Minor in Religion in Science & Medicine
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Learning Outcomes
Students in this minor will:
- Learn how religion and science (including medicine) came to be thought of as distinct approaches to understanding the world.
- Explore debates about religion versus science or religion versus medicine, in which religion is understood to be in opposition to scientific and medical advancements.
- Understand how religion, science, and medicine have become sometimes harmonious and sometimes competing forms of knowledge and meaning-making in the modern world.
- Explore how religious traditions engage with medical and scientific advancements and how such advancement lead to religious adaptation and change.
- Explore questions about religious ethics and the politics of religion in medicine and science.
- Explore how various religious traditions understand healing, medicine, and the natural world.
- Demonstrate knowledge of multiple religious traditions, including their histories, ideas, rituals, and vocabulary.
Requirements
Five courses completed with a grade of C or higher.
For the five courses:
- At least one must be either CAS RN 209 Religion, Health, and Medicine OR CAS RN 242/CAS HI 203 Magic, Science, and Religion (students are welcome to take both).
- One may be a course at any level that is comparative or tradition-based (this course does not need to come from the list below).
- Remaining courses, at least one of which must be at the 300 level or above, must be from the course list below.
Course List
- CAS CL 228 The History of Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome
- CAS RN 106 Death and Immortality
- CAS RN 209 Religion, Health, and Medicine
- CAS RN 239 Religion and Science
- CAS RN 242/CAS HI 203 Magic, Science, and Religion
- CAS RN 243 Shamans and Shamanism
- CAS RN 246 Sex, Death, and the Buddha
- CAS RN 248 Food and Religion
- CAS RN 345 Shariah Law
- CAS RN 356 Religion in the Digital Age
- CAS RN 369 Science and Religion: Dialogue and Debate
- CAS RN 439 Jewish Bioethics and Holocaust Studies
- CAS RN 450/CAS RN 750 Topics in Religion, Health, and Medicine
- CAS RN 452/CAS PH 496 Topics in Religious Thought
- GMS MA 605 History of Medicine and Healing in the US
- GMS MA 622 Religion, Culture, and Public Health
Students may, with the approval of their minor advisor in the Department of Religion, count toward the minor one relevant course taken in another department.
