Academic Calendar 2008 to 2009

	Activities	Date
Term I	Registration for senior students	1 to 15 August 2008
	Registration for fresh students	13 to 18 August 2008
	KRS forms to fill out	19 to 22 August 2008
	Course activities and practicum	25 August to 26 December 2008
	Graduate school convocation	23 October 2008
	A week off	30 December 208 to 2 January 2009
	Final Exam	5 to 23 January 2009
	Registration for senior students	12 to 21 January 2009
	Graduate school convocation	22 January 2009
	Holiday	26 January to 6 February 2009
Term II	KRS forms to fill out	2 to 13 February 2009
	Course activities and practicum	16 February to 5 June 2009
	Graduate school convocation	23 April 2009
	A week off	8 to 12 June 2009
	Final Exam	15 June to 3 July 2009
	Graduate school convocation	23 July 2009
	Holiday	6 July to 21 August 2009

Courses
Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies
September 1, to December 19, 2008

Course Title	Lecturer	Core/Elective	Credit
World Religions	Dr. Elaine Swatzentruber	Core	4
Philosophy of Religion	Dr. Zainal Abidin Bagir	Core	3
Theories of Religion and Society	Dr. Mark Woodward	Core	3
Religion, State and Civil Society	Dr. Simon Rae	Elective	3
Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding	Dr. Paulus Widjaja	Elective	3
History of Religions in Indonesia (Offered by ICRS-Yogya)	Mark Woodward & Bernard Adeney	Elective	3
Contemporary Issues and Religions(Offered by ICRS-Yogya)	Banawiratma & Wening Udasmoro	Elective	3
Academic English	Ms. Maya M Walton & Ms. Emma N. Thomas	Required for non-English speaker

NOTE:

One credit is equal to 50 minutes.
Students of 2008/2009 must take all core courses and take two of three elective courses
On two elective courses, it is permitted to take an elective course offered by CRCS and another elective course offered by other departements in Gadjah Mada University such as Departements in Graduate Schools, Departement of Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Department of Philosophy, etc. based on the need of students's thesis plan or his/her focus of study.