Vocational Bridges

Intrigued by alternative forms of healing?

Will your career require you to be sensitive to different religious notions of suffering and health?

How is religion related to death and dying?

• Courses in Religion, Health & Healing might be for you!

  All Religion Majors are free to select the courses that fit their needs and interests. You must complete 30 semester hours in the department within the following guidelines:

  • 6 semester hours from RELI 10 and RELI 150
  • Students are free to tailor the remaining 24 semester hours to their career goals.
  • At least 18 of the 30 semester hours must be 100-level courses
  • At least 21 of the 30 semester hours must be RELI courses (JWST courses may be included per advisement)

  Religion Minors take 18 hours, with RELI 10 required. At least 12 s.h. must be RELI courses.
  
  Courses that focus intensively on health, healing and/or the body:
  RELI 86 Religion and Medicine  ANCHOR COURSE
  RELI 16 Religions of India
  RELI 20 Magic, Miracles and Medicine in the Greco-Roman World
  RELI 80 Life, Death and Immortality
  Reli xx Alternative Medicine and American Religion  Coming soon!
  RELI 109 Sex and the Body in Religious Studies
  RELI 121 The Religious Mind
  RELI xxx New Age and Neo-Pagan Religions  Coming soon!
  RELI 192 Internship
  
  Courses in which health, healing, and/or the body is one component of a larger course:
  RELI 21 Ancient Wisdom
  RELI 72 Living with Major Thinkers
  RELI 75 Mysticism and the Spiritual Quest
  RELI 102 Birth of Christianity
  RELI 150 Approaches to the Study of Religion  
  RELI 157 Sikh Mysticism
  RELI 158 U.S. Religion in Everyday Life

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Will your job require you to talk about current events in religion with fairness and without stereotyping?

Intrigued by religion’s role in artistic expression?

Wonder why is religion booming on the internet?

Curious about how religion and popular culture interact?

• Courses in Religion, Art, and Media might be for you!

  All Religion Majors are free to select the courses that fit their needs and interests. You must complete 30 semester hours in the department within the following guidelines:

  • 6 semester hours from RELI 10 and RELI 150
  • Students are free to tailor the remaining 24 semester hours to their career goals.
  • At least 18 of the 30 semester hours must be 100-level courses
  • At least 21 of the 30 semester hours must be RELI courses (JWST courses may be included per advisement)

  Religion minors take 18 hours, with RELI 10 required. At least 12 s.h. must be RELI courses.
  
  Courses that focus intensively on media and/or the arts:
  RELI 77 Religion and Media  ANCHOR COURSE
  RELI 16 Religions of India
  RELI 107 The Stuff of Religion
  RELI 101 Jesus in Myth, Tradition and History  
  JWST 60 The Comedy of Difference: Jewish Humor in America
  RELI 192 Internship
  
  Affiliated courses in which media and/or art are one component of a larger course:
  RELI 18 What is Catholicism?
  RELI 51 Islam in North America  
  RELI 66 Satan and Hell
  RELI 103 Warrior Saints  
  RELI 130 Thinking Mysticism  
  RELI 151 Religion and Violence in South Asia
  RELI 154 American Catholicism Now  
  RELI 158 U.S. Religion in Everyday Life
  JWST 119 Blacks and Jews

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Puzzled why religion is often entangled in intolerance and violence? Wonder if religions could be a force for peace?

Will your job require sensitivity to multiple religions & truth claims?

• Courses in Religious Diversity & Global Politics might be for you!

  All Religion Majors are free to select the courses that fit their needs and interests. You must complete 30 semester hours in the department within the following guidelines:

  • 6 semester hours from RELI 10 and RELI 150
  • Students are free to tailor the remaining 24 semester hours to their career goals.
  • At least 18 of the 30 semester hours must be 100-level courses
  • At least 21 of the 30 semester hours must be RELI courses (JWST courses may be included per advisement)

  Religion minors take 18 hours, with RELI 10 required. 12 s.h. must be RELI courses.
  
  Courses that focus on Religious Diversity and Global Politics:
  RELI 76 Religion and Politics   ANCHOR COURSE
  RELI 16 Religions of India
  RELI 51 Islam in North America
  RELI 101Jesus in Myth, Tradition and History
  RELI 102 Birth of Christianity
  RELI 103 Warrior Saints
  RELI 106 African American Religion
  RELI 117 Religion and Politics in Turkey
  RELI 153 Political Islam
  JWST 48 Israel: Myth and Reality
  JWST 119 Blacks and Jews
  JWST 115R Judaism and Islam
  RELI 151 Religion and Violence in South Asia  
  RELI XX The First Amendment and American Religion  coming soon!