The Department of Religion and Philosophy offers courses of study that encourage the search for truth about God, human existence in relationship to God, and the world as God's creation. Students are guided in this search through analysis of the Christian Scriptures, historical and contemporary statements of Christian belief, human experience of God and the world, and rational reflections on the nature of reality by great thinkers, past and present. The goal of this study is to God, as either lay or professional ministers of His Kingdom. Academic study is therefore balanced with a concern for individual involvement in practical ministry.
Transfer students take the number of units required by the registrar.
Courses are selected from the list of core courses for general studies in consultation with a departmental advisor. Courses used to meet the general studies requirement in God's Word and the Christian Response cannot be used to meet the additional core or specialization requirements of the majors. In general, correspondence courses are not accepted as fulfillment of religion or philosophy requirements. Double majors require 18 units that are distinctive. Those 18 units may include one upper-division core course in the specific major.