Religious Studies Major

Requirements

The major consists of a minimum of nine courses:

REL 101	Religions in World Cultures
REL 240	Theories of Religion
REL 490	Senior Capstone

With the Department's approval students with a cumulative GPA of 3.00 or higher, and a major GPA of 3.20 or higher may elect to write and Honors Thesis (495/496) during their senior year.

Six additional approved REL electives:

The electives must include a 300-level elective, two courses in Transformations (Traditions and Practices), and at least one course in each of the three remaining non-Introductory domains of inquiry - Representations (Text and Contexts), Power and Difference, and Additional Department Electives chosen from the following Religious Studies Domains of Inquiry:

Introductory:

REL 101	Religions in World Cultures
REL 102	Contemporary Religious Issues
REL 103	Religion, Myth, and Fantasy
REL 104	Saints, Mystics, Ecstatics

Transformations (Traditions and Practices):

REL 211	Hinduism: Unities and Diversity
REL 212	Buddhism: From India to Asia and Beyond
REL 213	Judaism: Faith, Communities, Identity
REL 214	Christianity: From Jesus to the Third Millennium
REL 215	Islam: History, Faith, and Practice
REL 216	Religions in Africa: Contemporary and Historical Expressions
REL 231	Religions in American History and Culture
REL 232	Religions in Latin America

Representations (Texts and Contexts):

REL 201	The Biblical Imagination: Torah, Prophets, Writings
REL 202	Christian Scriptures
REL 203	Religion and the Literary Imagination
REL 204	India's Religious Texts: Sacred Word, Sacred Sound
REL 207	The Quran
REL 260	Global Muslim Literature and Film

Power and Difference:

REL 217	Latina/o Religions: Not Just Catholicism
REL 222	Interreligious Cooperation and Conflict
REL 225	Sex, Gender, and Religion
REL 228	Religion and Politics in Africa
REL 310	Sacrifice: Ritual and Violence
REL 303	Lived Religion in Context: Ethnographies of Africa and Asia
REL 305	Muhammad and Prophecy
REL 308	Visual Culture and Religious Identity

Additional Department Electives:

REL 223	Religious Healing and Health
REL 224	Religious Ethics
REL 250	Anthropology of Religion
REL 301	Philosophies of Religion
REL 304	Spirituality and Transformation: From Sufism to Self-Help
REL 306	Jewish Responses to the Holocaust
REL 307	Jews in Poland, Culture and Memory