CATHOLIC STUDIES

University of California,
Santa Barbara

undergraduate courses in catholic studies

Introductory Courses / Language Courses

RGST 5 Introduction to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
RGST 7 Introduction to American Religion
RGST 80 A-B-C Religion and Western Civilization
CLASS 1-3 Elementary and Intermediate Greek
CLASS 111 The New Testament
CLASS 1-3 Elementary and Intermediate Latin
CLASS 103 Medieval Latin Readings

Core Courses

RGST 138A Church, State and the Construction of Orthodox (Taves)
RGST 138B Catholic Practices and Global Cultures (Taves)
HIST 114A-B-C History of Christianity
RGST 127A-B-C Christian Thought and Cultures

Courses by Period and Area

Bible
ENG Bible as Literature (O'Connell/Erikson)
RGST 116A The New Testament and Early Christianity (Thomas)

Ancient Studies
HIST 114A History of Christianity - Origins to 8000 (Digester)
RGST 127A Christian Thought and Cultures of the Ancient World (Thomas)

Medieval Studies
HIST 114B History of Christianity - 800 to 1300 (Lansing)
RGST 127B Christian Thought and Cultures of the Middle Ages (Carlson)

Renaissance-Reformation-Counter Reformation Studies
HIST 114C History of Christianity (Tutino)
RGST 127C Christian Thought and Cultures of the Reformation (Carlson)
HIST 122 A-B Europe in the Age of the Reformation (Tutino)
RENST 100 Studies in Renaissance Civilization

North American Studies
RGST 138D Catholicism and U.S. History (Taves)
RGST 191A Latino Religious Thought (Busto)
RGST 116E Evangelical Christianity (Busto)

Modernity and Modern Thought
RGST 106 Modernity and the Process of Secularization (Carlson)
RGST 138C Catholicism and Modernity (Taves)

Related Courses by Period and Geographic Area

Ancient Studies
RGST 116C Archaeology and the Study of Religion (Thomas)
RGST 128A Religion and Spirituality in the Roman Empire (Thomas)
HIST 113B History of Rome (Empire/Drake)
HIST 113C The Roman World in Late Antiquity (Digeser)
HIST 113Q Topics in Roman History (Digeser/Drake)
HIST 113P Proseminar in Roman History (Digeser/Drake)
RGST 186A The Qur'an and the Bible (Campo)

Medieval Studies
HIST 115 The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe (Farmer)
HIST 116 The Civilization of the High Middle Ages 1050 to 1350 (Farmer/Lansing)
HIST 117D Feminist Perspectives on Jewish and Christian Traditions (Farmer)
HIST 117Q History of the Cult of the Virgin (Farmer)
HIST 118A The Crusades in Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Blumenthal)
HIST 119 The Crusades and the Near East, 1095-1291 (Humphreys)
HIST 115P Proseminar in Medieval History (Lansing/Farmer/Blumenthal)
ENG 115 Medieval Literature (Fradenburg, Pasternack)
ENG 152A Chaucer Canterbury Tales (Fradenburg)
ENG 156 Literature of Chivalry The Bonds of Blood (Pasternack)

Renaissance-Reformation-Counter Reformation Studies
HIST 121A Renaissance Italy, 1300-1550 (Bernstein)
HIST 121B Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 1348-1550 (Bernstein)
GER 179B Mysticism (Weber)
GER 187 Satan in German Literature and Beyond (Rickels)
HIST 121C History of France from 1500-1700 (Bernstein)
HIST 121P Proseminar in Renaissance Europe (Bernstein)
HIST 140 A-B Early Modern Britain (McGee)

Latin American and Iberian Studies
LAIS 101 Interdisciplinary Approaches to the History and Societies of Latin America and Iberia (Staff)
HIST 151A-B-C Latin American History
RGST 118 Religious Contours of the Western Hemisphere (Talamantez)
HIST 155A Portugal to 1580 (Dutra)
HIST 155B Portugal 1580 to Present (Dutra)
HIST 155E Portugal Overseas HIST 156A-B History of Mexico (Cline)
HIST 156I Indians of Mexico (Cline)
HIST 157A-B History of Brazil (Dutra)
HIST 168 History of the Chicanos (Garcia)
HAAA 130C The Arts of Spain and New Spain (Peterson)

North American Studies
RGST 114B Religious Traditions of the Southwest (Talamantez)
RGST 116E Evangelical Christianity (Busto)
RGST 150 American Spiritualities (Albanese)
RGST 151A-B Religion in American History (Albanese)
RGST 151C Religion in the American West (Busto)
RGST 176 The Religious Contours of California (Talamantez)

Asian Religion and Culture
ASAMST 161 Asian and Pacific Americans and Religion (Staff)
RGST 111A Religions of the Silk Road (Wallace)
RGST 111B Religions of Mongolia (Wallace)

Methodology Courses
RGST 145 Patterns in Comparative Religion (Holdrege)
RGST 180 The Comparative Philosophy of Religion (Cabezon)
RGST 211 Orality, Literacy and the Study of Religion (Reynolds)
ANTH 116 Myth, Ritual and Symbol (Hancock)
ANTH 116B Anthropological Approaches to Religion