Pre-Approved Courses
If you do not see a course on this Pre-Approved Master Course List, please read below in order to petition for review.
The following courses have been approved by the faculty adviser and Chair of the Study of Religion to be used to fulfill the Study of Religion major requirement. Please contact Study of Religion Student Affairs Officer in 378A Kaplan Hall, 310-825-4165 with your questions or concerns.
- Note: Some of these courses will not automatically be approved for the major by the Registrar’s Office, as they are not explicitly listed in the UCLA catalog for the SOR major. For those courses that are pre-approved by the faculty adviser, but not by the Registrar’s Office, you must go through the petition process.
- The list below is not exhaustive. Other courses not on this list may be used for the major by petition. Please consult with the faculty adviser to seek approval in advance of taking the course.
- The category that a given course fulfills is to be determined in consultation with the Chair of the department.
- Lower Division Courses listed may be used for the “Preparation for the Major.” Just like the upper division courses, some of these courses are listed in the catalog, while others require petitions.
- Lower Division Courses should be used only for the “Preparation.” Special permission from the faculty adviser is required for a lower-division course to be used for upper-division credit.
- Cross-listed courses are listed below under multiple departments and denoted with an M.
| Department | Title |
|---|---|
| AFRO-AM 6 | Trends In Black Intellectual Thought |
| AFRO-AM M104A | Early African American Literature |
| AN N EA 15 | Women and Power in the Ancient World |
| AN N EA 103A | Ancient Egyptian Civilization |
| AN N EA 103B | Ancient Egypt Civilization |
| AN N EA 110C | Iranian Civilization |
| AN N EA 121B | Intermediate Ancient Egyptian Readings |
| AN N EA 150A | Heroes, Gods, and Monsters: Literature and Epic in Mesopotamia |
| AN N EA C177 | Variable Topics in Ancient Near East: Women in Ancient Egypt |
| AN N EA CM101A | Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt, Predynastic Period to New Kingdom |
| AN N EA M50B | Origins of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam |
| AN N EA M104 | History of Ancient Mesopotamia and Syria |
| AN N EA M104B | Sumerians |
| AN N EA M104D | Assyrians |
| AN N EA M110B | Iranian Civilization |
| AN N EA M130 | Ancient Egypt Religion |
| AN N EA M135 | Religion in Ancient Israel |
| AN N EA M167 | Magic in Ancient World |
| AN N EA M185D | Religions of Ancient Near East |
| ANTHRO 2 | Archaeology: Introduction |
| ANTHRO 3 | Culture and Society |
| ANTHRO 4 | Culture and Communication |
| ANTHRO 114P | Ancient Religions of Mesoamerica |
| ANTHRO 114Q | Ancient Civilization of Andean South America |
| ANTHRO 114R | Ancient Civilization of Andean South America |
| ANTHRO 130 | Study of Culture |
| ANTHRO 131 | Critical Social Theory |
| ANTHRO 136B | Introduction to Psychological Anthropologyy |
| ANTHRO 156 | Anthropology of Religion |
| ANTHRO 160A | Native North Americans |
| ANTHRO 162 | Ethnography of South America |
| ANTHRO 163R | Japan |
| ANTHRO 167 | Culture Area of Middle East |
| ANTHRO 168P | Cultures of Pacific |
| ANTHRO 169 | Selected Topics in Regional Cultures |
| ANTHRO M166Q | Culture Area of Maghrib (North Africa) |
| ARABIC 120 | Islamic Texts |
| ART HIS 20 | Ancient Art |
| ART HIS 21 | Medieval Art |
| ART HIS 22 | Renaissance and Baroque Art |
| ART HIS 29 | Chinese Art |
| ART HIS 31 | Art of India and Southeast Asia |
| ART HIS 119B | Eastern Islamic Art |
| ART HIS 124 | Northern Renaissance Art |
| ART HIS 150A | Japanese Art |
| ART HIS 152A | Arts of Korea |
| ART HIS 154A | Early Art of India |
| ART HIS 154B | Later Art of India |
| ART HIS 156 | Arts of Southeast Asia |
| ART HIS 185 | Undergraduate Seminar: Death, Dying, and Memorials |
| ART HIS C115A | Late Antique Art and Architecture |
| ART HIS C141 | Colonial Latin American Art |
| ART HIS C148C | Art and Material Culture of Late Imperial China, 906 to 1911 |
| ART HIS C148D | Advanced Chinese Art |
| ART HIS C152D | History of Korean Buddhist Art |
| ART HIS M110A | Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt, Predynastic Period to New Kingdom |
| ART HIS M112B | Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology |
| ART HIS M113B | Roman Art and Archaeology |
| ASIA AM 187B | Special Courses in Asian American Themes: Re-Viewing Religion in Asian and Pacific America |
| ASIAN 151 | Buddhist Literature in Translation |
| ASIAN 162 | Buddhist Meditation Traditions |
| ASIAN M61 | Introduction to Zen Buddhism |
| BIOENGR 165EW | Bioengineering Ethics |
| CHICANO 10A | Introduction to Chicana/Chicano Studies: History and Culture |
| CHICANO 142 | Mesoamerican Literature |
| CHIN 50W | Introduction to Chinese Civilization |
| CHIN 165 | Introduction to Chinese Buddhist Texts |
| CHIN 180 | Chinese Mythology and Supernatural |
| CHIN 265A | Seminar: Chinese Buddhist Texts |
| CHIN 265B | Seminar: Chinese Buddhist Texts |
| CHIN C175 | Introduction to Chinese Thought |
| CHIN CM160 | Chinese Buddhism |
| CHIN M60 | Chinese Religions |
| CLASSICS 10 | Discovering Greeks |
| CLASSICS 20 | Discovering Romans |
| CLASSICS 30 | Classical Mythology |
| CLASSICS 42 | Cinema and Ancient World |
| CLASSICS 51A | Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece |
| CLASSICS 60 | Fantastic Journey: Antiquity and Beyond |
| CLASSICS 142 | Ancient Epic |
| CLASSICS 143A | Ancient Tragedy |
| CLASSICS 145A | Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
| CLASSICS 148 | Early Greek Medicine and Thought |
| CLASSICS 161 | Women’s History in Ancient Mediterranean |
| CLASSICS 162 | Classical Myth in Literature |
| CLASSICS 164 | Spectacle Entertainments of Ancient Rome |
| CLASSICS 165 | Ancient Athletics |
| CLASSICS 166A | Greek Religion |
| CLASSICS 166B | Roman Religion |
| CLASSICS 168 | Comparative Mythology |
| CLASSICS M153A | Minoan Art and Archaeology |
| CLASSICS M153C | Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology |
| CLASSICS M153D | Classical Greek Art and Archaeology |
| CLASSICS M153G | Roman Art and Archaeology |
| CLASSICS M167 | Magic in Ancient World |
| CLASSICS M170C | Power and Imagination in Byzantium |
| COMP LIT 2AW | Survey of Literature: Antiquity to Middle Ages |
| COMP LIT 4AW | Literature And Writing: Antiquity To Middle Ages |
| COMP LIT 4CW | Literature and Writing: Age of Enlightenment to 20 th Century |
| COMP LIT 4DW | Literature and Writing: Great Books from World at Large |
| COMP LIT 191 | Variable Topics in Comparative Literature |
| COMP LIT C160 | Literature and Visual Arts |
| COMP LIT M101 | Hebrew Literature in English: Literary Traditions of Ancient Israel -- Bible and Apocrypha |
| COMP LIT M165 | Holocaust in Literature |
| ENG COMP 5W | Literature, Culture, and Critical Inquiry |
| ENGL 111A | Hebrew Bible in Translation |
| ENGL 111B | Christian Biblical Texts in Translation |
| ENGL 111C | Topics in Biblical Literature |
| ENGL 120 | History of Aesthetics and Critical Theory |
| ENGL 121 | Modern And Contemporary Aesthetics And Critical Theory |
| ENGL 125 | Violence in Cultural Theory and Literature |
| ENGL 129 | Topics in Genre Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Critical Theory |
| ENGL 141 | Early Medieval Literature |
| ENGL 142 | Later Medieval Literature |
| ENGL 145 | Medieval Literatures Of Devotion And Dissent |
| ENGL 151 | Milton |
| ENGL 155 | Renaissance Subjects |
| ENGL 156 | Devotion and Dissent |
| ENGL 160A | Literature of Restoration and Earlier 18th Century, 1660 to 1730 |
| ENGL 162A | Earlier Romantic Literature |
| ENGL 182A | Topics in Medieval Literature |
| ENGL M104A | Early African American Literature |
| ENGR 183EW | Engineering And Society |
| ENVIRON M132 | Environmentalism: Past, Present, and Future |
| ETHNOMU 40 | Music and Religion |
| FRNCH 117 | Studies in 17th-Century French Culture and Literature |
| GE CLST 21CW | History of Modern Thought: Special Topics |
| GE CLST 30A | Never-Ending Stories: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Myth |
| GE CLST 30B | Never-Ending Stories: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Myth |
| GE CLST 30CW | Never-Ending Stories: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Myth |
| Gender Studies M128 | Roots of Patriarchy: Ancient Goddesses and Heroines |
| GEOG M115 | Environmentalism: Past, Present, and Future |
| GERMAN 59 | Holocaust in Film and Literature |
| GERMAN 109 | Jewish Question and German Thought |
| GERMAN 115 | 19th Century German Philosophy |
| GERMAN 116 | 20TH-Century German Philosophy |
| GLBL ST 1 | Introduction to Globalization |
| GLBL ST 191 | Variable Topics Research Seminar: Global Studies Globalizing Muslims: Islamic Travelers in a Global Arena |
| GREEK 101A | Homer: Odyssey |
| GREEK 130 | Readings in New Testament |
| HEBREW 110B | Introduction to Biblical Hebrew: Readings of Biblical Prose Texts |
| HEBREW 120 | Biblical Texts |
| HEBREW 130 | Rabbinic Texts |
| HEBREW 230 | Rabbinic Hebrew Literature |
| HIST 1A | Introduction to Western Civilization: Ancient Civilizations, Prehistory to Circa A.D. 843 |
| HIST 1B | Introduction to Western Civilization: Circa A.D. 843 to Circa 1715 |
| HIST 1C | Introduction To Western Civilization: Circa 1715 to Present |
| HIST 2C | Religion, Occult, and Science: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in Western Tradition, 1000 to 1600 |
| HIST 5 | Holocaust: History and Memory |
| HIST 9A | Introduction To Asian Civilizations: History Of India |
| HIST 9C | Introduction to Asian Civilizations: History of Japan |
| HIST 9D | Introduction to Asian Civilizations: History of Middle East |
| HIST 9E | Introduction to Asian Civilizations: Southeast Asian Crossroads |
| HIST 10B | History of Africa, 1800 to Present |
| HIST 11A | History of China to 1000 |
| HIST 11B | History of China, circa 1000 to 2000 |
| HIST 20 | World History to A.D. 600 |
| HIST 21 | World History Circa 600 to 1760 |
| HIST 22 | Contemporary World History, 1760 to Present |
| HIST 96W | Introduction to Historical Practice: |
| HIST 97C | Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History: Approaches to Cultural History and Art and Society |
| HIST 97D | Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in U.S. History: Salem Witches Meet the Historians |
| HIST 97F | Introduction to Historical Practice: Israeli Palestinian Conflict in Arabic and Hebrew Literature |
| HIST 97G | INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL PRACTICE: VARIABLE TOPICS IN EAST ASIAN HISTORY: Asia in the Age of Marco Polo: Views and Viewpoints of European and Muslim Travelers |
| HIST 105A | Survey of Middle East, 500 to Present: 500 to 1300 |
| HIST 105B | Survey of Middle East, 500 to Present: 1300 to 1700 |
| HIST 105C | Survey of Middle East, 500 to Present: 1700 to Present |
| HIST 107A | Armenian History: Ancient & Medieval Times |
| HIST 108A | History of North Africa from Islamic Conquest |
| HIST 108B | History of Islamic Iberia |
| HIST 109B | History of Israeli- Palestinian Conflict, 1881 to Present |
| HIST 111C | Topics in Middle Eastern History: Modern |
| HIST 112A | History of Ancient Mediterranean World |
| HIST 113A | History of Ancient Greece: Rise of Greek City-States |
| HIST 113B | History of Ancient Greece: Classical Period |
| HIST 114A | History of Rome to Death of Caesar |
| HIST 114B | History of Rome from Death of Caesar to Time of Constantine |
| HIST 114C | History of Rome: Transformation of Classical World |
| HIST 116A | Byzantine History |
| HIST 116B | Byzantine History |
| HIST 119A | Medieval Europe, 400 to 1000 |
| HIST 119B | Medieval Europe, 1000 to 1500 |
| HIST 119D | Topics in Medieval History: The Myth of the Superhero: Then And Now; Sex in the Middle Ages |
| HIST 121A | History of Modern Europe: Renaissance and Reformation, 1450 to 1660 |
| HIST 121B | History of Modern Europe: Baroque Culture and Absolutist Politics, 1600 to 1715 |
| HIST 122A | Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe, 15th Century |
| HIST 125B | Nationalism and Modernization in 19th- Century Germany |
| HIST 131A | Marxist Theory and History |
| HIST 157B | Indians of Colonial Mexico |
| HIST 174A | Early History of India |
| HIST 175A | Cultural and Political History of Contemporary South Asia |
| HIST 175C | Special Topics in Contemporary Indian History: Muslim Reformation? Islam, Modernity, and Empire in British India |
| HIST 179A | Variable Topics in History of Medicine: Historic Roots of Healing Arts |
| HIST 183A | Third Reich and Jews |
| HIST 183B | Third Reich and Jews |
| HIST 185B | Religions of South and Southeast Asia |
| HIST 191A | Capstone Seminar: History—Ancient History: Age of Constantine the Great |
| HIST 191B | Capstone Seminar: History—Medieval: Medieval Conflict |
| HIST 191F | Capstone Seminar: History: Near East |
| HIST 191G | Capstone Seminar: History—East Asia: Love, Sexuality, and Social Order in Late Imperial China |
| HIST 191J | Capstone Seminar: History -- Africa: Islam and Muslim Communities in African History |
| HIST 191K | Capstone Seminar: History: History of Religions |
| HIST 191L | Capstone Seminar: History -- Jewish History |
| HIST 191N | Capstone Seminar: History—India: Mystics, Rebels, and Messiahs in Modern Muslim World |
| HIST M4 | Introduction to History of Religions |
| HIST M10A | History of Africa to 1800 |
| HIST M103A | History of Ancient Egypt |
| HIST M103B | History of Ancient Egypt |
| HIST M104A | History of Ancient Mesopotamia and Syria |
| HIST M104B | Sumerians |
| HIST M104C | Babylonians |
| HIST M104D | Assyrians |
| HIST M106 | Premodern Islam |
| HIST M108C | Culture Area of Maghrib (North Africa) |
| HIST M110A | Iranian Civilization |
| HIST M110B | Iranian Civilization |
| HIST M110C | Iranian Civilization |
| HIST M116C | Power and Imagination in Byzantium |
| HIST M122E | Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe, 19th Century |
| HIST M142C | History of Religion in U.S. |
| HIST M150B | Introduction to Afro-American History |
| HIST M173C | Shinto, Buddhism, and Japanese Folk Religion |
| HIST M174D | Indo-Islamic Interactions, 700 to 1750 |
| HIST M181 | Topics in Jewish History |
| HIST M182A | Ancient Jewish History |
| HIST M182B | Medieval Jewish History |
| HIST M182C | Modern Jewish History |
| HIST M185D | Religions of Ancient Near East |
| HIST M185F | History of Early Christians |
| HIST M185G | Religious Environment of Early Christians |
| HIST M185I | Jesus of Nazareth in Historical Research |
| HNRS 7 | Saint and Heretic: Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais, History and Myth |
| HNRS 12 | Sacred Form: Literature and Poetry in India from Bronze Age to Premodern Times |
| HNRS 57 | Language, Performance, and Culture |
| HNRS 173A | Liberty, Government, and Society in European Thought |
| HNRS 184 | India and Pakistan: Historic Roots of Conflict and Prospects for Cooperation |
| HNRS M118 | Roots of Patriarchy: Ancient Goddesses and Heroines |
| I A STD 188 | Special Courses in International and Area Studies: Religious and Ethnic Conflict in Middle East |
| I E STD C160 | Indo-European Comparative Mythology and Poetics |
| IRANIAN 131 | Introduction to Judeo-Persian: Literature and Culture |
| IRANIAN 142 | Persian Popular Ethics |
| IRANIAN 170 | Religion in Ancient Iran |
| IRANIAN M105A | Baha’i Faith in Iran: Historical and Sociological Survey |
| IRANIAN M105B | Baha’i Faith in Iran: Surveys of Baha’i Scriptures and Thought |
| IRANIAN M105C | Baha’i Faith in Iran: 20th Century Iran and the Baha’is |
| ISLAMIC 130 | Shi'a in Islamic History |
| ISLAMIC M111 | Introduction to Islamic Archaeology |
| ITALIAN 42A | Italy through Ages in English: Saints and Sinners in Early Modern Italy |
| ITALIAN 103A | Introduction to Classic Italian Literary and Cultural Studies |
| ITALIAN 110 | Dante in English |
| ITALIAN 113 | Dante’s “La Divina Commedia” (in Italian) |
| ITALIAN 114B | Middle Ages: Medieval Humor, Moralism, and Society |
| JAPAN 161 | Religious Life in Modern Japan |
| JAPAN 170 | Japanese Tales of Supernatural |
| JAPAN 265A | Seminar: Japanese Buddhist Texts |
| JAPAN C159 | Variable Topics in Culture and Society in Japan |
| JAPAN CM160 | Japanese Buddhism |
| JEWISH 144 | Zionism: Ideology and Practice in Making of Jewish State |
| JEWISH 150B | Hebrew Literature in English: Rabbinic Judaism |
| JEWISH 170 | Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Judaism |
| JEWISH 175 | Modern Israeli Literature Made into Films |
| JEWISH 177 | Variable Topics in Jewish Studies |
| JEWISH 191 | Variable Topics Research Seminar: Jewish Studies |
| JEWISH M10 | Social, Cultural and Religious Institutions of Judaism |
| JEWISH M142 | Modern Israel: Politics, Society, Culture |
| JEWISH M150A | Hebrew Literature in English: Literary Traditions of Ancient Israel -- Bible and Apocrypha |
| JEWISH M155 | Angels, Demons, and End of World: Magic, Mysticism, and Apocalypse in Jewish Traditions |
| JEWISH M181 | Topics in Jewish History |
| JEWISH M182A | Ancient Jewish History |
| JEWISH M182B | Medieval Jewish History |
| KOREAN 50 | History of Korean Civilization |
| KOREAN 172 | Topics in Korean Christianity |
| KOREAN 176 | Introduction to Korean Confucian Texts |
| KOREAN 177 | Intellectual History of Modern Korean |
| KOREAN 180A | History of Korea through 1259 |
| KOREAN 180B | History of Korea, 1260 through 1876 |
| KOREAN 180C | History of Korea since 1876 |
| KOREAN 183 | Korean Folklore |
| KOREAN CM160 | Korean Buddhism |
| KOREAN CM165 | Introduction to Korean Buddhist Texts |
| KOREAN M60 | Introduction To Korean Religions |
| LBR&WS 173 | Nonviolence and Social Movements |
| M E STD M50A | First Civilizations |
| M E STD M50B | Origins of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam |
| M E STD M50CW | Making and Studying Modern Middle East |
| M E STD M111 | Introduction to Islamic Archaeology |
| M E STD M142 | Modern Israel: Politics, Society, Culture |
| MUSCLG 3 | Introduction to Classical Music |
| MUSCLG 66 | Getting Medieval |
| MUSCLG 72 | Sacred Music |
| PHILOS 2 | Introduction to Philosophy of Religion |
| PHILOS 3 | Historical Introduction to Philosophy |
| PHILOS 5 | Philosophy in Literature |
| PHILOS 7 | Introduction to Philosophy of Mind |
| PHILOS 21 | Skepticism and Rationality |
| PHILOS 22 | Introduction To Ethical Theory |
| PHILOS 100A | History of Greek Philosophy |
| PHILOS 100B | Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy |
| PHILOS 100C | History of Modern Philosophy, 1650 to 1800 |
| PHILOS 104 | Topics in Islamic Philosophy |
| PHILOS 107 | Topics in Medieval Philosophy |
| PHILOS 150 | Society and Morals |
| PHILOS 151A | History of Ethics: Selected Classics in Ancient Ethical Theories—Plato, Aristotle |
| PHILOS 153A | Topics in Ethical Theory: Normative Ethics |
| PHILOS 154B | Topics in Value Theory: Moral Responsibility and Free Will |
| PHILOS 155A | Medical Ethics |
| PHILOS 170 | Philosophy of Mind |
| PHILOS 175 | Topics in Philosophy of Religion |
| PHILOS 177A | Existentialism |
| PHILOS C153B | Topics in Ethical Theory: Metaethics |
| POL SCI 10 | Introduction to Political Theory |
| POL SCI 20 | World Politics |
| POL SCI 30 | Politics and Strategy |
| POL SCI 50 | Introduction To Comparative Politics |
| POL SCI 165 | Islam and Politics |
| POL SCI M114A | American Political Thought I, 1620 to 1865 |
| POL SCI M115D | Diversity, Disagreement, and Democracy |
| RELIGN 110 | Religion and Violence |
| RELIGN 120 | Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Comparative Approach |
| RELIGN 150 | Women, Gender, and Religion |
| RELIGN 160 | Religion, Film, and Media |
| RELIGN 177 | Variable Topics in Religion |
| RELIGN 180 | Religion and Modern Critical Thought |
| RELIGN 191 | Capstone Seminar: Variables Topics Research Seminars: Study of Religion |
| RELIGN 199 | Directed Research – Contract Course |
| RELIGN M40 | Christianity East and West |
| RELIGN M186C | Jesus of Nazareth in Historical Research |
| RUSSIAN 122 | Siberia |
| RUSSIAN C124D | Studies in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky |
| RUSSIAN C124T | Studies In Russian Literature: Tolstoy |
| S ASIAN CM160 | Buddhism in India |
| S ASIAN M60 | Religion in Classical India: Introduction |
| SCAND 50W | Introduction to Scandinavian Literatures and Cultures |
| SCAND 134 | Scandinavian Mythology |
| SCAND C133A | Saga |
| SEASIAN 135 | Religion and Society in Southeast Asia |
| SEASIAN C140 | Zomia: Peoples, Societies, and Cultures of Upland Southeast Asia |
| SLAVIC 201 | Introduction to Old Church Slavic |
| SLAVIC M40 | Christianities: East and West |
| SOCIOL 1 | Introductory Sociology |
| SOCIOL 20 | Introduction to Sociological Research Methods |
| SPAN 130 | Topics in Medieval Studies |
| URBAN PL M165 | Environmentalist: Past, Present, and Future |
| WLD ART 120 | Selected Topics in Cultural Studies |
| WLD ARTS 1 | Introduction to World Arts and Cultures |
| WLD ARTS 22 | Introduction To American Folklore Studies |
| WLD ARTS 24 | World Arts, Local Lives |
| WLD ARTS 33 | Colonialisms and Resistance |
| WLD ARTS 51W | Aliens, Psychics, and Ghosts |
| WLD ARTS C139 | Afro-Caribbean Ritual Arts |
| WLD ARTS M23 | Introduction to American Indian Studies |
| WLD ARTS M130 | Space and Place |