Briefly, describe your major(s) discipline and, if applicable, minor or job/career. Craft your description to orient someone totally unfamiliar with your field(s) such that they will understand how the following discussion fits in your field.
In more detail, describe how religion and globalization intersect with your discipline and, if applicable, your current job/career.
Identify a combination of three categories of analysis (What we study: core topics in this course: religion, globalization (already in previous task) but also the secular, culture, colonialism) OR analytic concepts (How we study the main categories: ways we can examine what is going on in the topics: economics, clash of civilizations, McDonaldization, hybridity, political structures like government) from the first half of the semester that are the most useful / constructive for you in understanding the role of religion and globalization in your studies and, if applicable, your current or future job/career.
Do any of these categories and concepts provide you insight into your own position as a member of globalized communities? If none of the relevant categories of analysis inform your self-understanding, you need to state this and suggest an alternate category of analysis that might be more constructive.
AUDIENCE & PURPOSES:
As you write this essay, keep in mind the following points about your imagined audience and the actual purposes of the assignment:
Imagined audience:
Prospective student for next year’s course
Faculty in your home discipline
Prospective employer
Imagined Purpose:
Explain understanding the interactions of Religion and Globalization is relevant for your discipline or professional area.
