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Professors took another step toward eliminating the Core Curriculum at yesterday’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting, fine-tuning two of the most controversial categories of the new program of general education...
...proposed fields, “Empirical Reasoning” and “Ethical Reasoning,” have previously faced criticism for too closely mirroring the “Quantitative Reasoning” and “Moral Reasoning” requirements of the Core...
...While the Core focused on “ways of knowing,” the new report—released this past February—stresses connections between academic study and the real world...
...accepted by the Faculty, the “Empirical Reasoning” and “Ethical Reasoning” categories discussed yesterday would encompass a greater number of disciplines and concerns than Core categories...
...committees and rules to a minimum, but require periodic reviews of course goals and effectiveness. Certainly, we cannot have so few rules that “anything goes,” but let’s use compact committees of faculty, responsible administrators, and student advisers to work out core principles and allocate supportive resources—and then leave the details to the creativity of instructors and departments. The existing Core Curriculum has been much resented by students and faculty, because new courses are approved through a vast spider-like apparatus of committees, and existing courses are rarely reviewed...