BA Religious Studies

The Department for the Study of Religion offers options for both a Major and Minor in Religious Studies for undergraduate students. Majoring or minoring in the Study of Religion can be excellent preparation simply for living and working in a pluralistic and multicultural society. It can also provide excellent training for a variety of careers, such as teaching, counseling, business, law, writing, medicine, the arts, and professional religious leadership. The faculty seeks to develop in students a number of important, valuable, and transferable skills required by any profession or position. Courses in the Study of Religion at the University of California, Riverside encourage students to become well-informed and independent thinkers prepared to learn and engage in scholarly research techniques, including the collection of information and distillation and analysis of data with the help of critical skills and methods.