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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
Not at my university (Saint Mary's; Halifax). The program there does partner with the Atlantic School of Theology and many people in the class were looking to enter the clergy or whatnot....
I remember the teacher was late one day and the classroom was locked, so we were all sitting in the hallway and someone asked each person which church they attended. I said I was an atheist and all of a sudden I had 20 people trying to convert me all at once. 
I remember a fair bit of that class.. far more than most of my other university courses. But the class that really stood out was when our assignment was to watch "Contact" and we discussed it in class. Sagan actually came up quite often in the course considering his "ties" to religion. |
I just finished a class about The Bible and Film. The prof's thesis was that people view film in the same way they read the Bible. Basically, we learned a bunch of critical theory, watched films and then wrote endless pages of essays.
Really, really interesting class. The prof was also a hardcore cynic who debated just about everything with religious students in the class and crushed them entirely.