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Phi Beta Kappa
Founded in 1776, at the College of William and Mary. Since then, Phi Beta Kappa has evolved to become the nation's leading advocate for the liberal arts and sciences education at the undergraduate level. Phi Beta Kappa elects over 15,000 new members a year from 262 chapters across the United States and IU supports a strong chapter here on campus.

Theta Alpha Kappa National Honor Society
Founded in 1976, the only national honor society for individuals studying religion and/or theology at both the baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate levels of higher education. Honoring excellence in these academic fields is its primary purpose, and it currently hosts over 200 local chapters throughout the United States at institutions both large and small, public and private.

Undergraduate Religious Studies Association (URSA)
This organization provides students with opportunities to socialize, plan events, and serve the community with other students and faculty interested in religious studies.

Religious Studies Library
Located in Sycamore Hall room 224 this departmental resource features an impressive collection of non-circulating materials and a computer work station. When classes in the library are not in session students may utilize the space for research or studying. This is also a venue for many of our special events including student/faculty lunches.

Religious Studies Undergraduate Bulletin or if at IUB before summer 2010 you need to check with the advisor to see if your requirements are pre summer 2010.
Program and degree requirements, academic policies, major information.

College of Arts & Sciences Bulletin
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IU Bloomington Resources

Academic Support Centers (ASC)
ASC offer a wide range of free services, including tutoring, University Division advising, workshops, review sessions and other academic support. There is an ASC in three conveniently location residence halls, Briscoe (North campus), Teter (Central), and Forest (South-East).

Information Technology Training & Education
IT Training teaches many classes, most of them free to students, on the use of a variety of software including Access (databases), Excel (spreadsheets), Word, Oncourse, web publishing, and more. There are also some online tutorials, mostly dealing with web publishing and using e-mail.

Campus Writing Programs
Writing assistance is available through a few programs including the ASC's (see above) and the Writing Tutorial Services (WTS). WTS (pronounced "wits") provides free individual tutoring to students working on writing projects for any of their courses (including writing laboratory reports).

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Additional Links to Academic Resources

Please note that these resources are provided without guarantee of accuracy or endorsement of the Religious Studies department. If you know of any links we should add to this list please contact us.

Eastern & Middle Eastern Religions

Western Religions

  • A Guide to Christian Literature on the Internet. An other ICL W3 site, this specific one provides pointers to sites dedicated to "Classical Christianity."
  • Christus Rex. This W3 has is complete with tours of Vatican City and is also one of the most visited sites on the W3 related to religious resources.
  • A Guide to Early Church Documents. Maintained by Gary Bogart and John Brubaker, this Institute for Christian Leadership W3 site contains many pointers to resources available over the Internet relating to early church, including such items as canonical documents, creeds, and Apostolic writings.
  • Shamash A guide to linking various Judaism and Jewish Studies related sources on the web.

Other

  • The Why Study Religion Web site aims to foster awareness of and interest in the study of religion at the college level. The site is organized around seven major concepts: Why Study Religion? What is Religion? Some Misconceptions about Studying Religion. Pressing Concerns in the Study of Religion. What Will I Study? Where Can I Go with it? Where do I Start?
  • Richard Miller and Eric Meslin have joined forces with IU Press in a new series on Bioethics and the Humanities. For additional information please consult Bioethics and the Humanities
  • Indiana University's LETRS has pointers to all kinds of electronically available texts.
  • Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology Home Page. Complete with a Search Engine, this W3 site collects Internet resources of interest to classicists and Mediterranean archaeologists.