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Nov 08, 2024
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2019 - 2020 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HUMN 210 - World Religions Credit Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0
Prerequisite(s): None
Restriction(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
This course is an introduction to the world’s major religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.
Student Learning Outcomes of the Course:
- To introduce and outline the varying histories, beliefs and practices of the great religion systems from around the world
- To provide an understanding of how religion affects personal convictions in human thought systems, conduct and behavior
- To show how religion leads to an understanding of the human search for the meaning of life and a hope in death
- To illuminate religious prejudice and the effect it has on our world, providing an open objective forum for safe discussion
- To demonstrate that these beliefs, philosophies and sacred writings (and the cultures deriving from them) represent the universal aspirations of all people of good will in some way
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