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...enters a rebuilding phase, the religion committee faces a balancing act in trying to accommodate growing student interest without depleting limited faculty resources. In doing so, religion professors are exploring a move toward departmental status within FAS while being wary of severing ties with the Divinity School...
...Brigit M. Helgen ’08, concentrating in religion has meant dealing with what she calls “a huge exodus in professors.” Neither of her two most recent academic advisors will be here next year. Helgen called Orsi and Lewis the “best professors” she has ever had at Harvard, remarking that their departure will deal a “big blow to the committee...
...Lacking departmental status, the committee cannot make independent faculty appointments to fill spaces vacated by departing professors—making it difficult to patch up the holes. With Orsi gone, the committee will be left with only one professor specializing in American religion...
...This year’s debate on the inclusion of a “Reason and Faith” requirement in the general education curriculum has led to an examination of the place of undergraduates in the study of religion at Harvard. The category came under heavy criticism from some professors such as Johnstone Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker after it was proposed in October, and the general education task force scrapped the category two months later, arguing that religion courses could be “readily accommodated in other categories...
...catering to the needs of undergraduates has not proven easy for professors in the religion committee, who also have primary commitments to graduate students...