| Course Title: Advanced Topics in Religion: 'African American Spiritualities of Dissent' |
| Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2025 |
| Description: This course seeks to understand how protest fuels the creation and sustenance of black religious movements and novel spiritual systems in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will examine the dissentive qualities of selected African American activists, community workers, scholars, spiritual/religious leaders and creative writers. By the end of this course, students will be able to thoughtfully respond to the questions, "What is spirituality?"; "What is dissent?"; and "Has blackness required resistive spiritual communities?" |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     | Credits:4.00     |
| Faculty         | Phone         | Email address         |
| Meredith Coleman-Tobias   |           | mfcoleman@mtholyoke.edu   |
| Meeting Dates         | Method         | Meeting days         | Meeting times         | Building name         | Room     | Frequency     |
| 01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025   | Seminar   | Thursday   | 01:30PM - 04:20PM   | SHTK - Shattuck Hall   | 217   | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses         | ||
| None |           |           |
| Comments         |
| Additional Comments         |
| Course Tags         | ||
| NXDEV0001   | NXDEV: Nexus in Development Studies   | This course is approved for the Development Studies Nexus track.   |
| CRPE0001   | CRPE-1: CRPE - Major Pathway/Minor   | This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE major pathway and the CRPE minor.   |
| CRPE0002   | CRPE-2: Africana Studies - Major Pathway/Minor   | This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE Africana Studies major pathway and the CRPE Africana Studies minor.   |
| CRPE0003   | CRPE-3: Critical Social Thought - Major Pathway   | This course has been approved to count towards the CRPE Critical Social Thought major pathway.   |
| Cross-listed Sections         |
| None   |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open     | Capacity: 18     | Enrollment: 12     | Available: 6     | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List         | Required         | Publisher Full Price         |
| To be determined. |           |           |
| Additional Book Comments         |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class.   |