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Department of Religion

Marcia Brennan

Carolyn & Fred McManis Professor of Humanities

Professor of Religion and Art History

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Average rating

3.6

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Difficulty

2.6

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Courses

4

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Research areas

Clinical Aesthetics, Medical Humanities, and Palliative Care Modern and Contemporary Art History and Museum Studies Spirituality and Comparative Mysticism

Courses taught

HART 328

Epiphanies

Epiphanies are events or objects that can note a striking appearance or manifestation, just as an epiphanic experience contains a significant moment of revelation. This course examines expressions of epiphanies in modernist art, literature, film, sacred experience, and in the mundane details of life itself. Cross-list: RELI 375.

Art HistoryD13 credits
3.37.0hBrennan, Marcia

MDHM 142

The Colors Of Life

This course explores lived experience through emotion and color, both in life and at the end of life. The class promotes the accessibility of humanistic themes among STEM-oriented learners in ways that are especially relevant and compelling for students planning to enter into the medical or healthcare professions, or who, one day, will serve as caregivers. Cross-list: RELI 142.

Medical HumanitiesD13 credits
4.17.2hBrennan, Marcia

RELI 142

The Colors Of Life

This course explores lived experience through emotion and color, both in life and at the end of life. The class promotes the accessibility of humanistic themes among STEM-oriented learners in ways that are especially relevant and compelling for students planning to enter into the medical or healthcare professions, or who, one day, will serve as caregivers. Cross-list: MDHM 142.

ReligionD13 credits
3.76.7hBrennan, Marcia

RELI 375

Epiphanies

Epiphanies are events or objects that can note a striking appearance or manifestation, just as an epiphanic experience contains a significant moment of revelation. This course examines expressions of epiphanies in modernist art, literature, film, sacred experience, and in the mundane details of life itself. Cross-list: HART 328.

ReligionD13 credits
3.28.4hBrennan, Marcia

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