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Featured Courses for Fall 2013

*New Courses at WIU-Quad Cities

SPAN 325 - Spanish Conversation and Composition I

Star number: 84031
Thursdays
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Description: SPAN 325 is an advanced course in Spanish language and culture that includes intensive practice in oral expression and conversation based on assigned readings, videos, acquisition of vocabulary related to topics of current life, and some written exercises. This course is conducted completely in Spanish in order to help students acquire the language more naturally.

Prerequisite:
Recommendation of Department based on placement test (please contact Dr. Gary Schmidt at G-Schmidt2@wiu.edu for information on how to complete this exam)
OR  Span 224 at WIU
OR  Completion of 200 level (intermediate) Spanish at another institution.

If you are a heritage speaker or have recently completed several years of Spanish in high school it is likely that you meet the prerequisite.

For more information, contact:

Dr. Gary Schmidt
Dept. Foreign Languages and Literatures
Phone: (309) 298-1558
Fax: (309) 298-1060
E-mail: G-Schmidt2@wiu.edu or
the Department at languages@wiu.edu

REL 380: Jesus

Star number: 84053
Mondays
12:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Description: A study of Jesus as pictured in the Gospels, history, and culture.

Who was Jesus in his own lifetime?
What has Jesus come to mean, both for Christians and for others?
We'll examine studies of the "historical Jesus," Christian theological debates about his identity and significance, and diverse portrayals of Jesus in both Christian and non-Christian contexts.

Pre-Requisite: one 100- or 200-level religious studies course or consent of instructor.

For more information, contact:

Dr. Amy Carr
Dept. Philosophy and Religious Studies
Phone: (309) 298-2507
E-mail: AR-Carr@wiu.edu