STDC 241 : Study in Washington, D.C. (1) This is a one-semester-hour course taken during the fall semester immediately preceding the internship experience. The course is designed to introduce students to the city and match participants with appropriate internships for the upcoming semester.

STDC 344: Internship in Washington, D.C. (8) An internship experience, normally consisting of a four-day work week in a professional setting in the student's major field of concentration. Credit toward a departmental major is granted at the discretion of each department.

STDC 342 for 2010 Spring Semester: Special Topics in Public Life: Religion and American Public Life. (3) The course will examine the various ways in which religion shapes American public life. The first part of the semester will address the themes of religious decline, theprivatization of religion, increasing religious pluralism, and generational change in religious communities as a lens by which to assess the changing role of religion in American civic and political life. In the second portion of the course, students will examine different ways in which religion has shaped American civic and political life throughout American history, but particularly in the last several decades; and in the final weeks of the term, the class will focus more specifically on the role of religion in recent American presidential elections, providing a case study by which to examine the changing role of religion in American politics and to speculate on religion’s likely influence in American politics over the next several decades. The class will consist of readings, discussion, papers by class members, and outside speakers.

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