GS 204: Spirit & Nature: Religion & Science
Course Objectives
1. Generate their own objectives for the course.
2. Understand what they are being held accountable for, and what the standards are by which their work in the course will be evaluated.
3. Reflect on their own learning experiences.
4. Be effective at working collaboratively.
5. Define terms with precision.
6. Read primary literature with comprehension.
7. Be an active listener.
8. Effectively communicate their own ideas, conclusions to one another.
9. Generate a thesis and support it.
10. Devise a hypothesis, test it by gathering data, analyzing the data, and drawing appropriate conclusions.
11. Improve their observation skills.
12. Write a narrative account that is imaginatively conceived and/or contains imaginative elements, yet is true to their field experience.
13. Be able to create a poster that is clear, coherent, and visually effective.
14. Approach reading materials and class presentations with the ability to ask pertinent, open-ended questions.
15. See and understand that there are different valid perspectives on most issues.
16. Appreciate diversity/plurality in both scientific and religious contexts.
17. Understand the manner in which both science and religion seek meaning in the nature of things by ordering experience and imagination.
18. Understand the manner in which scientific and religious theoretical paradigms change in time and cultural context.
19. Become a concerned, participating citizen, locally, nationally, and globally.