Look ahead through the course materials.  You may select a topic dealing with any aspect of the relationship between religion and science.  You may also do a paper on any particular aspect of the course.

Papers can deal with any aspect of the history of religion and science ("The Galileo Trial," for instance, or "Darwin and His Critics").  You might also choose to write on a specific religious or scientific figure and that person's opinions on religion and science (for instance, Einstein, Teilhard de Chardin, Jung, Darwin, Freud, Pope John Paul II, the Dalai Lama, etc.).  You could choose topics in the area of science, technology and ethics ("New Birth Technologies," "Weapons of Mass Destruction," ).  Or you could choose any aspect of the course and do a paper ("Parapsychology: Science, Pseudoscience, Religion?," "Near Death Experience," "God and the New Physics,")  Feel free to follow your own interests.

Let me know what you are doing during the second week of class.