REL 2000 - Introduction to Religion

Credit Hours: 3.0

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None

This course examines the various ways religion can be approached: as psychological and social phenomena, as emotional experiences, as historically located expressions, and from the perspective of ethnicity and race, economic class, gender, and sexuality. Students will critically analyze and evaluate the systems of meaning that religion creates. Students will also critically analyze and evaluate how people behave in response to religious systems of meaning and what cultural media people create to communicate those systems of meaning.

Parallel: College Transfer (A.A. and A.S)