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faculty curriculum awards after macalester related links lowe lecture
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Awards won by Macalester graduates. Click here to see pictures from Eugene Gallagher's visit and the other Lowe lecture pictures!
Religous Studies
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About the department The courses of the department of religious studies focus on the study of Christianity and Judaism in both their historical and contemporary expressions, and on the major non-Western religious traditions. While the introductory courses are broad in scope, they seek to be selective enough to allow an in-depth encounter with source documents through historical understanding. Methods of instruction include not only lectures and seminars but also opportunities for independent study and individual instruction. The program of the department aims to serve not only students whose academic specialization is religious studies but also students who seek courses that can help unlock the religious dimensions encountered in other disciplines. Religious studies is a broadly interdisciplinary investigation
that takes its place among the humanities, and majors typically
enter a broad range of vocations. Students planning to do post-graduate
work in religion and who plan either to teach, or to train for either
parish ministry or rabbinate, will profit from an exposure to religious
studies at the college level. |
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EVENTS
Oct. 10, 2010 Lowe Lecture - Professor Martha Nussbaum Nussbaum's talk titled "Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach" will investigate a new theoretical approach now increasingly influential on the international development scene: the "capabilities" or "human development" approach, discussing reasons for preferring it to standard approaches and looking at debates it has engendered about cultural pluralism and universality. |
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