该系提供宗教学专业的文学学士，辅修和荣誉学士学位课程，以及宗教学和哲学专业的哲学系专业。宗教研究的本科课程旨在让学生切实存在，并帮助他们思考世界宗教中的知识，道德和社会政治问题。该系的教师寻求提供工具，以了解宗教观念，习俗和社区之间的复杂相遇，以及受宗教影响和塑造的过去和现在的文化。因此，课程将使学生了解：宗教研究领域的主要概念，例如神，祭祀，仪式，经文，预言和神职人员，以及上个世纪发展起来的方法，包括人类学，历史，心理，哲学和宗教等。现象学的思想，这使宗教可以更紧密地进行检查和分析，还可以了解世界宗教传
The department offers a Bachelor of Arts major, minor, and honors program in Religious Studies, and a major with the Philosophy Department in Religious Studies and Philosophy. Undergraduate courses in Religious Studies are designed to engage students existentially and to assist them in thinking about intellectual, ethical, and sociopolitical issues in the world's religions. The department's faculty seek to provide tools for understanding the complex encounters among religious ideas, practices, and communities, and the past and present cultures that have shaped and been shaped by religion. Courses therefore expose students to: leading concepts in the field of religious studies such as god(s), sacrifice, ritual, scripture, prophecy, and priesthood, approaches developed over the past century, including the anthropological, historical, psychological, philosophical, and phenomenological, that open religion to closer inspection and analysis, and major questions, themes, developments, features, and figures in the world's religious traditions. The department encourages and supports the acquisition of languages needed for engagement with sacred texts and interpretive traditions as well as study abroad at Stanford's overseas centers where religions can be observed and experienced in their contemporary contexts.