Minor Requirements
A Religious Studies of Minor requires a minimum 15 semester hours.
- Students must complete at least 12 hours in residence.
- A minimum of 9 hours must be advanced; at least 6 of which must be in residence.
- Students must earn a grade point average of 2.00 or higher on all courses attempted in the minor.
The 15 required hours are to include:
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RELS 1301 Intro to Religious Studies
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Three hours of either RELS 2310: The Bible and Western Culture I, or, RELS 2311: The Bible and Western Culture II.
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World Religions
At least six hours of RELS courses from the following list:- ARAB 3313 Qu’ran as Literature
- ANTH 2365 Aztec and Maya Beliefs and Cosmologies
- ANTH 3348 Anthropology of Religion (WID)
- ENGL 4360 Bible as Literature
- RELS 2310 The Bible and Western Culture 1 (Humanities Core)
- RELS 2311 The Bible and Western Culture 2 (Humanities Core)
- RELS 2330 Judaism (Humanities Core)
- RELS 2340 Introduction to Hinduism (WID)
- RELS 2350 Introduction to Islam (WID)
- RELS 2360 Introduction to Buddhism(WID)
- RELS 3321 Catholic Mysticism
- RELS 3323 Continuities: Jewish and Christian Texts and Tradition
- RELS 3325 Paul of Tarsus: His Life and Letters
- RELS 3330 Christianity
- RELS 3371 Women in Bible/ Old Testament
- RELS 3373 Jews in the Ancient World
- RELS 3377 Belief and Disbelief: The Search for Meaning
- RELS 3380 Asian Religions
- RELS 3391 Sacred Texts and Mythologies of India
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Religions in Global Perspective:
Theoretical and thematic topics from the Humanities and/or Social Sciences
At least 3 hours from the following list:- AAS 2322 Introduction to African Religions and Philosophy
- AAS 2330 Black Liberation Theology
- AAS 4330 The Black Church in America
- ANTH 3315 Muslim Peoples of the Middle East
- ANTH 3348 Anthropology of Religion (WID)
- ANTH 3381 Global Hinduism
- ARAB 3306 Introduction to Arabic: Culture, Language, and Islam
- ARAB 3313 Qur’an as Literature
- ARAB 3340 Modernity and Rationalism in Islamic Tradition (Humanities Core)
- ARTH 2382 Medieval Art
- ARTH 3318 Art and Architecture of India
- ARTH 3312 Pre-Columbian Art (WID)
- CCS 3351 African Religious Practices in the Americas
- CCS 3393 Comparative Approaches to Indigenous Cultures in the Americas
- CLAS 3307 Greek and Roman Myths of Heroes
- CLAS 3375 Roman, Jew, and Christian: The Politics and Sociology of Religion in the First Century A.D.
- ENGL 4360 Bible as Literature
- HIST 4334 The Reformation in Europe
- HIST 4375 Religions of Modern Latin America
- JWST 2380 Introduction to Jewish Studies
- PHIL 3374 Science and Religion
- PHIL 3377 Philosophy of Religion
- POLS 4333 Islam and Democracy
- RELS 2335 Rabbinic Biblical Interpretation (WID)
- RELS 2345 Sacred Texts and Mythologies of India
- RELS 2380 Religion and Film (Humanities Visual Arts)
- RELS 2396 Selected Topics in Religious Studies
- RELS 3322 The Catholic Intellectual Tradition
- RELS 3333 Religion and Literature
- RELS 3334 Us and Them: Ethical Decision-Making in Complex Cultures
- RELS 3335 Black Atlantic Religions
- RELS 3336 Caribbean Societies and Cultures
- RELS 3360 Muslim-Christian Relations
- RELS 3366 History of Magic, Witchcraft and the Occult
- RELS 3370 Bible and Modern Science (WID)
- RELS 3375 Christianity and Ethics
- RELS 3377 Belief and Disbelief
- RELS 3380 Asian Religions
- RELS 3381 Global Hinduism (WID)
- RELS 3382 Politics and Religion in South Asia
- RELS 3390 Hinduism and Jainism
- RELS 3396 Selected Topics in Religious Studies
- RELS 3398 Independent Study
- RELS 4320 Religion and Personality
- RELS 4396 Selected Topics in Religious Studies
- RELS 4398 Independent Study
- SOC 3362 Sociology of Religions in India
- SOC 3375 Religion and Society
- SOC 3385 Sociology of World Religions
- WCL 2370 Cultures of India
- WCL 3341 Early Islamic Society: Literature and Thought