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Religion

Basic Structure of the Department

  • The Religion department offers instruction in the world’s major religious traditions: Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, the religions of the ancient Near East, Africa, ancient and modern China, and religious life in North America.
  • The department offers a major and a minor and can be part of a modified major.
  • Courses numbered 1-19 are introductory courses with no prerequisites and are open to all classes. Courses numbered 20-23 are methods courses. The intermediate topics courses are numbered 24-79, and courses numbered 80-81 are upper-level seminars.
  • The Religion department sponsors a Foreign Study Program to Edinburgh, Scotland, in the fall term. The prerequisite is completion of two Religion courses.

Note: Listed below are the introductory courses in Religion. There are many intermediate topics courses that are open to all classes with few or no prerequisites. Consult the ORC for a complete list of departmental offerings.

Fall courses for the interested first year student

  • REL 1: Patterns of Religious Experience
  • REL 6: Introduction to Judaism (=JWST 6)
  • REL 11: Religion and Morality
  • REL 19: Introduction to Japanese Religions

Winter courses for the interested first-year student

  • REL 1: Patterns of Religious Experience
  • REL 3: Modern Religious and Anti-Religious Thinkers
  • REL 12: Religion and Society in America
  • REL 15: The Christian Tradition
  • REL 18: Indian Buddhism

Spring courses for the interested first year student

  • REL 13: Beyond God the Father: An Introduction to Gender and Religion (=WGST 43.1)
  • REL 16: Modern Islam (=AMES 15)
  • REL 17: Introduction to Black Religion in the United States (=AAAS 37)
  • REL 19: Religion, Politics, and the Presidency

Information for students interested in pursuing studies in Religion

  • REL 1: Patterns of Religious Experience is the prerequisite course for the major, minor and modified major programs. It is offered in fall 2007 and winter 2008.

Current Enrollments, Class Size, and Distributives

The ORC

The Religion Homepage

Last Updated: 9/24/07