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Dec 15, 2025
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2025-2026 University Catalog
Religion, B.A.
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The Religion Department is dedicated to the academic study of religion as a complex and dynamic phenomenon deeply interwoven with other aspects of life and culture. It is an integral part of the liberal arts curriculum of the University. The department’s goals are:
- To teach about the world’s religious traditions, introducing students to the thought, beliefs, institutions, symbolic expressions, worship, and social and moral implications of these traditions, and to illuminate their interaction with other social and cultural forms, including other religious traditions;
- To introduce students to the various methods employed in religious studies: historical, philosophical and theological, sociological and psychological, textual, hermeneutical and aesthetic, and comparative;
- To provide a place for addressing big questions of value, meaning, and human cares and for assessing the ways these are addressed in religious communities;
- To encourage students to think about religious ways of life tolerantly, sympathetically, and yet critically.
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Introduction
Choose one course from the following list. This course must normally be taken before the start of the senior year. Religious Traditions
Choose two courses from the following lists. At least one course must be chosen from each of two of the following religious traditions: Cluster
A group of at least three courses proposed by students in consultation with their departmental adviser before the end of the junior year, cohering in such a way as to define and inform students’ particular interest in a tradition, a topic or a method of studying religion. The cluster must include at least two courses from the Religion Department and may include up to three credits from one three- or four-credit course in other related disciplines or interdisciplinary programs (e.g., anthropology, art history, classics, English, history, philosophy, political science, sociology, women and gender studies). Students are encouraged to search the catalog and each term’s list of topical offerings for courses related to their study of religion. Electives
Choose ten courses of additional work in religion or other related disciplines. A limit of one non-Religion course will count toward the major including the electives above. 200-Level Religion Courses
Choose fifteen credits of religion courses at the 200-level or higher, excluding REL 210 , REL 399 , and REL 493 . Senior Capstone
Choose one course from the following list: Total Major Requirements 30 Credits
Students seeking to graduate with honors are required to graduate with a minimum of eleven three- or four-credit courses. |
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