Benedetta

This is a film review of Benedetta (2021), directed by Paul Verhoeven

Learning (About) Outcomes: How the Focus on Assessment Can Help Overall Course Design

The demand for quantitative assessment by external agencies and internal administrators can leave post-secondary instructors confused about the nature and purpose of “learning outcomes” and fearful that the demand is simply part of the increasing corporatization of the university system. This need not be the case. Writing learning outcomes has a number of benefits for course design that go beyond program assessment. This article clarifies some key aspects of the push towards using “learning outcomes,” and introduces a tripartite nomenclature for distinguishing between course “outcomes,” “outputs,” and “objectives.” It then outlines a process for instructors to use these three categories to develop and design courses that meet institutional assessment demands while also improving overall teaching effectiveness.  L’évaluation quantitative que demandent les agences externes et les administrateurs internes peut confondre les instructeurs de niveau postsecondaires quant à la nature et à l’objectif des « résultats d’apprentissage », et leur faire craindre que cette demande ne fasse simplement partie de la privatisation croissante du système universitaire. Ce n’est pas forcément le cas. La création de résultats d’apprentissage présente de nombreux avantages sur le plan de la conception de cours, avantages qui vont au-delà de l’évaluation de programme. L’article clarifie quelques aspects principaux de la poussée vers l’utilisation de « résultats d’apprentissage » et présente une nomenclature tripartite pour faire la distinction entre les résultats de cours, le rendement et les objectifs. Il décrit ensuite un processus pour que les instructeurs emploient ces trois catégories afin de concevoir des cours qui répondent aux exigences en évaluation de l’institution, tout en améliorant l’efficacité de l’enseignement dans son ensemble

Symbolic Power and Religious Impotence in Paul Verhoeven\u27s Spetters

This article explores the religious symbolism in the Dutch film Spetters (1980), by controversial director Paul Verhoeven. An examination of the symbolic referents in the film, in particular the use of stereotypical male power symbols, shows how expectations of power dynamics are reversed in the lives of the main characters. The film\u27s embedded message, played out in Verhoeven\u27s later films, concerns the impotence of Christianity in the modern world. Questions concerning theodicy are not satisfactorily answered through traditional religious ideas. God, it seems, has abandoned the human race

Lydia: Paul's cosmopolitan hostess

Collegeville, Minnesotax, 127 p.: bibl., index; 20 c

Voluntary associations and community formation, Paul's Macedonian Christian communities in context

grantor: University of St. Michael's CollegeThis dissertation attempts to determine how one can best understand the social matrix of the early Christian communities at Thessalonica and Philippi by examining both the internal rhetoric of 1 Thessalonians and Philippians and the external context of each city, both the Macedonian context and, more broadly, the Greco-Roman milieu. Each of these Christian communities is placed within the larger framework of group formation in antiquity. A number of models of community formation are described and evaluated as analogues for the Macedonian Christian communities: households, synagogues, philosophical schools, the ancient mysteries, and voluntary associations. Since the voluntary associations are judged to be the most appropriate for understanding the Macedonian Christian communities, a number objections raised against this model are addressed and a survey of the Macedonian voluntary associations is provided (the relevant inscriptions are collected in Appendix I). Finally, a comparative analysis of Paul's letters to the Macedonian Christians and the community practices and language of the voluntary associations is undertaken. Setting the language and structure of the Macedonian Christian communities beside that of the associations brings about a number of new understandings and nuances to the letters written to these communities. We are able to see that both of the Macedonian Christian communities reflect features and language typical of voluntary associations. We begin by arguing that the Thessalonians were most analogous to an all male, professional association while the Philippians were most analogous to a gender-inclusive religious association. We then illustrate Paul's language in 1 Thessalonians and Philippians by reference to the typicalities of association language. In so doing, we see that many of the community features of both the Thessalonian and the Philippian Christian communities find ready analogies in the voluntary associations. Overall, this helped us to understand better, and often in new ways, both Paul and his practices, and the practices and structure of the groups to which he writes.Ph.D