Religion Major | Philosophy & Religion

Religion Major

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 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.