Orthodox Christian Studies

As an interdisciplinary program, the minor in Orthodox Christian studies explores the artistic, historical, literary, and philosophical and theological aspects of the 2000-year history of Orthodox Christianity.

Program Activities

The minor in Orthodox Christian studies is part of the Orthodox Christian studies program, which also includes the annual Orthodoxy in America Lecture and the Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) student club.

For more information

Visit the Orthodox Christian Studies Center web page.

Orthodox Christian Studies Minor

Courses in Other Areas

The following courses offered outside the department have the OCST attribute and count toward the Orthodox Christian studies minor:

Course List
Course	Title	Credits
ARHI 2305	Gods, Monsters, Heroes, and Mortals: Narrative in Greek Art	4
ARHI 2315	Roman Art	4
ARHI 2341	Medieval Desire and Devotion	4
ARHI 2360	Illuminated Manuscripts	4
ARHI 3316	Art and Architecture of Rome	4
CLAS 4045	Sex and Gender in the Ancient World	4
CLAS 4055	Race and Ethnicity in Antiquity and Today	4
CLAS 4545	Bath Cultures and Bathing Rituals From Antiquity to Brooklyn	4
COLI 3364	Novels of Ideas: 19th Century	4
COLI 4016	Rewriting the Mediterranean (20th and 21st Centuries)	4
COLI 4055	Race and Ethnicity in Antiquity and Today	4
ENGL 4005	The Medieval Traveler	4
GREK 3211	Greek Prose Composition	4
HIST 1300	Understanding Historical Change: Medieval	3
HIST 1700	Understanding Historical Change: Mideast	3
HIST 1750	Understanding Historical Change: Islamic History and Culture	3
HIST 3208	The Medieval Other	4
HIST 3270	The Crusades	4
HIST 3614	Revolutionary and Soviet Russia	4
HIST 3637	Stalinism: Making the Soviet State	4
HIST 3982	The Islamic World and the Crusades, 1099-Ca.1700	4
HIST 3985	Ottoman Empire/ 1300-1800	4
HIST 3986	Religion and Politics in Islamic History	4
LACU 3060	Magic and Reality in Russian Literature	4
LACU 3065	Dostoevsky	4
LACU 3070	Russian Visions: The Interplay Between Russian Literature and Art in Mid-19th/Early 20th Century	4
LACU 3077	The Great Russian Minds: Russian Personalism	4
LACU 3078	The Great Russian Minds: Late Soviet Personalism (1953-1991)	3
LACU 3080	Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and the Meaning of Life and Death	4
LACU 3085	The Russian Icon in Literature, Theology, Avant Garde Art, Film, Music, Museums and Politics	4
LACU 3095	The Apocalypse Course: Russian and American Revelations	4
LACU 3096	Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov	4
LACU 3402	Introduction to Russian Drama	4
LACU 3405	Masterpieces of Russian Film	4
LACU 4016	Rewriting the Mediterranean (20th and 21st Centuries)	4
LATN 3045	Livy	4
MVST 2360	Illuminated Manuscripts	4
MVST 3552	Medieval Philosophy	4
MVST 3590	Medieval Political Philosophy	4
MVST 4005	The Medieval Traveler	4
MVST 4009	Medieval Jerusalem	4
PHIL 3501	Ancient Philosophy	4
PHIL 3552	Medieval Philosophy	4
PHIL 3557	Confessions of Augustine	4
PHIL 3591	Medieval Political Philosophy	4
PHIL 3930	Philosophy and Literature	4
PHIL 4408	Hospitality and Cosmopolitanism	4
POSC 3651	Comparative Politics of the Middle East	4
RUSS 2500	Approaches to Literature	4
RUSS 2650	Media and the Russian State: News Outlets From 19th Century to Present Day Russia	4
THEO 1050	Syriac Language and Literature I	3
THEO 3310	Early Christian Writings	3
THEO 3314	St. Augustine of Hippo	3
THEO 3316	Byzantine Christianity	3
THEO 3317	Women of the Christian East	3
THEO 3330	Medieval Theology Texts	3
THEO 3332	Christians, Muslims, Jews in the Medieval Period	3
THEO 3340	Christian Mystical Texts	3
THEO 3711	Sacred Texts of the Middle East	3
THEO 3832	Christian Thought and Practice I	4
THEO 3833	Christian Thought and Practice II	4
THEO 3882	Comparative Mysticism	3
THEO 4009	Medieval Jerusalem	4
THEO 4420	Early Christian Art in Context	4
THEO 4430	Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Early Christianity	4
THEO 4545	Bath Cultures and Bathing Rituals From Antiquity to Brooklyn	4
THEO 4570	Orthodox Christian Ethics	4
THEO 5075	Syriac Language and Literature I	3