Author : A. Lee charts the rise to dominance of Christianity in the Roman empire. In the middle of the fourth century the Later Roman empire stood supreme. Author : Philip F.
Constantine -- 5. Pagans and Christians in the mid-fourth century -- 6. Pagans and Christians in the late fourth century -- 7. Christianisation and its limits in the fifth and sixth centuries -- pt.
Other religious groups -- 8. Jews -- 9. Zoroastrians -- Manichaeans -- pt. Themes in late antique Christianity -- Ascetics -- Bishops -- Material resources -- Church life -- Coming to class without your reading or writing assignments counts as being unprepared for class and will negatively affect your final grade.
In order to make sure that everyone in the class is participating and paying attention, I will NOT allow computer usage in the classroom. Writing for This Class: There will be a variety of writing assignments in this class, ranging from informal in-class writing, to journal entries, to formal academic essays. My estimation of your grade will come largely from your five 6 assigned formal essays, but that does not mean that these are the only writing assignments for this class.
You are required also to compose the eight 8 assigned journal entries, as well as to participate in other writing activities such as in-class writing exercises, peer editing, and revision work. Your participation or lack thereof in these activities will also factor into your final grade. The eight 8 journal entries are meant to be somewhat less formal than the six 6 essays. Treat the journal entries like rough drafts for your essays: the journal entry topics will be closely related to essay topics, and so if you think critically about what you are writing for the journal entry, you will have a good start for the next essay assignment.
Plan to write about one and a half to two pages for each journal entry. They do not need to be as quite tightly written and convincingly argued as the essays. The journal entries will be a space for you to work on your academic writing skills in a format in which you will not be directly graded, and so you can use them as a space to work out ideas and be creative.
You will be required to post your journal entries to the class Blackboard site, so that both I and your classmates can see what you are thinking and writing about. This will likely provide a springboard for class discussions, both of the material discussed in essays as well as the mechanics of academic writing. For the six 6 essays, you will email a copy to me by the time and date that each essay is due. For all writing in this class, I expect your work to be: 1.
The point of these conferences is to discuss your writing and progress in the class. My office hours are the primary time that I will be available for these conferences: please make arrangements to see me at these times.
Please plan ahead. Email Policy: The best way to get in touch with me is through email. I will respond to emails within one business day. I do not guarantee that I will answer emails after 6 p. I may contact the class via email and send out materials this way. The email I will use for you is your Cornell NetID, so plan to check that email account during the semester. Grading Policies: In grading your essays, I will use the following rubric, found also on p.
I will make the decision on your final grade based on these factors. Your writing performance will be graded on its grammaticality, its incorporation of course material, its creativity, and its relevance to the questions asked in the course.
I am aware that some students will be coming into the course as stronger or more experienced writers than others: therefore, your final grade will also be influenced by whether or not I can see that you have made a conscious effort to improve your writing over the course of the semester.
All students are advised to familiarize themselves with the respective University regulations, and I encourage you to bring any of your questions or concerns to my attention.
Requests for academic accommodation should be made during the first three weeks of the semester, except in extremely unusual circumstances, so that arrangements can be made.
Students are also encouraged to registers with Student Disability Services to verify their eligibility for appropriate accommodations. Plagiarism and Academic Integrity: All the work you submit in this class must have been written by you, with all sources fully and specifically acknowledged.
It is a free resource available to everyone on campus — faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students — for nearly any kind of writing project: applications, presentations, lab reports, essays, papers, and more. Tutors trained undergraduate and graduate students serve as responsive listeners and readers who can address questions about the writing process or about particular pieces of writing.
They can also consider questions of confidence, critical reading, analytic thought, and imagination. Many writing tutors also have experience working with non-native speakers of English. The WWIS operates out of several campus locations. Writers can schedule appointments or drop in at a convenient time.
I strongly recommend your making use of this service! Working Schedule of Classes [Assignment dates and readings may change slightly as the semester goes on. Do you feel that the kinds of problems with student writing that he describes might be found in your own writing? Why or why not? Keep in mind that whatever information you provide here will not affect your grade in this course, so feel free to be as honest as you would like to be.
This essay is due by email by the beginning of class time on Tuesday, September 2. After reading the texts assigned for today, write a short 1 page-ish essay, or create an outline, or make a list that gives the information about how these two different modes of studying religion are different or similar? What is the goal of the study of religion according to anthropologists of religion and theologians? What methodologies do they use to study religion?
What sources of information do they draw upon? What is religion according to each discipline? Do not worry here about the format that you use to present this information — I simply want you to demonstrate that you have read the texts and have thought about what distinguishes the theological and the anthropological methods of studying religion.
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