Declare Your Major

Declare your major under the Course Planning and Enrollment title.

DECLARATION OF A MAJOR/ MINOR

If you are interested in finding out more information before declaring a major in Religion, contact the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dr. Eric Reinders to schedule a brief meeting.

Once you have declared your major in OPUS and received a confirmation email please contact the Sr. Program Coordinator, Candice George to set up your initial advising meeting.

After your initial advising meeting, you will be assigned a faculty member in the Department to serve as your major adviser. If you would like to request a particular adviser, ask about that during your initial advising meeting. A request is generally honored when the faculty member’s schedule allows and so long as it does not result in overloading any individual adviser.

Religion Major Worksheet

We’ve created a Majors worksheet to make it easy to see what you need to take to fulfill your requirements. Most requirements do not need to be fulfilled in any set order, but students are strongly encouraged to take Religion 300, Interpreting Religion, which is required of all majors, as early in their program as possible. It is designed to prepare students for work in more advanced courses, so ideally it should be taken in the fall semester of the Junior year, although we intend to offer it both semesters. REL 490W, the required capstone course, is only offered in the spring and is reserved for majors at the end of their studies. It should be taken in your senior spring semester, unless other arrangements have been approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies.