GTU Teagle-Wabash Fellows Offer Wide Range of Spring 2008 Courses

A key component of the GTU Preparing Future Faculty project sponsored by the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology and the Teagle Foundation is the mentoring of doctoral students for excellence in classroom teaching. To that end, the twelve Teagle-Wabash Fellows have worked extremely hard through the summer and fall of 2007 to hone their approaches to classroom teaching. First, in an intensive Learning and Teaching Academy in August, the fellows worked through very practical issues in the design and delivery of courses, dealing with issues of content, structure, evaluation and measurement, and various modes of classroom diversity. During the Fall 2007 semester, in an advanced doctoral seminar on questions of meaning and value in liberal education with GTU President James Donahue and Dean of Students Maureen Maloney as well as teaching/research assistants to their faculty mentors, the Fellows engaged questions of pedagogy, disciplinarity, and vocation as these shape their approach to teaching. In Spring 2008, the fellows’ intense engagement with the theory and practice of teaching and learning are brought to bear in courses they will teach under the supervision of their faculty mentors. In many cases, these courses will only be offered during the Spring 2008 semester. GTU and member school students in all program areas are invited to consider the following courses as they register for the spring semester:

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UCB C104 Babylonian Religion
Instructor: Terri Tanaka, Ph.D. (Cand.), (Near Eastern Religions)
Mentor: Dr. Neik Veldius (UCB/Near Eastern Religions)

IDS 4202 Re-Imagining Globalization and World Christianity:
Contemporary Thea/ological Challenges & Alternatives
Instructor: Ajit Abraham (IDS)
Mentor: Dr. Gabriella Lettini (SKSM)

PS 1010 Introduction to Pastoral Theology
Instructors: Steven Bauman (Psychology & Religion) and Dr. David Gortner (CDSP)
Mentor: Dr. Kelly Bulkeley (JFKU)

STHS-2478 Women and the Church in the 20th Century
Instructor: Erin Brigham (Theology)
Mentor: Dr. Deena Abramoff (GTU/CJS)

RSED 2492 Engendered Pedagogy
Instructor: Michael Sepidoza Campos (IDS)
Mentor: Dr. Boyung Lee (PSR)

CE-2045 Fundamental Moral Theology
Instructor: Brian Green
Mentor: Dr. John Berkman (DSPT)

NTRS 3510 Apocalyptic Then and Now
Instructor: Courtney Gulden (Bible)
Mentor: Dr. Tat-siong Benny Liew (PSR)

CE 1053 Introduction to Christian Ethics
Instructor: Melissa James (Ethics & Social Theory)
Mentor: Dr. Martha E. Stortz (PLTS)

BSFT-3114 Healing in the Bible
Instructor: Sanna Reinholtzen (Liturgical Studies)
Mentor: Dr. LeAnn Flesher (ABSW)

LS-4510Asian Liturgies and Devotions
Instructor: Ricky Manalo (Liturgical St.)
Mentor: Dr. Mary McGann (FST)

SRA 4638 The Jesuits and the Arts
Instructor: Jenny Patten Gargiulo (Art & Religion)
Mentor: Dr. Mia Mochizuki (GTU/JSTB)

STCE 4218 Theology and Ethics in Black and White: Aesthetics and the Political
Instructor: Danté Quick (Theology)
Mentor: Dr. Christopher Ocker (SFTS)