Religion Major

27 credit hours

Required Courses: 27 credit hours

RELI 110	Exploring the Christian Faith	3
RELI 330W	Exploring Judaism	3
	OR
RELI 341	World Religions: Hinduism and Buddhism	3
RELI 320W	Seminar in Biblical Studies	3
RELI 332	Seminar in Contemporary Theology	3
RELI 400	Senior Thesis	3

One Text and Context course: 3 credit hours

RELI 211	Story and Theology	3
RELI 212	Lessons in Living: Biblical and Contemporary Reflections on Wisdom	3
RELI 213	Power, Politics, and the Biblical Prophets	3
RELI 214	Gospels and Drama of Human Life	3
RELI 215	Paul and Christian Origins: Torah, Messiah and Empire	3
RELI 218	Hope and the Future	3
RELI 229	Reading for Meaning and Truth with Hermes, God of Thieves and Interpreters	3
RELI 247	From Plato to Genesis to Job: The Question of Justice	3

One Tradition and Culture course: 3 credit hours

RELI 200/PHIL 200	Reason, Faith and the Search for Meaning	3
RELI 210/PHIL 210	Ethical Perspectives	3
RELI 216	God: The Problem and the Promise	3
RELI 223	Religion and American Culture	3
RELI 224	The Lutheran Heritage	3
RELI 225	The Church in Global Perspective	3
RELI 232	Christian Ethics	3
RELI 241/PHIL 241	Theology and Philosophy in Dialog	3
RELI 244	Christology	3
RELI 245	After Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Christian Faith	3
RELI 251	Judaism, Islam and the Christian Faith	3
RELI 255	Religion, Politics and Violence	3
RELI 260	The Geography of God's Incarnation: Landscapes and Narratives of Faith	3

One Contemporary Issues course: 3 credit hours

RELI 219	God, Suffering, and Evil	3
RELI 235	Sexual Ethics	3
RELI 236	Life Together: Ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer	3
RELI 253	Living the Questions, Practicing the Faith	3
RELI 254	Theology, Medicine and Ethics	3

One additional course from one of the above areas: 3 credits

Additional courses in Philosophy, History, and Foreign Languages are highly recommended. The department especially recommends study of Latin, Greek and Hebrew.

Religion Sample Plan of Study

Following is one possible way to complete the major.  

Students should fill in gaps with coursework required for the core curriculum and other majors/minors to take an average of 14 credit hours each fall and spring, and 3-4 credit hours each Interim.  Total credit hours needs to be 124 for degree completion.

First Year

Fall Semester

FYS 110	First Year Seminar I	4
	Core, Major, Minor or Elective Course	3-4

Interim

Spring Semester

FYS 111

First Year Seminar II

4

Second Year

Fall Semester

Interim

Spring Semester

Third Year

Fall Semester

Interim

Spring Semester

Fourth Year

Fall Semester

Interim

Spring Semester