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RELIGIOUS STUDIES (RLST)

Lynda L. Coon, Chair of Studies, 506 Old Main, 575-6776

Professors Cornell (V.), Cory, Haydar, King, Levine, McCartney, Montgomery, Schneider, Spellman, Tsai • Associate Professors Adler, Chappell, Coon, Engels, Finlay, Gordon, Senor, Tucker, Worden • Assistant Professors Cornell (R.), D'Alisera, Schweiger

Drawing on faculty from the humanities and social sciences, this minor introduces students to the interdisciplinary and comparative study of religion.

Program Requirements: Students must complete 15 credit hours of regular courses listed below or special topics and seminars found in each semester's Schedule of Classes under Religious Studies. Of that 15 hours, 3 hours must include HUMN 2213 (World Religions). Students also must choose ONE of the following gateway options:

ANTH 3123, Anthropology of Religion,
HUMN 3203, Approaches to Religious Studies, or
PHIL 4303, Philosophy of Religion
A maximum of six hours may be presented from courses taken in the student's major department.
ANTH 3123, The Anthropology of Religion
ANTH 3213, Indians of North America
ANTH 3263, Indians of Arkansas and the South
ANTH 4513, African Religions: God, Witches, Ancestors
CLST 4003H, "Greek Religion" or "Greek Sacred Space"
ENGL 3623, The English Bible
GREK 2003, Greek New Testament
HIST 3003, History of Christianity
HIST 3033, Islamic Civilization
HIST 3083, Women and Christianity
HIST 3263, History of the American Indian
HIST 3923H, Honors Colloquium: Sufism
HIST 3923H, Honors Colloquium: Honors Approaches to Religious Studies
HIST 4043, Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
HIST 4053, Late Middle Ages
HIST 4073, Renaissance and Reformation Europe
HIST 4313, History of China to 1644
HIST 4353, Middle East 600-1250
HIST 4373, Mongol & Mamluk Middle East 1250-1520
HIST 4393, The Ottoman Empire and Iran 1300-1722
HIST 4533, American Social and Intellectual History to 1865
HUMN 2213, World Religions
HUMN 3163, On Death and Dying
HUMN 3203, Approaches to Religious Studies
HUMN 3923H, "Thomas Merton" or "St. Peter's & the Vatican"
HUMN 425V, Colloquium: Hebrew Bible in Translation
HUMN 4913, Literary Reflections of the Holocaust
PHIL 4013, Platonism and the Origin of Christian Theology
PHIL 4023, Medieval Philosophy
PHIL 4303, Philosophy of Religion
PLSC 4593, Islam and Politics
SOCI 3103, Religion and Society
WLIT 2323, Greek and Roman Mythology
WLIT 2333, Patterns in Mythology
WLIT 3983, Qur'an & Mid Eastern Literature