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Studies in Religion

Unit of study table (Table S)

Minor

A minor in Studies in Religion requires 36 credit points from this table including:
(i) 6 credit points of 1000-level core units
(ii) 6 credit points of 1000-level selective units
(iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core units
(iv) 12 credit points of 2000-level selective units
(v) 6 credit points of 3000-level selective units
Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites
C: Corequisites N: Prohibition

1000 level units of study

Core
RLST1002
Sacred: The 10 Books that Made Our World
6  
Selective
RLST1005
Cults, Conspiracies, and Fundamentalisms
6  
PHIL1011
Reality, Ethics and Beauty
6 N PHIL1003 or PHIL1004 or PHIL1006 or PHIL1008

2000 level units of study

Core
RLST2641
Myth, Method, Worldviews
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studies in Religion
Selective
RLST2624
The Birth of Christianity
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studies in Religion or (6 credit points at 1000 level in Studies in Religion and 6 credit points at 1000 level in Ancient History)
N RLST2024
RLST2640
Contemporary Religious Trends
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studies in Religion
N RLST2627 or RLST3603
ANHS2605
Ancient Greek Religion
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Ancient History or Ancient Greek or History or Studies in Religion or (6 credit points at 1000 level in Ancient History and 6 credit points at 1000-level in either Latin or Greek (Ancient) or History or Philosophy or Archaeology)
ARBC2671
Transnational Muslim Women and Veiling
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level from Arab Language and Cultures or French and Francophone Studies or Asian Studies or American Studies or History or Studies in Religion
ASNS2011
Buddhist Thought and Culture
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level from any combination of Ancient Greek or Ancient History or Anthropology or Arabic Language and Cultures or Archaeology or Art History or Asian Studies or Chinese Studies or Cultural Studies or Education or European Studies or French and Francophone Studies or Gender Studies or Germanic Studies or Hebrew or History or Indonesian Studies or International and Comparative Literary Studies or Italian Studies or Japanese Studies or Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture or Korean Studies or Latin or Linguistics or Philosophy or Psychology or Sanskrit or Sociology or Spanish and Latin American Studies or Visual Arts or 12 credit points at 1000 level from Studies in Religion
N BDST1602
ASNS2613
Chinese Thought
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level from Asian Studies or Chinese or Indonesian or Japanese or Korean Studies or Sanskrit or Philosophy or Studies in Religion
N CHNS3641
ASNS2627
Tantric Buddhism in India and Tibet
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Asian Studies or Japanese Studies or Korean Studies or Chinese Studies or Indonesian Studies or Sanskrit or History or Studies in Religion
ASNS2628
Buddhism, Meditation, and Brain
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Asian Studies or Studies in Religion

3000 level units of study

Selective
RLST3606
Sacred Creativity: Text, Image, Film

6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Studies in Religion
N RLST2628 or RLST2625
RLST3608
Apocalyptic Leadership and Cosmic War
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Studies in Religion
N RLST2620
JCTC3602
Contemporary Jewish Identities

6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture or European Studies or History or Politics or International Relations or Modern Hebrew or Biblical Studies and Classical Hebrew or Studies in Religion
GCST3631
Gender, Communities and Belonging
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Gender Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Cultural Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Diversity Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Studies in Religion