The Curriculum Game

Suppose you had a free hand to design a religious studies undergraduate curriculum from scratch – what would it be? One answer: a dialectic between theory and praxis, between parlor game and reality. For me, this is not a hypothetical question; I have been engaged in just this exercise for some time, and am currently …

Poesis, Part One: Fiction and Alt-Texts

This year alone, the Craft of Teaching has featured several sessions on literature, the arts, and religious studies courses: “Teaching with Fiction” session led by Professors Lucy Pick and Noah Toly, in Autumn Quarter, and Mark Maxwell’s two-part workshop, “Cultivating Rigorous Creativity,” in Autumn and Winter Quarters. I was able to listen in, via Skype, …