RELIGIOUS STUDIES (RLST)

Linda Coon
Chairman of Studies
506 Old Main
575-6776

This minor offers students a cross-disciplinary introduction to issues in religious studies as a companion to any traditional academic major. The program is designed to promote tolerance through knowledge and understanding of competing religious views. Courses will be organized so as to allow full participation by all persons, without regard to religious persuasion.

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, including ANTH 3103 (Religion and Society) and PHIL 4303 (Philosophy of Religion) or HUMN 4203 (World Religions) A maximum of six hours may be presented from courses taken in the student's major department:

ANTH 3103, Religion and Society (same as SOCI 3103)

ANTH 3213, Indians of North America

ANTH 3263, Indians of Arkansas and the South

ENGL 3623, The English Bible

ENGL 4303, Early American Literature

ENGL 4313, American Romanticism

ENGL 4433, Middle English Literature

HIST 3003, History of Christianity

HIST 3033, Islamic Civilization

HIST 3083, Women and Christianity

HIST 4003, Greece and the Ancient Near East

HIST 4043, The Early Middle Ages (400- 1100)

HIST 4053, The Late Middle Ages (1100- 1300)

HIST 4073, Renaissance and Reformation (1300-1600)

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 4443, American Religion

HIST 4533, American Social and Intellectual History to 1865

HUMN 2203, Introduction to Religious Studies

HUMN 3163, On Death and Dying

HUMN 4203, World Religions

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 (same as ANTH 3103)

WLIT 2323, Greek and Roman Mythology

WLIT 2333, Patterns in Mythology

WLIT 4273, Literature of India and the Near East

WLIT 4293, Literature of China and Japan