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Uncovering the Riches Outside the Courses of Instruction

Undergraduates sporting Harvard course catalogues and Cue guides were as ubiquitous in Harvard Yard last week as the photo-snapping tourists.

But students at the college are not restricted to the core classes and concentration requirements tagged in their course guides with fluorescent Post-its.

Lighter than the Courses of Instruction, here is the Harvard Crimson's condensed course catalogue of the top five classes you can take outside of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences:

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Visiting lecturer at the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) James W. Fraser does not expect his students to know the answers when he poses questions in Harvard Divinity School course 2921, "Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America."

That philosophy is the basis of his course: he and students in his seminar navigate contemporary religious issues together.

"When I first thought about teaching this course [two years ago], a friend said to me, 'all the issues of religion in the schools were settled half a century ago, to which my answer is sort of 'hah!'" Fraser says.

In fact, he was inspired after teaching the course for the first time two years ago to write a book, Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America, was just published.

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