e-TC: Survey of the Bible
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Course: Survey of the Bible (RELI 1311.01)
Instructors Name: Dr. Garth Baker-Fletcher
Contact Information:E-mail: bakerfletcherg@yahoo.com or gafletcher@texascollege.edu [secondary]

This on-line course, Survey of the Bible, is designed to be user-friendly. After this introduction, your first step will be to open the “Syllabus” tab.  The Syllabus will provide the policies of the course, as well as guide you to both the “Assignments”  and “Power Point” tabs.  The Syllabus will also direct you to the “Quiz” tab and the “Mid-Term and Final Exams” tab, which you will open and take at appropriate times during the course. Students can contact me by: email  (gafletcher@texascollege.edu; and preferably to bakerfletcherg@yahoo.com ); by text;  or cell-phone (214) 729-9291.  All question about assignments and/or power points are to be emailed to me.  Further, I can be texted or called from 12:00 noon until 7:00pm, Monday to Friday.

All students taking this online course must: have a Texas College student email address; and access on their TC email and have  Microsoft 2007 Office (capacity to read Microsoft Word, and Power Point Presentation software). Without access to these two important technological pieces it will be impossible to open or download materials online.



My name is Rev. Dr. Garth Baker-Fletcher, and I am the Associate Professor and Area Coordinator of Religious Studies at Texas College.  I have been at Texas College since the fall of 2003.  Trained as a musician, I received a Bachelor of Music Education at the New England Conservatory of Music, in Boston, Massachusetts in 1979.  Responding to a call to ministry on my life from God I sought to be educated as a minister, receiving both a Master of Divinity and a Doctor of Theology from the Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1985 and 1991 respectively.  I have written and published six books :Somebodyness: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Theory of Dignity (1992); Xodus: An African American Male Journey (1994); My Sister My Brother: Womanist and Xodus Musings -Co-written with Karen Baker-Fletcher (1996); Black Men and the Million Man March (1997); Dirty Hands: Moral Ambiguity and Christian Ethics (2000); and Bible Witness in Black Churches (2009).  These books have explored Christian ethics, biblical research; theories of gender; and religious philosophy.  I have lectured widely on these topics throughout the country and enjoy teaching them in classes.  I have taught at two seminaries –Christian Theological Seminary (Indianapolis, Indiana), and Claremont School of Theology (Claremont, California).  My current positions at Texas College include being the Area Coordinator of the Religious Studies Program, and the Chair of the Division of Humanities and General Studies.

Important Instructions
After reading this introduction:

1. READ the SYLLABUS.  It is your most important document because it describes the exact steps one must take to complete this course.  Everything that happens for a student in this course will arise from the framework that the SYLLABUS provides.  The SYLLABUS is a contract between the student and the professor. After reading it the student must contact the professor with her/his agreement to follow the SYLLABUS.
2. Send an email to me giving your TC email address; and your confirmation of having read the SYLLABUS.
3. Follow the progress of the course by following the instructions of the SYLLABUS
4. Take part in all the activities presented in the SYLLABUS—including surprise QUIZZES, all exams and essays, emails, and [potentially] FACEBOOK sharing.