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Atlanta, GA | Posted: October 6, 2016
College of Engineering
Summary Sentence:
An engineering puzzle: How do you assemble a class about religion at a place like Georgia Tech?
Full Summary:
An engineering puzzle: How do you assemble a class about religion at a place like Georgia Tech?
John CresslerAn engineering puzzle: How do you assemble a class about religion at a place like Georgia Tech?
Professor John Cressler faced this question not too long ago. First, he figured, he had to attract the right undergraduates, so he wrote a syllabus accordingly:
“This course will gather together a diverse set of students who are serious about their spiritual lives,” it read, “and yet who are also studying hard to be Georgia Tech’s next cadre of world-class graduates.”
There is surely no other Tech class with similar prerequisites, because there is no similar class at all. And once the course — Science, Engineering and Religion: An Interfaith Dialogue — began this past spring, Cressler realized his students had been yearning for something like it.
