The PathWays Community is compromised of the Duke religious life community,
undergraduates and grad students, alumni, Duke faculty, staff and administrators
as well as local servant-leaders who support and participate in the
variety of programming and events that PathWays sponsors or co-sponsors.
The PathWays Community hosts courses, lectures, feature films, panel
presentations dealing with the topic of vocational discernment from
a variety of faith-based and secular perspectives. In addition, students
who have taken the new courses sponsored by
PathWays are considered members of the PathWays community.
Since the introduction of PathWays on the Duke campus the PathWays
Community has reached out to the wider Duke community through programming
and partnerships with the Kenan Institute, the Duke Career Center,
Duke Divinity School, and the Office of Student Affairs to bring
events and speakers for students to explore deeper questions
of faith, values,
God and gifts. Past Community events include the "Finding Your
Own Path" Lecture Series, Faith-based Career Panels, "Barefoot
and Pregnant: Women and Ministry," "Get High with the Chapel
Deans," and theologians such as Reverend Zan Holmes, Barbara Brown
Taylor, and Tony Campolo. In 2005 – 2006, we co-hosted events
with Fr. Richard Rohr, and Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hendrix,
authors of Getting the Love You Want. In addition, PathWays has joined
with the wider religious community at Duke to sponsor interfaith discussions.
With these events we hope to begin the process of discernment in
the lives of Duke students and others in the community. Since community
is so important to calling, this program will also give the members
of the larger Duke community a chance to dialog on the different
issues
pertinent to vocation, spirituality and the deeper purpose of our
lives.
Any and all members of the Duke community are invited to join the
PathWays Community. To find out more about PathWays events click
here (news
and events link) or contact the PathWays office at 668-0485. We're
located in the Bryan Center lower level. We'd love to meet with
you, and we hope to see you at one of our events.
The following courses are PathWays sponsored courses (# - indicates
the course will be taught during the 2006 – 2007 academic year:
DOCSTU 164S Who Cares and Why? Social Activism and Its Motivations
taught by Professor Charles Thompson.
EDU170 Imagining the Self: Identity, Ideals, and Vocation taught by
Dr. Jennifer Ahern-Dodson.
ENG 139BS Literature and Responsibility: Vocation and Profession in
Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats. Taught by Robert Mitchell
GER 185 Vocation, Professionalism, Ethics: Conflicted Middle-Class
Subjectivism in the Novel, 1800-1924 taught by Dr. Thomas Pfau.
REL 143 The Modern Self: Solitary or Summoned? taught by Professor
William H. Willimon.
REL 185S Women’s Vocations:
Leadership, Power, and Constraint in the Christian Tradition, taught
by Dr Teresa Berger, Associate Professor
of Ecumenical Theology
# WST 162 Gender and Popular Culture, taught by Dr. Kathy Rudy (Fall
2006)
