Resources for Faculty

Criteria for Promotion

• Criteria for Promotion for Tenure Track, Tenured, and Non-Tenure Track Faculty
• Criteria for Promotion for Part Time Lecturers

Course Organization

• Office of the Registrar (including Academic Calendars and Exam Schedules):
  Phone: (856) 225-6053
  camreg@camden.rutgers.edu

• University Schedule of Classes
• Class Rosters
• Grading System
• Academic Integrity Policy
• Sakai Course Websites Login, and Sakai Help
• Campus Bookstore

Campus Resources

• Faculty Handbook
• Practical Road Map
• Creating a Rutgers Net ID
• Arts and Sciences Deans Office
  Phone: (856) 225-6097
  artsci@camden.rutgers.edu

• University Human Resources
  Phone: (732) 932-3020

• Campus Security
  Phone: (856) 225-6009 or dial 8 from a campus phone

• Parking and Directions
  Phone: (856) 225-6137

• Rutgers University Libraries
  • Paul Robeson Library (Camden Campus)
    Phone: (856) 225-6033
    Staff Directory

• Online Directory (search by name)

Office of Information Technology

• OIT-Camden
  Phone: (856) 225-6274 (Help Desk)
  help@camden.rutgers.edu

• Instructional Design and Technology
  Phone: (856) 225-6474
  Emily Corse

Tutoring and Student Resources

• Office of Academic Advising
  • Advising Handbook for Faculty
  • Phone: (856) 225-6043
  • Adviser for Philosophy and Religion Majors, Matthew Kaulius

  • Location: 311 Cooper Street

    Hours of Operation: Monday-Thursday 8:30am – 5pm, Friday 8:30am-4:30pm

• Rutgers Learning Center
  • Phone: (856) 225-6442

  • Location: 231 Armitage Hall (The RCLC is inside of the Center for Learning and Student Success which is to the right as you face the second floor elevators.Hours of Operation (Spring 2014 Term Hours): Monday-Thursday 8:30am – 7pm, Tutoring by Appointment at Towers Residence Hall from 7pm-9pm, Friday 8:30am-5pm

• Rutgers Student Affairs
  Phone: (856) 225-2825

• Dean of the Students
  Phone: (856) 225-6050
  Dean of Students

• Office of Disability Services
  Timothy Pure
  Application for Services: Student Registration Form

Sample Syllabi

• Ethics
• Evil
• Introduction to the Bible
• History of Philosophy II
• Political Philosophy

Student Learning Outcomes

All Philosophy and Religion students should learn to:

• Think critically and creatively
• Read and interpret complex and significant texts
• Write clearly and effectively
• Make clear and convincing arguments, including in response to arguments of others
• Develop oral communication skills through effective and well-organized presentations and productive classroom participation
• Conduct independent research involving primary and secondary sources

These additional goals are geared to students’ specific choice of major:

Religion Majors

• Understand a variety of  methods for the study of religion.
• Understand basic history, concepts, beliefs, and practices of both eastern and western religions.

Philosophy Majors

• Make effective use of formal logic and understand types of non-deductive argument and their evaluation.
• Demonstrate knowledge of major issues and fields of philosophy, different approaches and styles of philosophy, major authors, and the history of philosophy