Spring and Summer 2008: Off-Campus Courses

Food: Communion, Community and Creation

Eating is one of the most profound ways we are related to each other, to the created world and to God. In this course we will explore, within the framework of Christian theology, some of the biological, ecological, psychological, aesthetic, spiritual, agricultural and economic aspects of what, why and how we eat. The core of the course will be reading, lecture and discussion of the considerable literature dealing with food. But the two-week course, held on Galiano Island, will provide also a living context of cooking, feasting, fasting and gardening together which will add good spices to the academic victuals.

INDS 535: May 3-16
2 graduate credit hours only
Not available for audit.
Maximum Enrollment: 20 students.
Refer to Fine Print / Limited Enrollment / Food: Communion, Community and Creation and Fees.
Food and supplies fee is due
by Friday, April 18.

Mary Ruth
Wilkinson
Sessional Lecturer, Regent College.
BA (Wheaton), MA (University of Illinois).

Loren
Wilkinson
Professor, Interdisciplinary
Studies & Philosophy,
Regent College.
BA (Wheaton),
MA (Johns Hopkins), MA (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), PhD (Syracuse).

Creation, Wilderness and Technology

This course will use a week-long (Thursday to Friday a week later) voyage in an open rowing/ sailing boat as an occasion for study and reflection on our relationship to God and creation. The trip will be in the Gulf Islands—wild or rural places which have been tenuously preserved (through isolation and much local struggle) from the development which is transforming the region. The course will also provide occasion to reflect prayerfully on the nature of place and pilgrimage in the Christian life and will draw especially on the writings of those many Christians whose own understanding of God has been focused by experience voyaging in the sea. No previous sailing/rowing experience needed.

INDS 525: July 17-25
1 or 2 graduate credit hours
Maximum Enrollment: 14 students.
Refer to Fine Print / Limited Enrollment / Creation, Wilderness and Technology and Fees.
Not available for audit.