Eligible electives

Customize your program with electives from many other departments! These eligible electives let you look at religion from many different perspectives.

Program requirements

• Students in the major program must take 3 units of eligible electives at the 100 or 200 level, and 9 units at the 300 level or above selected from RS courses or the eligible electives
• Students taking a minor or general program must take 6 units of eligible electives at the 300 level or above

Art History and Visual Studies

• AHVS 230 Monuments of South and Southeast Asia
• AHVS 251 Introduction to the Arts of Islam
• AHVS 311C The Sacred Gaze
• AHVS 321 Late Antique and Early Christian Art
• AHVS 323 Byzantine Art
• AHVS 324 Ancient and Medieval Jewish Art
• AHVS 326 Early Medieval Art
• AHVS 330A Early Arts of South Asia
• AHVS 348 Introduction to Islamic Archaeology
• AHVS 352 The Genesis of Islamic Art and Architecture
• AHVS 354 Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture
• AHVS 358 Art of the Sultans and Emperors of India
• AHVS 359 Islamic Art from the Mongol Conquests to Modernity
• AHVS 450 Seminar in Islamic Arts and Civilization

Anthropology

• ANTH 397 The Archaeology of Death

English

• ENSH 232 Literature and Myth

French

• FRAN 325 Studies in the Culture of the French-speaking World (in English)

Greek and Roman Studies

• GRS 328 Myth and Theory
• GRS 349 Jews and Christians in the Greek and Roman World
• GRS 381 Greek & Roman Religion

History

• HSTR 316A Death and the Afterlife in England, 1200 - 1750
• HSTR 316B Death and the Afterlife in England, 1750 to the Present
• HSTR 377 Topics in the History of the Modern Middle East
• HSTR 385A Witch Craft in the Atlantic World
• HSTR 479 Religion and the State in the Modern Middle East

Hispanic and Italian Studies

• ITAL 470 Dante's Divine Comedy (in English)

Medieval Studies

• MEDI 200 Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages
• MEDI 303 The Medieval World
• MEDI 360 Selected Topics in Medieval Culture

Pacific and Asian Studies

• PAAS 207 Ghosts and Spirits
• PAAS 307 Globalization and Religion

Philosophy

• PHIL 208 Introduction to Arabic Philosophy
• PHIL 225 Death and Dying
• PHIL 261 Philosophy of Religion
• PHIL 305A Early Medieval Philosophy
• PHIL 305B Later Medieval Philosophy
• PHIL 333 Philosophy and the Environment

Policial Science

• POLI 382 Politics and Religion

Sociology

• SOCI 310 Religion in Society
• SOCI 389 Death and Dying and the Body

Additional Eligible Courses

“Topics” courses (especially in English, History and Medieval Studies) will be accepted for credit at the Program Director’s discretion, dependent upon the applicability of the material covered in the course, the approach of the course, and the assignments completed by the student.