Students will engage in reflection about academic dialogue, awareness, understanding, and respect for varying values arising from engagement with religion. They will gain the ability to practice respectful discourse learning from differences as well as similarity of values and experience.  Students will increase their capacity to be supportive of their classmates, which will extend to the larger outside community.

The assignment through which students will demonstrate their understanding is as follows:

To complete this assignment, you must seriously look at your growth this semester and how the course, and exposure to the UN Sustainable Goals and the challenge in the Tampa Bay area, aided in that journey.

Using the discussion of and experiences with academic dialogue this semester, trace your journey through the semester highlighting the major values you began the semester with, why you held those values, and now at the end of the semester if those values are the same, why or why not.

Second, express values you have come in contact with this semester that do not align with your own. What about the values competed with yours? What tactics did you use to not dismiss these values? What approach did you use to gain awareness, understanding, and respect for these values?

Finally, what lessons have you learned about acceptance of disparate values that you can pass on to others?