Print

Syllabus

Introduction to World Religions
RE106

YEAR:

2023-2024

CREDIT HOURS:

3.00

PREREQUISITES:

None

COREQUISITES:

None

COURSE NOTES:

None

CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION:

An introduction to the major religious traditions of the Eastern and Western world.

HutchCC INSTITUTION-WIDE OUTCOMES:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to think critically and make reasonable judgments by acquiring, analyzing, combining, and evaluating information.
  2. Demonstrate the skills necessary to access and manipulate information through various technological and traditional methods.
  3. Demonstrate effective communication through reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
  4. Demonstrate effective interpersonal and collaborative skills.
  5. Demonstrate effective quantitative-reasoning and computational skills.

COURSE OUTCOMES AND COMPETENCIES:

  1. Discuss religion in prehistoric and primal cultures.
    1. List the beginnings of religion in prehistoric cultures.
    2. Identify the various characteristics of religion in primal cultures.
    3. Describe the religious cultures in Australia, Africa, and North America.
    4. Outline the ancient beliefs of Mesopotamia.
    5. Illustrate various religions and their beliefs in ancient Greece, Rome, and Europe.
    6. Identify the religions of Mesoamerica.
  2. Evaluate past religions that have left their mark on Western Culture.
    1. Show the origination and importance of the Rig-Veda.
    2. Describe what role Brahma plays religiously and socio-politically.
    3. Identify the four goals and three ways in Brahmanism.
    4. Assess how The Way of Works, The Code of Manu, and the Shraddha Rites function in a well ordered society.
    5. Characterize the path of knowledge in the Upanishads.
    6. Summarize the Sandkya, Yoga, and Vedanta systems.
    7. Show the way to devotion through the Bhagavad Gita.
    8. Explain what the devotional models:epics, puranas, and deities are saying to us.
    9. List some of the devotional life practices.
    10. Cite some of the present issues and problems in the Hindu world.
  3. Describe the beginning of Hinduism and the change from ritual sacrifice to a mystical union.
    1. Deduce what Mahavira's manner of life was.
    2. Explain the philosophy and ethics of Jainism.
    3. Identify who Mahavira's followers are.
  4. Explain the later development of Hinduism and its importance in social behavior.
    1. Summarize the life of the founder of Buddhism.
    2. Outline the teachings of the Buddha.
    3. Review how Buddhism spread in India and Southeast Asia.
    4. Describe the rise of the Mahayana in India.
    5. Conclude how Buddhism spread in Northern lands.
    6. Justify the message of the Mahayana which is the help-of-others.
    7. Recognize the philosophies of religion of the Mahayana.
    8. List the Mahayana's schools of thought in China and Japan.
    9. Put into your own words what Buddhism is like in Tibet.
    10. Explain how Buddhism is looked upon today.
  5. Analyze Jainism and its asceticism.
    1. Describe the life and work of Nanak.
    2. Assess what Nanak's teachings were.
    3. Identify the political history of Sikhism.
  6. Discuss the first phase of Buddhism and its renunciation of the world.
    1. Name the basic elements of Chinese religion.
    2. Define what Taoism/Daoism is as a philosophy.
    3. Demonstrate how Taoism/Daoism is perceived as magic and a religion.
  7. Analyze the religious development of Buddhism and the diversity of paths to Nirvana.
    1. Recognize Confucius the man
    2. Classify the teachings of Confucius
    3. Define the Confucian school and list it's rivals and champions
    4. Describe what Neo-Confucianism is
    5. Paraphrase the state cult of Confucius
  8. Describe Sikhism and its study of Syncretism.
    1. Relate the background of Shinto
    2. Show what the Shinto myth is about
    3. Compare what Shinto was like in medieval times and how it is looked upon now
    4. Recognize what State Shinto to the year 1945 was all about
    5. Distinguish between Shinto: and the warrior
    6. Evaluate how the shrine of Shinto is looked at today
    7. Defferentiate between domestic and sectarian Shinto
  9. Discuss Taoism and native Chinese religion.
    1. Describe what Iranian religion came before Zoroaster
    2. Visualize the life and teachings of Zoroaster
    3. Identify what the religion of the later Avesta was
    4. Review who the Zorastrians of the present day are
  10. Discuss Confucius in Confucianism and its optimistic humanism approach.
    1. Identify the religion of the pre-Mosaic Hebrews
    2. Distinguish between what Moses and the covenant with Yahweh were about
    3. Assess the differences between Yahweh and the Baais
    4. Describe prophetic protest and reform
    5. Interpretwhat the Babylonian exile consisted of
    6. Show the rise of Judaism in the Restoration Period
    7. Recognize what the new trends of thought were in the Greek and Maccabean Periods
    8. Deduce what the Roman period to 70 C
    9. Review what the great dispersion was
    10. Classify what the making of the Talmud consisted of
    11. Paraphrase who the Jews were in the Middle Ages
    12. Define what Judaism is in the modern world
  11. Analyze the Japanese religion of Shinto and its native contribution.
    1. Estimate what the world was like into which Jesus came
    2. State the first phase of the life of Jesus
    3. Describe the themes of Jesus' teachings
    4. Identify the climatic events of the Gospels
    5. Define Apostolic Age
    6. Examine the early church from 50 to 15 C
    7. Summarize the history of the ancient Catholic Church from 150 to 1054 C
    8. Illustrate what the Eastern Orthodox Church consists of
    9. Explain what the Roman Catholic Church was like in the Middle Age
    10. Show what the Protestant Reformation was about
    11. State what the Catholic Reformation entailed
    12. Compare the cross currents in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
    13. Interpret how Catholicism is viewed in the modern world
    14. Recognize the recent theological trends
  12. Discuss Zoroastrianism and why it is a religion based on ethical dualism.
    1. Explain what Arabian beliefs and practices came before Mohammad
    2. Classify what the faith and practrice of Islam are
    3. Show how Islam and Muslim thought spread in the first five centuries
    4. Assess the party of Shiah of Ali
    5. Identify what the developments in Sufism are
    6. Describe the different Islamic cultures
    7. Define what issues relate to Islam in the modern period
    8. State the regional developments of Islam
    9. Demonstrate the movements toward innovation and syncretism
  13. Outline the development of Judaism in its early phases from the origins of Hebrew to the exile.
  14. Explain what Christianity was, in its opening phase, in relation to the words and works of Jesus from an Apostolic perspective.
  15. Analyze the religious development of Christianity.
  16. Identify the beginnings of Islam: a submissiveness to God.
  17. Evaluate the Shiah alternative and its development.

HutchCC course outcomes are equivalent to the Kansas core outcomes.

KRSN:

REL1010

The learning outcomes and competencies detailed in this course outline or syllabus meet or exceed the learning outcomes and competencies specified by the Kansas Core Outcomes Groups project for this course as approved by the Kansas Board of Regents.

COURSE ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION:

1. Papers 2. Quizzes 3. Discussion 4. Research 5. Assignments 6. Papers

ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT:

Any student who has a documented disability and wishes to access academic accommodations (per the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disability Act) must contact the HCC Coordinator of Disability Services, at 620-665-3554, or the Student Success Center, Parker Student Union. The student must have appropriate documentation on file before accommodations can be provided.

ACADEMIC HONESTY:

Education requires integrity and respect for HutchCC's institutional values. HutchCC students are required to maintain honesty through a "responsible acquisition, discovery, and application of knowledge" in all academic pursuits. Preserving and upholding academic honesty is the responsibility of Hut chCC students, faculty, administrators and staff.

I. Student Responsibilities

All HutchCC students are required to:

  • Submit all work in all courses without cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, sabotage, or academic dishonesty as defined below.
  • Provide all academic records such as transcripts and test scores that are free of forgery.
  • Refrain from participating in the academic dishonesty of any person.
  • Use only authorized notes and student aids.
  • Use technology appropriately, including refraining from submitting AI (Artificial Intelligence)-generated work without express written consent from your instructor.
  • Protect the security of passwords/login/privacy/electronic files, and maintain sole individual access for any online course information.

II. Definition of Academic Dishonesty

  • Academic dishonesty is any intentional act, or attempted act, of cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, or sabotage in academic work.
  • Cheating includes using unauthorized materials of any kind, whether hard copies, online, or electronic, such as unapproved study aids in any academic work, copying another student's work, using an unauthorized "cheat sheet" or device, or purchasing or acquiring an essay online or from another student.
  • Fabrica tion is the invention or falsification of any information or citation in any academic work, such as making up a source, providing an incorrect citation, or misquoting a source.
  • Plagiarism is the representation of words, ideas and other works that are not the student's own as being original to the student. A no n-inclusive list of examples includes work completed by someone else, work generated by an external entity (such as AI), omitting a citation for work used from another source, or borrowing the sequence of ideas, arrangement of material, and/or pattern of thought of work not produced by the student, even though it may be expressed in the student's own words.
  • Dissimulation is the obscuring of a student's own actions with the intention of deceiving others in any academic work, such as fabricating excuses for absences or missed assignments, or feigning attendance.
  • Forgery of academic documents is the unauthorized altering, falsification, misrepresentation, or construction of any academic document, such as changing transcripts, changing grades on papers or on exams which have been returned, forging signatures, manipulating a digital file of academic work, or plagiarizing a translation.
  • Sabotage is any obstruction or attempted obstruction of the academic work of another student, such as impersonating another student, stealing or ruining another student's academic work.
  • Aiding and abetting academic dishonesty is considered as knowingly facilitating any act defined above.
  • Academic honesty violations can also include the omission or falsification of any information on an application for any HutchCC academic program.

III. Sanctions for Academic Dishonesty

Students who violate the Academic Honesty Policy may be subject to academic or administrative consequences.

Instructor Sanctions for Violation:

Students suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy may be charged in writing by their instructor and any of the following may apply:

  • Assign Avoiding Plagiarism Bridge Module
  • Receiving written warning that could lead to more severe sanction if a second offense occurs
  • Revising the assignment/work in question for partial credit
  • Voiding work in question without opportunity for make-up
  • Reducing the grade for work in question
  • Lowering the final course grade
  • Failing the work in question

Institutional Sanctions for Violation:

Students charged with academic dishonesty, particularly in instances of repeated violations, may further be subjected to an investigation and any of the following may apply:

  • Instructor recommendation to the Vice President of Academic Affairs (VPAA) to dismiss the student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA to dismiss student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs with a grade of 'F." Student will not be allowed to take a 'W' for the course
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA that the student be suspended and/or dismissed from the program
  • Student barred from course/program for a set period of time or permanently
  • May be recommended by the instructor (after documented repeated offenses) to the VP AA that the student be placed on probation, suspended and/or dismissed from the institution.

IV. Procedure

  • Instructor will communicate in writing via the student's HutchCC email account and/or LearningZone email account to the student suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy.  That communication may include sanction(s). Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • For each violation, the instructor will submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form to the Department Chair. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation form.
  • Should the instructor choose to pursue institutional sanctions, the instruct or shall notify the student in writing via the student's HutchCC email account.  Instructor shall also submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form and all prior completed forms regarding said student to the Department Chair and the office of the VPAA with recommendation to proceed with specific Institutional Sanctions. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • The decision of the VPAA on Institutional Sanction is final. The VPAA will notify the student's academic advisor of any institutional sanctions.

V. Due Process Rights

Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

Academic Honesty Appeal Process

I. Due Process Rights: Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

  • If an instructor has recommended course or program dismissal, the student may continue in coursework (provi ding there are no threatening or security behavioral issues) until appeal processes are concluded. However, if an issue has been documented at a partnership location (e.g., clinical sites, secondary institutions, correctional or military facilities), then the student is no longer eligible to continue participation in internships, apprenticeships, and/or clinical-based practice. For clinical sites, this sanction is immediate.

II. Process

If the student disagrees with the charge of a violation of academic honesty, the student has the right to due process as described in the Academic Honesty Appeal process below:

  • If the matter is not resolved upon communicating with the instructor about the violation, the student shall, within five business days of the issuance of the written notice of violation, submit a completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form and supporting documentation to the appropriate department chairperson to initiate an Academic Honesty Appeal.
  • Within two business days of receiving the student's completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form, the Department Chair and VPAA will review and the VPAA will render a decision.
  • Within two business days, a response will be sent to the student's HutchCC email address. The VPAA's decision is final.

INCOMPLETE GRADE:

Instructors may give a student a grade of Incomplete (I) under the following conditions:

  1. The student must initiate the request prior to the time final course grades are submitted to Records.
  2. The request must be made because of an emergency, illness or otherwise unavoidable life-event.
  3. The instructor must agree to the request before a grade of Incomplete can be submitted.
  4. A written contract between the instructor and student, signed by both, will document the work required and date needed to complete course work.
  5. If a student does not complete the course requirements within the time frame established by the instructor, a grade of "F" will be recorded on the student's transcript at the end of the next semester.

HLC ACCREDITATION:

Hutchinson Community College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). The Higher Learning Commission is one of six regional institutional accreditors recognized by the US Department of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

Last Revised: 06/06/2019