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...Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change.” Mark Kishlansky, Baird professor of history, said that a student who took “Health Care in America”—a class that could fulfill “The United States” requirement??could potentially graduate without actually learning any history. “We need historical grounding somewhere,” Kishlansky said. “No one should claim to be an educated person without having studied an era besides the one they lived in.” The panel featured three other...
...element of the report that grabbed headlines from New Delhi to New York—the Reason and Faith requirement??also has its devotees and detractors here at Harvard...
...only as good as its application. For example, the report’s citation of Molecular and Cellular Biology 60, “Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature”—which last year could be petitioned to count for the current Moral Reasoning requirement??as an acceptable scientific general education course is dubious at best. In our view, such a course places too much emphasis on the report’s third, less significant, criterion for a Science and Technology general education course—that it “frame this...
...category of courses within our program of general education? We think not. Understanding religion is an enterprise to a very large degree intertwined with a more general understanding of culture and history. The general education proposal says as much; according to it, the Reason and Faith requirement??s aim “is to help students understand the interplay between religious and secular institutions, practices, and ideas.” We do not believe that religious ideas in particular should be given a platform greater than other social and political forces, and bracketing these ideas as such gives...
...relevance, would be imparted by the Reason and Faith requirement as is. One thing is certain—had the distinctly irrational Islamists of 9/11 not committed the crime they did, Reason and Faith would not appear today as a requirement. More must be done to draw this requirement??s inspiration and its proposed form together. Pierpaolo Barbieri ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history concentrator in Eliot House. Travis R. Kavulla ’06-’07, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history concentrator in Mather House. Christopher B. Lacaria...