is multidisciplinary: involving literature, history, art, archaeology, film, and technology
empowers students to be not merely consumers of information but also producers of knowledge, by incorporating student-initiated projects, active-learning activities, and experiential learning and field trips.
deeply engages primary sources in order to provide a critical, analytical, and historical study of religion
requires attention to different theoretical approaches and methods
addresses the challenges of understanding antiquity in a world oriented to the present by exploring historical continuities between the past and the present, as well as by interrogating modern concepts (such as gender, social class, race, etc.) by examining the past