As an interdisciplinary minor, Religious Studies can be taken in conjunction with any major.
Units
PHIL 502 World Religions (3) or a comparable
course taken at another institution 3
PHIL 525/RELS 300 The Nature of Religious
Experience or
PHIL 500 Philosophy of Religion 3
Normally one course should be taken from
each of the following categories and no
more than two courses from a single
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ART 202 Western Art History II
ART 205 Asian Art History
BLS 610 African Art, Myth, and Religion
ENG 503 Arthurian Romance
ENG 525 Modern American Mystics
ENG 580 William Blake
ENG 589 Milton
ENG 630 Selected Studies: The Bible as
Literature
ENG 630 Selected Studies: Religious Themes
in Contemporary Literature
ENG 630 Selected Studies: The Visionary
Child in Literature
ITAL 581 The Divine Comedy (taught in the
language)
MUS 505 Music of the World's People
DANC 415 Dance in Religion
DANC 430 Historical Survey of Dance in the
Western World: 1300-Present
DANC 657 Dance Ethnology
THA 401 Theatre Backgrounds:
500 B.C.-1642
WCL 260 Myths of the World
AIS 310 American Indian Religion and
Philosophy
AIS 450 American Indian Science
BLS 326 Black Religion
CLAS 330 Myth in Ancient Epic
CLAS 360 Greek and Roman Mythology
ENG 501 Age of Chaucer
ENG 509 Age of Humanism
ENG 630 Selected Studies: Bible and English/
American Literary Tradition
HIST 110 History of Western Civilization I
HIST 111 History of Western Civilization II
HIST 321 Hellenistic Greece
HIST 325 Late Antiquity
HIST 326 The Byzantine Empire
HIST 328 Early Christian Church to 313
HIST 329 Early Christian Church, 313-787
HIST 331 The High Middle Ages
HIST 336 The Reformation
HIST 480 Thought and Culture in America
HIST 600 The Ancient Near East
HIST 635 Recent History of the Jewish
People
HUM 375 Biography of A City: Rome
HUM 403 The Early Middle Ages
HUM 404 The High Middle Ages
HUM 406 The Creation of the Modern World:
16th-18th Centuries
MUS 532 Music of Latin America
PHIL 302 Medieval Philosophy
PHIL 504 History of Christian Thought I
PHIL 508 Indian Philosophy and Religion
PHIL 510 Far Eastern Philosophy and
Religion
PHIL 510 Spiritual Traditions in China
PHIL 515 Semitic Religious Thought
PHIL 520 Modern Religious Thought
PHIL 530 Feminist Religious Thought
PHIL 530 Selected Religious Thinkers
SNSK 350 Sanskrit Language and Literature
WOMS590 Women's Myth and Ritual
WOMS560 Jewish Women
ANTH 570 Anthropology of Religion
HIST 482 Religion in America
HUM 345 Humanism and Mysticism
NEXA 281 Myth and Scientific Thought
NEXA 380 Cosmologies and World Views
NEXA 387 Origins of Modern Science
PHIL 500 Philosophy of Religion
RELS 696 Directed Reading in Religious
Studies 3
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