NB: All the five articles must come from seton library data base.

Each article should be on

different page and attach the article you got from seton library to the writing article. At seton
library it could be New York times, or ABC news or any non-religion source. 

Cosmology
;

Cosmogony
;

Anthropology
;

Theodicy
;

Soteriology
;

Eschatology
Secrets-holy.
Use two of these words in each article.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ASSIGNMENTS:

General Requirements
The form for every assignment should be the following:
 It should be typewritten or printed out on paper. (No
handwritten work!)

The format for every assignment should be the following:

 On the top, left-hand corner of every assignment, there
should appear:
 the student’s full name,
 course information,
 assignment title: “Paper #1”, “Course Project”, etc.
 FOR THE PROJECT ONLY: the source, date, and page

number,[1]
 a word count. (Please, note that the student’s name,
course information, assignment title, and word count do
not count in the “word count” for the assignment.)

 Every assignment must use the following formatting:

 Times New Roman font (This syllabus has been written
using Times New Roman.),
 12-pt. font for all text and punctuation,
 single-spaced line spacing,
 one-inch margins all around.
Any assignment that does not conform to the requirements
above will lose points in grading. . . .

Course Project

Word length: 600 words (for each paper on each article)

Due Date: [[[ SEE ANNOUNCEMENTS ]]]

The student is required to find [[[ FIVE ]]] newspaper and/or

magazine articles about religion or religious studies. The
following conditions apply:
 It must be an “article”, that is, a story, editorial, or opinion
piece in a newspaper or magazine: . . . not a pamphlet
taken from a street missionary, . . . not a bulletin from
church, . . . not an ad in the newspaper.
 The article must come from a secular, non-religious
source. This excludes any religious sources that might yet
technically be newspapers or magazines, like:
 diocesan newspapers (e. g., Catholic New York)
 The National Catholic Reporter
 The National Catholic Register
 Christianity Today
 US Catholic
 First Things
  It must come from a “popular” source—not an academic
or “peer-reviewed” journal. “Rule of thumb”: If the article
is written for fellow experts in the field, then it is not
“popular” enough.
 The article should be clearly religious in nature, about
religion, or about religion’s study. Sometimes, it will be
obvious, and no one would disagree. But, in some cases,
Dr. Dunn might have exercise his right of using his own
discretion in deciding whether an article is “religious”
enough.
 The article must be recent, that is, dated between January
2020 and the due date, April 13, 2020.
 Preferably, . . . [[[ SEE ANNOUNCEMENTS ]]]
 The whole, complete article must be submitted to Dr.
Dunn—not just the first page or any page.
 The article . . . [[[ SEE ANNOUNCEMENTS ]]]

The student will then choose [[[ THREE ]]] articles and write a
paper on each one (see word-count requirement above). So, to
recap: Find [[[ 5 ]]] newspaper or magazine articles on religion;
write a one-page paper on [[[ 3 ]]] of them!

Each paper for each of the [[[ THREE ]]] articles should address
the following:
 Give a brief, albeit comprehensive, summary of the article
itself, that is, tell Dr. Dunn what it is about. (Do not waste
 space and time by overdoing this! I would rather have your
thoughts below than have you simply repeat information
found in the article.)
 How do you know the article is about religion? Explain
how the article is religious in nature or what it has to do
with religion. (If you have difficulty doing this, then you
probably chose poorly and should look for another article!)
 Make the article relevant to the course! Choose at least
one concept, idea, piece of information, theory, etc. that
has been discussed in the course and apply it to the
subject of the article!
NB: All the five articles must come from seton library data base.

Beware! Your presentation counts! How the student chooses

to present his or her course project to the instructor will affect
the grade that he or she gets on it.

Doctor Dunn expects all the articles and accompanying papers

to be handed in neatly and in an appropriate form. So,
materials that belong together—like, an article and the paper
on it—should go together. No student should give Dr. Dunn a
big mess of articles, expecting him to figure out what goes with
what or to keep everything together and not lose anything. In
such a cases, Dr. Dunn warns: “I will do my best—but, I make
no promises”.
[1] E. g., if you found an article in The Wall Street Journal on
Religion, then you would cite it as: Wall Street Journal, Feb. 11,
2020, pg. 22A. Or, if you found something in Time magazine:
Time, Apr. 1, 2020, pgs. 5–7.
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