Teaching
and Talking about Religion in Public
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Core
Course and Module Development
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We are in the process of developing
a core course that all students completing the undergraduate
certificate in religion and conflict program are required to
take, as well as additional course modules
that can be integrated into new or existing courses in the
certificate program. The goal is to integrate religion across
the curriculum so that it is not perceived to be the exclusive
domain of religious studies and religion experts. The core
course, tentatively titled “Religion and Conflict:
Theories and Cases,” will introduce students to fundamental
issues, themes, and approaches to religion and conflict in
the contemporary world.
Insofar as this is a multidisciplinary certificate program,
it is no simple task to design and staff such a course. First,
it requires bringing together faculty from different disciplines
and areas to share their expertise on the content and structure
of a course that will instill core competencies and knowledge
in the study of religion and its relationship to conflict.
Secondly, it requires creating a core course that can be taught
by multiple faculty in a range of departments. This means that
it cannot be an identical course with a single common syllabus.
Our goal has been to create a team of faculty with varied expertise
to build a series of approximately ten modules on key topics
and approaches to religion and conflict. The team consists
of faculty from different disciplinary and departmental locations—from
the humanities and the social sciences—who, collectively,
are interested in historical, comparative, and normative dimensions
of religion and conflict.
Faculty Participants
in Core Course and Module Development
John Carlson, Associate
Director, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict and
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Pauline Cheong, Associate Professor of
Communication
Alesha Durfee, Assistant Professor of Women & Gender
Studies
Abdullahi Gallab, Assistant Professor of
African & African-American Studies
Alexander Henn, Associate Professor of Global
Studies & Religious Studies
Merlyna Lim, Assistant
Professor of the Consortium of Science, Policy and Outcomes
and the School of Justice and Social Inquiry
Moses Moore, Associate Professor of Religious
Studies
Victor Peskin, Assistant Professor of Global
Studies
Juliane Schober, Associate Professor of Religious
Studies
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