Religious Studies Minor

• Students must meet with a college advisor to declare a minor and review the course requirements.
• A grade of C or higher is required in all courses for the minor.
• A minimum of 12 credit hours of the minor must be completed at FGCU.
• Students desiring certification of a minor and designation on their academic transcript must: 
• Note the minor on the Application for Graduation.
• Contact a college advisor to certify completion of all course requirements for the declared minor as listed below.
  

Transfer credits will ordinarily be accepted from regionally accredited institutions and evaluated for appropriate credit toward requirements in the student's degree program.

Program Specific Information 2008-2009 Catalog

• Any REL 3xxx-4xxx (3)
• ANT 4241 Magic and Religion (3)
• ASH 3323* Modern South Asia (3)
• ASH 3404* Modern China (3)
• EUH 3142 Renaissance and Reformation (3)
• EUH 3241 The Holocaust (3)
• IDS 3197 Reflecting on the Holocaust (3)
• LIT 3411 Religion and Literature (3)
• PHH 3103* Ancient Greece (3)
• PHH 4450* Hume, Kant, Rousseau (3)
• PHI 3720 Faith and Reason (3)
• PHP 3786* Existentialism (3)
• WOH 2000 The Islamic World (3)
  
  * Only one of these courses may be selected.

TOTAL SEMESTER HOURS REQUIRED   18 HRS

Religious Studies is an 18 hour program designed to give students a broad grounding in the academic study of religion.  The study of religion is interdisciplinary, and the courses in this minor draw from history, philosophy, literature and anthropology as well as religious studies itself.  Students may take this program to pursue an area of personal interest, to complement their major, or to prepare for further graduate or vocational training in the field.  Religious Studies is a unique and intellectually exciting field, combining a traditional humanities focus on texts and ideas with the cultural and historical methods of the social sciences.  To understand religion is to gain insight into some of the forces shaping the contemporary world.