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2020-2021 Drew University Health and Safety Training

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BBCL-620-MQ-10586-Contextual Biblical Interpret.

COURSE DESCRIPTION
In the epochal aftermath of 19th century, colonial missionary movements, historical Criticism's monopoly of biblical interpretation was broken. Biblical interpretation became a pentecost of variants. Approaches to biblical interpretation emerged in Africa, Asia, The Caribbean, and Latin America that were resistant to the monopoly. In parallel chronology and in tandem, North American interpretation was inflected by African American, Asian-American, Feminists, Latinas/os, Queer, and Womanists. This course engages selections of these contexts and perspectives for deeper study. It also offers opportunities for individuals to pursue related positionalities that were unaddressed by the course. One could think of the course as pursuing the reversal of universalizing hermeneutics and the democratization of biblical interpretation.

COURSE GOAL
TO SURVEY DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO CONTEXT AND PERSPECTIVE RELEVANT BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION IN ORDER TO AVAIL THEM FOR STUDY, ANALYSIS, ASSESSMENT, ENGAGEMENT AND USE BY STUDENTS WHO WILL HAVE AWARENESS OF THE GENERAL HISTORY OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION, HERMENEUTICS, AND THEIR ASSOCIATIONS WITH HISTORIES OF COLONIALISMS IN SUCH A WAY AS TO DEVELOP UNDERSTANDING, EXPERTISE, AND DEXTERITY IN STUDENTS.

COURSE OUTCOMES:
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
? Explain their choice of interpretative preferences in doing biblical interpretation;
? Practice different exegetical approaches when working with biblical texts;
? Adapt to different contexts of interpretation;
? Negotiate the difference between traditional historical critical methodologies and contextual biblical interpretation;
? Connect biblical interpretation to major social, cultural, and political developments in different contexts;
? Connect biblical interpretation to the histories of particular contexts;
? Assess their exegetical methodologies and their interpretative outcomes for their potential harm to different societal constituencies and the environment;
? Practice biblical interpretation through engagement with multiple cultural imaginaries; and
? Be comfortable with interpretative differentials.

COURSE OBJECTIVES
During this course, we will:

? Explore the relationship between hermeneutics, politics, theologies of liberation, and epistemology;
? Read varieties of approaches to contextual and perspectival biblical hermeneutics;
? Become familiar with the cultural, and historical contexts of various theories;
? Orient to various aspects of cultural experience as resources for reflection and knowledge development;
? Practice contextual biblical interpretation;
? Provide a context for intentionally developing strategies of biblical interpretation for liberation; and
? Think theologically and ethically about the ongoing meaning of the Bible both in the culture at large, and as sacred scriptures that have an ongoing life in Christian communities and secular spaces through time and across the globe.

BBST-610-Y-10640-African American Vis and Bible

COURSE DESCRIPTION

"Not everything that is faced can be changed;
but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

This simple quote, do you know who said it? I give you one clue. He was an African American Visionary. Yes, this course must study Martin Luther King Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois, Howard Thurman, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington and other African American stalwarts of U.S. history. It is so much more. If you could not identify that quote without an internet search or a quick glimpse at the footnote, then you do not know all the stalwarts. This course offers an opportunity to study a few more. It is a course in which you can develop a vision for the future from our current times. It will be Bible based as we study huge themes of peace, hope, justice, salvation, \
to help us frame the questions we ask of visionaries past and current. Those visionaries will come from all walks of life, from Arthur Ashe to Tupac Shakur, to Granny in the middle pew, and to you. LET JUSTICE ROLL DOWN LIKE A MIGHTY ROLLING STREAM! Well, what will it look like? You will have an opportunity to cull from these human beings, from history, from memorials, and in conversation with them, the elements to shape and write your own vision. This hybrid class will meet in the classroom, online, at events, and in trips to significant sites. The course offers a chance for anyone to encounter, interpret, and learn from an under researched part of the US populace and history along with biblical reflections."

COURSE GOAL
To provide opportunities for research and exposure to events, communities, conversations that enable the development of a) awareness; b) informed analyses; c) aspirations/visions; and d) strategies that reflect biblical theological horizons for human endeavors in relations to building communities that are just, peace-seeking, hopeful, loving, and salvific with respect to all of kinds of lives and to the conditions that make for wholeness.

COURSE OBJECTIVES
During this course, we will:

? Apply biblical theologies of hope, justice, peace, love, and salvation for the development of a vision for our times;
? Use these theologies to analyze, interrogate, and understand the lives, teachings, and actions of selected African American Visionaries;
? Become familiar with the cultural, and historical contexts of the selected visionaries;
? To reorient students to biography and various aspects of cultural experience as resources for reflection and knowledge develpment ;
? Provide a context for intentionally developing a picture of a just society;
? Think theologically and ethically about the ongoing meaning of the Bible both in the culture at large, and as sacred scriptures that have an ongoing life in Christian communities through time and across the globe.

COURSE OUTCOMES
? An enlarged repository of African Americans who have contributed to the development of the U.S.A. at all levels of U.S.-American society;
? Improved facility in biblical interpretative methods;
? Enhancement and supplementation of present methods for applying biblical texts and theological understandings to social, political, environmental; and economic issues;
? Improved understanding of oneself as an interpreter reading the bible from a particular place and time in history;
? Understanding that the Bible as a source for analyzing the present.

? BOOKS
Your textbooks can become lifelong friends. Text books will be supple additional readings that will be posted on Moodle.

Required Text Books:
• Cone, James H. The Cross and the Lynching Tree (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2011)
• Hendricks, Obery M. Jr. The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, The Church, and the Body Politic (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2011)
• King, Martin Luther, Jr. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. Edited by James M. Washington (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991).
• Thurman, Howard. Jesus and the Disinherited (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press,1996)
• Thurman, Howard. The Search for Common Ground (Richmond, Indiana: Friends United Press, 2000, 4th Printing)
Category: BBST

BBST-659-YS-10588-Warriors, Wives and Wenches

COURSE DESCRIPTION, OBJECTIVE, AND GOALS
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Ancient Women – what a loaded phrase! Who were they? Where and how do we search for them? What kinds of questions can we ask? What are your questions? How do we think about the sources, the history of interpretation, women, gender, ethnicity, war, education, poverty and wealth, the women we are, and the women we know? In this course our investigations, stereotypes, truisms, and analyses chance to meet again some well-known, some hackneyed, and some less known resources for reconstructing varieties of ancient women and the dynamics of their social, cultural, religious, and political experiences. We shall explore biblical passages in light of women’s lives up to the 2nd cent. CE.
We will study selected passages about Jewish and non-Jewish women in the Hebrew Bible and Christian Scriptures that are used or can be used to stipulate women's roles in society and in church today. These passages will be contextualized within Greek and Roman imperial times with cognizance of class, gender, and geo-cultural matters. With this information we can consider women's rights today and the impact of Christianity on gender issues as lived reality. We will explore connections between the world of ancient Jews and emergent Christianity on the one hand and current trends in 21st cent. Women’s history. There might just be surprises in store!

COURSE GOAL
? To understand the ways in which Christian constructions of women’s lives in the Greek and Roman empires impact our perceptions of womanhood and women’s roles even to the 21st century.
COURSE OUTCOMES:
• Greater knowledge of the complexity of women’s lives from the third century BCE to the second century CE.
• Familiarity with the scope of primary resources available for biblical studies related women’s histories from the third century BCE to the second century CE.
• An ability to analyze bias and perspective in the narrative of women’s histories from the third century BCE to the second century CE.
• Discernment of the connections between particular constructions of women’s histories and their deployment in current political debates.
• Increased capacity to write an informed and analytical essay on aspects of women’s lives from the third century BCE to the second century CE. that are covered in the course.
• Flexibility and ability to apply the courses’ methods and information to ancient resources and contemporary issues that were not covered in the course.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
• To become familiar with primary and secondary resources that are useful for reconstructing ancient women’s stories.
• To develop a kaleidoscopic portrait of the roles, activities, and personal and institutional relationships of women in antiquity that is based on analyses of primary biblical and classical sources.
• To improve our understanding of the gender dynamics of antiquity.
• To examine religious, familial, and socio-political arenas of ancient women’s lives.
• To reframe the questions directing our research into ancient women’s lives so as to identify or preclude avenues of future research and historical reconstruction.
• To explore ways of understanding the relationship between historical reconstruction and the stereotypical norms that drive some current religious standards.

BST-250-P-10069-BST Special/Selected Topics

Title: New Venture Development

This course is designed to spark creativity and push imagination. We study and also put into practice the steps and processes for identifying and developing new business concepts.

Regardless of one’s desire to be the founder of a new venture or an employee looking to create value within larger organizations, many of the basic concepts and processes of “venture creation” taught in this course will apply. Everything we will do will be based on real life experiences, current events and future trends.
Category: BST

BST-305-H-10072-Mkt Strategy & Marketing

In this course students are taught how to understand, criticize and apply the concepts and tools developed in the mainstream literature on marketing management.
The successful student will learn how to criticize and evaluate existing concepts, how to amend these concepts for specific organizations and how to criticize and improve these ideas using the latest management and ethics literature. The course book covers the main topics and is complemented by sessions that put these topics into practice through case studies or have them assessed through literature studies.
Category: BST

BST-305-H-30294-Mkt Strategy & Marketing

Course Description:
In this course students are taught how to understand, criticize and apply the concepts and tools developed in the mainstream literature on marketing management.
The successful student will learn how to criticize and evaluate existing concepts, how to amend these concepts for specific organizations and how to criticize and improve these ideas using the latest management and ethics literature. The course covers the main topics and is complemented by sessions that put these topics into practice through case studies or have them assessed through literature studies.

Course Objectives:
To become familiar and learn to apply existing marketing models.
To understand how academic literature on marketing as well as ethics questions may further inform current marketing concepts.
To have a basic understanding on how to find, assess and use management articles for marketing purposes.
Category: BST

BST-305-K-30295-Mkt Strategy & Marketing

Course Description:
In this course students are taught how to understand, criticize and apply the concepts and tools developed in the mainstream literature on marketing management.
The successful student will learn how to criticize and evaluate existing concepts, how to amend these concepts for specific organizations and how to criticize and improve these ideas using the latest management and ethics literature. The course covers the main topics and is complemented by sessions that put these topics into practice through case studies or have them assessed through literature studies.

Course Objectives:
To become familiar and learn to apply existing marketing models.
To understand how academic literature on marketing as well as ethics questions may further inform current marketing concepts.
To have a basic understanding on how to find, assess and use management articles for marketing purposes.
Category: BST

BST-305-Z-10071-Mkt Strategy & Marketing

In this course students are taught how to understand, criticize and apply the concepts and tools developed in the mainstream literature on marketing management.
The successful student will learn how to criticize and evaluate existing concepts, how to amend these concepts for specific organizations and how to criticize and improve these ideas using the latest management and ethics literature. The course book covers the main topics and is complemented by sessions that put these topics into practice through case studies or have them assessed through literature studies.
Category: BST

BST-350-F / PSYC-370-F - XLSB2201830

Course description:
In this course participants are taught how to understand, criticize and apply the concepts and tools developed in the mainstream literature from industrial & organizational psychology (I-O) in the context of an organization. Leadership is discussed as part of this literature. At the same time, understanding I-O literature is considered an essential skill for today’s leaders.
The literature in this course is a combination of overview articles and in-depth studies, providing the tools to understand related literature on the course topics and encourage further reading.

Course Objectives:
To understand how academic literature may inform the decisions of leaders of organizations
To evaluate and critique some of the mainstream academic literature in industrial & organizational psychology on the topics of ethics and leadership
To evaluate and apply some of the concepts developed in the literature in particular for improving leadership practices
To have a basic understanding on how to find and use survey tools for management purposes

Category: XLS

CHIN-201-J-10007-Intermediate Chinese I

Course Description

This course is designed for students who have already completed Chinese 102, and intend to finish two years of language training. The course emphasizes speaking, vocabulary building and the development of reading and translating skills. Teaching materials will include a textbook, a workbook and newspaper/magazine articles. Internet resources are also included.

Course Credits: 4. Offered?Fall semester. Prerequisite: CHIN 102 or equivalent.
Category: CHIN

CHIN-201-J-10141-Intermediate Chinese I

Course Description
This course is designed for students who have already completed Chinese 102, and intend to finish two years of language training. The course emphasizes speaking, vocabulary building and the development of reading and translating skills. Teaching materials will include a textbook, a workbook and newspaper/magazine articles. Internet resources are also included.
Course Credits: 4. Offered?Fall semester. Prerequisite: CHIN 102 or equivalent.

CHIN-202-J-30017-Intermediate Chinese II

Course Description
This course is designed for students who have completed Chinese 201 and intend to finish two years of language training. The course emphasizes speaking, vocabulary building and the development of reading and translating skills. Teaching materials will include a textbook, a workbook and newspaper/magazine articles. Internet resources are also included.
Course Credits: 4. Offered?Spring semester. Prerequisite: CHIN 201 or equivalent.
Category: Spring 2019

CHIN-202-J-30092-Intermediate Chinese II

Course Description

This course is designed for students who have completed Chinese 201 and intend to finish two years of language training. The course emphasizes speaking, vocabulary building and the development of reading and translating skills. Teaching materials will include a textbook, a workbook and newspaper/magazine articles. Internet resources are also included.

Course Credits: 4. Offered?Spring semester. Prerequisite: CHIN 201 or equivalent.

Category: CHIN

CSCI-150-E-10183-Intro to Comp Sci in Python

This course provides fundamental information about how computers work, using the Python programming language to create apps that solve problems involving different types of data. Students will learn to design, implement, document and test programs, and they will also gain experience with software language concepts, such as iteration, decision, user-defined functions, and lists. Graphics, gaming and data mining will be explored. No previous programming experience is expected or needed. Prospective computer science majors or minors should begin with this course, which is also appropriate for students who want to develop some programming skills, even if they do not plan to take any further computer science courses.

This class meets from 10:25AM to 11:30AM M/W/F in Brothers College Room 21.
Category: CSCI

CSCI-150-T-10185-Intro to Comp Sci in Python

This course provides fundamental information about how computers work, using the Python programming language to create apps that solve problems involving different types of data. Students will learn to design, implement, document and test programs, and they will also gain experience with software language concepts, such as iteration, decision, user-defined functions, and lists. Graphics, gaming and data mining will be explored. No previous programming experience is expected or needed. Prospective computer science majors or minors should begin with this course, which is also appropriate for students who want to develop some programming skills, even if they do not plan to take any further computer science courses.

This class meets from 2:40PM to 3:45PM M/W/F in Brothers College Room 21.
Category: CSCI

DMIN-950-S-10531-Topics in Pastoral Theology

A Google search on “youth” or “millennial” and “church” will eventually lead to doom–and–gloom articles on why youth and young adults are not attending church. Some articles will blame the Church; others will blame young people. What we know for sure is that youth and young adults are finding meaning outside of The Church. With this as our contextual background we will explore the complexity of what it means to minister to, with, and for youth and young adults. This course will explore different topics and argue for the importance of a theological starting point for youth ministry. We will gain insights from sociology, developmental psychology, education, and other disciplines that contribute to our understanding of youth and young adults and their relationship to the Church.
Category: DMIN

DMIN-992-X-30071-Project and Thesis Research An

This course involves the student in the development, execution, and evaluation at a faculty site visit of the student's major ministry project.
Category: DMIN

DSEM-100-C7-10337-Drew Seminar


Islam is the world’s second largest religion and the fastest growing. 1.6 billion people in the world are Muslims, and 3.3 million of them live in the U.S. Through a variety of
interdisciplinary sources, we will explore Muslim immigrant experiences in the US, African-American Muslim history, the artistic and cultural contributions of Muslims around the world, representations of Islam and Muslims in the media, discrimination and the current political climate, different countries’ approaches to religion and the state, global and local violence around the world targeting or perpetrated by Muslims, and questions of religious, ethnic, and national identity. By engaging with these topics, we will develop a critical perspective on contemporary issues in the U.S. and abroad and learn about the broader themes of the social construction of ethnicity and social psychological identity work.
Category: DSEM
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