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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE? 

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HUM. 230-3 - INTRODUCTION TO RELIGIOUS ? 

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Acting under its delegated authority at its meeting of October 6, 

1981, the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies approved change in the 

General Studies course with movement to the Faculty of Arts into the 

Humanities Minor Program, including change of course designation and course 

description, as follows: 

From: 

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C.S. 230-3 - Introduction to Religious Studies 

The purpose of religious studies is the critical and appreciative 

understanding of religious phenomena as they are expressed in 

• religious traditions and in the varieties of social and cultural 

forms available to scholarly investigation. Disciplines and methods 

that are literary, historical, philosophical, theological, and of the 

nature of social and behavioral sciences, are used to accomplish that 

end. At the same time, there Is sensitivity to affective levels of 

understanding. 

To: ? 

HUM. 230-3 - Introduction to Religious Studies 

The examination of religion as expressed in the religious and 

humanistic traditions available through the investigation of 

primary textual sources. A critical and appreciative approach to 

religious phenomena will be emphasized through the theological, 

literary, historical, philosophical and behavioural backgrounds 

that influence our understanding of religion. 

(Note: It is intended that this change be effective for Spring 82-1.) 