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Major Requirements
+ 5 Area Courses
+ 5 Electives
+ TRS 4100 or 4300
+ TRS 4990
Half of all courses must be at the 3000 or 4000 level.
All TRS core courses count toward the major.
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Minor Requirements
+ 5 Electives
+ TRS 5990
Half of all courses must be at the 3000 or 4000 level.
All TRS core courses count toward the minor.
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Core Requirements
+ 1 TRS Course (any level)
+ 1 TRS Course (3000-level)
All JCU students take two TRS courses as part of the Jesuit Heritage (JH-TRS) area of the core. TRS courses designated as EGC, ISJ, and LINK can count toward one of these core areas, or the Jesuit Heritage area, but not both.
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Fall 2023 Courses
Meet Our Faculty
The Department of Theology & Religious Studies houses six full-time teacher-scholars and several part-time faculty members who bring particular expertise to the courses they teach. Strengths include Bible and early Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, Catholic Theology and Ethics, Islam, and American Religion.
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Theology & Religious Studies
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