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Southeast Asia Program grad conference goes remote
As Cornell suspended classes and organizations around the world canceled events amid the coronavirus pandemic, students organizing the 22nd annual Southeast Asia program graduate student conference, co-sponsored by the religious studies program and other units on campus.
Students study in Japan thanks to Fellowship funding
The Weiner Family Summer Fellowship, given in honor of Gelek Rimpoche, supports funding for summer experiential learning and research for an undergraduate student studying Buddhist practice in Asia.
$6M alumni gift launches Humanities Scholars Program
A $6 million anonymous alumni gift will help launch the Humanities Scholars Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, offering a signature learning, research and collaboration opportunity to students from across the university interested in humanistic inquiry.Pick a Destination
Religion and Ecology (RELST 2273)
Required for the religious studies major.
This course serves as both an introduction to the academic study of religion and a survey of major topics in the intersections of religious communities and environmentally sustainable practices. Using real cases of environmentally sustainable, religiously oriented communities, we explore how myth, ritual, symbols, doctrines, and ideologies of time and space are activated in practical living decisions. This class involves readings of both primary sources, poetry and literature, secondary sources, films and site visits.
3 credits. Offered in the fall.
Other religious studies courses offered at Cornell.
Being a religious studies major really allowed me to develop persuasive and descriptive capabilities that I don't think a lot of science students get exposure to.
— Radhika Narasimhan '19