Beneath the fine print are tells from which the student gets a sense of your expectations for the learning experience--good, bad, and ugly.
Syllabus as Contract, Syllabus as Charter
On Theory and Syllabi
What is it that we are are hoping students gain from our classes? What do we want them to experience? What excites us about what they'll bring to the table? What scares us about it? What are we too quick or too afraid to name in our courses of study?
The Tenure of Scriptures: Interpreting Wheaton College (Illinois)
Do Christians and Muslims worship the same god? The answer matters at Wheaton, but why does the question?
Calling All Students and Scholars
This October, we began our soft launch of Sowing the Seed: Fruitful Conversations on Religion, Culture, and Teaching. You’ve encouraged our team to keep this thing going. We’re with you! We hope you’ll stay with us for our grand launch in January. Thanks to a grant from Elizabethtown College, we are able to hire a … Continue reading Calling All Students and Scholars
Pyrrhic Victories, or Why Religious Studies is not a Natural Fit
I’m going to throw this out there: there’s no natural-fit position for the religious studies major. And that’s not a bad thing.
Sowing the Seed 