Science Fiction film and literature imagine possible near or distant futures for human (and other) life. This course explores imagined futures from different points of view. We will analyze films, novels, and short stories to see what they convey about the time in which they were imagined, their reflections on worldviews and religious traditions, and the more general question of what a narrative approach can contribute to the academic study of religion. We will discuss questions concerning human nature, ontology, and morality:  What makes us human? What is reality?

A full course.

Admission with consent of the instructor.  Fall and spring semesters.  The Department.

A full course. 

Admission with consent of the instructor. Fall and spring semesters. The Department.

Independent reading or research courses. Full course as arranged. Does not normally count toward the major.

Fall and spring semesters.

Fall and spring semesters.

(Offered as MATH 130 and ENST 240.) This course is an introduction to applied statistical methods useful for the analysis of data from all fields. Brief coverage of data summary and graphical techniques will be followed by elementary probability, sampling distributions, the central limit theorem and statistical inference. Inference procedures include confidence intervals and hypothesis testing for both means and proportions, the chi-square test, simple linear regression, and a brief introduction to analysis of variance (ANOVA).