FACULTY LEADER
Thomas Banchoff
RELATED PUBLICATIONS
December 20082008 Undergraduate Fellows Report: A Leap of Faith: Interreligious Marriage in America
December 2008
Junior Year Abroad Network Annual Report 2007-2008
January 2008
Undergraduate Learning and Interreligious Understanding: 2007 Survey
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RELATED EVENTS
September 11, 2008Berkley Center/Muslim Student Association Ramadan Iftaar Dinner 2008
April 22, 2008
Advancing Interreligous Understanding Dinner
March 25, 2008
Building Interreligious Understanding on the 21st Century College Campus
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Doyle Undergraduate InitiativesEngagement with cultural and religious differences is a centerpiece of the Georgetown educational experience. The Center's undergraduate programs, part of the Doyle Building Tolerance Initiative, seek to deepen that engagement by empowering students as creators, and not just consumers of knowledge. |
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RELATED PROJECTS
Undergraduate FellowsThe Undergraduate Fellows Program gives a select group of students the resources to conduct original research and formulate policy recommendations around an issue at the intersection of religion, culture, society and politics. In collaboration with a faculty expert, tudents begin work in the fall semester and finish the following spring with a substantial publication of their findings. The two themes for 2009/10 are "New Social Media and Intercultural and Interreligious Understanding" and "When Cultural and Religious Diversity Meets the Global Market." Previous topics covered include Interreligious Marriage in America (2008) Religious Lobbies in US Politics (2007), and Religion and Global Development (2006). As of 2009/10, the program is part of the Doyle Building Tolerance Initiative.
Junior Year Abroad Network
The Berkley Center's Junior Year Abroad Network (JYAN) connects Georgetown students studying abroad in a variety of cultures. Students share reflections on religion, politics, and society and have an opportunity to analyze religious and cultural difference in their host countries. Through web-based essays, they share these reflections with one another and the wider community. Since JYAN began in Fall 2006, more than 115 Hoyas have participated, building and sharing knowledge gained in more than 29 countries.
Undergraduate Learning and Interreligious Understanding
The Berkley Center and Georgetown's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) are beginning the third year of a five-year longitudinal study to track student attitudes towards religious diversity and their evolution in response to experiences at Georgetown in and outside the classroom. As part of the Doyle Building Tolerance Initiative, the project aims to help educators at Georgetown, throughout the United States, and around the world identify best practices in building tolerance.
