Hello CC,
I’m interested in a program offered at a religious colleges offering a program I really like. However, for religious universities, are students required to take religion-related courses such as “Sacred Scriptures” and “Theology”?
Thanks
Look up the degree requirements for the specific college.
It depends what type of Christian College you’re talking about. Some Christian colleges are affiliated with a creed or faith, and require a religion class. Some Catholic or Mainstream Protestant (Lutheran, Methodist…) colleges are like this. Those would include Notre Dame, Holy Cross, UScranton, UPortland, Loyola Chicago, St Olaf, Valparaiso, Pacific Lutheran, Wofford, Ohio Wesleyan, Nebraska Wesleyan, Virginia Wesleyan…
Other colleges, especially conservative evangelical colleges, mean to help you grow in your faith and require you to sign a creed or daffidavit of faith and to abstain from certain behaviors or actions, upon penalty of dismissal (being in a gay relationship, drinking alcohol or even coffee - it depends on the university). Those would include John Brown, Liberty, Grove City, Biola, Pepperdine, Calvin, Wheaton IL, Gordon…