Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Adviser Name:_______________________ Bulletin: 2021-2022 Undergraduate Bulletin Program: Religious Studies Minor Minimum Credits Required:__________________

Religious Studies Minor

College of Liberal Arts >> Political Science, Public Administration, and Philosophy 

18 hours; 2.0 minor GPA required

The Religious Studies minor is an interdisciplinary minor, including courses from disciplines such as philosophy, political science, history, economics, English, and art history. The minor prepares students to think critically about how religion can influence social policy and law, to compare world religions and their religious texts, and to understand the philosophical and ethical problems of various religious world views.

The minor is an excellent complement to any major and can enhance career opportunities in such areas as ministry, history, journalism, philosophy, law, psychology, social work, world languages, sociology, and international business.

Required Courses (9 hours)

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
PHIL 251 - Introduction to the Study of Religions

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-World Languages and Culture


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
PHIL 413 - Philosophy of Religion
Term(s) Offered: Every other year
Credits: 3
RELS 370 - Seminar in Religious Studies
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3

Electives (9 hours)

Choose 9 hours of electives from at least 3 different disciplines (prefixes). RELS 370 may be taken twice with different topics.

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
ARTH 221 - Art History I

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Historical Inquiry


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
ARTH 327 - Medieval Art
Term(s) Offered: Every third fall/spring semester
Credits: 3
ECON 306 - Power, Evil and Religion

USI Core 39: World Language and Culture (BS); Embedded Experience-Diversity; Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 222 - Concepts of Good and Evil in Literature

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Moral and Ethical Reasoning


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 386 - World Mythology

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-World Languages and Culture


Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3

 

ENG 499 - Seminar in Literature and Language (approved topic: Women in Islam) or
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
GNDR 449 - Seminar in Gender Studies: Special Topics (approved topic: Women in Islam)
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3

 

HIST 347 - European Reformations
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 375 - The Middle East from the Rise of Islam to 1500
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 376 - The Middle East since 1500
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 377 - History of Iran
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 393 - Ancient and Early Imperial China
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 470 - Pilgrimage in History (approved topic: Holy Land)
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
PHIL 335 - Cognitive Science of Religion
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
PHIL 376 - Philosophies and Religions of Asia
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
POLS 316 - Religion and Politics
Term(s) Offered: Every other year
Credits: 3
POLS 384 - The Middle East

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Every other year
Credits: 3
RELS 270 - Special Topics in Religious Studies
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
RELS 370 - Seminar in Religious Studies
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
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