Questions about the afterlife are among the most basic of religion's concerns. These questions are also among the most difficult to address, because we soon find that they bring us to the limits of our knowledge and language. This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to the field of eschatology, the branch of theology that traditionally deals with what are often called "the last things": death, judgment, heaven, and hell. We'll focus on Christian perspectives on these issues from Scripture to the present, and along the way we'll examine how writers, filmmakers, and visual artists have tried to understand and depict the afterlife.