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=Welcome to Miss Brady's World Religion Wikispace!=

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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. --Buckminster Fuller

Course Outline

 * Unit 1: **Introduction to World Religions**
 * Unit 2: **Hinduism**
 * Unit 3: **Buddhism**
 * Unit 4: **Chinese Philosophies** (Confucianism and Taoism)
 * Unit 5: **Judaism**
 * Unit 6: **Christianity**
 * Unit 7: **Islam**

Major Projects and Assessments

 * **Individual Ethics Project**: (25 points per unit, and 100 points for the culminating presentation) Students will choose an ethical issue to trace throughout the entire course, and will be responsible to explain during each unit how that particular religion deals with that issue. Issues include things like abortion, euthanasia, and the like. A final presentation on your ethical issue will be required at the conclusion of the course.
 * **Group Project**: (100 points in the marking period when your presentation falls) Students will work in groups to make a presentation for a selected/assigned religion. The presentation will be aimed at presenting some artistic or cultural aspect of the religion. For example, in a previous semester, the group on Buddhism treated us to the music, meditation, and art of the religion. We made sand paintings of mandalas in class.
 * **Research Time**: Mondays will be spent in the library to give you time to do individual and group research.
 * **Optional Extra Credit Project**: Students can do research and make a presentation about a minor religion (any religion that we do not study formally in class). Students can earn up to a 5% point bonus in the marking period when the project is presented. Interested students should take the initiative to see Miss Brady to explore this idea and get more information
 * **Quizzes**: Expect a quiz once a week or so.
 * **Midterm and Final Exams** count within the marking period (100 pts) and also as 5% of the course grade.