3-Year Course Offering
Please note that the rotations listed below reflect information collected from departments in fall 2019. For the most accurate information about when a course will be offered, double check the three-semester rotation schedules of the relevant host department for that particular course (for example, if you're interested in HIST 3040, check the History Department webpage's three-semester rotation schedule for when that course will next be offered; if you're interested in ANTH 3185, check the Anthropology Department's rotation schedule, etc.).
Rotation of Intro Survey Courses
- RELG 3003 Questions of Text and Truth: Introduction to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (once / year)
- RELG 3005 Religions of India, China and Japan (once / year)
- CLAS 3237 / HIST 3310 Ancient Mediterranean Religions (every other year)
Rotation of Methodology Courses
- ANTH 3185 Anthropology of Religion (on a three semester rotation)
- PHIL 3730 Philosophy of Religion (on a three semester rotation)
- SOCY 2700 Sociology of Religion (on a every two or three semester rotation)
Rotation of Upper Divison Courses
- HIST 4001 Colloquium in the History of Religion (once / year)
- PHIL 4105 Seminar in the Problems of Philosophy (every fall)
- CLAS 4012 to be offered every third or fourth semester
- RELG 4001 to be offered once we have enough Religion majors to fill it (we will rely on HIST 4001 for the foreseeable future)
Projected Rotation of Required Religion Courses
2019–20
Fall Semester | Spring Semester |
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ANTH 3185 Anthropology of Religion RELG 3003 Questions of Text and Truth: Introduction to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam |
PHIL 3730 Philosophy of Religion RELG 3003 Questions of Text and Truth: Introduction to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam RELG 3005 Religions of India, China and Japan |
2020–21
Fall Semester | Spring Semester |
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SOCY 2700 RELG 3005 Religions of India, China and Japan CLAS 3237 / HIST 3310 Ancient Mediterranean Religions (or in spring) |
ANTH 3185 Anthropology of Religion RELG 3003 Questions of Text and Truth: Introduction to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam CLAS 3237 / HIST 3310 Ancient Mediterranean Religions (or in fall) |
2021–22
Fall Semester | Spring Semester |
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PHIL 3730 Philosophy of Religion RELG 3003 Questions of Text and Truth: Introduction to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam |
RELG 3005 Religions of India, China and Japan |
At least three of the remaining courses for the major/minor should be offered every semester, preferably from different departments. Here is the rough schedule for the remaining classes for our major/minor, but you should check back with the home department of each course for confirmation.
At Least Once a Year
- AFST 3103 / HIST 3561 Africa Since 1800
- RELG 3030 / CLAS 3200 Heroes/Gods/Monsters (Pathways)
- RELG 3006 / HIST 3317 Shaping the Islamic World
- PHIL 3722 Asian Philosophy
At Least Once Every Two Years
- ANTH 2408 Near Eastern Archeology
- CLAS 3238 / WGST 3710 Gender and the Body in Ancient Religions
- CLAS 3241 / RELG 3041 Magic in the Ancient World
- CLAS 3244 / RELG 3035 / HIST 3025 Death and Afterlife in Ancient History
- HIST 3030 Ancient Egypt
- HIST 3033 / RELG 3024 Medieval Christianity
- HIST 3044 / RELG 3025 Religious Change in Early Modern Europe
- HIST 3350 The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
- HIST 3550 History of the Middle East in the Twentieth Century
- HIST 3554 Modern Turkey
At Least Once Every Three Years
- HIST 3532 / RELG 3040 Mysticism, Magic in Ancient China
- HIST 3315 / RELG 3050 Jesus and the Christian Tradition
- HIST 3416 / AMST 3106 Religious Experience in America
- HIST 3352 / RELG 3020 Islamic Perspectives on Reason, Science, Culture
- POLS 3413 / RELG 3004 Islam and Modernity Political Science (fall 2021)
- PRLS 3115 Latinx Religious Roots and Routes (2020-2021 school year)
Irregularly / If There is Enough Demand (Faculty member Unavailable)
- ARTH 3030 Early Renaissance Art
- ARTH 3038 Later Renaissance Art in Italy
- ARTH 3046 Baroque Art
- ARTH 3151 Death and Dying in Mexico
- CMPL 3621 Indian Literature
- PHIL 3113 Medieval Philosophy
- PHIL 3721 Jewish Philosophy
Check With The Home Department for the Following Courses
- AFST 3210 African Religion and Culture in the New World
- ARTH 3014 Early Christian and Byzantine Art
- ARTH 3018 Early Medieval Art
- ARTH 3022 Romanesque Art
- ARTH 3026 Gothic Art
- ARTH 3124 Islamic Art
- CHIN 3710 Philosophical Texts from the I Ching to Mao
- ENGL 3183 Bible as Literature (spring 2020 and…?)
- HIST 3102 / JUST 3036 Mystics, Pietists, and Heretics: Early Modern Jewish History
- HIST 3103 / JUST 4034 Kabbalah and Messianism
- HIST 3104 / JUST 3037 The Hasidic Movement
- HIST 3552 / JUST 3405 The Sephardic Heritage
- JUST 2545 Classical Jewish Texts (Pathways)
- JUST 3012 Jewish Religion and Tradition
- JUST 3013 From Ghetto to Emancipation
- JUST 3014 Introduction to the Talmud
- JUST 3015 Intro to Midrash
- JUST 3017 The Jewish Woman
- JUST 3020 / WGST 3222 Gender in Classical Jewish Texts
- JUST 3021 / RELG 3011 Syriac Christianity in its Babylonian and Rabbinic Contexts
- JUST 3023 Introduction to the Bible and Apocrypha
- JUST 3031 Modern Jewish Thought
- JUST 3038 Messianic Ideas
- JUST 3465 Ashkenazic Heritage: Poland, Russia, and Beyond
- JUST 4017 Jewish Approaches to Ethical Issues
- JUST 4018 Studies in Jewish Customs
- JUST 4020 Contemporary Issues in Halakah
- JUST 4022 / RELG 3010 Job and the Problem of Evil
- JUST 4024 Dead Sea Scrolls
- JUST 4054 Religion and the Holocaust: During and After
- JUST 4195 Anti-Semitism Judaic Studies
- JUST 4435 Italian Jewry
- POLS 3156 / RELG 3055 Political Science: Brooklyn and Its Religions