Religious Studies (RLST)
Nikolay Antov
Director of Religious Studies
503 Old Main
479-575-5882
Minor Program Requirements: Students must complete at least 15 credit hours for the minor. Of those 15 credit hours, 3 credit hours must be from the introductory courses listed below. The remaining 12 hours must come from upper-level courses (3000-4000) selected from the 3 areas of emphasis listed below. Students must take at least one course in each area of emphasis. A maximum of 6 credit hours from the student's major may be applied toward the minor. Students may petition the Director of Religious Studies to count toward the minor special topics courses or Honors colloquia not listed below but containing significant religious studies content.
| Introductory Courses | ||
| Choose one course: | 3 | |
| Introduction to Buddhism | ||
| Introduction to World Religions | ||
| Introduction to Judaism | ||
| Introduction to Islam | ||
| Areas of Emphasis | ||
| Choose at least one course from each area of emphasis and a fourth from any of the areas | 12 | |
| History | ||
| Medieval Art | ||
| Italian Renaissance Art | ||
| History of Christianity | ||
| Islamic Civilization | ||
| Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages | ||
| Late Middle Ages | ||
| Renaissance and Reformation, 1300-1600 | ||
| Byzantine Empire | ||
| Wars of Religion: From the Crusades to 9/11 | ||
| Modern Islam | ||
| Early Modern Islamic Empires, 1300-1750 | ||
| Religion in America to 1860 | ||
| History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923 | ||
| Social Sciences | ||
| The Anthropology of Religion | ||
| Indigenous Peoples of North America: Anthropological Perspectives | ||
| Religion in Latin America | ||
| The Archeology of Death | ||
| Faith, Spirituality, and the Workplace | ||
| Islam and Politics | ||
| Philosophy/Literature/Languages | ||
| The Bible as Literature | ||
| Special Topics (Topic: Religion and Literature) | ||
| Modern Jewish Thought | ||
| Contemporary Jewish Thought | ||
| Islam: Beliefs and Practices | ||
| Philosophy and the Christian Faith | ||
| Medieval Philosophy | ||
| Philosophy of Religion | ||
| The Quran as Literature | ||
| Total Hours | 15 | |
Topics Courses/Seminars/Honors Colloquia: Students may also choose “topics/seminar” classes or an Honors colloquium in any Department or Program approved by the director as having a religious studies focus.