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Helping Students Think Like an Academic Scholar of Religious Studies–Serguei Dolgopolskii

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When I first began teaching at KU, I assumed that students would understand quickly the difference between an academic and a lay study of religion and that the superiority of an inquiry-based, academic approach as opposed to a simplified, lay version would be obvious to students. This was not the case, so for several semesters I have been revising my courses in an attempt to guide student to discover and engage in the scholarly process of generating knowledge.

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A religious studies professor modifies both courses and course work structures ranging from introductory to graduate-level classes, so he can model, reflect, and effectively teach academic protocols of studying religion.
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Helping Students Think Like an Academic Scholar of Religious Studies–Serguei Dolgopolskii

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