Religious studies course offers broad foundation Religious Studies course offers broad foundation for various disciplines Students in Religious Studies 101 take notes during a lecture by Assistant Professor Kim Haines-Eitzen in Martha Van Rensselaer Hall. After a moment of introspection, Professor Jane Marie Law stands before hundreds of silent and attentive students and makes the transition from professor to Jewish storyteller. Well, let me tell you about this guy. He lives down the river.
Law evokes characters ranging from the Prophet Elijah to old beggars and survivors of a pogrom.
And so the unit on modern Judaism begins. Welcome to Religious Studies 101. The major was approved by the university in 1990, and it has since grown in popularity. The number of students majoring in Religious Studies grew from 10 to more than 25 in just in the past year, with many more students expressing interest in the program, Law says. Moreover it now offers more than 65 courses, all but one of which is cross-listed in other departments.