2012-2015 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Religion (GPS)
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This plan outlines a four-year path to graduation. You are expected to satisfy all “success marker” courses, grades, and GPAs as specified. For part-time students and students needing to complete background material, this schedule represents the order in which courses should be taken. This suggested plan to four-year graduation does not replace regular advising appointments. Some course offerings may change.
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Total: 16 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better; Complete ENG 1100 with C or better
Term Two
- REL 2070 - Western Religions Credit Hour(s): 3
- LAN 1020 - Beginning Language II* Credit Hour(s): 3
- Sci Course - Wright State Science Course Credit Hour(s): 4
- CORE - Wright State Core Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- GE - General Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
Total: 16 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better
Term Three
- REL 2060 - Asian Religions Credit Hour(s): 3
- LAN 2010 - Intermediate Language I* Credit Hour(s): 3
- CORE - Wright State Core Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- CORE - Wright State Core Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- CORE - Wright State Core Course Credit Hour(s): 3
Total: 15 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better; Complete one MTH course; Complete one LAN course
Term Five
- REL Course - Religion 3000-Level Area 2 Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- QT Course - Qualitative or Quantitative Thinking Course** Credit Hour(s): 3
- CORE - Wright State Core Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- CORE - Wright State Core Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- REL Elective - Religion 3000-Level Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
Total: 15 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better
Term Six
- REL Course - Religion 3000-Level Area 3 Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- REL Elective - Religion 3000-Level Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- QT Course - Qualitative or Quantitative Thinking Course** Credit Hour(s): 3
- UL Elective - Upper-Level Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- GE - General Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
Total: 16 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better; Complete 20 upper-level credits
Term Seven
- REL Course - Religion 3000-Level Area 4 Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- REL Elective - Religion 4000-Level Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- UL Elective - Upper-Level Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- GE - General Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- GE - General Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
Total: 16 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better
Term Eight
- REL Course - Religion 3000-Level Area 5 Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- REL 4930 - Seminar in Religion Credit Hour(s): 3
- GE - General Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- GE - General Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- GE - General Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
Total: 15 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better
Note(s):
*Languages include Arabic (ARA), American Sign Language (ASL), Chinese (CHI), French (FR), German (GER), Greek (GR), Italian (ITA), Japanese (JPN), Latin (LAT), Russian (RUS), and Spanish (SPN).
**Quantitative Thinking courses include COM 4490 , MUS 4140 (for Music majors only), PLS 2100 , SOC 3400 , SOC 3410 , SW 2910 , and URS 4980 ; Qualitative Thinking courses include PHL 2150 , PHL 2230 , PHL 4710 , and PHL 4720 .
Program Description
Since religion is so much a part of human life at every level, studying religion is a way of getting broad perspective on many aspects of human society and culture. Religion may be studied in various ways by: emphasizing its sacred literature, tracing the different traditions it has shaped around the globe, seeing the way such concerns as art, ethics, and the quest for meaning in society and in history have been enriched by it through philosophy and theology, exploring the relationship to and influence upon social systems, and examining it as patterns of thought.
The study of religion has always incorporated various ways of understanding human experience, drawn from the humanities, the sciences, and the social sciences, in clarifying the data that help us understand important human concerns. The study of religion is therefore interdisciplinary in its fundamental attitude.
At the same time, it has a distinctive role among the disciplines and departments of the University, giving scholarly attention to tracing the human response to the transcendent dimension of experience. In this way the beliefs, the ethics, the rituals and forms of community, and the sense of meaning that life has for individuals and for groups, come into view in the various human cultures.
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