Course

Course Summary

Credit Type:

Course

ACE ID:

KSLG-0011

Organization's ID:

DLSI-0011

Organization:

Gateway Education

Location:

Online

Length:

9 weeks (144 hours).

Dates Offered:

Credit Recommendation & Competencies

Level	Credits (SH)	Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate	3	Introduction to World Religions

Description

Objective:

Introduction to World Religions is an undergraduate course that measures knowledge and understanding of indigenous and major world religions, historically as well as socially and phenomenologically. From the emergence of ancient native religions around the world up to and including major current religious movements, this course spans millennia full of religious rituals, cultures, developments, splinters, and shifts. Major content areas include religious frameworks (types of expression, structures, personal beliefs, definitions, and phenomena); sociological, psychological, and philosophical perspectives; historical development of religious traditions and practices; and comparative analysis of religious narratives around the globe. Religions covered include Indigenous Religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Daoism/Taoism, Confucianism, Shinto, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, NeoPaganism, Modern African/Caribbean traditions, Baha’i, and Scientology, as well as modern ideas such as Secularism. Participants will be enriched by a cornucopia of religious traditions, backgrounds, and evolutionary developments throughout the history of humanity.

Learning Outcomes:

Identify basic dimensions of religion including ethics, doctrine, and rituals.
Compare, contrast, and categorize the major world religions and systematic ways of beliefs about each other and the world, including nature.
Recognize and interpret a comprehensive understanding of the vast array of religions and their common archetypal structures, despite their diversity.
Identify and apply the trajectories of current religious movements (including alternative paths and modern ideas) against the historical and recent developments in world history, philosophy, psychology, and art.
Recognize the historical development of major world religions such as Indigenous Religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Daoism/Taoism, Confucianism, Shinto, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, NeoPaganism, Modern African/Caribbean traditions, Baha’i, and Scientology.
Interpret religion through natural and revealed theology, descriptive approaches, and historical approaches.
Recall and distinguish specific doctrine and practice for major world religions such as Indigenous Religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Daoism/Taoism, Confucianism, Shinto, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, NeoPaganism, Modern African/Caribbean traditions, Baha’i, and Scientology.