Every so often in college you may take a class that deeply affects the way you see the world. We think that many of our courses fall into that category. When using religious studies as a lens, you can learn a great deal about many subjects, including human biology, health and evolution, food trade and sustainability, social networks and the arts, technology from the stone age to the information age, global cultures and indigenous heritage, social media and endangered languages, and international human rights. Explore the highlighted courses below or take a look at all of our offerings.
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This course looks to understand who held religious power between the years 400-1500. We will look at the papal church, then at saints, monks and other ascetics and visionaries who had charismatic power, as well as scholars and mystics, kings, popes, and others.
This discussion-oriented course introduces students to Buddhism in China, Korea, Japan, and the East Asian diaspora.
This course will look to Hawaiʻi in thinking through issues such as the inevitable expansion of America, the depiction and appropriation of indigenous cultures, what it means to live in a multi-cultural world.
This course investigates these divergent accounts of buddhahood, asking how Buddhists across time and space have understood what it means to be a buddha.
The College of Arts