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Dec 23, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Religious Studies, Minor
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The minor is offered for students who have a significant interest in religious studies which they wish to combine with their major course of study. The total number of credits required for a minor in religious studies is 21. A minimum of 12 credits must be upper-division. All courses in the minor must be taken for a letter grade and passed with a grade of “C” or higher.
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foundations of religious studies (9 credits)
electives (12 credits)
four of the following, nine credits must be from upper-division courses - REL 120 - Global Ethics and Religion 3 credits
- REL 125 - Philosophy of Religion 3 credits
- REL 150 - The Bible and Popular Culture: Engaging the Sacred Text 3 credits
- REL 200 - Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures 3 credits
- REL 201 - Introduction to the New Testament 3 credits
- REL 202 - Introduction to Islam 3 credits
- REL 213 - Introduction to Judaism 3 credits
- REL 214 - Introduction to Christianity: Decisive Moments, People, and Readings 3 credits
- REL 217 - The Holocaust and Religious Faith 3 credits
- REL 240 - Exploring Interfaith as Diversity 3 credits
- REL 242 - Mindfulness 1½ credits
- REL 243 - Advanced Applied Mindfulness 1½ credits
- REL 303 - Readings in Qur’an and Hadith 3 credits
- REL 304 - The Ancient Mediterranean World 3 credits
- REL 306 - The Middle Ages 3 credits
- REL 307 - Germany and the Holocaust 3 credits
- REL 309 - Religion, Knowledge, and Evil 3 credits
- REL 310 - From Socrates to Aquinas 3 credits
- REL 311 - Descartes to Kierkegaard 3 credits
- REL 312 - Religious Experience in Film and Fiction 3 credits
- REL 314 - Fiction, Film and the Western Contemplative Tradition 3 credits
- REL 316 - Genesis and Gender 3 credits
- REL 322 - Topics in Theology 3 credits
- REL 323 - Interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) 3 credits
- REL 324 - Interpretation of the New Testament 3 credits
- REL 325 - Albert Schweitzer: His Life and Thought 3 credits
- REL 330 - Women and Religion 3 credits
- REL 330a - Women and Religion: Voodoo in Context 3 credits
- REL 332 - Japanese Religions through Anime 3 credits
- REL 333 - Deconstructing Hogwarts: Religion, Race, and Gender in Harry Potter 3 credits
- REL 334 - Religion and Love in World Literature 3 credits
- REL 335 - Hinduism and the Religions of India 3 credits
- REL 336 - Buddhism 3 credits
- REL 338 - Asian Religions in America 3 credits
- REL 340 - The Bible as Literature: The Hebrew Scriptures 3 credits
- REL 341 - The Bible as Literature: The Christian Scriptures 3 credits
- REL 350 - Happiness: Exploring Its Spiritual and Rational Foundations 3 credits
- REL 351 - Health, Healing and Wholeness in the World Religions 3 credits
- REL 352 - Quantum Theory, Cosmology and Consciousness 3 credits
- REL 353 - Religion and Medicine 3 credits
- REL 355 - New Religious Movements in Global Context 3 credits
- REL 358 - Islam and the West 3 credits
- REL 365 - Topics in the Holocaust 3 credits
- REL 365a - Perpetrators, Witnesses, and Rescuers 3 credits
- REL 366 - Blood, Passion, and the Spirit: The Latin American and Latinx Religious Experience 3 credits
- REL 380 - Law and Religion 3 credits
- REL 399 - Individual Study 1-6 credits
- REL 490 - Independent Internship 1-6 credits
- REL 499 - Individual Study 1-3 credits
- Travel course (to be approved by the chair of the department)
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