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Barnes Calendar of Classes, Rel 103 -- 25 & 27.  Winter 2005
January
Th.   6   Introduction:  the nature of religion.  For next class [FNC] read the intro  and the selection from Amazon Journey (for a brief quiz).  [Find Amazon Journey through the link to the Readings Links at the left.  Use the password given to you in class.]
T.    11 Quiz.  Discuss Amazon Journey.  Begin Ch. 1 on primitive and archaic religion.  For next class [FNC] read Common Reading Genesis 1-3 and do Reading Guide [RG] #1. [You will find the links to the Common Readings through the Readings Links also.]
Th.  13 Discuss RG#1.  Finish Ch. 1.  FNC read the selection from Freud. 
T.    18 Quiz on Freud. Discuss his ideas & other "masters of suspicion".  Lecture on Ch. 2. 
Th.  20 Lecture on Ch. 3.  FNC read the selection from the Rig Veda, X.129, from the Katha Upanishad, and from the Tao Te Ching (Dow De Jing) 
T.    25 Quiz on readings. Discuss them.  End Ch. 3.   Review for Exam #1. 
[Tomorrow is the last day to withdraw without record]
Th.  27 Exam #1. -- on Intro + chs. 1-3.
February
T.     1 Discuss exam #1.  Lecture on Ch. 4.  For next class [FNC]  do RG #2 on Common Reading: The Buddha's Sermon at Benares.   
Th.   3  Discuss RG #2.  Finish Ch. 4.   FNC read the intro to Part II of the text and Ch. 5.
T.     8 Discuss Ch. 5.  FNC Click on Readings Portal at the left.  Use the password.
Then select the "After Death:  Deuteronomy, Daniel, etc."
Th.  10 Quiz on readings "After Death"  Discuss.  Begin Ch. 6.
T.    15 Finish Ch. 6.  FNC  Ch. 7 in text
Th.  17 Discuss Ch. 7.   Review for exam.
T.    22  Exam #2 -- on Ch 4, Intro to Part II, and Chs 5, 6, & 7
Th.  24 Midterm break today and tomorrow
 March
T.     1 Discuss Exam #2.  Begin Ch. 8.  FNC Click on Portal to Readings.  Use the password.  Then click on  "Lawrence Kohlberg's Stages of Development."
Th.    3 Quiz on Kohlberg.  Finish Ch. 8.  FNC begin ch. 9
T.      8 Finish ch. 9.  FNC do RG #3 on Mark's Gospel
Th.   10 Discuss RG #3.   Begin Ch. 10
T.     15 Finish Ch. 10.  Begin Ch. 11.
Th.   17  Continue Ch. 11.  FNC click on Portal to Readings.  Use the password.
Then click on  Wm. James. "The Will to Believe."
 Break Easter break runs from Sat. Mar. 19 through Mon. March 28.
T.    29 Quiz on Wm. James.  Finish Ch. 11.  Discuss intro to Part III.
Th.  31 EXAM #3, on Intro to Part III, + Chs. 8, 9, 10,  & 11.
  April
 T.     5 Intro to Part IV. Begin Ch. 12.  [The Stander Symposium begins this evening.  All classes are canceled tomorrow, Wednesday, April 6, for the Symposium.]
Th.    7 Finish Ch. 12.  FNC click on Portal to Readings.  Use the password.
Then click on Charles Darwin, a letter. 
T.      12  Quiz on Darwin   Begin Ch. 13
Th.   14  Finish Ch. 13.   Begin Ch. 14.  FNC do RG#4 on Trible
T.     19  Hand in RG #4 and discuss.  Continue Ch. 14.
Th    21 Finish Ch. 14.  Begin Ch. 15
T.     26  Finish Ch. 15.  End of course.
Th.   28 STUDY DAYS:  Today and tomorrow
Finals Noon class:  Fri. May 6, 12:00 a.m.  1:30 class:  Wed., May 4, 10:00.

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