GDR Student Guide

Download in PDF format (Updated September 3, 2010)

Note: The PDF format is updated once each academic year, while the web format is updated regularly throughout each term. Where discrepancies occur, the web format supersedes the PDF format. Note also that the Regulations of the Graduate Division of Religion govern policies and procedures for the Division; where any discrepancy is found between this Guide and the Regulations, the Regulations supersede.

Contents

Preface

Welcome to Drew’s Graduate Division of Religion! The purpose of this handbook is to provide you with all the essential information that you need in order to move knowledgeably and efficiently through your academic program. Most of what you will lead in this handbook has its ultimate origins in The Regulations of the Graduate Division of Religion (a copy of which is available on the GDR website under “Current Students”). The regulations book is primarily pitched to faculty and administration. The idea behind this handbook was to produce a version of the regulations that would be oriented fully to students, and supplemented with other crucial information that you need to know but that doesn’t appear explicitly—or at all—in the regulations. This includes “nuts and bolts” instructions on how to get various important things done and assorted “insider advice” that we hope you will find helpful. Aside from lived student experience, sources for certain of the information provided also includes Daniel’s Dictionary. The role of Religion and Society’s student handbook (previously the only such handbook in the GDR) should also be acknowledged. It stimulated the idea for the present handbook and provided a partial model for it.

The writing of the handbook was conceived at the outset as a student-faculty collaboration. Kristeen Black, a PhD student in Religion and Society, and I worked jointly to produce it. I am deeply grateful to Kris for taking on what must have seemed at times like an overwhelming task. We are both grateful to Rose Ellen Dunn, GDR Director of Admissions and Placement—and also herself a PhD student in the GDR—for her help in conceiving and outlining the scope of the project.

Stephen Moore
GDR Chair
August, 2008

GDR Office