Religion and Literature, or Existential Theism as it was unofficially titled, is an honors class which also counts for the “global citizenship or aesthetic perspectives” pillar. The class was a rollercoaster ride of theistic viewpoints throughout history. It touched on everything from the Christianity-pursuant stories of Kierkegaard, to the intense atheistic lectures of Nietzsche. Ultimately, it provided a fluid mix of literature from direct thoughts, to short stories, to novels.

The majority of the class revolved around readings and discussion of those readings, so I am rather limited in what I can produce as an artifact. One of our final projects however, involved a group-writing assignment from which a narrative amongst characters was created. This narrative was meant to both represent the thoughts of some of the authors that we read, as well as to address a global issue. My narrative, constructed with the help of two other classmates, expanded upon the thoughts of Kierkegaard and a Nietzschean character, the Ubermensch, in the context of parentally-forced marriage.