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...Although the Task Force’s initial report underwent several structural permutations—such as the excision of a “Reason and Faith” requirement??its ostensible raison d’être of preparing undergraduates for global citizenship remained, in spirit at least, largely intact. Yet Harvard’s attempts to generally educate its students, despite the apparently hollow platitudes about the importance of understanding traditions and historically-developed ideas, will not include any mandatory study of the past...
...original report nodded in this direction by noting that many Harvard students are religious, and often struggle to sort out what they believe. The task force’s latest idea—a vaguely-stated “what it means to be a human being” requirement??seems to be reaching towards this realization, but it looks to have been tacked on as an afterthought, not fully understood even by its proponents...
...task force charged with replacing Harvard’s Core curriculum has dropped its headline-grabbing proposal for a “Reason and Faith” requirement??a category that would have made Harvard the only Ivy to require its undergrads to study religion.The committeehas also suggested a new course requirement on “what it means to be a human being,” which some professors at yesterday’s Faculty meeting criticized as a “grab bag” category.Students could fulfill this requirement with a course in areas...
While the proposed requirement??unveiled with the task force’s report in October—generated nationwide headlines and heated on-campus debate, it died quietly today at a meeting of the full Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Only one speaker at today’s Faculty meeting, the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, lamented the requirement??s demise...