In an age of growing religious interest and declining religious literacy, the Religion and Ethics Department seeks to provide students with information about the origins and continuing practices of some of the world's most familiar religions, to read their sacred texts, and to develop sufficient understanding of them with which to encounter religion as an organizing structure for people around the world. The department also introduces students to the study of ethics both as a philosophical system and as a context in which the issues and questions of contemporary life can be considered.

Graduation Requirements

Religion: All III Form students take Sacred Texts and Ancient Peoples. Students who enter the school after III Form take Sacred Studies for two consecutive terms at some time before graduation, usually in the IV Form. Completion of either Sacred Texts
or Sacred Studies is a diploma requirement, along with one term of an ethics course in the V or VI Form.

Ethics: The Ethics requirement may be satisfied by taking any one of the term courses listed below. These courses are intended for students in the VI Form, but V Form students may enroll in any term of Service-Learning and American Society and may apply to the department head for permission to enroll in the spring sections of any other ethics course.