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...acceptable scientific general education course is dubious at best. In our view, such a course places too much emphasis on the report’s third, less significant, criterion for a Science and Technology general education course—that it “frame this material in the context of social issues.” In fact, we hope that as the Faculty reconsiders the general education proposal, it drops this third criterion altogether. While certainly courses should be created—such as Life Sciences 1a and 1b—that do use social context to frame scientific...
...treatment. Moreover, we are not necessarily comfortable with the type of worldview engendered by what may amount to no more than an ephemeral inflation of the supremacy of religious ideas. Instead, we believe the best way to understand religious ideas as part of a general education is in the context of a balanced treatment of competing forces. Several of the proposed categories—including, “The Ethical Life,” “Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change,” “Societies of the World,” “The United...
...Europe. Some Turkish parliament members proposed a law criminalizing the denial of the French colonial genocide of Algerians (historians prefer to deem it colonial warfare). In France this weekend, vandals defaced one of the many existing monuments to the massacred Armenians. These actions must be understood in a larger context. Under the proposed French bill, Armenian genocide deniers would face fines and prison terms equivalent to those mandated by anti-Holocaust-denying laws in some central European nations. Although the motivations for these laws may have been understandable in the post-war era, governments should not impose their version...
...cross, or amused at the reference to my course, Historical Study B-11, “The Crusades,” in the article entitled “Professors Say this Core is Solid” (news, Oct. 10)? It is the only course the article mentions in the context of the Report on General Education, but there my moment of glory and gratification ends, for the reference is peculiar in conception and short on fact. The course is described, either by the chairman of the history department or by the staff writers, it is not clear, as focusing...
...Based on the pieces on display, the artists appear to be proponents of the motto “Modernization without Westernization,” exploring new techniques and styles from foreign cultures within the context of the classical Chinese foundation. Many of the points of divergence are so subtle that some previous knowledge of Chinese landscape art is necessary, though the labels go a long way towards helping those who lack this expertise...