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...being more coherence to Harvard's theological education--and clear up problems like the senior exams--the Div School has been toying for years with ideas for curricular reform. With degree programs and seven departments, the Div School has not been able to focus its curriculum on what George E. Rupp, dean of the school, calls its "common center" of Christian experience. In fact, only in the unpopular senior exams were students ever asked to draw on broadly-based scholarship and integrate the fields of theological learning...
...Relation to Culture, Society and Personality; and Religions of the World, with required distribution courses in each--the faculty's proposal would add the methodology for studying in each of these fields. Rupp and the faculty combined their ideas and sent their new model to an eight-man Div School steering committee. First results will be back in October...
From all reports, the Div School is serious about reform. Opening the steering committee to two student representatives, the school has also held several open hearings on the curriculum reforms to solicit student opinion. Most student involvement, and most of the changes, are centered around the school's largest degree program, the M.Div., which prepares students for the ministry, Joanne Thomson, an M.Div. student and former member of the steering committee, says...
...result, the committee is emphasizing courses that integrate preaching into the rest of the material as part of their methodology, rather than developing separate courses on pastoring and preaching. "The Div School has the reputation of turning out learned ministers," Thomson says, adding, "There is little focus on practice...
Janina Anderson, a Div School student, moderated the panel...