Religious Studies Department
University of California, Riverside
THE MINOR
(28 units total)
I.
Lower-Division Requirements: Each student is required to take 3 lower-division
courses distributed as follows:
1)
2)
3)
II.
Religious Studies 5
Religious Studies 12
One additional course in Religious Studies or its equivalent
Upper-Division Requirements: Each student is required to take 4 upper-division
courses distributed as follows:
A.
One course from each of the following areas:
1)
2)
3)
B.
Eastern Religions
Western Religions
Themes in Religions
Four (4) additional upper-division units from Religious Studies courses or
related courses in other programs or departments. (A list of courses is
available in the catalog or from the Religious Studies Office. Other courses
are considered with approval by the Chair.)
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RLST COURSE LEGEND
Lower-Division Courses
2 w/disc.
Introduction to Comparative Scripture
5 w/disc.
Introduction to Asian Religions
5H
Introduction to Asian Religions (honors)
7 w/disc.
Introduction to Western Religions
8 w/disc.
Christian Heresies
10 w/disc.
Introduction to the Bible
11 w/disc.
Modern Christianities and World Cultures
12/etst w/disc.
12H
13 w/disc.
14 w/disc.
15 w/disc.
15H
30 w/disc.
39 w/disc.
Religious Myths & Rituals
24/hist 34
44/hist44
Upper-Division Courses
A.
Western Religions
111
Islam
113
Topics in Modern Islam
121
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
Studies in Judaism from 70 C.E. to Modern
124 (E-Z)
Period
124F
Jewish Religious Mysticism and Thought
124G
Modern Jewish Thought
124H
Prayer, Mysticism and Magic
124I
Varieties of Ancient Judaism
124J
The Essentials of Judaism
124K
Zionism and Holocaust
125
History of Jewish-Christian Relations
126
Israel: The Jewish State
127
The Holocaust
128 (E-Z)
Topics in the Bible
128E
Contemporary Views of Jesus
128F
Biblical Fictions
131
130
133
134
135/hise130
136
137a/hisa122a
137b/hisa122b
138
151
162/wmst
163/wmst
164
168
184
Religious Myths & Rituals (honors)
World Religions in California
Religion and Science
Death
Death (honors)
Religion and the City
Intro to African American Religions
Intro to Native Amer. Culture and
Relgion
Gods, Ghosts, and Grandparents
Jesus
Bible: New Testament
Christian Origins
Christian Martyrs, Monastics, and
Mystics
History of Christianity
Augustine & Aquinas
Religious Cultures in Early America
Religious Cultures in Modern America
Religion and Colonialism in Mexico
Reading the Qur'an
Women's Issues in Modern Muslim Thought
The Women of Early Christianity
Native American Religions
Religion and Art: Image, Icon, Idol
Contemporary Christian Theologies
B.
101
103
104
105
106
107/ast/chn
Eastern Religions
Religions of India
Confucian Traditions
Sikhism
Religions of Japan
Buddhism
Taoism
108
142/ast/chn
144/cplt
145
149
150
Modern Hinduism
Chuang-Tzu
Buddhist Literature
Buddhism in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asian Religions
Islam in Southeast Asia
C.
109
114
116
117/cla/cplt
112
118
119
Themes in the Study of Religion
New Religious Movements
Tabu and Sacred in Time and Space
Religion and Violence
167
168
169
Religion and Film
Religion and Art: Image, Icon, Idol
Religion and Music
170
173
174
Current Issues in Religious Ethics
Political Relig. & Relig. Politics
The Power of Non-violence
175
176
178/wrlt
179
180
Religion and Human Rights
Peace and War
Religious Biography
Pilgrimage
Saints and Gurus
132
139
140
160/wmst
163/wmst
166
Mythology
The Problem of Evil
Sacrifice
Black Exodus: The Great Migration & Rel
Imagination
African American Religions
Martin, Malcolm, and Masculinity
Women and Religion
The Women of Early Christianity
Evangelical Rel, Media, & Culture in America
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D.
100
102
Mandatory Upper-division Requirement
The Problem of Religion
or
Contemporary Themes in Religion and Theory
F.
190
195
197
198I
Special Studies and Senior Research
Special Studies
Senior Thesis
Research for Undergraduates
Individual Internship
ANTH 124
AHS 155
AHS 156
CLA 165
ENGL 100E
HISE 132
HIST 189
PHIL 159
SOC 158
Related Courses from Other Departments
Ritual and Religion
Early Christian Art
Early Medieval Art
Greco-Roman Cults & Credence
The King James Bible as Literature
The Reformation
Modern Jewish History
Philosophy of Religion
Sociology of Religion
E.
193
Seminars in Religious Studies
Senior Seminar
Anthropology
Art History
Art History
Classics
English
History
History
Philosophy
Sociology
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