HUM 240 World Religions (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly HUMAN 240
Course Description
Survey of five influential world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Exploration of the basic tenets, origins and evolution of each religion; reflection on the influence they have had on history, culture, and the arts.
Course Content
A. History of the world’s five major religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity
B. Origins and evolution of each religion
C. Basic tenets of each of the five major religions
D. Sacred narratives
E. The influence of religion on history, culture, and the arts
F. Art in sacred ritual and religious experience
G. Relationship between sacred reasoning and scientific reasoning
Student Outcomes
1. Explain the unique history of each major religion.
2. Explain major belief systems for each of the religions, as well as divergences among sects and other groupings within each religion.
3. Describe some of the narratives and major deities of religious traditions.
4. Identify the relationship between communal and individual religious practices.
5. Discuss how religious traditions have influenced world views on community and the individual.
6. Explain the relationship of religions traditions to cultural understanding of self and life’s meaning and purpose (i.e. time, nature, money, work, rest, education, power, birth, and death).
7. Define what constitutes the divine or sacred in a given religion.
8. Explain the relationship between soteriology and eschatology.
9. Analyze how faith interacts with beliefs regarding chaos, order, intuition, and scientific thought.
Degree Outcomes
Multiculturalism: Graduates will demonstrate knowledge of diverse ideas, cultures, and experiences, and develop the ability to examine their own attitudes and assumptions in order to understand and work with others who differ from themselves.
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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