POEs (Majors)
- The POE will consist of 49 credit hours or 15 3-credit courses and the senior thesis for 4 credits.
- All students must take our three introductory courses to be offered at least once a year:
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- RL 110 Religion for Seekers
- RL 120 World Religions
- Either RL 202 (Hebrew Scriptures) or RL 203 (Christian Scriptures)
- All students must complete a 4-credit hour senior thesis under the guidance of the designated instructor for the year of their graduation.
- The remainder of the POE (11 courses or 33 credit hours) must be distributed according to this template:
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- 8 courses. Of these, at least 4 have to be at the 300 or 400 level
- 1 course from the following list of Philosophy Department offerings:
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- PL 115: Human Nature
- PL 201: Plato and Aristotle
- PL 245: Chinese Philosophy
- PL 255: Philosophy of Religion
- PL 304: Existentialism
- 2 courses from the following list of History Department offerings:
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- HS 104: Middle Ages 500-1300
- HS 105: Modern Europe to 1815
- HS 151: World Civilization to 1500
- HS 152: World Civilization from 1500
- HS 206: China and Japan to 1800
- HS 235: Islam: Origins and Modernity
- 5. All students must complete one year of college-level foreign language study in one language. No limits are placed which language is chosen or how the student meets this requirement.
Requirements for the Secondary POE
- 18 credit hours or 6 courses
- All students must complete RL 110, RL 120, either RL 202 or RL 203
- Three other courses of the student's choosing with at least 2 of them at the 300 or 400 level.
