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Sep 19, 2024
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2024-2025 Pitzer Catalog
Religious Studies Major
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Major Requirements
The Religious Studies (RLST) major encompasses both breadth and depth of study. Major requirements are:
- Four courses in a specialized field at intermediate and advanced levels.A specialized field of study may be based on a specific religious tradition, philosophical theme, historical period, or geographic area. Other examples of specialized fields include: Comparative Global Religions; Gender, Women, and Sexuality; Philosophy of Religion and Religious Thought; and Religion and Social Change. See the Claremont Colleges Intercollegiate Religious Studies website for additional specialized fields.
- Two integrative courses: RLST 180 PO and RLST 190 PO . It is recommended that RLST 180 PO be completed prior to the senior year.
- Three elective courses in Religious Studies outside the specialized field.
- RLST 191 PO -Senior Thesis .
Religious Studies Courses
Anthropology
Classics
English and World Literature
Government
History
Music
Philosophy
Religious Studies
- • RLST 002 PO -Ideas of Love
- • RLST 010 CM -Intro to South Asian Religions
- • RLST 012 CM -Devotional Worlds of South Asia
- • RLST 015 CM -Myth and Religion
- • RLST 020 PO -Intro to the Hebrew Bible
- • RLST 021 CM -Jewish Civilization
- • RLST 022 CM -Intro Western Relig Traditions
- • RLST 037 CM -History of World Christianity
- • RLST 040 PO -Religious Ethics
- • RLST 041 CM -Morality and Religion
- • RLST 043 CM -Intro to Religious Thought
- • RLST 045 CM -Sikhism
- • RLST 048 PO -Nourishing Life
- • RLST 049 PO -Buddhist Meditation
- • RLST 055 CM -Jewish Art & Identity
- • RLST 057 CM -Islamic Empire & Political Phil
- • RLST 058 CM -End of the World As We Know It
- • RLST 059 CM -Dreams and Afterworlds in Islam
- • RLST 060 SC -Feminist Interpret of the Bible
- • RLST 061 SC -New Testament Christian Origins
- • RLST 065 CM -Contemporary Issues Study Islam
- • RLST 085 SC -Conquered Colonized Christianity
- • RLST 087 CM -Israel-Zionism & Jewish State
- • RLST 090 SC -Early Christian Bodies
- • RLST 092 SC -Intro to Early Christianities
- • RLST 093 CM -Religion & Politics in Israel
- • RLST 093 SC -Early Christianity & Theory
- • RLST 095 SC -Jesus,Paul,Early Chrstn Sexualty
- • RLST 096 SC -Eros & Sex: Antiquity/Byzantium
- • RLST 097 SC -Queer African Christianities
- • RLST 100 PO -Worlds of Buddhism
- • RLST 101A CM -The Mahabharata
- • RLST 101B CM -Ramayana: Lit/Politics/Culture
- • RLST 102 CM -Hinduism & South Asian Culture
- • RLST 103 PO -Chinese Thought and Religions
- • RLST 105 HM -Religions in American Culture
- • RLST 107 PO -Buddhist Modernity in China
- • RLST 109 CM -Readings in the Hindu Tradition
- • RLST 110 PO -Death, Dying, and the Afterlife
- • RLST 111 CM -Rebels/Radicals/Relig on Margins
- • RLST 112 HM -Engaging Religion
- • RLST 113 HM -God, Darwin, Design in America
- • RLST 114 HM -Prophecy, Apocalypse
- • RLST 115 CM -Asian American Religions
- • RLST 117 PO -Islamic Law
- • RLST 118 CM -Hindu Goddess Worship
- • RLST 121 SC -The Pauline Tradition
- • RLST 122 JT -Arab Cultural Histories
- • RLST 128 PO -The Religion of Islam
- • RLST 129 CM -Ancient Jewish Experience
- • RLST 135 CM -Jerusalem: The Holy City
- • RLST 136 CM -Religion in Contemporary America
- • RLST 137 CM -Jewish-Christian Relations
- • RLST 138 CM -American Religious History
- • RLST 139 PO -Benjamin, Levinas, Derrida
- • RLST 141 PO -The Experience of God
- • RLST 142 AF -Prob of Evil: Afr-Amer Engagmnts
- • RLST 143 CM -Philosophy of Religion
- • RLST 144 CM -Life, Death, Survival of Death
- • RLST 145 CM -Religion & Science
- • RLST 147 HM -World & Transnational Religions
- • RLST 148 PO -Sufism
- • RLST 150 AF -Eye of God: Race and Empire
- • RLST 152 PO -Children’s Literature
- • RLST 153 CM -Religion & American Politics
- • RLST 156 CM -Revolt/Reform Early Mod Europe
- • RLST 157 PO -Post-Holocaust Philosophy
- • RLST 158 PO -Jewish Mysticism
- • RLST 161 CM -Gurus, Swamis, & Others
- • RLST 162 PO -Modern Jewish Philosophy
- • RLST 163 CM -Women & Gender in Jewish Trad.
- • RLST 164 PO -Women in Islamic Traditions
- • RLST 165 CM -Rel. & Politics: Medieval Europe
- • RLST 166B CM -Relig, Politcs & Global Violence
- • RLST 168 HM -Activism & Change
- • RLST 170 SC -Womn+Relgn in Greco-Roman Antiq
- • RLST 171 CM -Religion & Film
- • RLST 174 CM -Religion & American Presidency
- • RLST 176 CM -Visionaries/Prophets/Leadership
- • RLST 177 PO -Gender and Religion
- • RLST 179 HM -Special Topics:Religious Studies
- • RLST 180 PO -Interpreting Religious Worlds
- • RLST 181 PO -Prison Punishment Redemption(CP)
- • RLST 183 HM -Ghosts & the Machines
- • RLST 184 PO -Queer Theory & the Bible
- • RLST 186 CM -Research Practicum in Archeology
- • RLST 189A PO -Contemporary Christian Theology
- • RLST 189Z PO -The Zoroastrian Tradition
- • RLST 190 PO -Senior Seminar
- • RLST 191 PO -Senior Thesis
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