Clusters in Religion and Classics
The department offers 13 clusters in religion and classics, all of which are in the humanities academic division.
Religion Clusters
This cluster enables students to probe central issues and themes involving Hinduism within the broader context of its foundational texts, beliefs, and rituals.
This cluster enables students to explore central issues in Judaism, within the broader contexts of its foundational texts, beliefs, and rituals.
This cluster enables students to probe central issues involving Christianity, within the broader contexts of its foundational texts, beliefs, and rituals.
This cluster enables students to explore central issues involving Islam, within the broader contexts of its foundational texts, beliefs, and rituals.
This cluster enables students to discover central issues and themes involving Buddhism, in the broader contexts of its foundational texts, beliefs, and rituals.
This cluster enables students to study specific religions, their societies and interactions from a variety of cross-cultural and comparative perspective.
This cluster enables the student to probe in depth a broad range of ethical and philosophical issues in context of religious traditions and from a cross-cultural and comparative perspective.
This cluster explores western religious traditions in comparison with eastern religions.
This cluster permits students to study Jewish history, culture, language, literature, and religion, from ancient Israel through contemporary America.
Classics Clusters
This cluster will enable students to achieve a basic proficiency in ancient Greek as well as a familiarity with Greek literature and culture.
This cluster concentrates on the history, religion, philosophy and literature of the ancient world.
Religious and Classical Language Clusters
This cluster will enable students to achieve a basic proficiency in Arabic as well as a familiarity with Arabic literature and culture.
This cluster will enable students to achieve a basic proficiency in Hebrew as well as a familiarity with Hebrew literature and culture.
This cluster will enable students to achieve a basic proficiency in Latin as well as a familiarity with Latin literature and culture.