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...General Education Ahf were just a course in expository writing, it would be high on the list of glorious guts. But since it is supposed to be training high school graduates in writing college papers, it occupies a strategic educational position. All other General Education courses look to Ahf for improved student writing, and whatever shortcomings it has weakens the whole G.E. program...
...thing, there are too many of them. The average requirement of two General Education courses plus the compulsory Gen. Ed. Ahf affair runs to twenty papers a year--four times the usual upper class load. If Freshmen spent the four or five days their instructors say a typical G.E. theme needs, they would be pouring a third of their first year into papers alone...
...best route out of this rut is a system of fewer papers graded at a higher standard. At present, Freshmen write a short paper every two weeks for Gen. Ed. Ahf--on a subject usually unrelated to the rest of their work. If they could offer a Social Science or Humanities paper to Ahf in lieu of one of these two weeks assignments, a part of the paper load would disappear. The section man in the first course could comb the offering for content and ideas, the Ahf man for writing and expression...
This idea would not necessarily have to detour the more technical Natural Science papers. For, as thesis writers in science discover nothing is too technical to be written well. But if the topic of the paper is too obscure for the Ahf section man to perceive, he might trade it with another man in the field (some teach both types of courses), or work jointly with the section man of the other course. The two could even exchange the knowledge of their fields in the margin of the paper...
Aside from the required Gen. Ed. Ahf, which has 1,234 members, Social Sciences 2 is easily tops with 578 men. The next closest is Math 1A, with 484, almost 100 fewer. Social Sciences 2 was behind Humanities 4 last year, in second place...