Monday, December 08, 2025

Theory in practice

I'm falling into an amusing new habit. Instead of printing out my course syllabi at the start of semester, I'm printing them at the end. Of course students get the syllabi at the start of course through our LMS (learning management system), which they consult with much greater regularity than any syllabus. And things change over the course of a semester, as students choose topics for presentations, etc. These culminating

syllabi are a record of all we actually did, which is always an impressive lot. Am I naive to think they're more likely to keep them this way? In any case, having a collective retrospective read-through is useful for getting feedback on what worked and what didn't, for next time (assuming there is one)! Here's most of the syllabus for this iteration of "Theorizing Religion," with my notes from reflections from each student.