I don't know much about Berea, so is it a religious school? By which I mean: why is Understanding Christianity a required subject? Is it supposed to be theological or sociological.
At NYU-CAS, everyone had to take a class called Conversations of the West. Each version of the course was Antiquity and Something (ie Antiquity and the Enlightenment), so you would start out reading books from the Bible. NYU meant it as a way of giving a foundation in Western civilization, history and culture, which to me, as a non-Christian, is damn interesting.
Our school is "based on Christian principles", but is not a Christian college. You can pretty much be any or no faith and be accepted here, and that is one of the things I like best about it. The Christianity class is required to graduate. I think it is something the school has just had in effect for so long and they have just kept it, but are now realizing its direction needs to change. I think they are trying to make it more like the class you are describing, but they are just throwing all the information at the students without clear direction or purpose. It is in a state of evolution, and I am cool with that, but it is frustrating because you aren't really sure what you are supposed to glean from it.
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At NYU-CAS, everyone had to take a class called Conversations of the West. Each version of the course was Antiquity and Something (ie Antiquity and the Enlightenment), so you would start out reading books from the Bible. NYU meant it as a way of giving a foundation in Western civilization, history and culture, which to me, as a non-Christian, is damn interesting.
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