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): General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed; at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed; Junior or Senior standing.

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. evaluate evidence and arguments from popular sources and current reports that use information and quotations from the Bible to support claims and proposals.
2. 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. compose essays about biblical texts using critical approaches appropriate for academic disciplines and not reliant on doctrinaire religious suppositions.
4. 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. explain the importance of biblical texts in creating and maintaining identity groups and defining cultural relations.

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