The study of religion within the Humanities division of a public university is fundamentally different in both goals and method from the sort of instruction that one might receive within any given religious community. Here the goal is not to make the student any more (or for that matter any less) “religious.” Nor is it even to determine whether one or more of the transcendent forces assumed in different religious cultures are actually real

Please, bear in mind that this program isn’t offered for Russian and Azerbaijani citizens.