Spring 2026 Courses

Spring 2026 Courses

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

Spring 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).

AMERICAN CULTURE STUDIES (AMCS)

AMCS 3708 Topics in American Culture Studies: Am I Evil?: The Horror Genre and the Problem of Evil in American Culture, 1920-2026.

AMCS 3717-01 - Topics in AMCS: Culture and Identity: (Post)Apocalyptic Revelations: Race and Religion at World's End.

ANTHROPOLOGY (ANTHRO)

ANTHRO 3100 Magic Medicine: An Anthropological Approach to the Study of Religion and Medicine.

ANTHRO 4110 Pushing Daisies: The Anthropology of Death and Dying.

ARABIC (ARAB)

ARAB 4061 Fourth-Level Arabic: Classical Literature.

ART HISTORY & ARCHEOLOGY (ARTARCH)

ARTARCH 3372 Piety and Power: The Renaissance Papacy.

CLASSICS

CLASSICS 3010 Greek Mythology.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE & THOUGHT (COMPLITTH)

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

DANCE

DANCE 3120 West African Music and Dance in Context

EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES (EALC)

EALC 3810 EALC Seminar: Ghosts, Gods, and Monsters Reimagined.

ENGLISH LITERATURE (ELIT)

ELIT 3109 Medieval Literature And The Art Of Love.

ELIT 3152 The Bible as Literature.

ELIT 4109 Literature and Religion in an Age of Doubt (19th Century Literature).

ELIT 4125 Modern Literature and the Occult.

ELIT 4158 Chaucer.

HISTORY

HISTORY 3030 The Global War On Terrorism.

HISTORY 3094 History of the Jews in Islamic Lands.

HISTORY 3274 The High Middle Ages: 1000-1500.

HISTORY 4965 Advanced Seminar: Magic, Heresy and Witchcraft in the Medieval World, 200-1500.

JEWISH, ISLAMIC, AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES (JIMES)

JIMES 2081 Introduction to Jewish Civilization: History and Identity.

JIMES 3037 God in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives.

JIMES 3184 A Rainbow Thread: A History of Queer Identities in Judaism and Islam.

JIMES 3231 Jews and Jewishness in Black American Thought.

JIMES 3301 Modern Islam.

JIMES 3520 Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi: Genre-Fiction in Arabic Literature.

JIMES 3590 Travelers, Tricksters, and Storytellers: Jewish Travel Narratives and Autobiographies.

JIMES 3820 Imagining the East: The History & Politics of Middle East Studies.

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 2080 Introduction to Environmental Ethics.

PHIL 3150 Philosophy of Religion.

PHIL 4230 Topics in Ethics: Virtue Ethics.

PHIL 4340 Plato.

PHIL 4430 Kant's Moral Theory.

RELIGION & POLITICS (RELPOL)

RELPOL 1776 - 1776, Then and Now.

RELPOL 2040 Love and Reason.

RELPOL 2700 Native American Religions and Politics.

RELPOL 3180 The Abuse Crisis in Modern Christianity.

RELPOL 3220 Horror, Hell, and Monsters.

RELPOL 3370 Race, Religion, and Migration in the Pacific.

RELPOL 4025 Muslims in the Media and Popular Culture.

RELPOL 4100 Spiritual But NOT Religious: The Politics of American Spirituality.

RELPOL 4150 The Ethics of Vulnerability.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES (REST)

REST 3000 Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

REST 3095 Introduction to the New Testament.

REST 3133 Religion and Film in America.

REST 3635 Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion.

REST 3802 Topics in Religious Studies: Religion, Clothing, and Bodily Adornment.

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