Course Changes and Cancellations

Changes to Harvard Divinity School's 2012-13 class offerings made after their publication in June 2012 are noted below. All updates are also reflected in the online course listings. This information is complete as of January 29, 2013.

New Courses

Fall 2012

HDS 3015 Buddhist Psychology: Theory and Practice
Andrew Olendzki
0.50 credits. Fall 2012. Thurs, 1-3pm (note new time).

HDS 3414 Religious Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict and State Terror in Modern India: Cases from Kashmir, Panjab, Gujarat and Nagaland
Harpreet Singh
0.50 credits. Fall 2012. Tues Thurs, 10-11:30am.

HDS 3979 Orthodoxy: Truth, Authority and Law
M. Shahab Ahmed
0.50 credits. Fall 2012. Mon Tues, 3:20-4:50pm.

HDS 4050 Introductory Pali
Parimal Patil
0.50 credits. Fall 2012. Mon Wed Fri, 2-3pm.

Spring 2013

HDS 2312 Public Religion and Civil Society
Patrick Gnanapragasam
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Thurs 2-4pm.

HDS 2318 The Niebuhr Brothers and Their World
K. Healan Gaston
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Thurs 4-6pm.

HDS 2428 Readings in Postmodern Theology
Mayra Rivera Rivera
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Wed 1-4pm.

HDS 2936 Clinical Chaplaincy: Interfaith Caregiving Skills and Practice
Chris Berlin
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Wed 4-6pm.

HDS 3365 Islam in African History
Ousmane Oumar Kane
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Tue Thu, 1-2pm (note day/time change).

HDS 3368 Islam, Modernity, and Politics
Ousmane Oumar Kane
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Fri, 2-4pm (note day/time change).

HDS 3402 South Asian Literary Cultures: An Introduction
Harpreet Singh
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Tue Thu, 10-11:30am.

HDS 3419 Contemporary Politics of South Asia's Past
Harpreet Singh
0.50 credits. Spring 2013.

HDS 3960 Shinto
Helen Hardacre
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Wed 1-3pm. FAS.

HDS 4051 Introductory Pali
Parimal Patil
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Mon Wed Fri 2-3pm.

Course Changes

Fall 2012

HDS 2209 Gender, Authority, and Domination in Modern Theologies and Theories of Religion
Lori Kay Pearson
0.50 credits. Fall 2012. Day/time change: Fri 10am-noon.

HDS 2378 Marx and His Readers
Steven Jungkeit
0.50 credits. Fall 2012. Day/time change: Mon 2-4pm.

HDS 4220 Intermediate Greek I
Judy Ravesloot Haley
0.50 credits. Fall 2012. Day/time change: Mon Wed 6-7:30pm.

Spring 2013

HDS 1750 Early Christian Thought 2: The Latin Tradition
Charles Marshall Stang
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Time change: Tue Thu 11:30am-1pm.

HDS 1752 Augustine and His Heretics
Charles Marshall Stang
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Day/time change: Tue 4-6pm.

HDS 1870 Archaeology and the World of the New Testament: Seminar
Laura Salah Nasrallah
1.00 credits. Spring 2013. Day/time change: Wed 1:30-4pm.

HDS 2108 Women, Justice, and Shariah in Nigeria
Hauwa Ibrahim
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Day/time change: Thurs 2-4pm.

HDS 2167 Women, Spirituality, and Peace
Zilka Spahic Siljak
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Day/time change: Mon noon-2pm.

HDS 2804 Ethics, Punishment and Race
Kaia Stern
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Time change: Mon 7am-1pm.

HDS 2806 Eye Contact, Ethics and Interbeing
Kaia Stern
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Day/time change: Fri 10am-noon.

HDS 2895 A Profile in Ministry: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Seminar
Dudley Corwin Rose
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Day/time change: Tues noon-2pm.

HDS 2927 Spiritual Care and Counseling
Cheryl A. Giles
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Time change: Thurs 2-4pm.

HDS 2958 Clinical Case Studies in Psychology and Religion
Dorothy A. Austin
0.50 credits. Term change: Spring 2013. Tues 6-8pm.

HDS 3233 Chinese Buddhist Texts: Readings in Medieval Buddho-Daoist Documents: Seminar
Ryûichi Abé
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Day/time change: Fri 10am-1pm. FAS.

HDS 3256 The Shock of the New
Michael D. Jackson
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Day/time change: Tue Thu 8:30-10am.

HDS 3421 Gandhi, Then and Now: Seminar
Diana L. Eck
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Thurs 2p-4pm. Course enrollment revision: Course enrollment limited to 15; instructor permission required

HDS 3808 Space and Place: Seminar
Michael D. Jackson
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Day/time change: Thurs noon-2pm.

HDS 3931 Yoga Sutras in a Comparative Perspective
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Time change: Wed 2-4:30pm. Divinity Hall, Room 106.

HDS 4021 Intermediate Classical Hebrew II
David Andrew Teeter
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Day/time change: M W F 10-11am. Divinity Hall, Room 320.

HDS 4043 Advanced Modern Hebrew II
Irit Aharony
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Day/time change: Mon Wed 1-2:30pm. FAS.

HDS 4045 Advanced Bridge Seminar in Modern Hebrew: Israeli Culture
Irit Aharony
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Day/time change: Tue Thu 1-3pm. FAS, Sever Hall, Room 215.

HDS 4120 The Language of Pharaohs: Introduction to Egyptian Hieroglyphs I
Peter Der Manuelian
0.50 credits. Spring 2013. Day/time change: Mon Wed 1:30pm-3pm. FAS.

Course Cancellations

Fall 2012

HDS 2535 Karl Barth Seminar

HDS 3106 Religion, Mediation and the Senses

HDS 4036 Introduction to Rabbinic Hebrew

Spring 2013

HDS 2250 History of Western Christianity, 1100-1500

HDS 2457 Theopoetics and Poethics

HDS 2759 Readings in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Theory: Freud-Old and New

HDS 2931 Risk and Resilience in Adolescent Development: Seminar

HDS 2934 Counseling for Practitioners - Addressing Trauma and Loss: Seminar

HDS 2959 Death and Dying in Life and Literature—A Clinical Pastoral Perspective

HDS 3419 Contemporary Politics of South Asia's Past

HDS 4157 Elementary Coptic I