Religious Studies

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Coordinator/Dept. Chair: 
Prof. Kathleen Self
Phone: 
315.229.5347
Campus Address: 
211 Richardson Hall
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EL 100: Mystery and Meaning (HUM) introduces students to the academic study of religion and surveys major themes in one or two selected religious traditions. This course is designed with first-years in mind. All 200-level courses are also open to first-year students without any prerequisites (i.e., you do not need to take REL 100), however they are designed to be rather more difficult. Several of these courses also fulfill the Humanities (HU) or Arts (ARTS) distribution requirement.

The following courses offered this fall are appropriate for first-year students, subject to the availability of seats:

  • REL 100: Mystery and Meaning (HU)
  • REL 200: Explaining Religion (HU)
  • REL 221/ASIA 261: Religious Life of India (HU)
  • REL 224: Islamic Religious Traditions (HU)
  • REL 226/ASIA 236: Religious Life of Japan (HU)
  • REL 231: Christian Religious Traditions (HU)
  • REL 247A: SPTP: Nordic Religion
  • REL/HIST 267: The Holocaust
  • REL 273/ASIA 273: Religion and Visual Culture (ARTS)