2026 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.
RLG200H1F The Study of Religion
Instructor: TBA
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.
RLG233H1F Religion and Popular Culture
Instructor: TBA
Term: F (May to June)
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..
RLG313H1F Love, Sex and Family
Instructor: TBA
Term: F (May to June)
Description: This course equips students to understand the religious roots of modern formations of gender, sexuality, and kinship, focusing in particular on Judaism, Christianity, and New Religious Movements. Topics we will cover include: the transformation of traditional religious structures into the modern “religion of romantic love,” the reshaping of religious practices within the modern nuclear family and its gendered division of labour, the persistent religious entanglements within not only normative but also queer and transgressive gender performances and kinship structures, the political asymmetries within which different religious modernities emerge, and the role of literature in preserving religious enchantment in modernity.
RLG100H1S World Religions
Instructor: Dr. David Perley
Term: S (July to August)
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.
RLG232H1S Religion and Film
Instructor: Dr. David Perley
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.
RLG336H1S Religion and its Monsters
Instructor: TBA
Term: S (July to August)
Description: A course looking at the theories about and responses to the monstrous in global religious traditions and practices.
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.