PHIL 130 - Introduction to Religious Studies

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4
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.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
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).
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.

GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes

Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.