REL 290: Readings in Religious Studies

Goal: To introduce students to the sorts of questions and issues discussed in religious texts and the ways that scholars of religion discuss these questions and issues. To help students develop their own skills in the reading and analysis of texts in religious studies.
Content: The class is configured to focus either on a particular issue, movement, time period, or thinker within religious studies. Representative topics might include Faith and Doubt in Modernity, C.S. Lewis and Friends, Fundamentalisms in World Religions, Feminist Theology, Religious Issues in Modern Literature, Literary Analysis of the Bible, Religion and the Scientific Worldview, and New Religions in America. The class can be understood as an introductory-level special themes course.
Credit: 3
Degree Level: Undergraduate