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Nov 25, 2024
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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Religious Studies Minor (E)
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The Religious Studies Minor offers students a flexible introduction to religion by offering courses across four menus: Introducing Religious Studies, Religion in Historical Perspectives, Religion and Social Issues, and Additional Ways of Approaching Religion.
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REAL Curriculum
This minor fulfills the E area of the REAL Curriculum. Focused on the topic of humanistic inquiry as written into the E learning outcome, religious studies considers how humans have created religious explanations for life’s most pressing problems. Topics of study include a survey of world religions, religion in India, China, and Japan; Islam; Bible and Christianity; religion and death; religion and women; religion and healthcare; and cults. Students need majors and/or minors to fulfill the R, A, and L areas to complete the REAL Curriculum requirements.
General Education Requirements
General Education courses will be denoted below with a (GE). Students are required to take at least 30 credit hours of general education designated courses within their degree requirements. The Religious Studies minor includes 6-15 general education credits.
Minor Requirements (15 credits)
Introducing Religious Studies (3 credits)
Choose one of the following courses:
Religion in Historical Perspectives (3 credits)
Choose one of the following courses:
Religion and Social Issues (6 credits)
Choose two of the following courses, with at least one at the 300-level:
Additional Ways of Approaching Religion (3 credits)
Choose one of the following courses:
Total Credits Needed for Minor 15
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