Focus

Introduction to Religious Studies cultivates the skills vital to enabling effective inquiry – critical thinking, argument, and analysis – through readings, class discussions, and written assignments. Students explore the relationship between religion and culture, the deeper concepts embedded in religious and cultural traditions, and how religions and cultures evolve over time. They are encouraged to examine their own worldview and to step inside the worldview of other cultures as an intellectual exercise, as they synthesize these perspectives into a broader self-knowledge.