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...convocation address, Summers underscored two major points about the school’s mission: the need to balance training scholars and religious leaders and the need to balance the school’s Christian heritage—the core of its program—with the growing importance of scholarship and training in other religions...
...Within a given degree program, students should face real requirements and graduate with some core of shared knowledge and identifiable competencies,” he said...
...school’s area system makes this development particularly difficult to address. Areas I and II have traditionally been the school’s protestant Christian core, with all other religious studies relegated to Area...
...goals of this curricular review is to strengthen the school’s diverse offerings while not losing sight of its core strength—the study of Christianity...
Social science and Core sections, in which creativity is supposed to be sparked by stimulating discussions with fellow students and teaching fellows, are truly an intellectual wasteland. Required participation forces everyone to say something (whether constructive or not), and the talk usually devolves into a banal rehashing of the past week’s lectures. A typical section is like a cow chewing cud: ideas are digested a bit in one stomach, regurgitated briefly to be considered again, and finally swallowed. And the hated “response paper,” which asks students to reflect on the week?...