Learning Outcomes
The Religious Studies major and minor are designed to enable students to:
- Engage in critical, analytical thinking about religion
- Understand how to use and contextualize primary source materials
- Examine and interpret religion from a diversity of viewpoints
- Develop reflective understanding of the practices and practitioners of religion
- Discuss the relations between religion and ethics
- Present complex and original ideas in written and oral formats
In order to reach these learning objectives, the major and minor have specific requirements for the depth of study that each student must undertake.