<p>How difficult is the Problem of God class? Could I take an 18 credit semester with Problem of God and be alright?</p>
<p>Quick answer: It depends entirely on the professor and how rigorous they want to make the class. </p>
<p>A few things to keep in mind:
- level of rigor of the other 4/5 classes/labs you’ll be taking</p>
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<li><p>POG can be extremely reading intensive depending on the prof. (You won’t truly know the full extent until you are a few weeks into the class.)</p></li>
<li><p>because there are so many sections, your selected POG prof. can spontaneously change without any prior notice (I thought I had a great POG prof. set up based on recommendations from friends and showed up the 1st day of class and there had been a change of professor. I ended up with a prof that was just awful. And by awful, I mean the worst professor I’ve ever had at Georgetown. By the time I realized just how bad the class was it was too late to drop or change sections.) </p></li>
<li><p>the content of each POG class is unique and if find you don’t full understand the concepts or are falling behind, your only source of help/tutoring are those in your class (or the prof.)</p></li>
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<p>Random: does the class bash your brains in with God being 100% no doubt about it absolutely real?</p>
<p>I read course descriptions but there’s like 10 different ones all worded differently.</p>
<p>^CSIHSIS The majority of the POG classes really are looking for students to critically analyze the material presented through intelligent discourse. Self-reflection and a questioning of one’s ideals, beliefs, etc. is the cornerstone of a great POG class. The essential question: Why do you believe what you do about God/spirituality? Not that it is wrong or right but WHY? My experience w/POG wasn’t great but plenty of my friends had a phenomenal experience. </p>
<p>This is a little old (2009) but it gives student OPINIONS about their POG profs/class. I’d read the article & then the comments to gain as much insight as possible about the expectations of the different POG professors highlighted. A common theme seems to be lots of dialogue and writing (papers, short responses, blogs, even rather lengthy papers of 15-20 pgs) so you need to be prepared to brilliantly articulate your position(s) in and out of class. [Vox</a> Populi » Prefrosh Preview: A field guide to the Problem of God](<a href=“http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2009/07/24/prefrosh-preview-a-field-guide-to-the-problem-of-god/]Vox”>http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2009/07/24/prefrosh-preview-a-field-guide-to-the-problem-of-god/)</p>
<p>my experience with problem of god was less of a self reflection and more of a study on other cultures view of religion
such as different jewish scholars views on god, different christians scholars views on god, ect. ect.
less of a philosophy class more of a “how the major religions of the world see god differently” kind of class</p>
<p>p.s. my professor started us out with frued who argues that god/religion is merely created and embraced due to a psychological dependency needed for people to cope with reality, like a blanky to a frightened toddler</p>