Academic Calendar 2024-2025

Religious Studies – Major (Arts) – Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

RELS-M-BAH

Subject: Administered by the School of Religion.
Plan: Consists of 60.00 units as described below.
Program: The Plan, alone, or in combination with a Minor in another subject, and with sufficient electives to total 120.00 units (114.00 units for students admitted prior to September 2017), will lead to a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree.

Note: Requirements for this program have been modified. Please consult the 2023-2024 Calendar for the previous requirements.

1. Core
A. Complete 6.00 units from the following:6.00
RELS at the 100-level
B. Complete the following:
RELS 354Theory in Religious Studies3.00
2. Option
A. Complete 18.00 units from the following:18.00
RELS at the 300-level or above
B. Complete 21.00 units from the following:21.00
RELS at the 200-level or above
C. Complete 12.00 units from the following:12.00
RELS at any level
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Electives
Elective Courses60.00
Total Units120.00

3. Notes

A. A maximum of 6.00 units from courses offered by other Faculties and Schools may be counted toward the program and/or Plan requirements. This includes courses in BMED, COMM, GLPH, HSCI, LAW, NURS, and courses offered by Smith Engineering.

Religious Studies Course Lists

The following lists contain courses offered through other Departments. In accordance with Academic Regulation 2.6 (Access to Classes), students do not have enrolment priority in all of these courses. Access to these courses may only be made available during the Open Enrolment period, and then only if space permits.

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Religious Studies Substitutions
ARTH 401Studies in Iconography3.00
CLST 203Myth and Religion3.00
CLST 321World of Late Antiquity3.00
GNDS 401Debates on Feminism and Islam3.00
HEBR 393Reading Modern Hebrew Literature3.00
HIST 221Jewish and World Civilizations (until 1492)3.00
HIST 295The Holocaust3.00
PHIL 263Philosophy of Religion3.00
PHIL 367Jewish Philosophy3.00