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Apr 27, 2024
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ENG 484A - The Bible as Literature (3 units) CO12, CO13
Readings from the Old and New Testaments studied in literary, historical, and cultural contexts.
Prerequisite(s): CH 201 ; CH 202 or CH 203 ; Junior or Senior standing.
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course:
1. Students will be able to evaluate evidence and arguments from popular sources and current reports that use information and quotations from the Bible to support claims and proposals.
2. Students will be able to integrate historical biblical understandings of law, justice, sin, responsibility, and freedom with contemporary ethical theory, demonstrating a significant familiarity with the tools and concerns of the study of ethics.
3. Students will be able to compose essays about biblical texts using critical approaches appropriate for academic disciplines and not reliant on doctrinaire religious suppositions.
4. Students will be able to, in discussion or in writing, demonstrate understanding of the variety of interpretive strategies that have shaped the history of the use of the Bible and of its formation.
5. Students will be able to explain the importance of biblical texts in creating and maintaining identity groups and defining cultural relations.
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