Santa Clara University

Interdisciplinary Programs

The Religious Studies Department provides a wide variety of courses that link to issues treated in interdisciplinary academic programs, residential learning communities, and the wider local community. The programs and relevant courses are listed below, and links to the left will direct you to the home pages of the specific programs and centers.

Interdisciplinary Minors

Arabic, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies

	RSOC 18	Religion and Culture: Egypt		RSOC 190	Islam: Reformation and Modernity
	RSOC 71	Women in Contemporary Middle Eastern Muslim Societies		RSOC 190R	Contemporary Islam
	RSOC 81	Islam		SCTR 19	Religions of the Book
	RSOC 82	Shia Islam		SCTR 125	Quran Interpretation
	RSOC 154	Islamic Jesus		SCTR 126	Sufi Mysticism

Asian Studies

	RSOC 7	South Asian Traditions		RSOC 120	The Bhagavad Gita
	RSOC 10	Asian Traditions		RSOC 153	Zen in Time and Thought
	RSOC 82	Shia Islam		RSOC 185	Gender and Religion in Asia
	RSOC 85	Hinduism		RSOC 187	Ethical Issues in Asian Culture
	RSOC 86	Buddhism		RSOC 199	Directed Reading and Research
	RSOC 88	Chinese Religions
	RSOC 89	Japanese Religions

Catholic Studies

	SCTR: 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 30, 33, 100, and depending on syllabus: 101, 105, 106, 107, 128, 132, 134.
	TESP: 4, 5, 6, 31, 38, 45, 46, 50, 51, 60, , 65, 71, 103, 109, 111, 128, 133, 137, 139, 143, 150, 153, 155, 163, 169, 170, 171, 183, 185, 186, 187, and many other courses, depending on the syllabus.
	RSOC: 65, 160, other courses, depending on the syllabus.

Ethnic Studies

	RSOC 91	Native Spiritual Traditions		RSOC 184	Race and Religion in the United States
	RSOC 164	Religion, Race, and Ethnicity in America

Medieval & Renaissance Studies

	RSOC 65	Early Christianity		SCTR 132	Apocalypse Now
	RSOC 144	Gender, Body & Christianity		TESP 82	Witches, Saints, & Heretics
	SCTR 126	Sufi Mysticism		TESP 143	Theology and Ethics of Thomas Aquinas

Women & Gender Studies

	SCTR 26	Gender in Early Christianity		TESP 131	Feminist Theologies
	SCTR 117R	Eve, Adam, the Serpent and the Rest of the Story		TESP 139R	Catholic Theology and Human Sexuality
	SCTR 158R	Postcolonial Perspectives on the New Testament		TESP 162	Feminist Visionary Ethics
	SCTR 165R	Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation		TESP 175R	Women's Theologies from the Margins
	RSOC 41	Women's Spiritualities
	RSOC 168	Gender and Judaism
	RSOC 170R	Religion, Gender, and Globalization

University Honors Program

Any course in the Religious Studies Department may be offered as an honors course in a given quarter. The courses listed below are those offered during Spring Quarter 2008 that fulfill the Religious Studies core requirement for Honors students.

RSOC 9H

Ways of Understanding Religion (Honors)

Residential Learning Communities

The courses listed under each RLC are offered from time to time as linked courses in that RLC; see the footnotes in the quarterly Undergraduate Schedule of Classes to confirm whether the course benefits from the RLC link in a given quarter.

	ALPHA			LOYOLA
	TESP 51	Catholic Theology: Spirituality		TESP 4	The Christian Tradition
	RSOC 9	Ways of Understanding Religion		TESP 51	Catholic Theology: Foundations
	SCTR 11	Origins of Western Religion		TESP 46	Faith, Justice & Poverty
				TESP 124	Theology of Marriage
				TESP 153	Catholic Themes in Literature
				SCTR 26	Gender in Early Christianity
				RSOC 111	Inventing Religion in America
	COMMUNITAS			MODERN PERSPECTIVES
	TESP 51	Catholic Theology: Spirituality		RSOC 7	South Asian Traditions
				RSOC 9	Ways of Understanding Religion
				RSOC 10	Asian Religious Traditions
				RSOC 51	Religion in America
				RSOC 99	Sociology of Religion
	DA VINCI			UNITY
	TESP 4	Christian Traditions		RSOC 7	Asian Religious Traditions
	TESP 124	Theology of Marriage		RSOC 9	Ways of Understanding Religion
	SCTR 11	Origins of Western Religion		RSOC 51	Religion in America
	DELPHI			XAVIER
	TESP 75	Godwresting: Ethics the Jewish Way		TESP 4	The Christian Tradition
				TESP 46	Faith, Justice & Poverty
				RSOC 9	Ways of Understanding Religion
	Education for a Sustainable Future
	RSOC 7	South Asian Religious Traditions

Pedro Arrupe, S.J., Center for Community-Based Learning

Several Religious Studies courses integrate a community-based learning component with a theoretical curriculum. Some courses that have done this in the past are listed below. See the Undergraduate Schedule of Classes for the current list of courses requiring an Arrupe placement.

	TESP 51	Catholic Theology: Spirituality		TESP 62	Medical Ethics: Christian Perspectives
	TESP 45	Christian Ethics		TESP 56	Ethics in the Health Professions
	TESP 46	Faith, Justice and Poverty