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The University College offers an interdisciplinary minor in Religion in Society. This
minor examines the role of religion in society as seen from the perspectives of cultural
and social organizations; of history and philosophy; of art and music. The minor is
open to students majoring in any area within any undergraduate college at The University
of Memphis or to special students who wish to enroll in order to take such a program.
A. Required Core Courses (9 hours) ANTH 4253 Anthropology of Religion JDST 2850 Religions of Abraham PHIL 3701 The Human and the Divine • Additional Courses (9 hours) (Select one course each from any three of the following four groups of courses): Group 1 ANTH 3351 Old World Archaeology JDST 4511 Holocaust Studies POLS 3102 Religion and Politics SOCI 3860 Sociology of Religion Group 2 JDST 3801 Jewish Thought I PHIL 3411 Contemporary Moral Problems PHIL 3511 Ethics PHIL 3721 Chinese Philosophy UNIV 3581 Faith, Reason, and Imagination Group 3 HIST 3274 Modern Islamic World HIST 3275 History of the Jewish People HIST 3290 Traditional Asia HIST 4361 History of the Byzantine Empire HIST 4372 The High Middle Ages HIST 4390 Europe in the Age of the Reformation HIST 4882 Civil Rights Movement in the United States Since 1930 Group 4 ARTH 4130 Art of the Medieval World ARTH 4143 Art of the High Renaissance in Italy ARTH 4181 Traditional Arts of Africa, Oceania and North America CLAS 2481 Mythology ENGL 4461 The Bible as Literature JDST 3661 Old Testament MUSA 4104 Sacred Music in History and Practice I MUSA 4105 Sacred Music in History and Practice II UNIV 3580 Hebrew and Greek Legacy
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