Queen's University : Religious Studies

School of Graduate Studies
2011-2012 Academic Year

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Religious Studies

Head

Young, P. Dickey

Graduate Coordinator

Goldberg, E.

Professor

Basser, H., Young, P. Dickey

Associate Professor

Ascough, R., Goldberg, E., Jahanbakhsh, F., Miller, J., Morrow, W.S.¹, Trothen, T.J.²

Assistant Professor

Young, J.H.

1 On Sabbatical July 1, 2011-June 30, 2012

2 On Sabbatical April 1, 2011-March 31, 2012

Departmental Facilities

The Department of Religious Studies shares with the Queen's School of Religion three floors of Theological Hall, one of the oldest buildings on the campus of Queen's University. This space includes two classrooms, two seminar rooms, two lounges, a reading room, and 21 offices. The departmental office is on the fourth floor.

Work space is available to graduate students either through shared office space or through dedicated carrel space in the reading room. The Department of Religious Studies has a graduate student office including a computing site, to which graduate students have priority access. In addition, Theological Hall houses a semi-public computing site.

The Stauffer Library has substantial holdings in religious studies, continually being augmented with a strong acquisitions policy. Because the M.A. program focuses on the relations between religion and other aspects of modern culture, much of the Library's current collection in the humanities and social sciences has direct relevance to that focus.

Field of Research The Master's program in the Department of Religious Studies deals with the single major theme of "Religion and Modernity." The program considers explicit continuities within historic traditions, discontinuities with historic traditions, and the formulation of alternate traditions. This M.A. program allows students to pursue the study of religion as a cultural phenomenon in dialogue with work in specific religious traditions.

Graduate Student Support Assistance is available through the system of Ontario Graduate Scholarships. The university offers a number of senior fellowships, Queen's Graduate Fellowships, and other support for students in masters' programs. Departmental Teaching or Research Assistantships are awarded to suitably qualified students.

MASTER OF ARTS

Applicants are accepted under the General Regulations of the School of Graduate Studies.

Normally, the minimum qualification for admission to the Master of Arts Program in Religious Studies is upper second-class standing in a four-year Honours undergraduate degree program in Religious Studies, or equivalent, awarded by a recognized university.

The program requires four full courses (24 credit units) or their equivalent, including RELS-801* and RELS-802* (Core Courses) and RELS-898 (Master's Essay). At least 1.0 course (6.0 credit units) must be taken from the lists of Elective Courses and Reading Courses. Of these, at least one half-course (3.0 credit units) must be chosen from the list of Elective Courses. Of the four full courses (24 credit units) or their equivalent taken for the degree, no more than 1.0 courses (6.0 credit units) may be selected from the Reading Course list.

Students who have not completed in their undergraduate programs the equivalent of the Queen's University course RELS-354 "Theory in Religious Studies" will be required to take RELS-854 in addition to the required 24 credit units.

Language Requirement

Before completing the M.A. degree, students are required to give evidence of a reading knowledge of at least one language, in addition to English, elected from the languages of modern scholarship and/or necessary source languages. Normally, this requirement will be satisfied by undergraduate standing in one full course (6.0 credit units), Ontario Academic Credit, or the equivalent.

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