Advice on #IntroRelUh

I suppose this is the end of my story in regard to this class and it would be the beginning of yours. My name is Tom Thomas and hopefully I can help you do the same thing I just did, but maybe better.

What worked for me what mainly doing the work. I find as so long as you do the work in this class to a degree that you think you’d be satisfied with you should be fine. This degree should be that you understand and are able to interpolate the course material. This will be useful on tests as definitional technicalities can be important.

What didn’t work for me is just assuming that everything here was inherently correct. I understand Professor Schmidt’s opinion and it’s just as valid as any opinion I can see. However I find that these opinion tend to be narrow in point of view and only teach one side of the spectrum of interpretation and justification. Again, I don’t mean this is wrong, I just mean that the professor will teach in the way that he thinks best represents the truth and perhaps that is commendable, however to make your own nuanced and coherent opinions on the content is important for understanding the study of religion. At least it’s something I would encourage as regurgitating his information back to him in test form is wholly unproductive. I would say that is also can function as my advice. Do your own research. Evaluate convincingness of the argument. It will help you be more educated on the subject itself.

My favorite part of the class how thought provoking it can be. I had never in my life delved this deep into the study of religion as a cultural and phenomenological concept. It was interesting.

Good luck I suppose, hopefully you won’t need it.