SACRED PLACES AND JOURNEYS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply key theories in the study of religion to varied religious phenomena in research and essay writing Audience: Undergraduate 2. Articulate the influence of positionality in the study of religion Audience: Undergraduate 3. Articulate how places become perceived, constructed and used as sites of sacrality in different religious, spiritual and secular contexts Audience: Undergraduate 4. Articulate the complex ways that migration and politics affect the perception and use of sacred sites Audience: Undergraduate 5. Discuss religious matters in a respectful but detached (non-proselytizing) manner Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply key theories in the study of religion to varied religious phenomena in research and essay writing Audience: Undergraduate 2. Articulate the influence of positionality in the study of religion Audience: Undergraduate 3. Articulate how places become perceived, constructed and used as sites of sacrality in different religious, spiritual and secular contexts Audience: Undergraduate 4. Articulate the complex ways that migration and politics affect the perception and use of sacred sites Audience: Undergraduate 5. Discuss religious matters in a respectful but detached (non-proselytizing) manner Audience: Undergraduate