The Pluralism Project at Harvard University

Course requirements:

Read all reading assignments, attend all class sessions, and participate in seminar discussions of the books and research topics

Assume seminar leadership on at least one book and its topic, orally presenting the book's content and possibly providing visual, artistic, and historical information around it, both presenting information and leading discussion

Do library and field-learning research on two unrelated religious faith communities currently practicing in Minneapolis and St. Paul, (such as Buddhists, Hindus, Baptists, Orthodox Christians, Muslims, Lutherans, Catholics), one in which you have previous association or affiliation, one new to you

Assume seminar leadership on research reporting on each of your religious group subjects

Optional seminar leadership: organize the class to go on an outside-of-class field learning session to a religious building or service of worship, an art exhibition in a local museum, a theater production, or a public lecture pertaining to your research topic religious group(s)

Attend outside-of-class field learning session organized by a fellow student or the professor

Write four (4) small research reports (8-10 pages, typewritten, double-spaced) on these two religious groups, thinking of the papers as "works in progress"

Write a final 20-page research paper, ideally based on one or both of the religious groups studied all semester, or some focus within one of them, drawn from the small reports and "finished" or elaborated as the final project