Religion Minor Worksheet

RELIGION MINOR

Minor Requirements – 36 Total Credits

The religion minor offers students a flexible and broad exposure to the discipline, emphasizing the diversity of religious practices and understandings, both within and among religious traditions, while providing opportunities to master theoretical tools and to apply these in the detailed study of specific themes or traditions.

These skills and perspectives enhance academic work in majors across the college and in numerous career paths after college. Whether entering fields related to public policy, health care, nonprofit advocacy and service, education, law, or more, a religion minor can nurture habits of mind and competencies that enable students to be professionals with a unique understanding of religion as a pervasive, significant, and complex dimension of human life.

Introductory Courses – Required 6 credits

Courses introducing the diversity within and among religious traditions

  • Any of the Religion A&I Seminars:
  • RELG 110: Understanding Religion
  • Any of the department’s regular 100-level courses

Method and Theory Course(s) – Required 6 or 12 credits

Courses providing theoretical grounding in the study of religion. 6 or 12 credits at the 300-level Religion courses.

  • RELG 300: Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion
    OR Two 300-level Religion Seminars

This requirement cannot, however, be fulfilled by RELG 399: Senior Research Seminar or RELG 359: Buddhist Studies India Program: Buddhist Meditation Traditions.

Elective Courses – Required 18 – 24 credits

Courses exploring traditions, interdisciplinary themes, problems, and puzzles in the study of religion. 24 or 18 credits of any combination of 100-, 200-, or 300-level Religion courses.

Additional Departmental Notes

A maximum of 6 credits may be taken outside of the Religion Department.