2025 Summer St. George Campus Course Descriptions
Please see the Timetable Builder for course timings, and review Academic Dates & Deadlines.
Note: If the courses listed below are in conflict with Timetable Builder, the information on the timetable takes priority.
Questions? Please contact the Undergraduate Administrator, Amy Huynh at religion.undergrad@utoronto.ca.
RLG100H1F World Religions
Instructor Dr. David Perley
Term: F (May to June)
Description: An introduction to the history, philosophy, and practice of the major religions of the world, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism.
RLG200H1F The Study of Religion
Instructor: Kainat Bashir
Term: F (May to June)
Description: An introduction to the discipline of the study of religion. This course surveys methods in the study of religion and the history of the discipline in order to prepare students to be majors or specialists in the study of religion.
RLG235H1F Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
Instructor: TBA
Term: F (May to June)
Description: This course equips students to understand how norms and practices of gender and sexuality are deeply entangled with religious imaginations and traditions. We will examine how ritual, scriptural, and legal traditions enable and constrain embodied and political power. Readings will draw from feminist, womanist, queer, and other perspectives. With a combination of in-class discussions, critical reading exercises, and short essay assignments, students will strengthen their awareness of transnational intersections of religion, gender, and "religio-racial" formations. You will develop skills in analyzing the role of popular culture and legal and religious texts in shaping norms and experiences of gender and embodiment.
RLG232H1S Religion and Film
Instructor: Andrew Dade
Term: S (July to August)
Description: The role of film as a mediator of thought and experience concerning religious worldviews. The ways in which movies relate to humanity's quest to understand itself and its place in the universe are considered in this regard, along with the challenge which modernity presents to this task. Of central concern is the capacity of film to address religious issues through visual symbolic forms.
RLG233H1S Religion and Popular Culture
Instructor: TBA
Term: S (July to August)
Description: A course on the interactions, both positive and negative, between religion and popular culture. We look at different media (television, advertising, print) as they represent and engage with different religious traditions, identities, and controversies..
RLG317H1S Religion, Violence, and Non-Violence
Instructor: TBA
Term: S (July to August)
Description: People acting in the name of religion(s) have incited violence and worked for peace. How can we understand this tension both today and in the past? Through examination of the power of authoritative tradition, collective solidarity, charisma, and acts of resistance, this course addresses religious justifications of violence and non-violence across varied historical and geographical contexts.
UTM and UTSC Timetables
Please note that UTM and UTSC courses do not automatically count towards completion of a RLG program. If you have taken or are planning on taking a course at another campus and would like it to count exceptionally towards your program requirements, please email the Undergraduate Administrator at religion.undergrad@utoronto.ca. You can view UTM and UTSC courses on Timetable Builder.