Department of Religious Studies

Courses In Other Departments that Will Count Towards the Religious Studies Major

1. Department policy allows for a total of twelve credit hours of coursework taken outside the Department, in other UVA departments and outside the University, to be counted towards the Major. Of these, a maximum of six credit hours may be taken in other UVA departments. The total number of credit hours from outside the Department remains at twelve hours. 
2. Courses that have been taken from this list and taught by the designated instructors (see below) will appear on the VISTAA form under the Religious Studies Major, but the original mnemonic will remain the same on the VISTAA form and the transcript.
3. Additions can be made to the core list of courses by application to the Director of Undergraduate Studies for approval by the Undergraduate Committee with the submission of the course syllabus and a supporting statement by a Religious Studies faculty member. However, no additions to the list of approved courses can be made AFTER a student has enrolled in such a course.
4. A maximum of three credit hours of coursework may be taken outside the Department either from another UVA department or from outside the University, and counted towards the Religious Studies Minor. 

List of Courses  

• ANTH 254 Anthropology of God.  Instructor: George Mentore (counts as RELG)
• ARTH 271 East Asian Art.   Instructor: Dorothy Wong (counts as RELB)
• ARTH 371 Chinese Art.     Instructor: Dorothy Wong  (counts as RELB)
• ARTH 372   Japanese Art.  Instructor: Dorothy Wong  (counts as RELB)
• ANTH 363: Chinese Family and Religion.    Instructor: John Sheppard  (counts as RELB)
• ANTH 230 Buddhism in Asian Societies.   Instructor: Nicolas Sihle  (counts as RELB)
• ANTH 332 - Shamanism, Healing, and Ritual.     Instructor: Edith Turner  (counts as RELG)
• ARTH 275 Arts of India.   Instructor: Dan Ehnbom  (counts as RELH)
• GREEK 223   New Testament Greek I: Gospels.   Instructor: Judith Kovacs  (counts as RELC)
• GREEK 224 New Testament Greek II: Letters of Paul.   Instructor: Judith Kovacs  (counts as RELC)
• HIME 320   Struggles for Justice in the Middle East.  Instructor: Elizabeth Thompson (counts as RELI)
• SWAG 312 Women and Islam.     Instructor: Farzenah Milani.  (counts as RELI)
• PHIL 210    God.     Instructor: Jorge Secada  (counts as RELG)
• SOC 452 Sociology of Religious Behavior. Instructor: W. Bradford Wilcox (counts as RELG)