Word: breadths
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...have scored the Doty Committee's failure to define the goals of Gen Ed with the necessary precision, to differentiate a Gen Ed course from an introductory departmental offering. Because of this vagueness, we argued, the Committee has endorsed specific requests that are contradictory--the need for both breadth and depth in Gen Ed--and through its reformulation of Gen Ed rules actually put greater emphasis on depth. We believe that the confusion should be clarified and emphasis placed on the proper alternative, on breadth before depth...
...knowledge of which the student's own field is a part or as the basis for structuring his future reading in the three other broad fields of knowledge. In our opinion, the best and first goal of Gen Ed is to give the student this type of education in breadth, and therefore we suggest alternative requirements to the Doty Committee's rules for reformulating General Education...
...short, the generally educated man, first and foremost, should be given the seeds of learning in each of the four broad areas of knowledge (through courses like Hum 6, Nat Sci 5, and Soc Sci 2), and it is for this reason that we stress the need for breadth before depth in General Education. No matter how hard he studies, a man cannot leave the college with proficiency in a variety of departments. But he can leave with some sophistication in his own department and the ability to appreciate other works outside the broad field of knowledge of which...
...case for breadth negatively, although we agree that the possibility of course sequences and provisions for accommodating well-prepared students are important considerations, we think the Doty Committee has over-emphasized these concerns. Setting up course sequences must be only a secondary goal in a program of General not departmental education...
Criticizing the Doty Report both for the implicit contradiction of breadth versus depth in its conception of the new program and for the explicit preference for depth if it had to make a choice, we find ourselves in partial disagreement with two of the three "organizing ideas" of the new program for General Education...