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2021-2022 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Religious Studies Major (B.A.)

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Major Requirements:

* At least 12 credits must be 300-level or above

REL 210 - Exploring Religion and Spirituality 3 Credits
REL 229 - Religions of the West 3 Credits
REL 230 - Asian Religions and Philosophies 3 Credits
REL 258 - Religion and Nature 3 Credits

Global Religious Literacy

East Asian Traditions

Two of the following:

REL 231 - Buddhism 3 Credits
REL 234 - Japanese Religious History 3 Credits
REL 235 - Daoism Seminar 4 Credits
REL 331 - Zen Buddhism 3 Credits

Christian Traditions

Two of the following:

REL 216 - Jesus, Paul, and Christian Origins 3 Credits
REL 240 - Jesus in Popular Cultures 3 Credits
REL 315 - History of Christian Cultures 3 Credits

Global and Indigenous Traditions

Two of the following:

REL 215 - Hebrew Bible and Jewish Origins 3 Credits
REL 330 - History of Islamic Cultures 3 Credits
HIS 263 - History of the Middle East 3 Credits
HIS 270 - The Holocaust 3 Credits
NAS 160 - Lake Superior Ojibwe 3 Credits
NAS 211 - Native American History and Experience 3 Credits
NAS 212 - Wisconsin Indian Cultures, History, and Contemporary Issues 3 Credits

Critical Connections

Two of the following:

IDS 154 - Fake News, Forgeries, and Frauds 3 Credits
REL 220 - Myth and Ritual 3 Credits
REL 225 - Magic, Medicine, and Miracle 3 Credits
REL 340 - Sex and Religion 3 Credits
REL 350 - Christianity & Ecology 3 Credits
PHL 225 - Ethics 3 Credits
PHL 226 - Environmental Ethics 3 Credits
PHL 230 - History of Western Philosophy I 3 Credits
PHL 262 - Environmental Philosophy 3 Credits
Other courses with approval of Religious Studies Program Coordinator

Religious Studies Electives and Interdisciplinary Explorations

Three courses from any category below

Religious Studies Electives

Any course from categories above not already taken
and/or
REL 165 - Demons, Angels, & Ghosts 3 Credits
REL 219 - The Nature of Religious Experience 3 Credits
REL 257 - Death and Dying 3 Credits
PHL 270 - Philosophy of Science 3 Credits
PHL 276 - Logic 3 Credits
PHL 330 - Philosophy of Language 3 Credits
PHL 360 - Concepts of Nature 3 Credits

Interdisciplinary Explorations

ART 230 - Art History Ancient to Medieval 3 Credits
ART 231 - Art History Renaissance to Modern 3 Credits
ART 232 - Contemporary Art History 3 Credits
ENG 228 - Literature of the Arab World 4 Credits
ENG 384 - Literary Criticism 3 Credits
ENG 415 - Chaucer 4 Credits
HIS 111 - History of World Civilizations to 1500 3 Credits
HIS 112 - History of World Civilizations since 1500 3 Credits
HIS 221 - History of Medieval Europe 3 Credits
HIS 320 - The Enlightenment 3 Credits
HIS 321 - The French Revolution 3 Credits
IDS 281 - Spring in Italy 4 Credits
OED 224 - North Woods Pathways 4 Credits
OED 228 - Wilderness Writers and Philosophers 3 Credits
SOC 225 - Social Problems 3 Credits
SOC 215 - Sociology of Community 3 Credits
Other courses with approval of the Religious Studies Program Coordinator

Senior Capstone (one of the following):

IDS 480 - Senior Seminar 3 Credits
IDS 496/497 - Independent Study 3 Credits
Other 400 level course with approval of Religious Studies Program Coordinator

Total Religious Studies Major: 48 Credits