Requiring religion?
Recently, Harvard's Task Force on General Education ? charged with revising that university's core curriculum ? proposed the establishment of a "Reason and Faith" distribution requirement for all undergraduates. According to the task force, if the proposal is implemented, the courses that fulfill this requirement will focus on "the interplay between religious and secular institutions, practices and ideas."Our administration should follow Harvard's lead in promoting the study of religion, but it should not do so by ghettoizing the study of religion and creating more requirements for student to fulfill as Harvard's plan will do.




