Theology

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SOS for Information Literacy

S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource for educators that promises to make a significant contribution to enhancing the teaching of information literacy skills to students in K-16.

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ACRL IS Information Literacy in the Disciplines

The Information Literacy in the Disciplines site is published by the Instruction Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

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Support of SoTL By Discipline

A list of organizations, journals, and programs that offer support related to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in a particular discipline from Illinois State University.

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Teaching Tactics from Teaching Theology & Religion

Teaching Tactics are short, 400 word one-page manuscripts describing a successful teaching strategy that could be replicated by others.

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Teaching Commons

The Teaching Commons brings together high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities.

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Undergraduate Research Journals from the Council on Undergraduate Research

An alphabetic, annotated list of undergraduate research journals that may provide the opportunity for students to use the work of peers and to submit their own work as part of their research programs.

Assignment

Sequenced Research Paper in Religious Studies

This set of assignments is designed to help students: (a) grow initial thoughts and questions into carefully scoped and well-reasoned research papers, and (b) develop critical thinking skills through interrogation of familiar images of religion and spirituality in American popular culture.

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Citation Mapping for Religious Studies

This assignment asks students to map scholarly citations in order to illustrate the concept that scholarship is a conversation. Secondarily, the activity is meant to demonstrate the constructed and contextual nature of authority in academic discourse. It can be used to help students build up to completing an annotated bibliography, research paper, or presentation that requires scholarly sources.

Assignment

Interview a Scholar

Students interview their professor(s) and ask them to describe how they do research, how research gets disseminated in their discipline, etc. Each student can ask one question below. This assignment can be useful as a “first day of class” activity for a First Year Seminar. Novice researchers are introduced to scholarly discourse and discipline-specific approaches to producing knowledge by experts.

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Trinity Univ. Curriculum Development Database

Information literacy resources for curriculum development are browsable by discipline, goal, and/or level.

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