Religious Studies At The Claremont Colleges

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Religious Studies is a cooperative program offered jointly by Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, Pomona, and Scripps Colleges. The new program is designed to serve both as one focus of a liberal arts education and as a preprofessional foundation for students planning to pursue the study of religion beyond the baccalaureate degree.

Our program offers nearly 50 courses taught by a dozen scholars specializing in various historical religious traditions, geographical and cultural areas of the world, philosophical and critical approaches to the study of religion, and thematic and comparative studies of religious phenomena. Advanced students may, with permission, enroll in master's level courses in their area of specialization at The Claremont Graduate School.

While recognizing the importance and legitimacy of personal involvement in the study of religion, the Religious Studies cooperative program does not represent or advocate any particular religion as normative. Our aim is to make possible an informed knowledge of the fundamental importance of the religious dimension in all human societies--Eastern and Western, ancient and modern.

Our program emphasizes interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches in its curriculum, as well as close student-faculty interactions in the classroom and in research activities. In addition to preparing students for graduate study in religion, the broadly based and inclusive nature of Religious Studies affords students the intellectual training in the humanities and social sciences to enable them to enter a variety of fields and careers.

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