The paper will be due on Friday of the first week in December . If you fail, you will write a paper on an assigned topic over a 72-hour period early in the second semester. Although a paper may be read at several stages by different faculty members, no paper has passed until its final copy has been read and evaluated by the entire Religious Studies Department faculty. Each group will include three or four students and two or three faculty members. Each paper is discussed for about forty-five minutes, beginning with a short statement about the paper by the author.
Faculty members keep quiet for the first thirty minutes, to assure opportunity for peer discussion.
Evaluation is based on your defense of your own work and your prepared discussion of the work of the others in your group. Distinction on the Senior Exercise is determined by the combined performance on the Senior Seminar, the paper, and the symposium. Questions about these requirements are welcome and should be directed to the Chair .