Senior Research Paper Topics
All senior religion majors must complete a research paper before graduating. Some examples of topics that recent majors chose are:
- The Legacy of Zarathusta: An analysis of Misunderstood religion and Its Effects on the Post- Exilic Development of Judaism
- Darwinism and Christianity: The Creating Conflict
- Confucian Ethics and Care for the Elderly
- Mind Body Dualism and Alienation in Western Culture and Feminism
- Guilt is Not Enough: Steps Toward Post- Holocaust Christian Theology
- The Christian's Response to Biblical Oppression: The Wife's Status within the Family
- Images of Jesus
- Reclaiming the Whole: Spirit and Body United Through the Art of Dance (dance concert)
- Taoism and Deconstruction
- Homosexuality and the Churn
- Definition of Death in Jewish Law and its implication for Organ Transplantation
- The Historical Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of Social Revolutionary
- Feminist Theology and Metaphysical Equality
Alumni Outcomes
Recent religion graduates have found employment in such places as:
- Peace Corps, volunteer
- Wilmington College, admission counselor
- Hilltop Retirement Village, marketing representative
- Lutheran Volunteer Corps, volunteer
- Pam Nations Instructing Groups, senior instructor
- VISTA, volunteer
- Parent- Infant center, volunteer coordinate
- General Motors, design engineer
Recent graduates have pursued graduate/professional study at such schools as:
- The University of Chicago Divinity School
- Gettysburg Theological Seminary
- Harvard Divinity School
- Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia
- Pacific Lutheran Seminary
- Princeton Theological Seminary
- Trinity Lutheran Seminary
- Union Theological Seminary
- Yale Divinity School
- Syracuse University Law School
- The Ohio State University (College Administration)
- Case Western University, Bioethics Program