First-Year Writing Seminar: The Faith Between Us

Semester and Year	FA 2012
Course Number	FIRST-UG353
Section	001
Instructor	Scott Korb
Days	Mon,Wed
Time	8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Units	4.0
Level	U
Foundation Requirement

Notes/Restrictions

Open to Gallatin first-year students only.

Description

Look at the headlines, flip through a magazine, or click the link to your favorite blog, and increasingly you’ll find that whether faith comes  between us, separating one believer from another, or lives  between us, forming the glue that holds communities together, is a question we all must face. Through a consideration of a variety of contemporary religion writing—mostly from newspapers, popular magazines, journals, and Web sites—this course will ask students to take their own excursions into faith and faithlessness, and through a process of writing, workshopping, and the all-important rewriting, create the stories that, in Joan Didion’s words, “we tell ourselves in order to live.” Readings may include works by Reza Aslan and Karen Armstrong, Paul Elie and Marilynne Robinson, Peter Manseau and Darcey Steinke, Christopher Hitchens and Chris Hedges, Sam Harris, and Irshad Manji.

Syllabus

FIRST-UG353

Course Type

First-Year Program: Writing Seminars (FIRST-UG)