REL/DIV 3159 Semiotics and Biblical Studies

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A seminar is a community of learners (including the professor), who help each other by supporting each other, by respectfully listening to each other’s interpretations, by accepting to participate and contribute to each other’s projects, by helping each other to read the vast literature in our field through the sharing of notes which point to the most significant features of the books, etc. It is expected that each member of the seminar will be familiar with a significant part of the readings, and will help other members with these readings.  (In other words, register to be a reporter for the books and approaches that you already know!)

• Requirements include:
  
• Active participation in class (and thus, regular attendance). Essential! The seminar depends upon it! You have a responsibility toward the other members of the seminar; your different points of view, your different interpretations help other members of the seminar to recognize the different choices they have made. 10% of grade.
• Three Seminar presentations (either for Part A or for Part B) with handouts as discussion leader = 3 x 10% = 30% of grade.
• A research paper prepared throughout the semester on a NT text of your choice developing a semiotic interpretation of this text (which will take different shapes according to your contextual concerns, and the hermeneutical and/or exegetical issue(s) you want to address). Excellent papers will incorporate in the argument additional works on semiotics and on the NT text. 60% of semester grade Paper due Wednesday December 16.
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    HONOR CODE: Throughout the semester, you are under the Honor Code of Vanderbilt University. All your reports and your paper should represent YOUR OWN work. Identify your sources, including other members of the seminar from whom you gain insights, so as to avoid plagiarism. Sign you work as a pledge of compliance with the Honor Code: a pledge that you wrote it without receiving aid from (or giving aid to) any other person, except as specified in your footnotes and bibliography.