STS 350 - Comparative Studies in Religion

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

(Same as RELI 350 Topic for 2018/19b: Key Controversies in Science, Technology and Religion. This course introduces students to new and controversial topics in the study of religion, science, technology and spirituality. We examine controversial issues such as evolution/creation, artificial intelligence, science fiction as spirituality, religious and secular views of the mind, issues in biomedical ethics such as cloning, the neurology of religious experience, technologically-mediated spirituality, pseudo-science and parapsychology. Christopher White.

One 2-hour period.