Religious
Studies Program
Faculty
Distinguished
Service Professor
Ronald
A. Bosco, Ph.D. (Collins Fellow)
Department of English
Distinguished
Service Professor Emeritae/i
Paul
Wallace, Ph.D.
Department of Classics
Professors
Emeritae/i
Charles
Koban, Ph.D.
Department
of English
Hans
A. Pohlsander, Ph.D.
Department of Classics
William
L. Reese, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy
Professors
Charles
Hartman, Ph.D.
Department of East Asian Studies
Stanley
J. Isser, Ph.D.
Department of Judaic Studies
Robert
G. Meyers, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy
John
Monfasani, Ph.D.
Department of History
Herman
P. Salomon, D. Litt.
Department of French Studies
Mary
Beth Winn, Ph.D.
Department of French Studies
Mahammad
Yadegari, Ph.D.
Department of History
Associate
Professors
Joel
Berkowitz, Ph.D.
Department of Judaic Studies
Mark
L. Blum, Ph.D.
Department of East Asian Studies
Robert
M. Garvin, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy
Daniel
Grossberg, Ph.D.
Department of Judaic Studies
K.
Drew Hartzell, Ph.D.
Department of Music
George
A. Levesque, Ph.D.
Department of Africana Studies
Mark
A. Raider, Ph.D.
Department of Judaic Studies
Roger
W. Stump, Ph.D.
Department of Geography and Planning
Associate
Professors
Joel
Berkowitz, Ph.D.
Department of Judaic Studies
Assistant
Professors
Barry
Trachtenberg, Ph.D.
Department of Judaic Studies
Adjunct
Faculty
Joan
J. Early, Ph.D.
Department of Classics
Joel
A. Linsider, Ph.D.
Department of Judaic Studies
The
Religious Studies Program is an interdisciplinary program reflecting
a wide variety of academic interests and disciplines. Its purpose as
a program is to produce a formal structure for the study of the
religions of humankind.
Religion
is that which is to be studied; religious studies is
the composite program and/or the official title for the formal
structure produced for the study of religion. Religious belief will
not be necessary in order to take courses or to participate in the
program.
Religion,
one of the most basic of human concerns, has occupied a leading place
in the thought and activities of all peoples from the earliest
civilizations (as shown by archaeology), through early literate
societies, (as seen in their religious texts), to the present, where
religious beliefs and their consequences continue to shape the daily
news.
Degree
Requirements for the Faculty-Initiated Interdisciplinary Major with a
Concentration in Religious Studies
General
program B.A.: Religious Studies requires a minimum of 36
credits, at least 18 of which must be on the 300 and 400 level,
distributed as follows:
1.
15 credits from Breadth Courses, of which the following are
required: A Rel 100, A Phi 214, A Ant 363.
Breadth
Courses: A Aas 341; A Ant 175; A Cas 222; A Clc
105 (or 105Z); A Gog 102 (or 102Z), 442Z; A His 235 (or
235Z), A His 387 (or 387Z), A His 388 (or 388Z); A Jst
150, 253; A Phi 116, 311, 322, 342, 344, 346; A Rel 200,
299, 397; A Soc 352.
2.
18 credits from one of the Concentrations: Religious Creative
Expressions (Art, Architecture, Music, Literature); Religion and
Society; or Critical Issues of Religion.
Courses
for the Concentration in Religious Creative Expressions (Art,
Architecture, Music, Literature): A Ant 268; A Arh 170,
171, 331, 332, 341, 342Z, 374, 432, 442; A Cla 207, 207Z, 208,
307, 402, 460; A Clc 223; A Eng 221 (or A Jst 242, or
A Rel 221), 289, 348, 421, 432; A Heb 203, 390; A Ita
421; A Jst 230, 280, 281 (or 281Z), 330, 337; A Mus 205,
432Z; A Thr 221.
Courses
for the Concentration in Religion and Society: A Ant 145, 243,
341 or (341Z), 433; A Cas 160 (or 160Z); A Clc 402, 403,
407; A His 324, 338, 339, 348, 381, 383, 387, 388, 425, 463;
A Jst 221, 244, 248, 251, 252, 254, 341, 342, 343 (or 343Z), 344
(or 344Z); A Spn 313.
Courses
for the Concentration in Critical Issues in Religion: A Est 120;
A Jst 291, 325, 335, 430; A Phy 201 or 201Z; A Pos
358, 359; or A Ssw 220.
3.
Three credits from the senior seminar A Rel 499.
NOTE:
Courses that conform to the intent and content of the program, but
are not listed may be counted towards fulfilling the requirements
upon approval of the program director. A rearrangement of courses
into new concentrations may be possible upon the approval of the
program director.
Students
may also complete a minor in religious studies.
