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Online Courses

Academic Programs-CAFE specializes in working with the University’s academic colleges in the development and delivery of asynchronous learning in the virtual classroom.    Past examples have included: Survey of Aviation Law Flightdeck Environmental Issues

COURSE: Environment and Religion

IPE 3913.400
3 Credit Hours—Letter Graded

DESCRIPTION: The central theme of the course will be the relationship between environments and religions. The symbolic meaning and practical requirements of eco-systems and landscapes play a defining role in diverse religious and spiritual traditions. We will investigate this interrelatedness in several ethnographic examples, e.g. Hopi ceremonial cycles and agricultural practice. Another focus will be the current, self-reflective engagement of major religions in the environmental discourse. The emerging ecological mindset provides a common framework in which environmentalists and religious leaders and practitioners carry on a creative and productive discourse on the future of humanity and life on this planet.

PREREQUISITE: Junior standing or permission of Instructor

WHERE/WHEN: D2L Online Course/October 8—December 8, 2007

TO ENROLL: Call CCE Registration at 325-1022 or register online at enroll.ou.edu “Outreach-Flex Schedule Courses”

INSTRUCTOR: Reinhild Meissler, Ph.D.

QUESTIONS: Call College of Arts and Sciences
325-7714 or email reinhild.e.meissler-1@ou.edu

TEXTS: Worldviews and Ecology: Religion, Philosophy and the Environment;
By Mary Evelyn Tucker & John A. Grim, eds.; Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY 1994

TUITION AND FEES: Exact tuition/fees will be determined on Bursar account \ (visit www.ou.edu/bursar/fees.htm for more information). An Academic Records fee of $15.00 may be applicable

This course is offered on a self-supporting basis and fee waivers may not be applicable.

For more information, please call the Academic Programs-CAFE offices at (405) 325-5101.

For more information or to enroll, contact
the Academic Programs-CAFE office at 325-5101 or cafe@ou.edu.