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Welcome to the website for REL 502 Public Humanities & Religious Studies: Foundations.
This course is a foundations course required of all first-year students in the Master’s in Religion in Culture degree program in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. In this course, students are introduced to a number of digital tools for research and the presentation of their research to a larger public. The course also explores what a public religious studies might look like.
For more information about the course, email either Nathan Loewen or Mike Altman.