Religion Major

27 credit hours

Required Courses: 27 credit hours

RELI 110	Exploring the Christian Faith	3
RELI 330	Exploring Judaism	3
	OR
RELI 341	World Religions: Hinduism and Buddhism	3
RELI 320	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 225	The Church in Global Perspective	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 242/PHIL 242	Liberation Thought	3
RELI 243/PHIL 243	Conversation Between Science and Religion	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.