Major requirements: Majors must complete 11 courses/33 hours of credit.

Minor requirements: Minors must complete 6 courses/18 hours of credit. 3 courses must be advanced (3000 or 4000-level), and 3 courses must be in PHIL. Any courses not selected from the approved list must be approved by the undergraduate advisor.

Theoretical approaches, 3 hours

• ANTH 4751 - Culture, Religion and Ritual
• PHIL 3600 - Philosophy of Religion
• SOCI 3700 - Sociology of Religion

Christianity, 3 hours

• PHIL 3500 - Christianity and Philosophy
• PHIL 3520 - Early Christian Thought
• HIST 4217 - Jew, Greek and Roman: Backgrounds of Early Christianity

Judaism, 3 hours

• PHIL 3050 - Judaism and Religious Diversity
• PHIL 3510 - Hebrew Bible
• PHIL 3530 - Kabbalah: Jewish Mysticism, Myth and Magic
• PHIL 3540 - Judaism and Philosophy

Islam, 3 hours

• HIST 3450 - Islam and its Empires
• HIST 3460 - Modern Middle Eastern History
• PHIL 3570 - Islam and Philosophy

South Asian religions, 3 hours

• ANTH 3700 - Peoples and Cultures of South Asia
• HIST 4610 - Contemporary South Asia
• PHIL 3620 - Hinduism
• PHIL 3630 - Jainism

East Asia religions, 3 hours

• PHIL 3670 - Chinese Philosophy
• PHIL 3680 - Buddhism, Daoism, Shintoism

Religion and history, 3 hours

• HIST 3308 - Ancient Israel
• HIST 3550 - Imperial China
• HIST 3570 - Japanese History
• HIST 4008 - Ancient Religion and Magic
• HIST 4218 - Early Medieval Europe, ca. 312-1095
• HIST 4219 - Late Medieval Europe, 1095 to 1400
• HIST 4230 - The Age of the Reformation
• HIST 4290 - Intellectual, Cultural and Social History of Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• HIST 4315 - History of Anti-Semitism from Ancient Times to the Present
• HIST 4462 - Religion in American History

Interreligious Engagement, 3 hours

• PHIL 2070 - World Religions
• PHIL 3140 - Religion and American Society
• HIST 4215 - Jews Under Greek and Roman Rule
• HIST 4223 - Crusade and Jihad
• HIST 4240 - Nationalism, Zionism and Islamism in Modern Middle Eastern History
• HIST 4246 - Imperialism in the Modern Middle East

Current issues, 3 hours

• PHIL 3640 - Gender and Christianity
• PHIL 3650 - Religion and Science
• PHIL 3660 - Religion and the Environment
• PSCI 3650 - Middle East Politics
• PSCI 4150 - Religion and Politics in the United States

Advanced electives, 6 hours

Students must take two advanced electives, either an additional two from the above groups of courses or any of the following approved electives:

• ANTH 3110 - Indigenous Peoples of North America
• ARTH 4804 - Medieval Art
• ARTH 4805 - Topics in Medieval Art
• ARTH 4825 - Topics in Islamic and/or Middle Eastern Art
• ENGL 3370 - The Bible as Literature
• ENGL 4270 - Modern Jewish Literature
• ENGL 4440 - Milton
• ENGL 4660 - Literature and the Holocaust
• HIST 3762 - Rome: The Biography of a City
• HIST 3770 - Ancient and Medieval Women, Gender and Sexuality
• HIST 4380 - The European Witch Hunts
• HIST 4390 - The Holocaust, 1933-1945
• HIST 4435 - American Jewish Experience
• HIST 4475 - Jewish Women in Modern America
• MUET 3090 - Music of India and Pakistan
• MUMH 4800 - Nazism, Judaism and the Politics of Classical Music in Germany
• MUMH 4810 - Jews, Judaism, Anti-Semitism and Opera
• PHIL 3160 - Philosophy of Death and Dying
• PHIL 3550 - Jewish Business Ethics
• PHIL 3960 - Topics in Religion
• PHIL 4500 - Existentialism
• THEA 4395 - Theatre and the Holocaust
• WLLC 3400 - The Holocaust and Film

A minimum grade of C is required for all courses counting toward the Bachelor of Arts with a major in religion.