A Pre-Conference Workshop
at the meeting of
The Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion

Friday March 7, 2008
8:30 am to 2:30 pm

Atlanta Marriott Century Center
DeKalb Room
Atlanta, GA, USA

The workshop is independent from the conference. (It is not necessary to attend the conference to participate in the pre-conference workshop.)

send workshop registration email (overpecp@wabash.edu)
Your registration will be acknowledged by Trish Overpeck

More information on the Southeastern Commission on Religious Studies Meeting.
March 7 to 9, 2008.

This is a hands-on, interactive workshop that leads participants through a process for designing courses informed by the research literature on successful teaching.

You will work collaboratively on your own introductory course syllabus, articulate student learning goals, work on crafting effective assignments, and discuss how to assess student learning.

Registration is limited to faculty who regularly teach introductory religion courses in undergraduate contexts

Workshop Facilitators:
Katherine Jones, Wofford College
Rebecca Todd Peters, Elon University
Tina Pippin, Agnes Scott College
David Ratke, Lenoir-Rhyne College
Michelle Tooley, Berea College

Follow-up Department Grants
All participants are eligible to apply for a non-competitive $2000 Introductory Course Department Grant to host a workshop on teaching introductory courses at their school or in their region.

Teaching and Learning in College Introductory Religion Courses, by Barbara Walvoord (Blackwell, 2008).
All participants will receive a copy of this book, which presents the findings from a 2-year empirical study of 533 introductory courses in theology and religion at 4-year colleges and universities, both public and private across the U.S.

• This workshop is intended for faculty teaching introductory religion courses to undergraduate college students.
• The workshop is relevant to the full range of introductory religion courses typically offered (world religions courses, intro to bible, intro to theology courses, and introduction to the academic study of religion, etc.).
• In religiously-affiliated institutions the intro course may be required. In non-sectarian institutions it may be just one option for students to fulfill a humanities requirement. In either case, these sorts of courses are typically taught primarily to non-majors, and usually first-year students or sophomores. Typically, the intro course will be the students’ first college-level study of religion.
• The workshop is relevant to the various institutional contexts in which these courses are offered (whether public universities, private non-sectarian colleges and universities, or religiously-affiliated institutions).


Questions
Please Contact:
Rev. Dr. Paul O. Myhre
Associate Director of the Wabash Center
myhrep@wabash.edu
800-655-7117