PHIL 130 - Introduction to Religious Studies

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-D1-2
Introduction to basic concepts in religious studies, including religious experience, mysticism and the supernatural, beliefs across a variety of religions, arguments about the existence of God, the meaning and importance of ritual, and more.

Credit Restrictions: Not open to students with credit for PHIL 110 or PHIL 120.

Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online Asynchronous or Online Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-D1-2 - Lower Division Social Sciences
Course Typically Offered: Fall Alternate Years

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

demonstrate knowledge of cultural traditions and behaviors, their relevant concepts, theories, methods, and historical contexts.
cultivate an appreciation for a diversity of ideas and values across time and for human difference in areas such as: religion, culture, ethnicity, race, class, sexuality, and gender.
deploy the methods used in social science and used in the study of the social sciences.
appreciate the richness of studying social constructs including the reliance on data, anecdotal evidence, and theoretical concerns.

D1-2. Lower-division Social Science Electives Learning Outcomes

specify how social, political, economic, and environmental systems and/or behavior are interwoven;
explain how humans individually and collectively relate to relevant sociocultural, political, economic, and/or environmental systems-how they produce, resist, and transform them;
discuss and debate issues from the course’s disciplinary perspective in a variety of cultural, historical, contemporary, and/or potential future contexts; and
explore principles, methodologies, value systems, and ethics employed in social scientific inquiry.