{"id":447,"date":"2012-05-02T17:10:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T17:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/?p=447"},"modified":"2012-05-02T17:10:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T17:10:01","slug":"phre-class-of-2012-advice-for-phre-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/2012\/05\/02\/phre-class-of-2012-advice-for-phre-majors\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;PHRE Class of 2012&#8221; advice for PHRE majors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Spring 2012 Philosophy and Religion Senior Seminar recently devoted a class meeting to the offering of advice for PHRE majors.\u00a0 Included below are some of the bits of sage wisdom that they had:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senior Seminar preparation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Try to get in to the specific required PHRE courses as soon as possible<\/li>\n<li>Try to have a light course load in the semester you take Senior Seminar<\/li>\n<li>Have the sense of a trajectory toward Senior Seminar so that you are prepared for your Senior Seminar topic<\/li>\n<li>Think in advance about the selection of your Senior Seminar thesis director and topic<\/li>\n<li>Regularly put files in the Truman portfolio vault for future use<\/li>\n<li>Be pragmatic about the direction of your thesis project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Course planning<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take early on the courses in logic and Methods &amp; Theories in Religious Studies<\/li>\n<li>Take a course early on in the &#8220;other&#8221; area (philosophy or religious studies) that you don&#8217;t think you are interested in (but may be)<\/li>\n<li>Take courses from a diversity of faculty, who have differing methodologies and interests<\/li>\n<li>Make a multi-year plan using the course listings on the PHRE website<\/li>\n<li>Distribute well your LSP, PHRE courses in your plan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>General course-taking tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get comfortable doing a lot of writing<\/li>\n<li>Develop a thick skin and a willingness to learn from constructive criticism<\/li>\n<li>Write down one comment you want to make \/ one question you want to ask in preparation for each of your class sessions<\/li>\n<li>Budget your time for assignments early on<\/li>\n<li>Anticipate the density of PHRE readings, and allow yourself enough time to do the reading slowly and carefully<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Research and the general scholarly life<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Save up for applications for grad school<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t limit yourself to a single database for research (for example, JSTOR)&#8211; take the library science course to learn about the library&#8217;s resources<\/li>\n<li>Use Google Alerts to keep abreast of new development in your topics of interest<\/li>\n<li>Take advantage of the extracurricular activities promoted in the PHREmail email list<\/li>\n<li>Go to NCUR<\/li>\n<li>Talk to your fellow majors&#8211; make friends in the major<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Spring 2012 Philosophy and Religion Senior Seminar recently devoted a class meeting to the offering of advice for PHRE majors.\u00a0 Included below are some of the bits of sage wisdom that they had: Senior Seminar preparation Try to get in to the specific required PHRE courses as soon as possible Try to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/phre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}