2024-2025 Academic Year

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Chair – Randi Warne, BA (Winnipeg), MA, PhD (Toronto), Professor

This program considers what can be learned from religious studies and philosophy about (a) human nature, (b) ethics and social morality, and (c) faith and reason. Issues falling under the first theme concern the limits and possibilities, diverse forms, and basic expressions, of being human. Under the second theme students will inquire into the standards that should guide our interaction with other humans in society and the means of resolving difficulties arising from such interaction. The issues represented by the third theme emerge when we think critically about religious claims and the attitudes taken up toward them in religion and elsewhere. How much must religion claim? Are its claims rationally justified? Is religion a credible option for humans living in contemporary society?

Students may count courses from a major, concentration and/or minor towards a second major, concentration and/or minor; however, students must complete a minimum of 50 percent of unique courses toward the second major, concentration and/or minor, unless otherwise stated in the Undergraduate Academic Calendar.

To obtain a minor in Philosophy and Religion, students must fulfill the following requirements:

❏ 3.0 units of PHIL and/or RELS, 2.0 units of which must be at the 2000 level or above

❏ at least 0.5 unit must be from each of the program’s three themes

 Note: Students are encouraged to take PHIL 1010 and RELS 2010

Human Nature
PHIL 2201
PHIL 2212
PHIL 3350
PHIL 3373
RELS 2201
RELS 3307
RELS 3311

Ehtics and Social Morality
PHIL/FSGN 2202
PHIL 2209
PHIL/POLS 2213
PHIL/POLS 2214
PHIL/RELS 2229
PHIL/POLS 3312
RELS 3308

Faith and Reason
PHIL/RELS 2217
PHIL/RELS 2219
PHIL/RELS 3301
PHIL/RELS 3351

Academic Note: This web-based calendar information is applicable for the 2024-2025 academic year which runs from September 01, 2024 to August 31, 2025.

For information on previous years, please consult the University Academic Calendars web page.

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