Rutgers University, Honors College
Religion & Law is a First Amendment curriculum that promotes legal literacy and religious literacy as two fundamental civic competencies for undergraduates in the Honors College of Rutgers Camden and for the Department of Philosophy and Religion.
Religion & Human Rights, a global communities course about the origins, developments, and effects of four legal frameworks: freedom of religion, freedom for religion, freedom from religion, and freedom within religion.
Religious Freedom Center
As executive director of the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute, I recruited and led 42 faculty and staff to create from scratch a national legal education program for non-lawyers that promoted legal literacy and religious literacy as fundamental civic competencies:
Curriculum for Religious & Civic Leaders
- Foundations of Religious Liberty
- Religious Liberty and Contemporary American Public Life
- Religion and News Media
- The Human Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief
- Capstone Project
Curriculum for K-12 Educators
- First Amendment Approaches to Religion & Public Schools
- Histories of Religious Liberty in America
- Legal Foundations for Teaching About Religion in Public Schools
- Religions of the World
We sold these courses to the following partner schools, who signed contracts agreeing to pay the Newseum per student, per class, per semester, thus generating a new revenue stream for the Religous Freedom Center:
- Baptist Theological Seminary, Richmond, VA
- Claremont Lincoln University, Claremont, CA
- Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA
- Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary, Chicago, IL
- Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley, CA
- Virginia Tech, Dep. of Religion & Culture, Blacksburg, VA
- Virginia Union University, Arlington, VA
- Wesley Theological Seminary Washington, DC