12/21/2024 7:32:34 PM	HUMAN 10.3 Course Outline as of Summer 2008	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  HUMAN 10.3	Title:  HISTORY OF GOD
Full Title:  History of God
Last Reviewed:1/28/2019

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	3.00	Lecture Scheduled	3.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	52.50
Minimum	3.00	Lab Scheduled	0		15 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	3.00			Contact Total	52.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  105.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly:  HUMAN 10C

Catalog Description:

The origins and historical development of monotheism beginning in ancient Egypt and Canaan, and its various expressions in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.  

Prerequisites/Corequisites:

Recommended Preparation:
Course Completion of HUMAN 13 and Course Completion of ENGL C1000 ( or ENGL 1A)

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

The origins and historical development of monotheism beginning in ancient Egypt and Canaan, and its various expressions in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.  

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Course Completion of HUMAN 13 and Course Completion of ENGL C1000 ( or ENGL 1A)
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:	Fall 1983	Inactive:
Area:	E	Humanities
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	C2	Humanities		Fall 1983
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	3B	Humanities		Fall 1981
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1983	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1983	Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Major Applicable Course

COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1.  Discover and describe the complex evolution of Judaism and Islam

   and their interaction with Christianity.

2.  Identify seminal thinkers and the unique characteristics of their

   thought within the historic circumstances and literary understandings

   of their own time.

3.  Analyze and evaluate persistent religious themes and controversies

   within rival hermeneutics of Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

4.  Trace the historic and religious sources of contemporary values and

   belief systems.  

Topics and Scope

I.   The Ancient Near Eastern Origins of "Western" or "Monotheistic"

    religions

    A. Egyptian "monotheism" under Akhenaten

    B. The Divine Council of the autochthonous Canaanites

II.  The evolution and diversity of pre-exilic Israelite religion

    A. Yahwistic monolatry

    B. Polytheism and syncretism in Biblical Israel

III. The emergence of Judaism after the exile

    A. The evolution of rabbinic Judaism: temple to Torah

    B. Hellenistic Judaism: allegorizing the God of Torah

    C. Other sects and movements such as the Essenes, apocalyptic

    D. The development of the sacred texts: Tanak, Mishnah, Talmuds and

       Midrashim

IV.  The origins and early development of Christianity

    A. The diversity of early Jesus movements

    B. Orthodoxy and heresy: Gnosticism

    C. Rival Jewish and Christian hermeneutics

    D. Christian apologetics and polemics

    E. The triumph of orthodoxy under Constantine and his successors

    F. The Ecumenical Councils: the Trinity and Christology

    G. The establishment of the papacy and East-West conflict

V.   The origins and early development of Islam

    A. The Arabian context

    B. Muhammad and the Quran, thoroughgoing monotheism

    C. The evolution of Muhammad's prophetic career: Mecca to Medina and

       back

    D. The Rashidun: first four Caliphs and success of Islam's conquest

    E. The Hadith: the evolution of tradition and Muslim practice

    F. The Sufis and the relationship between mysticism and orthodoxy

    G. The House of Islam as empire: the sharia, education, science and

       culture

    H. The dhimmis: Jews and Christians under Islam

VI.  The Middle Ages: interaction and conflict

    A. The Crusades

    B. The Inquisition

    C. The God of the philosophers: scholasticism and the sharing of

       scholarship in Maimonides, Ibn Rushd and Thomas

    D. Theological interaction with the Renaissance

VII. The Protestant Reformation

VIII.The Enlightenment: science and historical-critical Biblical

    scholarship

    A. The trial of Galileo

    B. The excommunication of Spinoza

IX.  Modernity and the rise of fundamentalisms and ultra-orthodoxy  

Assignments:

1.  Weekly reading assignments of between 20-50 pages

2.  Objective exams

3.  Essay exams

4.  A research paper of 5-7 pages

5.  Optional field trips

6.  In-class exercises

7.  In-class presentations

8.  Discussions and/or debates

9.  Written homework such as personal reflection papers (2-3 pages) and/or

   critical interpretations of selected passages.  

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 40 - 75%
Written homework, one 5-7 page research paper
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 5 - 15%
Exercises in taxonomy and definition composing
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 0 - 0%
None
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 15 - 45%
Quizzes, exams, and final
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 5 - 15%
Attendance and class participation

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam:  The Classical Texts and Their

  Interpretation.  F.E. Peters, 3 vols. Princeton, 1990.

New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha, 3rd ed. 2001.

Al-Qur'an:  A Contemporary Translation, Ahmed Ali 2001.  

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