Explore the wide range variety of religious responses to human beliefs and behaviours surrounding these age-old questions: What is the meaning of life? What is the good life? What is love? What is evil? Does God exist? Examine the wisdom drawn from diverse religious traditions to these questions, and consider the variety of ways religion shapes culture and society, and vice versa. Compare and understand how religion affected the lives of ancient peoples, and consider how it affects humankind today. How has religion shaped culture and society?
Your studies will focus on western religious thought, biblical studies, religion and modern culture, and contemporary religious issues. Now, more than ever before, it is vital to understand the complexities of religious thought and practice, in light of our globalized and multicultural society. While not promoting a particular religion or viewpoint, Religious Studies fosters respectful, informed, productive dialogue on questions that are central to human existence.
Thorneloe courses count as Humanities credits and may be used towards a major in Religious Studies at Laurentian with a 3 or 4-year BA.
• Ontario Secondary Schools
• 1 grade 12 4U English
• 5 other grade 12 4U/M courses
• For more information, contact RLST@thorneloe.ca
• 4-year BA (single or combined concentration)
• 3-year BA (single or combined concentration)
• Major in Religious Studies
• Minor in Religious Studies
years: 4 TOTAL CREDITS: 120
6 credits from: | |
RLST 1005E (6 cr) | |
RLST 1106E (3 cr) | |
RLST 1107E (3 cr) | |
RLST 1116E (3 cr) | |
RLST 1117E (3 cr) | |
Social Science Electives | credits: 6 |
Science Electives | credits: 6 |
other Electives | credits: 12 |
Notes:
Students may not exceed 42 credits at the 1000 or 9100 level in their degree program.
* Students must complete at least 6 RLST credits at the 3000 level
Area I: Judaeo-Christian Tradition | credits: 6 |
Area II: Religions of the World | credits: 6 |
Area III: Religion and Modern Culture | credits: 6 |
other RLST credits at the 2000 or 3000 level* | credits: 12 |
Electives | credits: 30 |
RLST credits at the 4000 level | credits: 12 |
additional upper year RLST credits* | credits: 12 |
Electives | credits: 6 |
years: 3 TOTAL CREDITS: 90
TOTAL CREDITS: 36
6 credits from: | |
RLST 1005E (6 cr) | |
RLST 1106E (3 cr) | |
RLST 1107E (3 cr) | |
RLST 1116E (3 cr) | |
RLST 1117E (3 cr) | |
Social Science Electives | credits: 6 |
Science Electives | credits: 6 |
other Electives | credits: 12 |
Note:
Students may not exceed 42 credits at the 1000 or 9100 level in their degree program.
Area I: Judaeo-Christian Tradition | credits: 6 |
Area II: Religions of the World | credits: 6 |
Area III: Religion and Modern Culture | credits: 6 |
other RLST credits at the 2000 or 3000 level | credits: 12 |
Electives | credits: 30 |
6 credits from: | |
RLST 1005E (6 cr) | |
RLST 1106E (3 cr) | |
RLST 1107E (3 cr) | |
RLST 1116E (3 cr) | |
RLST 1117E (3 cr) | |
Area I: Judaeo-Christian Tradition | credits: 6 |
Area II: Religions of the World | credits: 6 |
Area III: Religion and Modern Culture | credits: 6 |
RLST credits at the 4000 level | credits: 6 |
additional upper year RLST credits | credits: 6 |
Electives** | credits: 78 |
Notes:
Students may not exceed 42 credits at the 1000 or 9100 level in their degree program.
** Students must complete a minimum of a minor (24 credits) or a second major (42 credits) from among their elective credits.
Must include 6 credits in the Social Sciences and/or 6 credits in the Sciences if not part of the minor or second major
6 credits from: | |
RLST 1005E (6 cr) | |
RLST 1106E (3 cr) | |
RLST 1107E (3 cr) | |
RLST 1116E (3 cr) | |
RLST 1117E (3 cr) | |
RLST credits at the 3000 level | credits: 6 |
additional upper year RLST credits | credits: 12 |
(as published by Laurentian University in April 2015)
To be in good academic standing in a B.A. program, a student must:
A student is subject to a one-year probationary period if he or she:
A student is required to withdraw from the university if he or she:
Students required to withdraw may petition the Senate Committee on Academic Regulations and Awards for readmission after one calendar year, with a recommendation from the academic unit prior to consideration by the committee.
To graduate with a 3 year Bachelor of Arts degree, a student must:
To graduate with a 4 year Bachelor of Arts degree, a student must:
Notes:
To graduate with a 3 year Bachelor of Arts degree, a student must:
To graduate with a 4 year Bachelor of Arts degree, a student must:
Notes:
According to their category, students need to follow 6 credits from the table below: STUDENT CATEGORY | REQUIREMENT | |
1) | Students completing a B.A. with at least one concentration, major or specialization in an French-language program | 6 cr. in LANG 1005FL Grammaire appliquée à la rédaction
OR the former FRAN 1805FL |
2) | Students admitted based on a TOEFL score (or equivalent) or EAP Level 3 | 6 cr. in ENGL 1550EL Academic Reading and Writing |
3) | All other students completing a B.A.
Note: Option a) will be attractive to a wide range of students, whether their career aspirations are regional, national or |
CHOOSE ONE OF THREE OPTIONS:
a) Learn a new language (or improve second language skills) 6 cr. in French, Nishnaabemwin or Cree; or in another language other than English; |
NOTES:
All students must take 6 credits of courses with at least 50% Indigenous content from the following list:
List of courses (EL & FL) with at least 50% Indigenous content (some courses have a prerequisite)
Note: All INDG courses will count towards this requirement
ANTR 2166EL Living with Things: Theories of Material Culture
ANTR 2036EL Ethnology of North American Native Peoples
ANTR 2046EL Peoples of the World: Tribes, States and the Global Village
ANTR 2146EL The (De) Colonial Struggle
ANTR 2906EL Introduction to Linguistics
ANTR 3087EL Ethnomedicine: Cross-Cultural Healing
ANTR 3116EL Anthropology of the Arts
ANTR 3216EL Visual Ethnography
ANTR 4116EL Critical Perspectives in Medical Anthropology
ANTR 4136EL Ethnopsychiatry and Cross-Cultural Mental Health
ARCL 3095EL Archaeology Field School
ARCL 3207EL New World Archaeology
BIOL 3066EL Indigenous Peoples: Ecology, Science and Technology
EDUC 1046EL Indigenous Ways of Learning
ENGL 1511EL Academic Reading and Writing in English for Aboriginal Students I
ENGL 1512EL Academic Reading and Writing in English for Aboriginal Students II
ENGL 2677EL Indigenous Poetics in Canada
ENGL 3456EL Indigenous Literatures in Canada I
ENGL 3496EL Indigenous Women’s Resistance Writing & Material Art
ENGL 3516EL Creative Writing
ENGL 3517EL Studies in Creative Writing
ENGL 3576EL The Craft of Life Writing
ENGL 3577EL The Craft of Writing Poetry
ENGL 3546EL Media Representations of Indigenous Peoples in North America
ENGL 3566EL Indigenous Oral Storytelling
ENGL 4686EL Rhetoric of Apology
ENGL 4787EL Indian Residential School Fiction
ETAM 1106FL Les Premières Nations de l’Amérique du Nord: Perspective euro-américaine
ETAM 1107FL Les Premières Nations de l’Amérique du Nord: Perspective amérindienne
FOLK 2276FL Légendes et traditions orales amérindiennes
FOLK 2287FL Coutumes amérindiennes: le cycle de la vie
FOLK 2337FL Objets de la vie quotidienne des Amérindiens
FREN 2717FL Thèmes de la littérature canadienne-française
GEOG 3497EL Geography of Northern Canada: Developmental Issues
HIST 1406EL Canadian History: Pre-Confederation
HIST 2466EL Indigenous Representations from Colonialism to Sovereignty
HIST 2616EL The First Nations in Canada in Historical Perspective
HIST 3216FL L’histoire des Premières Nations au Canada
HIST 3276EL History of Northern Ontario
HIST 3276FL Histoire du Nord de l’Ontario
HIST 3486EL Indigenous Histories, Indigenous Food Ways: Understanding Contact and Conflict through Dietary Change
HIST 3876EL The Social History of Canadian Art
HIST 4436EL Ideas, Ethics and Method: Oral History in Thought and Practice
JURI 3426FL Droit applicable aux peuples autochtones
LITT 3146FL Littérature et culture des Autochtones et des Métis du Québec et du Canada français
POLI/INDG 3105EL Canadian Law, Politics and Aboriginal People
POLI 3437EL The Colonizer and the Colonized
PSYC 4066EL Culture and Psychology
PSYC 4066FL Culture et psychologie
RLST 2285EL North American Native People: Tradition and Culture
SOCI 2266EL Cultural Marginality and the Environment: Environmental Risk and Indigenous Populations
SOCI 2276FL Enjeux autochtones contemporains
SOCI 3326FL Sociologie de la mémoire
SOCI 4306FL Sociologie du droit autochtone
SOCI 4256EL Aboriginal Peoples and Society
WOMN 2046EL Gender, Race and Racism
WOMN 2906EL/HIST 3966EL/SOCI 3907EL Special Topic: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
All students must take a total of 6 credits of Scientific Literacy from any of the five (5) lists below (or combination of lists):
NOTE : COSC 1701 and COSC 1702 CANNOT be used towards the Scientific Literacy Requirement
1) INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE COURSES – NO PREREQUISITES
These new interdisciplinary courses are team-taught by faculty in Biology, Chemistry and Physics. They will be of particular interest to students in the B.Ed.
SCEN 1006EL Integrated Science I
SCEN 1007EL Integrated Science II
2) GRADE 12U EQUIVALENT SCIENCE COURSES
These grade 12U-level courses prepare students to enter first-year courses in Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics required for degree programs in those disciplines. Note that Biology
does not require a grade 12U course or equivalent as a prerequisite for entry into the first year course (BIOL 1506EL/FL).
CHMI 1031EL Elementary Chemistry (No prerequisite)
CHMI 1031FL Chimie élémentaire (No prerequisite)
CHMI 1041EL Chemical Concepts (No prerequisite)
CHMI 1041FL Concepts chimiques (No prerequisite)
MATH 1911EL Finite Mathematics (One grade 12 mathematics)
MATH 1911FL Mathématiques discrètes (One grade 12 mathematics)
MATH 1912EL Elementary Calculus (One grade 12 mathematics)
MATH 1912FL Calcul élémentaire (One grade 12 mathematics)
PHYS 1211EL Understanding Physics I (No prerequisite)
3) INTRODUCTORY SCIENCE COURSES THAT COUNT TOWARDS A MINOR, CONCENTRATION, MAJOR OR SPECIALISATION
Students may count these credits towards a minor or major in a Science discipline within the B.A. degree.
ANTR 2016EL Human Biological Variation, Adaptations and Health
ANTR 3046EL Environmental Anthropology
ANTR 3047EL Public Health and Epidemiology
ANTR 3086EL Medical Anthropology: Medicine, Culture and Society
ANTR 3087EL Ethnomedicine: Cross-cultural Healing
ANTR 4006EL Food and Disease Prevention
ANTR 4007EL Origins of Sickness and Medicine
ANTR 4116EL Critical Perspectives in Medical Anthropology
ANTR 4136EL Ethnopsychiatry and Cross-Cultural Mental Health
ARCL 1006EL Introduction to Archaeology and Physical Anthropology (No prerequisite)
BIOL 1506EL Biology I
BIOL 1506FL Biologie I
BIOL 1507EL Biology II
BIOL 1507FL Biologie II
BIOL 2026EL Introduction to Microbiology (BIOL 1506/1507 or 12U Biology)
BIOL 2026FL Introduction à la microbiologie (BIOL 1506/1507 or 12U Biology)
BIOL 2105EL Human Anatomy and Physiology (No prerequisite)
BIOL 2105FL Anatomie et physiologie humaine (No prerequisite)
BIOL 2356EL Principles of Ecology (No prerequisite)
BIOL 2356FL Principes d’écologie (No prerequisite)
BIOL 2757EL Biological Aspects of Human Sexuality (BIOL 1506/1507 or 1700, or permission)
BIOL 2757FL Les aspects biologiques de la sexualité humaine (BIOL 1506/1507 or 1700, or permission)
BIOL 3066EL Indigenous Peoples: Ecology, Science and Technology (No prerequisite)
BIOL 3927EL Forest Entomology (BIOL 1000, 2356, 3706 or permission)
BIOL 4717EL Animal Behaviour
BIOL 4717FL Comportement animal
CHMI 1006EL General Chemistry I
CHMI 1006FL Chimie générale I
CHMI 1007EL General Chemistry II
CHMI 1007FL Chimie générale II
COSC 1046EL Computer Science I
COSC 1046FL Informatique I
COSC 1047EL Computer Science II
ENSC 1406EL Earth’s Environmental Systems
ENSC 2216EL Our Environment: The Science Behind the Stories (24 cr. completed)
ENSC 4146EL Urban Waters (ENSC 1406 or permission)
GEOL 1006EL Introduction to Geology I (No prerequisite)
GEOL 1007EL Introduction to Geology II
MATH 1036EL Calculus I
MATH 1036FL Calcul I
MATH 1037EL Calculus II
MATH 1037FL Calcul II
MATH 1056EL Discrete Mathematics I
MATH 1056FL Mathématiques discrètes I
MATH 1057EL Linear Algebra I
MATH 1057FL Algèbre linéaire I
PHYS 1006EL Introductory Physics I
PHYS 1006FL Introduction à la physique I
PHYS 1007EL Introductory Physics II
PHYS 1007FL Introduction à la physique II
PHYS 1206EL Physics for the Life Science I
PHYS 1206FL Physique pour les sciences de la vie I
PHYS 1207EL Physics for the Life Science II
PHYS 1207FL Physique pour les sciences de la vie II
PSYC 2606EL Brain and Behaviour
PSYC 2606FL Le cerveau et le comportement
PSYC 2617EL Human Neuropsychology
PSYC 2617FL Neuropsychologie humaine
PSYC 2656EL Physiological Psychology
PSYC 2905EL Receptor Processes and Perception
PSYC 2905FL Sensation et perception
PSYC 2917EL Sensation and Perception
PSYC 3106EL Evolutionary Psychology
PSYC 3306EL Learning
PSYC 3306FL Apprentissage
PSYC 3307EL Laboratory in Learning and Memory
PSYC 3307FL Laboratoire en apprentissage
PSYC 3506EL Neuropharmacology
PSYC 3507EL Behavioural Neurobiology
PSYC 3706EL Topics in Cognitive Psychology
PSYC 3706FL Psychologie cognitive I – Processus fondamentaux
PSYC 3707EL Laboratory in Cognitive Psychology
PSYC 3707FL Psychologie cognitive II – Processus supérieurs
PSYC 3757EL Sleep and Dreaming
PSYC 4506EL Advanced Experimental Psychology I
PSYC 4507EL Advanced Experimental Psychology II
4) COURSES WITHOUT PREREQUISITES
BIOL 1000EL Canadian Environmental Biology
BIOL 1700EL Structure and Function of the Human Body
BIOL 1700FL Structure et fonction du corps humain
BIOL 2110EL Medical Microbiology
BIOL 2701EL Human Physiology
FORS 1016EL Fundamentals of Forensic Science I
GEOL 1021EL Understanding the Earth I
GEOL 1021FL Comprenons la Terre – La planète et ses processus internes
PHYS 1905EL General Astronomy
PHYS 1905FL Astronomie générale
5) COURSES WITH PREREQUISITES
BIOL 2011EL Fundamentals of Genetics (grade 12U level chemistry, CHMI 1030 or 1041, or BIOL 1506)
CHMI 1032EL Essential Concepts of Organic Chemistry (CHMI 1031, 1041 or equivalent)
CHMI 1032FL Concepts essentiels de la chimie organique (CHMI 1031, 1041 or equivalent)
CHMI 1202EL Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (CHMI 1041 or grade 12U level Chemistry)
CHMI 2031EL Natural Products (CHMI 1032 or equivalent)
CHMI 2041EL Introductory Environmental Chemistry (CHMI 1202, 1032 or 1007)
FORS 1017EL Fundamentals of Forensic Science II (FORS 1016)
GEOL 1022EL Understanding the Earth II (GEOL 1021)
GEOL 1022FL Comprenons la Terre – La croûte terrestre: les roches et les minéraux (GEOL 1021)
PHYS 1212EL Understanding Physics II (PHYS 1006, 1206 or 1211 or grade 12U level Physics)
NOTES:
A student who wishes to change concentrations/specializations/majors requires the permission of the department chair of the new concentration/specialization/major. The student’s current academic status must be “may proceed in program” or “may proceed in program on probation.”
For a complete listing and full course descriptions, please see the Religious Studies section of Laurentian University’s Academic Calendar or the web pages for the Joint Department of Religious Studies.
Other RLST courses are offered by the Religious Studies departments at the University of Sudbury or Huntington University.
RLST 1116 EL – Ideas of Love I (3 credits)
RLST 1117 EL – Ideas of Love II (3 credits)
RLST 2136 EL – Christian Thought and Culture I (3 credits)
RLST 2137 EL – Christian Thought and Culture II (3 credits)
RLST 2166 EL – The Problem of Evil (3 credits)
RLST 2167 EL – Religious Constructions of the Human Good (3 credits)
RLST 2216 EL – Religion and Violence (3 credits)
RSLT 2246 EL – Women, Religion and Spirituality I
RLST 2247 EL – Women, Religion and Spirituality II
RLST 2316 EL – Cults/New Religious Movements (3 credits)
RLST 2326 EL – Dimensions of the Paranormal (3 credits)
RLST 2327 EL – Jesus in Film (3 credits)
RLST 2336 EL – Religious Themes in Literature I (3 credits)
RLST 2337 EL – The Chronicles of Narnia (3 credits)
RLST 2365 EL – Religion in Film (6 credits)
RLST 3126 EL – The Prophets of Israel (3 credits)
RLST 3127 EL – The Pauline Letters in the New Testament (3 credits)
RLST 3166 EL – Mark’s Gospel (3 credits)
RLST 3266 EL – J.R.R. Tolkien and the Religious Imagination (3 credits) NEW COURSE
RLST 3286 EL – C.S. Lewis and the Religious Imagination (3 credits)
RLST 3306 EL – Issues in Religion and Science (3 credits)
RLST 3386 EL – Faith and Atheism (3 credits)
RLST 4005 EL – Honours Thesis (6 credits, departmental permission required)
RLST 4345 EL – Special Readings in Religion and Modern Culture (6 credits)
The following Religious Studies courses are offered by distance. For more information please visit Laurentian Online at online@laurentian.ca or contact Thorneloe’s Distance Education Coordinator at online@thorneloe.ca.
RLST 1116 EL 12 – Ideas of Love I (3 credits)
RLST 1117 EL 12 – Ideas of Love II (3 credits)
RLST 2136 EL 12 – The Development of Christian Thought I (3 credits)
RLST 2137 EL 12 – The Development of Christian Thought II (3 credits)
RLST 2326 EL 12 – Dimensions of the Paranormal (3 credits)
RLST 3126 EL 12 – The Prophets of Israel (3 credits)
RLST 3166 EL 12 – Mark’s Gospel (3 credits)
RLST 3306 EL 12 – Issues in Religion and Science (3 credits)