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INTRODUCTION TO RELIGIOUS STUDIES (CUL-222034)

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Course Description:


An introduction to the ways in which religious behaviors and traditions create a world. The study looks at religious traditions and how they account human experience and how life should be lived. It also looks at how people go about being "religious." What does religion involve in everyday terms? How do traditions inform and shape people's lives? What are we doing when we are being religious?

This course fully meets the General Education requirement in Humanities.


This online course is offered through Online Learning. You can take this as an individual course or as part of an online degree program, with term starts in March, May, September, November and January. View current term offerings and all online courses. Click here to register for online courses.

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Liberal Study
Lower Level
Credits: 4
Meets General Education Requirement In: Humanities-Full

Term(s) Offered (Subject to Change) : Spring 1. Spring 2. Summer. Fall 1. Fall 2.

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