Undergraduate Programs

	Kate Mobley Senior, double major in Religious Studies and an Individualized Major (Urban and Environmental Studies) more>>

Prof Lisa Sideris, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Here you'll find a flexible program, dedicated teachers, and an array of courses that examine religion from historical, ethical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives. Our faculty members have won numerous teaching awards as well as research grants, and students often remark that they were drawn to the department because of the quality of the professors.

Many people wonder how Religious Studies prepares students for life after college. Our alumni repeatedly seek us out to tell us that these classes taught them how to think about the complexity and variety of the human experience and to understand how religion shapes people's lives and cultural clashes throughout the world. Our students have won many of the top scholarships awarded by IU (including the Palmer-Brandon scholarship for two successive years) and each year we've placed several students in the highly competitive Teach for America Program. As these examples illustrate, this discipline is particularly adept at training students to think clearly, speak and write well, and to analyze complex, multi-faceted phenomena. Graduates from this department have gone on to be successful in an enormous variety of jobs and careers in business, law, teaching, and non-profit sectors.

There are numerous opportunities to become involved in the extra-curricular life of the department. We have an active Undergraduate Religious Studies Association led by students, and this organization sponsors numerous activities throughout the year, including service projects, movie nights, and academic panels about religion in the world today. The department also sponsors service-learning projects, honors theses, independents studies, and undergraduate essay contests.

Please feel free to contact us for more information or to request an information packet!