Final Paper for HUM 3143

From the syllabus: In lieu of a final exam, students will turn in a final paper on a topic selected by the student, from a list provided by the instructor, by the last day of the Spring semester (May 12). The paper should be between 8 and 10 pages in length, double-spaced, and should include at least eight scholarly sources.

Possible topics (note that these are broad categories, and students will need to narrow their focus in their papers):

• Topic 1: Christianity and science
  examples:
  • Christian attitudes towards evolution
  • Christianity and the Big Bang
  • Christian approaches to gender identity issues
  
  
• Topic 2: Christianity and the arts
  examples:
  • Is there a Christian aesthetic?
  • The use of Christian symbolism in art
  • A survey of the representation of women in Christian art, 14th - 19th centuries
  
  
• Topic 3: Christian ethics and politics
  examples:
  • Christian ethics and global migration
  • Genome splicing and designer babies: Christian attitudes
  • Eschatogical models and their impact on U.S. politics
  
  
• Topic 4: Christianity and other religions
  examples:
  • A survey of Christian efforts at interfaith dialog
  • A comparison of Christian and Buddhist approaches to meditation
  • Christian antisemitism in the first four centuries
  
  
• Topic 5: The future of Christianity
  examples:
  • Christianity and the possibiity of sentient alien life
  • Christianity in the year 2500
  • Is a non-theistic Christianity possible?