宗教研究专业的学生获得特定宗教传统的历史和实践方面的专业知识，从各种学科的角度以及宗教的理论讨论中遇到。他们还学习如何批判性地和敏感地与文本和其他种类的资源打交道，并清楚地交流其思想和观点。学生专注于两种宗教传统，但是我们鼓励他们参加各种各样的课程，使他们接触宗教研究中使用的许多方法论和方法，从环境伦理学到非洲侨民的宗教到佛教冥想再到宗教灵修。美国。
Our department offers a global perspective, with courses offered on major religious traditions and on more local religious phenomena throughout the world. We also study religion from a variety of perspectives drawn from across the humanities and social sciences. Our our department is home to anthropologists, ethicists, historians, literary theorists, philosophers, philologists, theologians, and poets. As the largest department of religious studies at a public university, we embody the fragile proposition that informed participation in pluralist societies requires understanding religious worlds. Our faculty is uncommonly diverse, trained in many languages, traditions, and fields. It is also uncommonly pluralist in the range of research and teaching methods we employ, our curriculum includes courses taught through historical, philological, ethnographic, theological, philosophical, comparative, and literary approaches.