STS, CZ
RELIGION 350S Non-Canonical Gospels EI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 351 Jesus and the Gospels CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 352 The Life and Letters of Paul CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 353 Ethical Issues in Early Christianity CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 354S Christian Ethics and Modern Society EI, W, CZ
RELIGION 360 Jesus in Film CCI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 361 The End of The World: Apocalyptic Arguments from Antiquity to the Present Day CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 367 Bodies, Sex, & Christianities EI, W, CZ
RELIGION 368S The Theology and Fiction of C. S. Lewis EI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 370S Understanding the Qur'an CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 371A Religion, Security and Global Citizenship in the Arab World CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 373S Islamic Mysticism CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 374S Islam & the Meaning of Life EI, CZ
RELIGION 376 Islamic Civilization II CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 377S Religion and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 378S Islam in Asia CCI, CZ, SS
RELIGION 379S Islamic Media CCI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 380 Muslim World: Transformations and Continuities CCI, SS
RELIGION 381 Rumi: Mysticism and Poetry CCI, R, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 382SA Transnational Muslims in Germany: Politics of Migration, Religion, and Culture CCI, EI, CZ, SS
RELIGION 383S Jewish Italy and its Literatures: The Most Ancient Minority CCI, R, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 384S Islam in the Americas CCI, W, CZ, SS
RELIGION 385S Islam, Medicine, and Healing CCI, STS, CZ
RELIGION 388S Muslim Ethics and Islamic Law: Issues and Debates CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 389 Black Religion, Anguish, and Liberation CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 390A Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Advanced Special Topics in Religion
RELIGION 390S Junior-Senior Seminars
RELIGION 391 Independent Study
RELIGION 392 Independent Study
RELIGION 393 Research Independent Study R
RELIGION 394 Research Independent Study R
RELIGION 399S James Baldwin and Toni Morrison CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 401 The Problem of Evil: God, Evil, Suffering, Sin, Meaning of Life, and Philosophy of Religion CCI, EI
RELIGION 411S Imperialism and Islamism CCI, CZ, SS
RELIGION 427S Archives of Literacy: West Africa, Islam, and American Slavery
RELIGION 469S Capstone Seminar: Islamic Law In History CCI, R, CZ
RELIGION 490S Junior-Senior Seminars
RELIGION 493 Honors Research R
RELIGION 494 Honors Research R
RELIGION 503S The Black Radical Tradition: COVID-19, #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd, and the Movement for Black Lives CCI, EI, SS
RELIGION 505S Dystopia, Speculation, and the Transhuman: Octavia Butler CCI, EI, ALP
RELIGION 511S The Fetish: The Role of Things in Spiritual, Economic, and Sexual Life CCI, EI, CZ, SS
RELIGION 524S Columbus: A Global History CCI, R, W, CZ
RELIGION 527S Islam and Human Rights CCI, EI, R, CZ, SS
RELIGION 532S The Evil Eye in Material Culture from Late Antiquity to Islam CCI, R, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 552S Live Images: Ancient and Medieval Representations of the Divine CCI, W, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 560S Reading Heidegger CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 564S Toleration, Freedom of Conscience, and Religious Liberty CCI, EI, R, CZ
RELIGION 580S History of Buddhist and Christian Interactions CCI, CZ
RELIGION 581S Pan-Asianism, Religion, and the State in Modern Asia CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 605S Blackness, Social Death, and the Volatile Sacred CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 606S Hebrew Biblical Texts
RELIGION 620 Exegesis of the Hebrew Old Testament
RELIGION 630-11 Exegesis of the Greek New Testament II: The Synoptic Gospels R
RELIGION 635S Exegesis of the Greek New Testament: John's Gospel R, ALP, CZ
RELIGION 636S Passion Narratives in Greek
RELIGION 663 Islam and Modernism CCI
RELIGION 665S Islamic Philosophy & Mysticism (Sufi's Approach to Philosophy) CCI, EI, CZ
RELIGION 690 Special Topics in Religion
RELIGION 690S Special Topics in Religion
RELIGION 700 East Asian Studies Core Course: Fields and Methods
RELIGION 701S Elementary Syriac
RELIGION 703S Aramaic
RELIGION 707 Introductory Sanskrit Language and Literature
RELIGION 708 Intermediate Sanskrit Grammar and Readings
RELIGION 709 The Septuagint
RELIGION 710S Academic Writing for Ancient Studies
RELIGION 733 Living Issues in New Testament Theology
RELIGION 743 The Life of Paul
RELIGION 749S Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas
RELIGION 752S Faith and Reason
RELIGION 756 Happiness, Virtue, and Friendship
RELIGION 759S Health Care in Theological Context II
RELIGION 765S Existentialism, Nihilism, and Religion
RELIGION 767S How Blackness Thinks
RELIGION 768S Segregated Sundays: Church, Race, Class, and Caste
RELIGION 770 Islamic Interconnectivities
RELIGION 771S Islam, Medicine, and Healing
RELIGION 772S Cross-Cultural Encounters
RELIGION 773S Islam, Law, and Society
RELIGION 774S Ideology and Religion in Muslim Central Eurasia
RELIGION 775S Sociology of Religion
RELIGION 777S Gandhi's Modernity: Insights & Ironies
RELIGION 780S American Foreign Missions and Chinese Christianity
RELIGION 781S Protestantism and the Making of Modern China
RELIGION 782S Modern Christianity Outside The West
RELIGION 783S Christianity's Encounter with Other Religions and Cultures: The Case of East Asia
RELIGION 786S Islam, Art, & Society
RELIGION 790 Readings in Buddhist Texts
RELIGION 791S Literary Translation: History, Theory and Practice
RELIGION 799 Special Readings in Religion
RELIGION 809 Selected Sanskrit Readings
RELIGION 810 Palace Intrigue: Ecclesiastes and Esther as Philosophy, Art, and Politics
RELIGION 815S Readings in Early Christian Literature: Greek
RELIGION 818S Pioneers in World Christianity
RELIGION 842 Calvin and the Reformed Tradition
RELIGION 844S Protestants and Pictures
RELIGION 846S Visual Culture of Modern Christianity
RELIGION 850S Evangelical Traditions in America
RELIGION 854S The Social Organization of American Religion
RELIGION 857 American Religious Biography
RELIGION 859S Roman Catholic Visual Piety in the Modern Era
RELIGION 879S Religion and Media
RELIGION 881S Jerusalem/Istanbul
RELIGION 882S Spaces, Bodies, and Narratives: Mapping Religion in Colonial India
RELIGION 884S Religion & Technology
RELIGION 885 Christian Manuscript Culture
RELIGION 887S Introduction to Rabbinic Literature
RELIGION 888S Biblical Hebrew Advanced Prose Syntax
RELIGION 889 Religion, Restrictions, and Violence
RELIGION 890 Special Topics in Religion
RELIGION 890S Special Topics in Religion
RELIGION 895S Medieval Jewish Biblical Interpretation
RELIGION 900S African American Religion Through the Literary Imagination
RELIGION 905S Advanced Syriac
RELIGION 910S Ethnography of Religion
RELIGION 911S Religious Material Culture in Theory and Practice
RELIGION 912S Theorizing Religion
RELIGION 913S Comparative Ritual Theory
RELIGION 914S Modernity of Religion
RELIGION 916 Topics in the Study of Japanese Religions
RELIGION 919S Transnational Confucianism
RELIGION 920S Ibn Arabi's Sufism: Islamic Theoretical Mysticism
RELIGION 921 Issues in Contemporary Systematic Theology in America and England
RELIGION 925S Exegesis of the Hebrew Text of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
RELIGION 930S Death and Dying in Late Antiquity
RELIGION 934S Synoptic Gospels in Greek
RELIGION 935S Gospel of John in Greek
RELIGION 936S Passion Narratives in Greek
RELIGION 937S Historical Jesus
RELIGION 946S Comparative Medieval Philosophy (Al-Farabi, Avicenna, Al-Ghazali, Averroes, Maimonides, Aquinas)
RELIGION 947S Comparative Religious Studies (Case Study of Judaism, Christianity & Islam)
RELIGION 952S Doctoral Seminar in Early Christianity
RELIGION 996S Teaching in Religion