Here and Now
Here and Now
Prospects for Graduate Education
This chapter presents Jonathan Z. Smith's account on graduate education. He discusses the teleology of graduate studies: the dissertation and the teaching. He cites the lack of a graceful middle range in the graduate curriculum, i.e. what is offered between a student's first course and the moment when he or she has fulfilled all course requirements. Smith then addresses the particular matter of religious studies at the graduate level. He presents two arguments. First, that the debates over the nature of the academic study of religion have rarely been substantive; they have been largely political and tactical. Second, that the graduate study of religion was preceded, in the typical student's career, by a course of postbaccalaureate professional study within a theological faculty.
Keywords: Jonathan Z. Smith, dissertation, teaching, graduate education, graduate curriculum, religious studies, study of religion
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