May 08, 2025  
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Religious Studies


Program Director: William Chittick
Administrative Assistant: Lynne Foerster
Business Administrator: Theresa Spadola

Office: 1046 Humanities
Phone: (631) 632-4030

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The minor in Religious Studies offers an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of religion in its many forms and aspects. To the variety of religious traditions, both living and historical, the program brings the techniques and questions of philosophy, history, literature, and the social sciences. Designed for flexibility in meeting students’ interests and needs, the Religious Studies program offers a minor and a variety of electives useful for broadening one’s knowledge of religious phenomena, for supplementing the major program in many related fields of humanities and social science, and for meeting general education requirements.

More information and advising in regard to the minor in Religious Studies are available through the program director.

Minor Requirements


The minor in Religious Studies consists of six courses (18 credits), at least three of which (nine credits) must be at the upper-division level. At least 12 credits must be taken for a letter grade. The program is designed to ensure an encounter with the variety of world religions and a grasp of problems of method and the critical use of sources in the study of religion. At the discretion of the director of the minor, courses that cover religious topics in other fields (such as AAS, HIS, and PHI) can also be counted.