Undergraduate course descriptions
In addition to our regular course offerings, the following topics courses are offered this academic year. For the regularly offered course descriptions, please refer to the official undergraduate calendar.
Topics courses for 2025-26
RELI 398/4 – AA (3 credits)
Selected topics in Religions and Cultures: Religion and Popular Culture
Mondays from 5:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.
This course explores the relationship between religion and popular culture. Topics for discussion include: the nature of modern popular culture; the topographies of popular culture in today's digitally integrated, superflat world; the nature of religion in a society that is inundated, saturated, and oriented by popular culture; the deployment and functions of traditional religious themes and tropes in new pop-cultural forms; and the global “apocalyptic shift” of the past generation and its pop-cultural expressions.
Choosing your courses
We provide an annual course guide for courses in our department. Many of our courses fit into multiple requirement categories.
We recommend that you register as soon as possible as some courses fill up very quickly. If you are not able to register but need the course for your major or minor degree, please speak to an advisor about ways we might prioritize you.
Check your program requirements
Before you sign up for courses, be sure to check the requirements for your degree according to the calendar in the year you entered the program to determine which courses fit each requirement.
If you have any questions or would like to take courses outside of the department that are not mentioned in the Undergraduate Calendar, check in with an undergraduate advisor.