Fall 2026 Courses

Fall 2026 Courses

These are the Fall 2026 courses that the Religious Studies program will accept from other programs and departments within Arts and Sciences.

Fall 2026 Courses

Note to students: The following list is not necessarily comprehensive. If you find another course that you think should count toward Religious Studies major/minor, please discuss it with the ReSt director, Lance Jenott (jenott@wustl.edu).

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES (AFAS)

AFAS 2450 - Bones, Burials and Black Worlds: Mortuary Archaeology and Critical Heritage Studies of African and African American Funerary Practices

AFAS 4890 - Catholicism and Slavery

CLASSICS

CLASSICS 3010 - Greek Mythology.

CLASSICS 3830 - Magicians, Healers, and Holy Men

CLASSICS 4640 - Ancient Madness

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE & THOUGHT (COMPLITTH)

COMPLITTHT 3330 - Topics in Comparative Literature: 'That’s Amore': Philosophies of love from ancient Greece to C.S. Lewis.

ENGLISH LITERATURE (ELIT)

ELIT 3152 - The Bible as Literature.

ELIT 3501 - Topics In Literature (Medieval Sexualities)

GREEK

GREEK 4800 - Readings in the Greek New Testament and Greco-Roman Religions

HISTORY

HISTORY 3017 - Humors, Pox and Plague: Medieval and Early Modern Medicine

HISTORY 3922 - Secular & Religious: A Global History

HISTORY 3931 - Medieval Christianity

ITALIAN (ITAL)

ITAL 4080 - Disease, Madness, and Death Italian Style

JEWISH, ISLAMIC, AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES (JIMES)

JIMES 2081 Introduction to Jewish Civilization: History and Identity.

JIMES 2100 - Introduction to Islamic Civilization

JIMES 3101 - The Problem of Evil: The Holocaust and Other Horrors

JIMES 3145 - The Body as Text: The Jewish Body in Cultural, Medical, and Spiritual Contexts

JIMES 3330 - Zionism and its Critics

JIMES 3870 - Topics in Jewish Studies: (Judaism and Race)

JIMES 4020 - Jerusalem, the Holy City

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (LATAM)

LATAM 3160 Cultures of Health in Latin America.

PHILOSOPHY (PHIL)

PHIL 1030 Problems in Philosophy.

PHIL 1040 Great Philosophers.

PHIL 1060 Present Moral Problems.

PHIL 2060 Biomedical Ethics.

PHIL 3110 - Mind and Morals

PHIL 3240 - Ancient Philosophy

POLITICAL SCIENCE (POLSCI)

POLSCI 4350 - Religion and Politics in the United States

RELIGION & POLITICS (RELPOL)

RELPOL 2140 - Religions of St. Louis: Communities of Faith and Practical Action Across the Region

RELPOL 2430 - The Politics of Religion, Crime, and Punishment in the United States

RELPOL 3190 - Solidarity and Silence: Religious Strategies in the Political Sphere

RELPOL 3660 - Stories from the Mortuary: New Ways to Read and Tell Religious History

RELIGIOUS STUDIES (REST)

REST 1501 - Thinking About Religion.

REST 3720 - Topics in Religious Studies: Religion in the Kitchen

SOCIOLOGY (SOC)

SOC 3290 - Sociology of Religion