Colgate University

First-Year Course Offerings — Fall 2021

FSEM 158   The World's Religions - Sex, Death, and Evil
Credits1
RestrictionsNo 2024 2023 2022 Instr perm req during Drop/Add
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Core Area
Area of InquiryHuman Thought and Expression
Liberal Arts Practices

Faculty Profile for Professor Frank

How do sex, death, and evil shape what it means to be human and to live in the world? Students are introduced to ideas, texts, rituals, and stories created by Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews and Muslims. We shall focus on how they open up and debate the role of sex, death, and evil in human life. The only prerequisite for this course is a genuine curiosity to learn about what motivates people whose minds work differently from our own. Students who successfully complete this seminar receive credit for RELG 101 and satisfy one half of the human thought and expression areas of inquiry requirement.

As a first-year, Professor Georgia Frank stumbled into an intro course on the world's religions, and has been hooked ever since. As part of an archaeological team in Turkey, she became passionate about studying religious diversity, not just in texts, but also through things. Her research focuses on sacred travel, attitudes towards sexuality and death, ancient emotions, and mythology in Mediterranean antiquity.