THE MINOR IN RELIGION AND LITERATURE

The College of Arts and Letters offers an interdisciplinary minor in Religion and Literature that enables students to take courses in the area from several Departments. Contributing departments include Art, Art History and Design, Classics, East Asian Languages and Literature, English, History, Romance Languages and Literature, and Theology. Not all departments offer courses each semester.

The courses offered for the Fall semester, 2004, are as follows:

RLT 250 Intro. to Art and Catholicism (ARHI 254) Charles Barber
RLT 380 Greek Architecture (ARHI 423E) Robin Rhodes
RLT 382 Art into History: Byzantium (ARHI 333E) Charles Barber
RLT 486 Seminar: Topics in Medieval Art (ARHI 470M) TBA
RLT 344 Sociology of Vocation (SOC 343) David Yamane
RLT 373 Catholicism in Contemp. America (SOC 371) David Yamane
RLT 374 Religion and Social Life (SOC 372) Kevin Christiano
RLT 392 Islam: Religion and Culture (MELC 390) Asma Afsaruddin
RLT 350 Romans and Christians (CLAS 315) Keith Bradley
RLT 387 Religion, Myth, and Magic (ANTH 386) Patrick Gaffney
RLT 412 Dante and Aquinas (PHIL 410) Ralph McInerny
RLT 473 Kierkegaard and Newman (PHIL 472) Ralph McInerny

Students are required to complete fifteen credit hours of approved course work. Of these no more than three, and in special cases six, credit hours at the 200 or sophomore level will be accepted towards the fulfillment of the concentration’s requirements. The balance of the course work must be completed through course work at the senior level (300-400 level courses). Of the overall fifteen-hour requirement, three credit hours will be awarded for the completion of the senior thesis.

The fifteen credit hours will be in addition to the general university requirements. Students enrolled in the concentration will not be permitted to double count course credit: that is, courses completed in Theology and/or a literature department will not be counted for credit in the concentration and also as fulfilling a general university or major requirement in those subject areas. In other words, with the exception of the thesis, there will be no double counting of courses. In consultation with their thesis supervisor, students will undertake a program of research that will be the equivalent of three credit hours, and consequently it will be expected that the thesis display considerable research and general reading in the field of religion and literature.

The ‘gateway’ course for the minor in Religion and Literature is RLT 401, ‘Religion and Literature’ caught by Cyril O’Regan.

For further information, please see Professor Kevin Hart, Department of English. Ph: 631-4579 or email: khart2@nd.edu