By the end of this program students will possess the following knowledge, skills, and capacities:

1. What is Religion: Students will demonstrate a broad understanding of the place of religion and religious inquiry in the human experience, while understanding ‘religion’ as an unfixed, contested category that manifests differently across social, political and scholarly spheres.
2. Religion and Power: Students will analyze the role of religion as a force for justice and injustice throughout history and the ways in which religion and spirituality complicate and mitigate real world problems and are intimately bound up with colonialism, policing, capitalism and other structures of power.
3. Religious Perspectives Across Difference: Students will communicate across religious difference and integrate multiple perspectives in exploring the relationship between religion and society generally, and religion, power, and justice specifically.
4. Religion as Method and Praxis: Students will reflect on the role of religion as a force for justice and injustice locally and/or globally, through field work opportunities, interreligious dialogue, and community-based learning.

Updated: July 2025

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