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Christianity and Global Citizenship

Course Number: GC101

Subject: Global Citizenship

Laurier Library
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Use the Omni to identify encyclopedias or handbooks Laurier.

GC101 example: Sweatshops and Global Citizenship

Sweatshop

Find terminology using a google search, e.g., https://nosweat.org.uk/campaigns/ 

Biblical sources

Biblical commentary

Systematic series of written interpretations and explanations of Scripture. A commentary publication often analyzes or expound on individual books (or groups of books) of the Bible, chapter by chapter and verse by verse.

Journal article

Biblical scholars often publish articles or sermons based on biblical passages. Omni does not have good metadata for biblical passages, but the ATLA Religion Database does.

Finding Books

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Tutorials

Finding Articles

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  • you can also use one of the library's specialized databases.

Finding News Articles

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Audiovisual

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Citing Sources