Bachelor of Arts in Theology and Religious Studies

University of San Francisco

Examine religious traditions, values, and symbols. Understand diverse beliefs. Discover how religion can serve social justice and work for the common good. Study a powerful force shaping the 21st century. Come navigate the religious dimensions of your own life. Draw conclusions about human dignity and rights, freedom, and responsibility. Draw connections between faith and justice.Students will-Articulate how religion, theology, and spirituality underlie and correlate with a broad range of human experienceArticulate the particularities of various faith traditions (including creedal vision, moral teachings, historical context, social expression, and key rites and symbols) in the context of the plurality of world religious traditions, as encouraged by Vatican II's stance on the Catholic Church's relationship with other faithsArticulate how religious traditions work for social justice and the good of the entire human family as well as the environment that sustains it.