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Religious Studies
The Religious Studies program at Beloit College seeks not only to understand the lifeways of religious communities, past and present, local and global, but also to engage with those lifeways as resources for enriching and challenging our own conceptions of life and world.
Interdisciplinary coursework focuses on developing a deep understanding of different ways of knowing and living in the world and exploring their relationship to power structures and social identities. Students gain skills for intercultural and interreligious dialogue and understanding through investigating their own assumptions and practices in light of the lifeways of others.
Minors
- Religious Studies 101
- Five additional units in RLST.
- Some of these units may be fulfilled by courses focused on religion in another discipline (e.g., HIST 225, Renewal and Reform in Early Modern Europe, and HIST 264, Piety and Heresy in the Middle Ages) or as part of study abroad.
- A maximum of one unit may be fulfilled by a course not primarily focused on religion, as long as the student does substantial work on a topic related to the study of lifeways seen as religious for the course. This option requires the approval of a religious studies advisor prior to the completion of the course.