2024-2025 Academic Catalog

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Religion (REL) Minor

1000-Level or Above
Select 6 credits (2 courses) of the following or of the lists below:6
Introduction to Religion and Culture
World Religions
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Religion and the Modern World
Religious Ethics
Religion and Culture In Asia 1
Subtotal6
2000-Level or Above
Select 6 credits (2 courses) of the following or of the list below:6
Case Studies in Religion and Culture
Ethnography: Studying Culture
Greek New Testament
Religion in American Life
Judaism: A Survey of History, Culture, and Heritage 1
African Religions 1
Race and Gender in Religion and Culture 1
Islam 1
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
New Testament
Greek and Roman Myth
Religion and Science
Religion and Violence
Religion and Politics
Subtotal6
3000- or 4000 Level
Select 6 credits (2 courses) of the following:6
Women and Gender in Islam 1
Religion and Literature
Religion and Culture in India 1
Religion and Culture in China and Japan 1
Torah and Tradition
Jesus in Earliest Christianity
Orthodoxy and Heresy in Early Christianity
The Holocaust
The Age of The Crusades
The State of Israel: A Political History
Religion in the Middle East
Religion and the Public Sphere
Sociology of Religion
Topics in Religion and Culture
Subtotal6
Total Credits18
1

At least 3 credits (one course) must be from RLCL courses marked with a 1 in the lists above. 

Graduation Requirements

Graduation Requirements: The minor in Religion requires the completion of 18 credit hours (6 courses) from the above lists. To graduate with a minor in Religion, a student must have an over-all GPA of 2.0 and an in-minor GPA of 2.0 from all of the courses taken from the minor check-sheet

For more information, contact the minor coordinator, Dr. Shaily Patel, at 231-8456, or shailyp@vt.edu.