Religion

Program Goals

The goals are, to:

Prepare students for graduate school studies.
Equip students to articulate the different branches of theological/religious study in their discipline.
Develop critical thinking approach to various moral and ethical issues in life.
Prepare the student to enter the marketplace with leadership skills.

Describe the experiences of the founders of major religions studied, and define discipline-based terminologies.
Explain the nature of major disciplines in the field of religion, such as theology, comparative religious ethics, the phenomenology of religion and practical theology
Examine the Intelligent Design, Ontological, Cosmological and the Wager arguments for the existence of God.
Analyze and articulate a set of major beliefs in each of the six religions studied in this program.
Identify the basic principles of morality upon which ethical decisions are made.
Formulate critical and express coherent theological statements.

Please see the University Catalog for more information and program requirements.