January 5, 2007
Harvard Drops Religion Requirement
It looks like Harvard University students will not have to take a religion course after all.
In October a university committee called the Task Force on General Education released a proposal to overhaul Harvard's core curriculum. The most-talked-about change would require students to take a course in a category dubbed "reason and faith."
At the time, Louis Menand, co-chair of the committee, said the requirement would help students understand "rapid change and conflicts between
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