Major in Religious Studies [Arts]

General Information

See Bachelor of Arts  for additional regulations and requirements, including specific regulations for cross-listed courses.  

Degrees in Religious Studies are interdisciplinary programs administered by the Department of History, Classics, and Religion, Faculty of Arts. They combine required RELIG courses with approved cross-listed courses offered in various departments of the Faculty of Arts and, exceptionally, in other Faculties.

Requirements for the Major

• RELIG 102 - Introduction to Western Religious Traditions
• RELIG 103 - Introduction to Eastern Religious Traditions

Recommended Courses

As Religious Studies is an interdisciplinary program that draws on the methods of other disciplines, majors are encouraged but not required to take one of:

• ANTHR 301 - Introduction to Ethnographic Methods
• HIST 290 - Introduction to History as a Discipline
• PSYCH 212 - Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology
• SOC 315 - Introduction to Social Methodology
• WGS 302 - Feminist Research and Methodologies