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Prepare your Spring 2024 schedule with courses in Religious Studies! Here are the upcoming semester course offerings: REL-R 101 Religion and Culture (3 cr.) An introduction to the diversity of human cultures from the perspective of religious studies. The course uses a case study approach to understand how religion shapes, and is shaped by, culture and …

What happens when you load our Course Bulletin into ChatGPT and ask it to speak Gen Z? Read on to find out! REL R103 The Bible and Culture: Fulfills Cultural Understanding General Education Core requirement. A cultural introduction to this central text of Western civilization. Explores some of the Bible’s major themes and literatures in …

Over the last academic year, two students Kayla McVeigh and Alondra Arriaga-Rosales, have been working as Religious Studies Community Engagement Associates (CEAs) with Dr. Kelly Hayes. As Community Engagement Associates Alondra and Kayla work with their faculty mentor on a community-centered project, conducting interviews, compiling a list of community contacts, and creating a final report …

By Prof. Tom Davis and Kayla McVeigh “A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.”  David Whyte About a year and a half ago, I found myself seated next to Jing Wang, a colleague …