This is not an all-inclusive list, and students may propose other courses than the ones listed here. Courses developed specifically for the Contemplative Studies Initiative are marked with an asterisk (*).
Please look for relevant courses in these and other subject areas that have a contemplative dimension in Banner and Mocha.
Professors to Note:
Harold Roth (RELS/ EAST)
Willoughby Britton (BIOMED)
Catherine Kerr (UNIV: CLIPS)
Thalia Field (LITR)
Rick Benjamin (LITR)
Michelle Bach-Coulibaly (THEATRE and DANCE)
Amy Remensnyder (HIST)
Victoria Smith (HISP)
John Marston (PHYS)
Albert Dahlberg (BIOL)
Monica Linden (NEUR)
Thomas Coburn (RELS-VS)
Humanities
*CLAS 0990 Concepts of the Self in Classical Indian Literature (Scharf)CLAS 1120G Idea of Self (Pucci)
COLT 0710U Leaves as Words: A Survey of Japanese Literature
COLT0081 Tales and Talemakers of the Non-Western World- (Levy)
EAST 0180 Japan: Nature, Ritual, and the Arts (Sawada)
*EAST 1880D Early Daoist Syncretism (Roth)
*EAST 1950 S: History and Philosophy of Rinzai Zen Buddhism (Roth)
EAST 1420 The Confucian Mind (Sawada)
EDUC1290 From theory to practice in engaged scholarship: Creating community based learning courses ( Heffernan)
EDUC1580 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Child Development (Li)
EDUC1860 The Social Context of Learning and Development
HIAA 0040 Introduction to Chinese Art and Culture (Bickford)
JUDS 0050D: Astrology, Magic, and Science (Kozodoy)
JUDS 0980U: Mysticism and Politics in the History of Hasidism
LITR 1110R: Performance Dimensions of Text (Field)
LITR 1150A: Ecopoetics in Practice (Field)
PHIL 0010: The Place of Persons (Christensen)
PHIL 0111: Personal Identity (Dunlop)
PHIL 0200D: Thinking Through Faith (Heck)
PHIL 1520 Consciousness (Hill)
PHIL 1750: Epistemology (Hill)
PHIL 1770: Philosophy of Mind (Hill)
PHIL 2020L: Naturalism, Materialism, Physicalism
PHIL 2190B Perception, Knowledge and Evidence
PHIL 1590: Philosophy of Science
*RELS 0040: Great Contemplative Traditions of Asia (Roth)
RELS 0065: On Being Human: Religious and Philosophical Conceptions of Self (Lewis)
RELS 0190 Japanese Religious Traditions (Sawada)
RELS 0120: Foundations of Chinese Religions (Roth)
RELS 0130: The Hindu Tradition
RELS 01370B: Philosophy of Mysticism (Bush)
RELS 0140: Religions in India
*RELS 0500: Theory and Practice of Buddhist Meditation (Roth) RELS 1430: Classics of East Asian Buddhism (Sawada)
RELS 1440: Themes in Japanese Buddhism (Sawada)
SCSO1550E: Science and Religion (Poland)
*UNIV0540: Introduction to Contemplative Studies (Roth)
UNIV 1520: The Shaping of World Views (Almeida)
Science
*BIOL 1950: Directed Research: Contemplative Science (Britton)*BIOL 1960: Independent Study in the Contemplative Sciences (Britton)
CLPS 0200 Human Cognition
CLPS 0500 Perception and Mind
CLPS 0701 Personality
CLPS 0900 Quantitative Methods in Psychology
CLPS 1610 Cognitive Development
CLPS 1490 Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Theory and Practice
CLPS 0040 Mind and Brain: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience
CLPS 0700 Social Psychology (Malle)
CLPS 1700 Abnormal Psychology (Hayden)
CLPS 1480A Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion
NEUR 0100 Introduction to Neuroscience
NEUR 0700: Psychoactive Drugs and Society (Patrick)
NEUR 1540: The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (Linden)
NEUR 1940 D: Higher Cortical Function (Sheinberg)
NEUR 1940 I: Neural Correlates of Consciousness (Sanes)
*UNIV 0090: Meditation and the Brain (Kerr and Britton)
*UNIV 1000: Cognitive Neuroscience of Meditation (Kerr)
Creative Arts
MUSC 0021E: Good Vibrations: The Music of Everyday Objects (Rovan)*MUSC 0063: Indian Contemplative Music (Reddy)
MUSC 0221: Electroacoustic Improv Ensemble – (Rovan)
MUSC 0651: Javanese Gamelon (Perlman)
MUSC 0041: World Music Cultures (Middle East and Asia) (Perlman)
MUSC 1240A: Sonic Psychogeography (Osbourne and Biggs)
MUSC 1961: Advanced Ghanaian Drumming – (Obeng)
LITR0310A: Poetry in Service to Schools and the Community
TAPS 1280T: Contemporary Mande Performance (Bach-Coulibaly)
TAPS1500G: Special Topics in Playwriting: Gravity and Grace: Seven Ways of Writing (Ehn)